Ode to the past?

My day of enlightenment started some day way back, when i was at Mtn High in Wrightwood CA (before it turned into the worst place to shred)..sitting next to a yellow box with a borrowed directional SIMS snowboard and Sorel boots. I sat there in awe watching people 50-50 and boardslide this box over and over till my toes turned purps. It wasnt til a few years later that I actually got into snowboarding. After a few days out on two planks (skis) i realized that id make the switch to snowboarding...a choice well made. My friend's and loving brothers Ben and Kirk Coughman always would take trips to mammoth in the winter and would come back with short videos that there parents had taped. I remember one clip kirk skis by the main lodge throws up a wave wearing a hat you may have seen before in the hit Disney Movie titled: Johnny Tsunami..seen here

anyways after he SKI'S by it cuts to a clip of B-Kauf (then..avid snowboarder..and reason most of us started) is carving down some snake run hits a lip and right as the music that played throughout main park peaked..Boom catches an edge and shoots out of the screen...i then realized that A...kirk smells like up-dog and B..snowboarding looks like goodtimes.
So fast forward about 2 years when i bought my first board. It was a Limited 148 with no name bindings and airwalk boots i got from B Kauf. I thot it looked sweet but of course i was made fun of cause it was a "kook-ish" and not big named board...but fuq it..i was stoked. I remember one of the first times i went was with kirk, ben, and kevin dirlam up to Snow Valley (skiridge park) to hit the slopes. Anyways i stuck to the bunny hill cause i didnt know how to carve while everyone got there slash on. After the humiliation of sucking pickle at snowboarding set in..i started goin up the crest with my mom to hone my skills while she hiked. Ok trip 2 was up to big bear where kirk, kyle castellani, and mike southerland all went up for mikes south park birthday and to hit the slopes. Built a sweet "kicker" wich by the way..i hate that word...anyways kirk and kyle hit it i think maybe i did too..once but it furthered my love for the white wave.
K if you've gotten this far into my boring rant then hold on just a lil longer...
It was a rainy fall and the snowboard hype was fast approaching... someone got ahold of Mack Dawgs Technical Difficulties:

and i was hooked...fave part was Bjorn Leines....till this day still i am amped on it.
Anywhoot that year i believe i got a Mtn High and Snow Summit pass...when summit was the shit and u had to have an Ego Trip park pass to get in...wich i had..but i never hit anything. It was the year of the Forum 8 so obviously kirk, sam, jon burnham, and I all had the new forum boards and flaunted them as if we were crips in the blood neighborhood..or something like that. The season that followed was the best season I had to date. I remember it was a icy/snowy day at mtn high when sam laurie:

and i spent hours trying some gay ass Y rail..wich ended in neither of us getting through the whole thing...
fast forward to High School years of shred and all of us were still riding together having fun..sam made a video that we played in a Seal Beach pizza joint...times were good..very good.
oh and off the record..to those who are just now getting a shred stick pick up a copy of active's snowboard video titled : ONE and :Technines Represent both were raw sweet arse videos at least in my eyes.
Its funny how so much as changed in the world of snowboarding esp clothing trends...wich i think everyone has touched in on.
you have the SLC white gang members that havent goten anything less than a A- in there honor roll classes;

and the tight pants guys as well:

bahh fuq it you know...shits always changing and never will stop...too many haters and not enough people enjoying the being an individual and doin there own shit....too each his own..one may say. So get off ur hate column's and forums...and do whatever floats ur boat...