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Nippon Freesking Open

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papasteeze
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Title: Nippon Freeskiing Open 2009
Place: Joetsu Kokusai Ski Resort (Niigata, JAPAN)
Date: Feb 26th - Mar 1st 2009

Feb 25th: Registration / Afternoon : Slopestyle Training
Feb 26th: Slopestyle Qualifier M+W
Feb 27th: Slopestyle Final M+W / Superpipe Training
Feb 28th: Superpipe Qualifier M+W / Evening : Big air M (Invitational)
Mar 1st: Superpipe Final M+W / Evening : Party!!

Discuss.




Feb 19 2009 6:46PM
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pho[tog]rapher
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are you leading the car-pool rob?
Feb 19 2009 6:48PM
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IanAvery-Leaf
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Is freeskiing really big in Japan?
Feb 19 2009 6:49PM
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Dhane
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ill tell you whats not really big in japan.....
Feb 19 2009 6:50PM
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ONTerriible
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american cars?
Feb 19 2009 6:53PM
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Joan
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penis.
Feb 19 2009 6:53PM
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Dhane
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hey, i said id tell you!
Feb 19 2009 6:57PM
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papasteeze
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hahahaha    nooooooo..   I see me in a role reversal..  I got several cameras ready to go.
Feb 19 2009 7:00PM
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freezed
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Basically just a claim thread for Rob to say "I'm in Japan and you're not!!!"

hahah. have fun.
Feb 19 2009 7:15PM
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papasteeze
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Actually...   I am kind of fishing... 
Feb 19 2009 11:57PM
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Silence
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EXACTLY what i thought when i saw the thread title hahahaha

Enjoy it Rob..from what i've heard, Japan is the tits.
Get your reverse camber on.
Feb 20 2009 12:00AM
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papasteeze
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I never knew....  500 resorts in Japan!  What?

uhhhhhh  so where is the snow in Japan? It's not at Joetsu.  :(
Feb 20 2009 12:04AM
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Silence
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Yeah i've heard Japan is having an average season this year

If it makes you feel any better, I travelled from Australia to Canada this year to ski - seems like it wasn't their year either.

I'm sure you'll have a great time, and so will Nips - drink down some Asahi & Sapporo and check out the Onsens.
Feb 20 2009 12:24AM
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aidansheahan
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I'm going to japan on saturday! But I forgot about the Nippon so I guess I'm just shredding pow, what a bummer eh?
Feb 20 2009 12:29AM
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papasteeze
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What part are you going to?
Feb 20 2009 12:51AM
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RudyGarmisch
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Uhg, I would love to ski there for a week or two.
Feb 20 2009 12:52AM
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inactive
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nipples got an asian girl pregnant.
Feb 20 2009 9:35AM
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CFD
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I beg to differ. We've had nothing but this for three weeks:

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Locals are saying it's a below average season. I say it's pretty fucking good.
Feb 20 2009 12:22PM
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papasteeze
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yeah but where is that?   How is the Niigata Perfecture doing for snow?
Feb 20 2009 12:29PM
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CFD
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They're from Furano and Rusutsu. I havn't heard much about how conditions are in other areas at the moment
Feb 20 2009 12:56PM
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papasteeze
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What part of the island is that?  I guess I can look it up..



This is from Joetsu.

"As you all know, we are trying hard to make slopestyle and big air  
events, but we don't have much snow on the slope at this moment.
Therefore, we might change the schedule or possible of canceling the  
slopestyle event.
We will update latest informations at official web-site.

Thank you so much and see you soon in Japan!

Best Regards,
NFO OC
Feb 20 2009 2:48PM
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CFD
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Oh that sucks, hopefully they can still put together a good course
Feb 20 2009 8:29PM
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VinniCash
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nope, slopestyle jsut got cancelled
Feb 20 2009 8:36PM
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Silence
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lame.
Feb 20 2009 8:58PM
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papasteeze
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Those registered for slopestyle can do a big air (his and hers choice) to 1/4 pipe at the bottom.
Feb 20 2009 9:25PM
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papasteeze
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12 out of the 14 kids in our group qualified for semis! 
Feb 26 2009 5:40AM
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aidansheahan
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GO NORTH!!!!!!

I'm here in Niseko, skiing the resort a little, but mostly hitting some pillow zones and shiiiiit. Place is AWESOME!!!!! so much snow. I went night skiing last night at Niseko and I can safely say it was the most fun i've ever had. Shredding blower pow from 5-8:40 is unreal, definitely the place to be.
Feb 26 2009 6:18AM
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Rosbif
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x2

It's been so sick recently.
Feb 26 2009 7:28AM
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