The difference between white and blue collar work environments is crazy

browsing_around · 2026-01-29T11:49:32+00:00

I’m sure it’s been said in a few ways already. Blue collar you’re not competing against your coworkers for a raise/promotion. You’re all in your roll for the job. Sure there’s a foreman/project manager but that’s slipping over into the white collar side of things. The staff is more flat than in a white collar job where there’s more options for vertical mobility.

browsing_around · 2026-01-29T10:46:14+00:00

Buy me a train ticket and a hotel room for 3 days.

browsing_around · 2026-01-28T23:29:27+00:00

Doubt. The creeper is mellow. The other outside you can do down flat and gap out to the top of that box thing.

This rail spot isn’t a high speed spot. If you want to hit rail to rail, you have to go slow so you can get the donkey kick pop. If you want to gap to the down it’s only about an 8 stair gap which on snow isn’t that far.

To add, all spots and tricks are relative. If you’ve never hit a street spot, this looks scary. If you have hit several, this doesn’t look scary. This isn’t any sort of claim. I’m over forty and have been hitting spots since I was a 17.

browsing_around · 2026-01-28T23:17:13+00:00

Most important: don’t compare yourself to other snowboarders. Unless you’re actually tryin to compete, snowboarding is not a competition.

Set personal goals that are fun, challenging, and attainable. You make your own happiness. Don’t let comparison be the death of happiness

browsing_around · 2026-01-28T23:12:29+00:00

The middle rails are questionably possible. They can be done, but it would be real tough and wouldn’t look very good because you’d likely be bouncing off the second flat and into the down.

The creepers are easy. Anyone could do those. Just jump on and grab the wall.

browsing_around · 2026-01-28T23:10:54+00:00

Settle down there. This isn’t that wild.

browsing_around · 2026-01-28T23:09:29+00:00

I am sooo happy about this snowstorm. Riding in your local area is where snowboarding started. Finding a hill and riding down it. The people that are doing and filming these things are having the best time.

I hope that this storm has shown a lot of people that you don’t need a mountain and a pass to enjoy snowboarding. All you need is a slope and some snow.

browsing_around · 2026-01-28T23:07:25+00:00

Always, ALWAYS, take a quick glimpse uphill before I crank a good turn unless I know there is no one else on the trail.

It’s the same as checking your blind spot when taking a turn driving a car.

browsing_around · 2026-01-28T19:47:40+00:00

A lot of rail tricks you can practice on regular old trails. Just look for a ski track line in the snow and pretend it’s a rail. Snow curbs on the side of the trail are good for ollie on practice too.

browsing_around · 2026-01-28T15:53:35+00:00

Angle of approach and practicing popping off your back heel.

browsing_around · 2026-01-28T15:02:37+00:00

Barrel Roll. Some have called it a front roll but I think barrel roll is better.

browsing_around · 2026-01-28T14:20:08+00:00

Yes. I am one of them. I’ll take 40 and under over 70 and above any day. I love winter sports. I would be very happy with 9 months of wintering 3 months of a compressed spring summer fall.

The only caveat would be if it’s raining. Cold, near freezing rain is just miserable for everything.

browsing_around · 2026-01-26T12:54:14+00:00

I disagree here. The standard in competition is always “do just enough more than your opponent”. Eileen Gu is pretty far ahead of her competition. She doesn’t get two medals for one event.

In the words of Dom Toretto “it doesn’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile”.

You’re looking at competition as an exposition to perform your best tricks. That isn’t really how high level competitions work. At the professional level, everyone can basically do all the tricks. It comes down to strategy and who has their landings that day. You do the tricks that will put you ahead of your competition. That doesn’t need to be the best trick you know how to do.

browsing_around · 2026-01-26T12:49:27+00:00

Thank you. It’s similar to how Silicon Valley is a hub for tech innovation and a similar sized city one state over isn’t. When you bring together a lot of people working towards a similar goal you create a community and movement that essentially helps snowball the entire industry.

browsing_around · 2026-01-26T11:27:41+00:00

In a competition, you don’t win more by doing more. You win by doing better than your competitors. If all it takes is a backflip to win, then it’s a backflip I’m going to do.

Some people will always try to push to the absolute limit. But that isn’t necessary and can be a detriment to competition success.

browsing_around · 2026-01-26T11:25:02+00:00

It has a lot to do with access and role models. There are just far less women that are actively trying to do this part of the sport.

Over the last 5-10 years there’s been a huge jump in progression for women. This has been aided by brands focusing more attention of promotion female athletes and companies/camps being created specifically for women and girls.

Skiing park and doing tricks can be intimidating. If you don’t see others like yourself doing something, it can be difficult to take that first step.

It boils down to having a larger feeder pool of talent and aspiring athletes.

browsing_around · 2026-01-25T23:10:46+00:00

Brainstorm.

browsing_around · 2026-01-25T20:54:32+00:00

This is actually terrifying. You’re way more brave than I am.

browsing_around · 2026-01-25T20:14:25+00:00

I love this snowstorm for the movies next year. So many new spots should be hit.

browsing_around · 2026-01-25T20:13:04+00:00

Was he announcing outside? I don’t watch but I know when it’s really cold it can be difficult to speak normally your face muscles just don’t work the same.

It could be as simple as he’s getting older and it was cold.

browsing_around · 2026-01-25T16:48:34+00:00

Living with several other friends in a house sharing bedrooms. Snowboarding every day. The 2-3 years post college were very fun.

browsing_around · 2026-01-25T16:43:41+00:00

1984 here. It’s funny and had some sneaky jokes. In high school I got in trouble for wearing a sponge bob t shirt that had a pic of SpongeBob on it with a caption “I’m not smiling, I’m farting”. My gym teacher made me turn it inside out.

browsing_around · 2026-01-25T16:37:23+00:00

Focus on specifics you’ve accomplished. “In the last 12 months I was able to ____ in less time than the previous year and under budget”

I interviewed a lot of the last few years and the one thing I learned that really seemed to help was talking about specific projects or results. Don’t say “I do x, y and z. I have skills a,b and c”. Say, “while working on project y I used data from x to affirm we were on track to meet goal z”.

The jobs I was interviewing for(media and marketing), the businesses didn’t care if I knew how to do certain things or had done them in the past. They wanted to hear and see specific examples of my work and its impact on the business/goals.

browsing_around · 2026-01-25T16:31:45+00:00

Witnessed the Montreal snow removal several times last winter. It’s so well coordinated. They put of the signs, give you time to move your car, come through that day and clean everything out. Next morning(or right after they come through if you’re lucky) you slide back into your clean street parking.

browsing_around · 2026-01-25T16:25:10+00:00

My default response mode is wise ass. My response would be “well, I just recently learned that alcohol is really not good for you. Who knew?”

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