Xenophobic about Kiwis? Why.
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I think most people are past the trans-tasman rivalry wellymon. I myself love NZ and like most kiwis I've crossed paths with in my life.
From a recreational perspective, once spent a few weeks travelling the North Is. and the Coramandel surfing everywhere from Raglan to Whangamataa (spelling?). We got great waves, met really nice people, enjoyed great food and cheap beer, shared jokes and never once encountered any hostility, quite the opposite. One of the best surf trips in my life.
From a work perspective, I used to hire a lot of seasonal workers from all over. I'm not going to stereotype other countries, but I always preferred kiwis as they would work like trojans, never whinge, happily accept their pay, go out all night and spend that pay having fun and front up the next morning, on time every time, bright-eyed and bushy tailed ready to go again.
Come the Bledisloe, that can be a bit of a different story but I never get tired of watching the All-Blacks play.
Only one thing missing, gotta get over there and sample your powder one day (and not the dancing kind). I'm damn keen to snowboard the South Is.
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Yeah I've had nothing but great experiences with NZ folk.
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Same,kiwis seem like really happy folk in a lot of experience with them. A lot friendlier than a lot of Aussies ive met, especially a lot of inner city Sydney folk.
One islander I met however, NOT Kiwi seemed like he just broke out of prison on rape charges.6ft 3 and bulk as hell followed my girlfriend and other girls around all night in one bar,he drank our beer etc. I told my girl and her friends to go to a certain club to the north while I tried to drag the psycho rapist to another bar. Very strange night and im surprised the cops didn't show up. Not that makes it worth stereotyping one island race. It isn't.
But even the bar staff were scared of this guy and asked me to stay and keep him occupied, playing pool.I didn't realise how foolish I was until a few days later when I was sober. Maybe he was just too lonely.
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I've always viewed the Aus-NZ relationship (with each other and other regional nations) similarly to the USA-Canada relationship.
Guns-Maple syrup... what ever stereotypes you choose.
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I apologise to insider, was a bit harsh.
However, I will add that SEQld found plenty of space and waves for the hundreds kiwi bros over the decades, some were visitors, many stayed for good then started families. Cool with that, trust they live good lives here. Pretty sure they do.
As said, having afforded and accomodated all of the above in goodwill, year in year out, !FOR DECADES!, all I ask is please don't NO KIWI start lecturing me what I can or can't do in my own country.
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Yet Sid, you tell South Australians what they say or can't do in there own state, just sayin.:)
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That"s can not say, sorry no edit button
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Fair enough wellymon, points taken. I have mellowed over night. I do reckon though if your gonna stay you should get naturalised make it official, not just Kiwis but all new arrivals, long stayers whoever, least then you could play for our cricket team, looks like we are gonna need some help.
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Hey Wellymon, I posted a reply earlier but somehow it got lost.
Thanks for the local knowledge, I'd love to check it out, don't mind some back country or the steeps.
Yes we are spoiled for powder here. Every season I start getting antsy around Novemeber, I can't wait, snowboarding is definitely a close second to surfing to me. I got some sweet tree runs that I return to year after year. Got one insane shute running through the trees at the edge of one of my favourite resorts in Fukushima. It's a bitch of a walk out, but so worth it. Untouched waist to chest deep diamond dust all the way down.
I had a great time in NZ surfing and I vow to get back there one day. My bro ski's NZ annually but last year he got his hire car window smashed and all his gear knocked off. He hasn't let him put it off NZ though.
That's what I like about Japan, no theft. The most honest people on the face of the earth. Sadly, the only theft at snow resorts occurs in places like Niseko and Hakuba and unfortunately usually by the hands of our own countrymen.
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Wellymon, you got me amped and the season has only been over for a couple of months.
Often I board here mid-week and the resorts are empty. It's eery lonely sometimes being the only person on a lift and the only one flying down a run. The lifties (who are all local rice farmers that work the mountains in the winter) quite often fall asleep in their little huts and don't even check your tickets- it's funny. Even the groomers have knee-deep powder and you can go all day making fresh tracks if you go on a weekday.
I usually keep an eye on the weather and if it coincides with a big overnight dump, I'll drive up and hit the mountain by myself. I bought a brand new Subie Outback 2 years ago and that thing is the best snow car I've ever owned.
I buy my lift tickets in November for $35, lunch no more than $10 fuel and tolls another $30 and $6 for the hotspring soak on the way home to soothe the muscles. A day is less than $100 and if I get 2 or 3 in the car with me, around $50 a day all in. A lift ticket alone at Perisher I believe is now $110 before you even factor in food and getting there.
Sorry, we should start a snowboarding forum, I could rabbit on about it forever.
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no need to apologise sid I just think my point was lost in text. I have no hate for OZ some of my best mates are ridgy didge ockers, I have hate for travellers with no respect for locals and their environment, I can see both sides of the SA arguement on the other thread. Yeah I go off tangent but I;m proud our nations shared history. Out of all the travelling surfers that make it to my local in NZ the Ozzies know how to behave in the line up the best.Even the little upstart pros from the goldy. Not many Kiwis dont have family links in OZ. My grandfathers grandfather was born In OZ my grandfather was born in oz My mothers grandmother was born in OZ my sister was born in OZ my daughter was born in OZ. I dont want to become naturalised either, I believe in a world with no borders. Kiwis who come to OZ these days take a big risk, there is no welfare if you loose your job, no help if a storm trashes your house, kiwis have less rights in oz than refugees these days . Long gone are the days of flying over and getting the dole. Any ways its been a good wind up and a laugh all these threads. And yeah wellymon is right about olympus in the SI it is good. just make sure you buy your own nutcracker before you go, Vertigo surfshop in Oakura NZ have primo ones for about 150nzd. Shred on
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New Zealand is getting blanketed in snow at the moment with this big low pressure system, the same one that's given Southern NSW 7 days and counting of swell!
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Yeeeewwwwww!!
Wish I was there!
(PS- what's a 'nutcracker'?) scuse my ignorance.
Apart from Wellymon's explanation above, I understand that but buying one for $150?
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Cheers Wellymon, checked it out on Youtube, never heard of it before.
Looks tiring though, 50k+ feet of vert and not sitting down for a rest.
How were your thighs that night? You must have been crawling back to the lodge by then.
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I love my Outback, got the new Eyesight, Black. Best AWD system for snow and that extra ground clearance helps.
Traction control off and a bit of empty carpark circlework- love it, ha ha.
A snowboarding forum wouldn't go astray.
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Rule number one about clubfields and nutcrackers, -never take for granted there will be spares lying around, and what is lying around might be dodgey as fuck and pull your back out of place or the cracker might be not clamping right on the rope and ruin your day. Just buy one with a good harness and and its happy days. My home hill has the steepest nut cracker in the southern hemisphere and the highest death toll in NZ, ignore this at your peril , you could just be stuck at the bottom watching the fresh disapear in front of your eyes.
Oh yeah the T.C road is epic especially in an Leone series soobee,snow tires on front slicks on the back (helps to counteract the sledging of the 50/50 drive) fangin into the first hair pin in high range 3rd and then rippin into low range before the corner so you can cane into the next pin corner with high revs, oh yeah soobees and T>C what a love affair.
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No relation to the late, great Possum Bourne are you inzider?
I have been skiing/boarding for 25 years and I can't believe I have never seen or heard of a nutcracker.
Pretty hard to get the new Subies out of shape these days, they just don't let you.
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Wellymon , I was in QT 92, 93 was living rough up skyline with some fellow surf converts. 94 was back in my home land riding TE MAunga O Taranaki, (steepest vert lift in STH HEMI) 95 was back in Wanaka further out past beacon camping ground living rough in pine forest up on hill overlooking beacon point with a view straight thru to T>C. That winter it snowed us in and had to sleep in camp ground kitchen on floor with oven on for heating, Winter was cut short with compression fracture on vertebrae due to some bravado gone wrong off summit rocks. 96-99 was a scarfie in dunnos clocking mad speeds on skaties down the hills and surfing sick waves (that coast would be overun if it had warm water) with runs to t.c in winter. I hail from the breeding grounds of THC (these days I reckon it stands for try hard club) any ways our famed spots in te Naki are changing rapidly, famous right that rhymes with rent is a circus these days, it wasnt long ago the mid week sesh would be empty, the dawny empty, now its busy any time, us coastal surfers suceesfully stopped the ASP from taking their world tour event down the coast. The last thing thing that coast needs is a webcast with pumping waves streamed worldwide. it is under strain from freedom campers , and a rampant influx of just add water new locals. I know what those SA guys are trying to do and good luck to them.Why not try and preserve what you have so your kids can enjoy it like you did. look what surfing has done for places like bali, shameful really. The thread on it has gone mental and there are some muttonheads posting some dumb shit, that uplift dude for one, its better goons like him dont get into snowboarding there are enough muppets doing it already. Oh yeah I was only rocking soobees from 96 onwards so I
think you might have me confused with someother soobee lover. A white brumby you say, were you a hard booter by any chance, or dose your last name ryhme with house? No matter who we think we may be I know for sure we have crossed tracks, yeah and that stor tht blew thru at home created a sick windlip down number two on maunganui the boys reckon, cracker wasnt running so boys hiked the thousand feet for their turns, So jealous im lying in my donger in the middle of SA desert about to start my shift on a oil rig, worlds away from my groms the missus and my boards. Longing for a day in the hills or a trip over the falls.
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yeah welly mon, blainy is a shredder hes one of my bros, he hasnt been on snow for more than a decade, but he is surfing still super solid, he has 3 kids now and is still in NP. So your not greg prouse then, I do remember you tho from T>C . I remember one day out hidden valley and you came tearing past at mach 9 with a rooster tail like a shotover jet. I always thought hardbooters were gay but I dont think ive ever seen any one go as fast as you on a plank. You were the exception to the rule. Maunganui is the skifield on MT NAki . You dont want to be familiar with rigs in the desert its not much fun. About 2 hrs norwest of moomba in the cooper basin oil and gas everywhere, not all rigs are offshore. any ways shred on
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yeah that bit of paper I got from dunnos defintely was worth it , Im am MWD hand. We dont have rosters, we stay for the well and then leave, this year has been gravy, 3 months at home And 1 6 wek hitch in the NAki surfing while on standby gettin paid, oh yeah. This hitch is into week three with probly two more to go, hopefully back to the naki for next hitch. Might even be able to sneak ina slide. workin in NZ rules over this desert caper,
Yeah ski bums only last if they have a trust fund, sadly i do not have one. But I am getting to relive my youththrough my groms , haha
Ha thought I might make a subject, from reading the "Bring back the Biff down SA".
If you know what "Xenophobic" means.
Look forward to your comments.