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It all started...
on 31/3/08 by grembly
...on a random weeknight when me and Dan Marcello went to Princeton Ski Shop in October or November of 2006. I’d pretty much memorized Transworld Snowboarding’s Good Wood issue. But there were only like three sentences per board, and I was gonna drop $400 or $500 on a new board. I’d looked up the boards online and found no real info. Demoing boards had all but disappeared, and if you wait till the snow falls all the good boards are sold out anyway.
I looked at the boards in the store (did the classic bend and other stupid stuff that told me almost nothing) and talked to the sales guy (who had a lot to say about the boards but hadn’t ridden any of them himself…uh, thanks).
I had read about Mervin’s Magne-Traction; they said it turned ice into powder. I live on the East Coast and have a season pass at Mountain Creek. I’m on ice 95% of the season, and the other 5% is spent crossing over dirt to get to the next patch of man-made ice. I knew it wasn’t going to make powder, but if it could just help me get an edge into the ice, I’d be happy.
I put my money down and walked outside into the 60 degree weather. It was like we were the only people even thinking about the winter. Dan and I sat on the brick wall on the corner of 22nd Street and Broadway, laughing about how I just dropped $400 on a board I knew almost nothing about and wouldn’t get to ride for at least a month and a half.
I asked Dan if he wanted to help me build a website where people tell each other what they think of their boards. Real simple. He was into doing a little project, but we needed a programmer.
When I got home I called my buddy Mike Trezza and gave him the run down. He was up for doing the programming. Damn this was easy. I went to sleep that night debating whether the site would go up by Thanksgiving or New Year’s.