Comments on: Shredding soon at the Liberty Snowflex Center

By: jonny

jonny — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:31:02 +0000

Adrian, it’s an off and on process. Solid to me when I feel like writing and dry when I don’t. I’m sure there’s plenty more to read out there beyond anything I put up. But even in this quiet period I still pull about 450-500 UV’s per day. So, like I said you aren’t missing anything. People still come for the sporadic updates daily. It’s a weird spread.

By: adrian

adrian — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:19:50 +0000

Oh yeah johnny I don’t read your blog anymore how’s it coming along?

By: adrian

adrian — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:17:52 +0000

Yeah charlie it hurts to fall, like carpet burn x 10, no you can’t carve on it, rocker boards are kinda sketchy on it, its hard wood with a few inches of carpet, you don’t have to turn or carve if you try you die, they can control speed with a water silacone solution. Its fun and you can learn tricks. Oh yeah it scratches the crap outta your base too !

By: Shay

Shay — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:09:16 +0000

I totally stand by my words and by putting up a post with my stickers on a snowflex center.

This article mentions nothing about the University or Falwell, just a snowflex center…and while to you it may stand for more, to me it doesn’t…it’s another place to shred. People can choose to support it or not.

By: jonny

jonny — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:17:24 +0000

Shay, I’;d like to clarify a few points
I never told you to remove the post – I was just shocked that you’d go ahead and say “yeah I’m cool with that.” I’m 99.9% certain I never told you to remove anything.

I think you do have a choice of whether you acknowledge your sticker being someplace/somewhere. That you do have a say in as you publish the blog. The point is Falwell stood for many things culturally that things like skating, snowboarding, punk music and hip hop railed against. Once can HOPE this is an attempt for them to become more accepting, open and tolerant of other cultures and lifestyles.

Until they prove otherwise I would encourage others to make a decision based on knowing who and what your dollars are supporting if you ride Liberty Snow Center.
I can clearly see we fall on two sides of this and my opinion certainly isn’t the popular one. So research it, check it out, maybe they are more open, accepting and tolerant. Maybe not.

By: cdr

cdr — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:37:09 +0000

thanks shay, and yeah they probably dont like stickers! they probably removed the ones I put up already…I will not stop haha… stickers=freedom of speech – a little vandalism

By: Shay

Shay — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:09:01 +0000

Bummer on the NC one being dropped. TWS Business did an interview with the Jerry Falwell Jr on the access to it, here that says it's open to everyone but students/faculty have priority . Looks like it's set to open August 29th. I had an interesting discussion with another blogger on this article, my blog got removed from his blogroll because I promoted my stickers at this university. In my eyes and as someone who writes about snowboarding, it's another place to snowboard and to me that's all I see. I'm certainly not going to remove this post or stop talking about a snowflex center just because the founder stood for things that not everyone might agree on. Everyone has a choice whether to go there and support it or not.

By: lee pace

lee pace — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:15:42 +0000

cdr,sorry to say the one in nc is no more,the guy funding it has dropped the ball..as far as Liberty snowflex,it is only open to students and alumni.for the frist year or so(until the get the kinks worked out)Then they will open to the public..AT LEAST FALWELL IS DEAD..

By: cdr

cdr — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:33:50 +0000

Oh yeah and if theres no one reading this near the one being built in NC i will take a drive down there once i know they have started building and report about that one also

By: cdr

cdr — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:27:10 +0000

whatever your thoughts on falwell i dont care i’ll be snowboarding there with or without you…i have no affiliation with Falwell or Liberty University but they’re doing a good thing for snowboarders..Jerry was one of a kind and agree with him on most things no..i dont but he has done great things for lots of people. more simply put..I agree with shay…………as for gnarly charlie ”
does it hurt when u fall on this shit and is it just like snow when ur carving and riding on it”
i havent actually rode it but i kinda rolled around on it and it seems like it might be a bit painful to fall on bareskin…im trying to figure out what to wear riding during the summer.. its gonna be weird snowboarding in 80 degrees…as for riding on it, i can only go on what i’ve rread people at the woodward @ copper said you cant really carve like you can snow, but if you search for snowflex videos you can see people ride on it and it seems fairly legit…i’ll let you know more in 2 months….Aug. 29 is the date set for opening..