Stephen Koch » riding your snowboard backwards http://stephenkoch.com Professional Speaker, Mountain Guide, Snowboard Instructor, Alpinist and Family Man Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:00:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Fakie is now called Switch http://stephenkoch.com/2008/12/fakie-is-now-called-switch/ http://stephenkoch.com/2008/12/fakie-is-now-called-switch/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:14:34 +0000 Stephen Koch http://stephenkoch.com/?p=129 I am taking the Instructors Training Course at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort for another two days. I am busy with that and only have a little time to write a few things now. I am learning to ride Switch. This was always called Fakie in the old days. Even Brian McGuire, the head of the Mountain Sports School called it Fakie!

It was easier to make turns on the north face of Mount Everest than it has been to ride Switch! And less scary as well!

More soon.

May you be happy, peaceful and healthy.

I look forward to seeing some of you soon for backcountry turns and possibly turns at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort if I get hired on as an instructor.

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