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NAME: Dick Schulze AGE: 60 PLACE OF BIRTH: San Francisco HOME MOUNTAIN: Northstar at Tahoe, California YEARS OF RIDING: 8 SPONSORS: Base, Snowpark, Inca Snowboards

LATEST RESULTS:
Recap of my season to date:
2 first place, USASA slalom
2 first place, USASA GS
1 first place, USASA BX
2 first place, USASA slopestyle
1 first place, USASA pipe
56th place (and frost-bitten chin), X-games qualifier BX
5 first place, Calif State Games

NAME: Actually this is more complicated that it might seem at first glance. My legal name is Herbert Richard Schulze, but no one who knows me ever addresses me as “Herb” or “Herbert”. My nickname, which derives from my middle name, is “Dick”. So please list me either as Herbert R (“Dick”) Schulze or better yet, just as Dick Schulze.

 
AGE: 60 going on 18

PLACE OF BIRTH: San Francisco

WHAT SKI'S OR BOARD'S DO YOU RIDE ON?

Skis: Nordica SUV-12X with Marker bindings and Nordica boots.
Snowboards: Inca 159 (soft) for freestyle and 163 (stiff) for boardercross, with Salomon bindings and Burton Sabath boots. Volkl 178 Renn tiger for GS, with Deeluxe hard-shell boots.
 

WHERE DO YOU SPEND YOUR WINTERS?
NZ winter's I spend in Wanaka as much as possible. North American winters I spend at Lake Tahoe, California as much as possible, except when I am in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado or Utah. The majority of the time, year round, I am at work in Silicon Valley.
 
WHAT IS YOUR BEST SKIING STORY?
Well, after 8 passionate years of snowboarding I have heaps of stories. I could carry on for hours! By which time my audience would be sound asleep. One of my best short ones comes from my first-ever boardercross race in NZ, in the 2000 Nationals at Coronet Peak. I was in the start gate between two expert boardercross racers, both less than half my age. Spy Dunbar came up to me, looked over the competition on either side of me, and said, “Dick, I don’t envy you your position!” But right after the start I was #2 and would have come in first or second had it not been for a nasty spine that I crashed on half way down the race course. Sigh…
 

LIST 5 ITEMS YOU THINK SHOULD BE BANNED FROM THE WORLD:

1.         Skiers who don't like snowboarders
2.         Snowboarders who don't like skiers
3.         Ski resorts that don't allow snowboarding
4.         Any place that doesn't allow skateboarding
5.         That's enough.

WHAT IS YOU FAVOURITE ITEM OF FOOD?
Homemade mince meat pie
 
WHAT WOULD YOU BE IF YOU WERE NOT A SKIER OR BOARDER?
Well, before I ever started boarding I was a solicitor, and a grandparent, and a motorcyclist, and a pilot. I am sure I would still be all those things even if I had never become a snowboarder. And even before I started skiing I was all those things except grandparent, and I suspect I would have become a grandparent whether I ever skied or not.

 TO ME, BASE IS:
The first place I go when I return to NZ each winter;
Part of my identity as a snowboarder;
An integral part of my Wanaka home.
 

WHAT WOULD YOUR BEST DAY ON SNOW BE?
In deep powder on a double-black slope in the trees with my friends.

 
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST ACHIEVMENT?
Finishing my first marathon race (42.2 km) on a chilly San Francisco morning.

 
DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER ONLINE PROFILES?
There is a profile of me on Robett’s web site. And check out my personal web site www.snappysports.com.

 
HOW WAS YOUR SEASON? GIVE ME A BRIEF RUN DOWN ON WHAT YOU GOT UP TO? In July, sat the NZSIA CSI exam. In August, competed in the South Island Regionals at Mt Hutt (Masters division). In September, competed in the Nationals at The Remarks, and in the Cardrona Coca-Cola Games (both open class). Then sat the NZSIA Stage One exam.

 
WHAT WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR SEASON?
Passing the CSI exam (Certificate of Snowboard Instruction) and getting my NZ snowboard instructor license.
 

DESCRIBE YOUR BEST DAY OF THE SEASON?
The pipe at Mt Hutt where I had the best run I have ever had in a pipe competition. And the slopestyle in the Cardrona Games when I aired the staircase.
 

DESCRIBE YOUR WORST DAY OF THE SEASON?
The slopestyle in the Nationals when the weather and snow were so horrible that I could not do much of anything right.

PLEASE LIST ANY RESULTS:
In the Regionals, came in fifth in GS and BX and first in pipe and slopestyle in the Masters Division.

 PLAN FOR THE SUMMER? (WHERE YOU GOING AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING?) At the moment I am at work in Silicon Valley. I will be a weekend instructor at Northstar-at-Tahoe again this winter, starting late November, and I will be competing in the USASA competitions (South Tahoe series) starting in January. I am on the wait list for the Grand Prix at Breckenridge in December.

 SHOUTOUTS:
To the gang at Base and the gang at Snowpark and Frosty, and especially to my coaches in the NZSIA who are absolutely the world's best.

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