The punishment meted out to poor old John prior to being dropped into the darkness would get more and more violent depending on her level of inebriation. Her favourite was a particularly gruesome tale about a smuggler-turned-informant who was lowered down a mine shaft and left to starve by his fellow felons once they discovered his duplicity.
From there she’d hold court regaling my sister Mel and I with stories from her youth. Late on Saturday evenings she would come back from the pub, pour herself a dry sherry and curl up in the wingback chair in the corner of the room. My gran was the first person to tell me about John’s lost soul haunting the town. The only thing everyone appears to be able to agree on is that once you see him there is only one way to rid yourself of him. I’ve heard some say that they saw him standing atop the limestone stack staring out toward the ocean, while others have claimed he was trapped in the barrel in which he died, his face a mask of horror, screaming into the dusty blue void. In what manner he will be there depends on who you talk to. Time it well though, just as the sun kisses the horizon, and the locals swear blind that he’ll be there. It needs to be a clear day, preferably during the summer, and you’ll need to be stood at the correct angle. If you’re a relatively inexperienced snowboarder and you’re looking for a board that you can take all over the hill for one holiday a year then I’d probably look at other boards.There’s an legend around my way that if you take an early morning trip to the coast and look out towards Marsden Rock, in the right conditions you’ll see the ghost of John the Jibber. If you love jibbing around your local hill or indoor slope then seriously consider the Jibber Jabber because it’s a lot of fun and is a very easy snowboard to progress your rail and small kicker skills on. But who cares because if you buy this board you won’t be gunning it around, you’ll be jibbing off hits on the side of the slope and bonking piste markers. Obviously there are a few compromises associated with the board being softer than your average park board it doesn’t hold onto off-centre landings quite as well as some other boards, it isn’t quite as powerful and aggressive when you’re carving and speeding down slopes……and it isn’t great in the off-piste. To add to its amazing ability on rails the jibber jabber is also very poppy at low speeds so when you’re jumping onto rails, jibbing around the slope and hitting kickers up to 10 metres this board feels pretty effortless. Zero camber combined with a soft longitudinal and torsional flex means that this board is the perfect board for destroying rails presses, reverts, pretzels….you name it this board can do it. The Contract Jibber Jabber is all about having fun, it isn’t a serious pipe board or a serious kicker board……in all honesty it’s the kind of board that Chris Bradshaw would use to mess around Bear Mountain on.
Sometimes we take Snowboarding too seriously we all judge people on what they’re wearing and what tricks they’re throwing in the park and sometimes forget that we’re all doing this sport for the same reason, because it’s so much fun.
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