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Old video, but nice Corduroy for the first 5-6 runs! Still remember some of those turns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b9-l3F3buY&t=668s

first time on the forum this year. I would be glad to ride with anyone, especially hard boots. I sent a PM with phone number.

Sorry for bringing this to the front, but have not been on the forum since last season.....It all made sense to me when you look at Leonardo da Vinci man, While the radius of the circle looks small, to be better balanced you would have both toe lift on the front and heel lift on the rear.....If you have no lift, even with adjustable boots (canting and forward lean), it feels very un-natural.

This is a little late, but wanted to give great thanks to Walker at Bomber for the customer service to get new bindings delivered while on vacation. I ordered new bindings Wednesday, February 6th for delivery by Friday prior to leaving for a week long ski vacation in Idaho. Needless to say a little snow on Friday in North Bend Wa caused Fed-ex to not deliver my bindings. Therefore, we left on vacation and drove 11 hours on a normal 5 hour trip from North Bend to Coeur d'Alene Idaho thru 30-40 mph winds and blizzard snow storm.....I called Walker and he had Fed Ex deliver my bindings to my vacation spot and received Tuesday morning....We had 8-14" of snow every day for 6 days and epic skiing at Silver Mountain Idaho. Thanks and special kudos to Walker for going the extra mile. Bindings are great!!!!

Here's the song from the movie. Farmers way.mp3

Farmers mf'ing way! Got that in the ear plugs. 200cm longboard jumping 60 footers.

Oh yeah. I never get tired of these!!!!Because they are me and I can refresh my memory of the years......

Fresh couple of inches this morning over crispy ice. Ski area is only open weekends now so there are much deeper pockets of snow, 6-8 inches, outside the groom tracks. Generally taking it easy at the top of the slope on the first run of this trail. Nice back turn thru the crud and snapped the rear bale on my original Trench Diggers. (thank god that I was not going mach). See pictures. A little calculations: 14 years old binding average 35 days a year minimum 25 runs per day 12,250 runs!!!!! These bindings are the best ever. I cannot believe they have not broken before! Thanks goodness I have other bindings as tomorrow is the last day of skiing at the ski area.....

Great day Sunday March 26th and snowing still. Great year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkBOBW4VaIg

A guy slid up next to me in the lift line and said " I wondered who was digging the trenches under the lift and now I know"

He has been in college and has only boarded a few times over the last 4 years and always with his friends. We went to Bachelor for a week and he rode behind me and took lots of video and could not believe carving down the steeps and getting air on transition. Depending on speed, you can fly 5-20 feet in the air and land into another cranking turn. He then said he wants to try again now that he can use my boots and boards.....Can't wait to get him up there again as he was a natural. Not over yet.....

I think and have explained to many skiers AND snowboarders over the years that passing any snowboarder on their back side is not advised and this idea should be taught and communicated. Being a relatively fast carver, both skiers and soft boot boarders see you bombing down the slope and they have to prove a point that they can go faster and point it straight down the hill and beat you down the hill. It happened last night by a boarder and I literally could have killed the guy. I always look up the hill to determine if anyone is catching me. This guy came so fast and close on my backside that I had no idea he was there. I could have taken a left (heel side) at 50 mph and crossed the slope. At the bottom of the hill he was high on adrenaline and could barely talk, but I explained that this was very dangerous and that he was in my total blind spot and I could have darted across the slope and he would not have been able to avoid a collision. I was not upset, but rather explained to him the reason why people should not pass on the blind side of snowboarders. He understood and hopefully he will keep this in mind. If this was followed and communicated with diagrams or posters on the mountain I think this would alleviate some of the confusion between the skiing and boarding community. IMHO

I just purchased a Donek Hazelwood custom a few weeks ago. I wanted WIDE for the powder and my 11.5 size boots. It is a 185cm, with a 10m shovel to 12m tail sidecut with a 26.5cm waist. The shovel is 32.3cm and the tail is 30.6cm. Now I needed to learn how to ride a standard non-carving specific board, but on the three days out in the powder, I am getting used to it and love the carving thru the powder.

IMHO, I would recommend the ski shop as they can heat the whole liner evenly and gets the fit fairly good. After I did this I still had some specific pressure points on me Deeluxe boots and I then used the sock\rice\microwave option to further mold the specific pinch points until I got it right. On the Deeluxe liners this was the heel or Achilles part of the liner that was pinching the heel too much. After 3-4 times, they now fit like gloves and are perfect.

Back 12-13 years ago I bought some womens ski boots at a ski swap for $15 buck that fit my 10 year old son. I also had a very soft 53 Z-Board (I have no clue who made this board) with old race plates. He rode this board for two years and carved very well. The ski boots were very awkward as they did not flex and couldn't adjust the forward lean. Therefore, I needed to buckle his rear foot in at the top of the mountain as he could not do this, I needed to ride behind him as if he fell he might not be able to get up if it wasn't a steep slope and at the bottom he could barely reach the rear binding to release, so I released it for him. We rode together on the carving board for at least 15-20 days for two years. He then kicked me to the curb and got back onto the soft boots and terrain park.....typical teenager. I'm glad that I did not buy the boots as his feet were growing so fast, as he is still riding the terrain park.