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ShortcutToMoncton

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  • Location
    Toronto
  • Home Mountain/Resort?
    Mount St. Louis Moonstone
  • Occupation?
    NA
  • Current Boards in your Quiver
    Coilers
  • Current Boots Used?
    MS & Burton
  • Current bindings and set-up?
    Flow / F2 Titanium
  • Snowboarding since
    1987
  • Hardbooting since
    1993

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  1. Looks like you’re Patient Zero for my amazing plan to get outrage views! Smash that Like button and Subscribe for more anti-softboot content….. I’m just kidding around, but count me in as an avid consumer! I love James’ softboot commentary (at least when he sticks to an easily digestible 40 minutes or so, just like a normal Youtuber), and I would honestly be super excited about a little hardboot-specific series from ASB and/or Jack. I’ve mentioned this before — I’m surprised that some of the pro riders don’t seem interested in sharing this type of stuff. But I guess it’s such a niche sport that it’s not worth the extra effort when a quick shot of a starting gate and hilltop sunset will probably get triple the likes. (not to give James any ideas…)
  2. I thought to follow up and say that I read all of those old articles 20+ years ago (or whenever it was) and loved them….the content is still true but it looks so antiquated to read them now, along with the small pictures. It would be super amazingly helpful if this was a YouTube series. Take this article and a nice new iPhone and a buddy who can ski and hold a phone, spend a couple hours getting some footage, and create a 3-to-4-minute short video summarizing each article…. This is 2024; reading is for old people. You could even call the channel “@JamesCherrysucks” or something and really kick off some social beefs with the Cherryhive….really milk those outrage views for all it’s worth
  3. Legend has it that article was literally written on a typewriter…
  4. Yeah, the PowerRides are causing me some instep discomfort & slight bruising as well just on the inside top of my feet. It’s where the bottom Powerride tongue pushes down when my ankles push forward and flex the top of the insert….so it does mean it’s working! I have a high instep and it’s a pressure problem in many liners/boots. I had them in for 5 hours yesterday (in what might be the last day of the season this year) and it was probably too much. Usually I spend an hour or so warming up without them, then stick them in for a couple hours, then remove. They are great for hard carving!
  5. Yeah the soft snow comment clicked for me. We usually have a couple inches at most before you’re scraping hardpack of course. And you do ride with straighter legs as well.
  6. Hard boots? 21.25 seems pretty damn wide for hardboots at 5-8, but your inseam is pretty long….
  7. Haha that excellent Fuego test says line up exactly over the edge!
  8. Ahhh, so it seems like perhaps more of a softer-snow issue where the board track cuts deep enough so that the snow overhang causes drag? As more of a central/east coast guy I’m not quite as familiar with this soft snow you’re speaking of…but I’m pretty sure the guys James referenced are also all Rockies riders? It’s been a 15+ years since I lived out west, although I don’t remember this being a hardboot issue. Is that the case? Hard boots have higher clearance regardless which would help.
  9. Interesting. How are you booting out with sizeable board underhang? Maybe that’s what I don’t understand. With hard boots I thought it’s generally accepted that boots/bindings vertical over the board edge is sufficient to avoid bootout. I’ve never heard anyone say that underhang is required. Is there some difference with soft boots that requires underhang? Like I said, I went wide as possible to experiment with low angle carving while in a BX type stance. Here’s 15f -6r I believe (maybe -3r?), and the camera angle is over the toeside here which makes heelside look like slightly more overhang than it really is. On carpet with this stance, I have to put the board at about 85 degrees before heel or toe just starts to touch — and we get more allowance than that on snow of course (it’s not like any drag is a problem). At 30f 15r, I probably have about a half-inch or more of underhang space over toe and heel on my front foot, little less on my rear. Assuming you’re similar, that’s still giving you bootout??
  10. Congrats on selling out of the run! Why so wide at your 8.5 foot size? At carving angles around 30/15, don’t you have a ton of board underhang? I do and mine’s a 283 waist (although 10m scr so slightly wider underfoot).
  11. That’s an hour and 12 minutes long. My kids watch Disney movies that are shorter. What’s the TLDW?
  12. Frankly I’m slightly disappointed you’re not wildly gesticulating a magic spell at every turn. Maybe a new skill you can pick up…??
  13. Google shows me absolutely nothing for Milkland Ski Resort. Where is it?
  14. Any accessible hills still have decent cord? We’re out.
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