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Check out the turn past the slow sign at 40 seconds in the video below. I had to turn super sharp to avoid my videographer and without thinking I did this kind of windmill arm movement unrehearsed. Pause the video when his skis come into view and you'll see that I'm about two feet away from total disaster and know that he also saw it coming and had changed his trajectory too. When I saw this I immediately remembered the discussions here about the circular arm movements and thought I would share. After the intro these's no more snowboarding in this video, but a few of you might find it interesting anyway.

https://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Nakiska/6day/top Nakiska forecast looks great for Friday and also for Saturday morning! They're getting consistently cold temps and fresh snow right now. Saturday afternoon will be warm and probably slushy late in the day on the lower mountain at least. I've only been there once for NES 2017 but the map makes it look like mostly eastern aspects so it should hold up well. So is this happening? Who's in? Anybody for Friday?

Forecast for Nakiska looks decent! Some cold and some snow expected midweek, this might actually happen! Closing day is tomorrow in Revelstoke, I'll hold off on the storage wax for a bit...

I'll show up if there's cold corduroy!

Oh no! Not another "James Cherry" thread... The last one on snowboardingforum didn't end well.

Get up to Revelstoke this week, I'll give you a free lesson. Conditions look good for carving on the upper mountain until at least Sunday. I've been meaning to get my hardboots on all season... (Actually, all last season too.)

Hell yes! C'mon in... the water is fine. Most of them don't know this type of stuff, and the coaches and racers that do will try to keep any advantage they think they have.

Yeah! Anything for views! We could continue the posi-posi vs duck stance wars but that's already getting old. I'm thinking cant vs lift, asym vs symmetrical, goofy vs regular... Hard boots vs soft, up-unweighting vs down-unweighting, beard vs balaclava, Coiler vs JJA, mittens vs gloves... The possibilities are endless! Thanks for defending me @SunSurfer but it was just razzing, @ShortcutToMoncton is a friend and I deserved that comment.

Sweet turns @RockyZ Happy Birthday @Xargo

Wow... The comments on this IG post are dead on and hillarious! I could see using this contraption to run my girl to the bus stop in the winter (the OneWheel is three season only), and maybe riding around the flats in the valley sometimes but I have to think the paddles will disengage from the snow as soon as you put the board high on edge. Still, probably funner than snowshoes.

What he said... Extending the legs causes more boot out. Look at Ryan Knapton's legs in a low carve, all the way straight. That's why he needs extreme underhang. No real difference in hard or soft boots, it's the hard or soft snow that makes the difference. In Ontario you can get away with narrower boards for sure. My last custom hard boot boards were 21cm in the waist, @dredman still orders 19.5cm I think, but he rides with more bend in the knees. Sure, on a hard surface. Remember that the board isn't riding on marble, it's sinking into the snow, creating a trench. And the sinking motion is not perpendicular to the base like in powder but more parallel to the base in a carve, deleting that underhang immediately and then dragging the toes and/or heelcup. When you get out here next season @ShortcutToMoncton you'll see what I mean...

Think of it as an audio podcast and listen in the car. The footage was just 'cause. I was gonna throw together a few minutes and put it on a loop but it turned out I had almost 40 minutes of previously unreleased video so I didn't have to repeat as much as expected. Like this? Well I haven't even assessed all the damage from the fallout and backlash due to the original rant yet... So maybe soon. What's with the rest of your post? You need a better AI content generator, this one is talking itself in circles. Because I'm booting out of course. My style lends itself to extra boot out potential and I don't want to change it if I can just get a wider board and lower profile bindings to solve the problem. Other styles don't require so much underhang: Jordan Michon rides the same widths as me in size 12 boots, Lars Hostmann rides 270mm waists on size 9 boots. Yet other styles require even more underhang: Ryan Knapton rides 320-340mm waists at size 8!

Did anyone here see the original Rant? I deleted it after 149 views but apparently it made some impressions. This is the sanitized version for public consumption. Boring. Some good previously unreleased footage here but way too much self-indulgent blathering on for me...

I've had a lot of requests like that this season... I only have two tricks: toeside and heelside.

Got some new footage and some new boards! As usual, pre-release for my homies. Add your own soundtrack, I'm working on a long voiceover for this one - coming soon. Turns out I have a lot to say. Who knew? This was yesterday and the day before, on the newest JJA prototype soft-boot carvers. Introducing Daniel K, one of my near-local proteges.

Revelstoke is getting beat up right now but the base up high is deep. It'll be freeze/thaw for a few days but cold and snow is back soon, starting Wednesday. The low mountain is finished for the season but the upper 2000 feet will come back into condition. The last few days were excellent, here's proof:

You know, sentimentality aside there are way better boards out there now...

Hey @RM125 Use my name next time or quote me, I'll get a notification that way. Looked at your profile man, I see you love the Coils! So at this event, MCC 2023, there were a lot of dudes riding old school gear. I want to be cool like them and the Coil was the one I had in mind to keep for this purpose. I think there's an old F2 slalom board in the stack I could part with.

Thanks guys. Dude found an address at the local shop. He won't have a car. We're getting melted out this week, I might consider heading down there myself...

Sold a used board to a dude who's travelling to Copper in ten days. Apparently the hotel won't accept packages. Can I ship it to someone's home nearby for him to pick up?

Got a real videographer on this one! Could only afford a 49 second edit though. Enjoy!

Hey Boys, I'm flying into SLC Friday night with a box full of snowboards and eight days to ride. What's good? Who's riding where? James

I will certainly admit that the 'penguin walk' works way better in duck stance... I'm jealous sometimes; I have to lean forward over my nose and do more of a 'surfer's paddle' when I'm stuck on flats. Miss my TD3 step-ins in those moments. Someone mentioned the 'posi-posi vs duck stance war' in a YouTube comment today. I wrote back to him: "I don't see a war. But then again I don't see duck stance riders carving black diamonds in Revelstoke either so maybe the war is over?" Are you referring to me? That was a joke, but it's over now. For any who may not know, my alter ego is James Cherry, the very same James Cherry of the very recent and surely fleeting YouTube fame. Sorry about that @Hug Masso, it was just too tempting...

The new enfant terrible in the snowboard scene, shacking it to its foundations. Yeah, this guy needs to be cancelled before he gives away all our secrets! Pretty soon everybody and his dog will be railing turns and we won't be cool or special anymore. We are the OG hard boot mafia are we not? Maybe we can dig up some old footage of him riding duck or something... And what's with that stupid shark fin??? Who does this guy think he is?

Someone told me once (probably from this site, can't remember who it was) that the force behind the rapid change to duck stances and tiny boards was Burton Snowboards. The story goes that by the late 90s they found they just couldn't be competitive in the race world so they made it uncool and promoted the Shawn White style riding instead, a market they could dominate. Apparently, according to the rumour, this was around the same time they started adding the big whoop-di-doos into the BX courses so hard boot riders couldn't win anymore (ahem... I'm thinking of Jasey-Jay Anderson, for example). I was out of the scene for a while around that time and have no actual evidence of this conspiracy, these are unconfirmed rumours. Any informed opinions out there? All I know is that I when I stopped snowboarding so much around 1995 everybody was posi-posi and carving, and when I came back to the sport in 2006 I couldn't find any more stiff bindings on the shelves and the guy at the store was trying to sell me a 153cm rocker board, telling me it was built for speed. I told him I wanted the biggest carving board they had and walked out with a 160 Burton Triumph. That was my sixth and last Burton board. It sucked. The Asym Air from 1990 was way better at carving. I checked the catalogue and indeed the Triumph was their carving model that season. The next season I found a used Coiler Pure Race 185 on the Bomber forum, sold my old Factory Prime and never looked back. Well, until now. So what the heck happened there? Burton didn't accidentally "lose" the technology so should we assume it was intentional? Who's this guy? Seems like a pompous jerk.