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SunSurfer

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SunSurfer last won the day on December 25 2023

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  • Location
    Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
  • Home Mountain/Resort?
    Cardrona
  • Occupation?
    Anaesthesiologist
  • Current Boards in your Quiver
    10+ boards between 160 & 180cm, 1995(RadAir Extreme 169) to 2023 (Coiler Contra 173) builds.
  • Current Boots Used?
    Modified UPZ RC10S. A pair of standard boots is just the start of the fun!
  • Current bindings and set-up?
    Regular stance. Models: F2 & Bomber TD3 Intecs. Isocline plates, both DIY design/builds and BBP 4mm, with UPM & 4x4 pattern, ride with fixed axle front. Experimenting with stance distance & skwal style stances.
  • Snowboarding since
    2008
  • Hardbooting since
    2008

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  1. Authors credited for all. And he has put back online articles that were on the Bomber site, that are not in the Tech Articles section on ASB. Now try opening them from your mobile phone. And the link opens immediately in a mobile appropriate format and is easy to read. Now try doing the same thing with the Tech Articles on ASB. But he has put up the Tech Articles that are on ASB without acknowledging that they continue to be available on ASB. Not sure when they were actually written. The typeface is reminiscent of that analogue device, the typewriter. But since a photo of me at SES 2012 (the guy in red) is in the Norm Pt 1 article, I have to assume the version online is subsequent to that. He has shown a way to make that material more easily accessible. Now, it needs to be brought up to date, in both content and presentation.
  2. The answer to that is to get suitably skilled and knowledgeable people here to revise/rewrite the Tech Articles with a 2024 view. If ASB is to be the place to come about hardbooting, it has to LEAD.
  3. I see this as being started afresh once a year with the list updated for the accumulated additions/deletions. The previous year's thread could be locked and unstickied.
  4. As Corey notes, Martin is one of us. This is from Martin's YouTube channel. The GoFundMe page set up to help cover medical costs was suspended when I checked.
  5. Carving snowboards – who makes them? An incomplete alphabetical list. Make it more complete! BOARDS Alloy http://www.alloysnow.com/default/ BC Stream http://www.bc-stream.com/ Black Pearl http://www.blackpearljp.com/ Coda https://codaboards.com/ Coiler https://coiler.com/ Donek https://www.donek.com/ Exegi https://exegi.ca/ F2 https://www.f2boards.com/en/winter/f2-snow Gray http://graysnowboards.co.jp/ Jasey-Jay Anderson https://jaseyjay.com/ Kessler http://www.kessler-swiss.com/ Korua Shapes https://koruashapes.com/collections/snowboards Moss http://www.mosssnowstick.com/ https://mosssnowboards.co.jp/ Nobile https://nobilesnowboards.com/ OnEdge Style https://www.oes.cat/ Ogasaka https://www.ogasaka-snowboard.com/ Oxxess https://oxess.ch/ Prior https://www.priorsnow.com/ Pureboarding https://www.pureboarding.com/en/ R.A.D https://r-a-d.se/vinterprodukter/ Rabanser http://www.rabansersnowboards.com/en/ RadAir https://rad-air.com/store/ Sense http://www.sense4.me/en/ Sigi Grabner https://www.sgsnowboards.com/ Soul https://www.soulwaterman.com/ Stranda https://www.strandasnowboards.com/ Swoard https://www.swoard.com/ Thirst https://www.thirstsnowboards.com/ Virus https://shop.virus-snowsports.com/ Winterstick https://www.winterstick.com/ Yonex https://www.yonex.com/snowboarding/boards Trench Board Company were to launch at Montucky Clear Cut 2024 but the event was cancelled for lack of snow. Can’t find their website yet but the guys behind it are long time carvers! https://www.facebook.com/groups/736314186478431/user/100027865886417 SKWALs Ace Skwal https://aceskwal.com/ Lagriffe http://www.skislagriffe.com/www/skwal/pages/lagriffemain.html Mpride https://www.mpride.net/ Thias https://thias-skwal.com/en/ Coda, Oxxess, R.A.D., and Virus in the board maker list above also make skwals.
  6. 16 replies with data as of 8 March 2024. All born male. Heights ranging from 168cm to 195.5cm. 8 wear UPZ, 3 Deeluxe, 2 Mountain Slope, 2 a ski touring boot, 1 Head Stratos Pros. Across the group, Leg inseam varies from 42 to 49% of height. Stances range from 25 to 31% of height. Stances range from 56 to 68% of inseam. Splay: 11/16 have 5 degrees of splay or less. 5/16 have 10 degrees of splay or more (max 21 degrees). Canting: 4 riders report using canting. 3 of these have splay angles greater than 10 degrees and use it on the rear binding. 2 riders use front foot inward canting, 1 of the 3 with splay >10 using rear binding canting. The other is a stance outlier, 55 degree binding angles with 0 degrees splay, and front foot only inward cant. This isn't to say this is for "wrong" for them, just that this setup pattern is uncommon. ----------------------------------------------- Would love it to receive more data. I will periodically update the spreadsheet I'm keeping the results in. @pokkis I need your inside leg measurement please. @BlueB I need your freecarve binding angles for a typical freecarve board, e.g. 19-22cm at waist. If you have already made a reply and want to edit your measurements, message me so I can update your entry. Thanks to all replying so far.
  7. @philw rides a lot of fresh untracked snow and his advice is backed by that experience. At the angles he was suggesting, 40 front & 30 rear, most hardbooters will benefit from some inward cant of their boots to reduce lateral stress on their knees. Just seen you are riding Trench Diggers. The cant disc design of these is ideal for experimenting with nuanced canting. Personal message me if you want the long explanation why inward canting might be helpful. Otherwise just experiment with gradually increasing amounts of cant, until you find the most comfortable settings for you. You can then transfer those cant settings to your F2s by making wedges of the appropriate angle. F2 standard wedges just come as 3 degrees.
  8. Watching the video slowed down the arm rotation motion happens exactly at turn transition. The arm comes up first potentially aiding unweighting of the uphill edge, then strongly downward towards the nose of the board potentially helping a down weighting to set the new carving edge.
  9. You've got to hold a stick which will put your balance off until you are very used to it.
  10. Having tried @Wolf suggestion with a GoPro8 Black above, I needed to use the narrowest field of view, then crop the image to about half size, then expand that image to full size to see anything useful beyond the last couple of turns before the camera. GoPros are designed for wide angle POV use so not great for that kind of distant recording. Best cheap solution I know of. Ride with a friend and shoot each other. I have an old ski pole handle with a GoPro mount on top precisely for this use. The difference is night and day.
  11. You need low angled directional light to really reveal the embossing we're seeing only in your last photo. Then if you can adjust the white balance in the camera to show the colour you're seeing. A pity it doesn't have a highlighter function for your trench!
  12. 2019 my sister (a keen skier, so keen she came to MCC with me in 2023) and I were spending some time in Aspen. We were riding separately because she was exploring and I was chowing down on my favourite trails. I rode the Elk Camp gondola with a couple of middle aged male skiers who were Black Americans, rarer in my experience of Aspen than carving snowboarders. Great chat in the gondola, but later at lunch with my sister we met them again and shared a table. They'd ridden the gondola with my sister a little later after meeting me. Our NZ accents gave us away and they recognised me from my sister's description.
  13. Spent an afternoon a few years at Cardrona in NZ riding, and talking, on the chair with a paraplegic adaptive skier. A pair of misfits amongst the softbooters and skiers. He had been a farmer, injured in a quad bike crash, and now earned a living as a motivational speaker. He needed no assistance to get himself and gear onto a chair but it was certainly easier if only one other person rode with him on the 4 seater we were using. Lots to talk about with our different equipment, and just enjoying the snow.
  14. https://www.segno.co.nz/shop/product/warning-i-turn-often/ Tankers collecting milk from dairy farms in New Zealand often have a sign like this on the rear. Fundamentally the same problem we have. The company selling the sign are located in one the most intense dairy farming parts of NZ.
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