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Jörg from Pureboarding rides with 2 different boots but i don't know any specifics. I think his rear boot is softer :)

I'm not riding hardboots for long, just over a year amounting to maybe 20 days. I don't know anybody in person to ask, so i have to come here and ask dumb questions, sorry :) I have a board with a 190mm waist, and to not have anything hang over the edge i had to turn my bindings all the way up to 65° back (70° front). Now i noticed recommended angles on the SG Snowboards website. For their Full Carve board, for example, they list 45-57 front, 43-54 back. And i can only wonder: how? I thought i had smaller than average boots, with a size of MP 25.5 (shell 25.5-26.5), but the full boot length is still 287mm. If the bindings where perfectly centered, that would need at least a 51 angle to stay inside the snowboards edge. But the boots stand far back on my bindings, so i have to turn them even further to have the back and cuff of the boot inside. image for illustration, bindings set at 48 : How do you set your bindings? Do i worry too much? Do you just let your boots stick over the edges a bit?

Woah, those slow zones actually work in the States? Where i board in Austria, the SLOW signs are more like warnings: speed up, or you'll be carrying your board for the next 100m

Too hard? You're 8kg over the weight range for the board! A board that's too soft for you will not properly hold an edge and is easier to break. You will probably feel like its clunkier than your custom while you go slow (board too hard?) until you get it up to operational speed - and then it's unstable because it's actually too short and soft for you. Get something in your size. You will grow into it. I'm your size (and working on shedding some weight. Damn christmas dinners) and riding a Goltes Scorpion 159 (softboots) and a Pogo Hardcore (hardboots), for both of which i'm at the lower end of the recommended weight.

Great story and really nice people you met there! What japanese secret techniques did they use on you to optimize your stance and angles?

Variable Cant disks (Unicant) have a small degree of freedom because of a fault in construction. It does not matter how much you tighten the screws.

What really helps when you are learning to change a habit in the way you move, is to exagerate the change. Align hips to face the tip of the board? I find that hard to do in a snowboarding stance without being strapped to bindings - that completly locks my hip and feels horrible in my back knee.

Got green RC10s this winter, used RC8s for the last 2 seasons. The new floliner version feels nice, more snug and tougher than my older RC8s, but that's all i can tell you so far - still need to get the RC10s punched out to accomodate my duck feet (Deeluxe are not an option for me at all)

I see the Völkl Coal XT listed at 630€. If you can shell that out and don't feel at home on lighter, shorter and/or softer boards, you should be able to get a lightly used Pogo Freecarve or Oxess Boardercross in that price range.

That makes me think you have been to at least one their sessions. Is it, as i imagine, Voodoo Priest Board Gurus dancing around you during a snowstorm until you magically hold edge and feel the urge to buy pureboarding equipment? Their stuff is certainly great, but the promotional material i found look more like a religion than a brand haha

http://shoes.about.com/od/mens_size_charts/a/men_width.htm Judging from this chart, i have like a G width foot measured 4.1" for 5.5 Shell size (25.5 MP) You think HSP/Dalbello are wide enough for that? I'm about to get my UPZs punched out a little more...

Technically, i don't see why you would need a leash under any circumstances. I've never seen skiers leash their ski, and those actually have a mechanism to release them at a set power threshold. Snowboard bindings don't. If you like the secure feeling a leash might provide to you, get one. there's always the off-chance that the step-in doesn't correctly close without you noticing, obviously that will happen after you stop searching for failure because you got used to them working every time. Slightly related sidenote: the most hilarious thing i've seen this season was a softbooter kicking his board in front of him on a long flat track. Then he gave it a bigger kick, ran after and jumped onto the board. He proceeded to surf for 5m looking mighty cool, then he slipped. He fell backwards, giving the board a mighty boost forward and to the right. Off it went over the side, where a 30m steepish drop was lurking. You should've seen his face :D

Those are called moguls in Korea? They're not even half your height! :P Nice vid, good humor! It really helps to stay low. While the moguls are still smallish, i try to keep my head level throughout, while the legs do a LOT of up/down work. When they get big, i generally try to... survive :D pistes here all turn into mogul-hells after 12am :/

At least you didnt find out because you happened to be there. With your alpine gear.

They can't be all that flawed with all the races they win. Won't matter, though, if you end up with one of the bad ones and can't even get a warranty claim on it.