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He made a typo in explaining what overhangs. Talks twice about rear boot.

I think he actually tries to have front toe underhang and rear heel underhang, for what he describes as "G" bias.

Yes.

And finally done... Staff only closing day was a success, few hours of riding and BBQ Snow was getting progressively slower through the day, but fun never the less. Nidecker Spectre was the ride of the day... Anyways, thanks everyone for the season, see you next year, if not for one last ride at Whistler, in May.

Yup, it was a lot longer pond and hard run-up with a carved corner. Lots of people didn't make it across. 4807 performed like a star, as usual. A sasquatch was spotted, too. Note to myself - dress more often like one - when random girls start asking for photos with you, you are doing something right

Don't concern yourself with the angles at all. Set the rear boot to the edges, or slight overhang, front boot to desired splay and go ride. It works for any board width. Our bodies are super adaptable. After few runs you get used to any new angles.

My buddy Alex is officially a snowboarder now - can link the turns down the Easy Rider. Panorama was a bit more challenging, but he made it down in one piece Thanks to Patrick and Luka for taking turns in keeeping company to us. Thanks to Rod for donating a snowboard. My teaching board today - Arbor koa Munoz. She's such a beauty!

It was a fun day, today. Fast, almost frozen snow in the am, a bit mushy in the pm. Run of the day: JJA, mogulled up. The Spectre excelled in the afternoon stuff.

Hmm, time to sell my Volant?

Signed up!

Nice morning carving, with Patrick and few others, yesterday! Toy: the baby Coiler VSR

Why do we need to talk ABOUT James, when we can talk WITH/TO him, right here?

It was great to be back on snow, last night! Heavy stuff, but better up on Sky. Run of the day: Rippcord.

I disagree. Hard boots have very little lateral flex. At low angles that needs to come from somewhere - the bindings. Angles have very little to do with the rider's height, but with the board width and the boot size. Splay is the key to having some extra rotational mobility. How much, is the matter of the rider's anatomy.

Go softer with the bindings, like F2 Carve RS or Burton Race Plates/Ibex. Set your hard boots as soft as possible. Even walk mode on the rear... 158 sounds like good size. However, the length is not as crucial as the flex and the width appropriate for your boot size and the angles you want to run. Set the rear boot to slight overhang, then front to the desired splay. With very low angles, you need less toe/heel lift than on race board, but you might want some inward canting on the rear. If duck, you can go flat, or just inward canting on both.

It's probably the best to skip those all together...

I didn't see a single turn where the edge was changed down the fall line. With symetrical turns, it is impossible to not travel across the fall line, when making a turn. Of course, the board can come to perpendicular to fall line, or to stay short of that, or even travel a bit uphill, but it would always cross the fall line. For clarity, let's exclude the kind of line where your general direction of travel is diagonal to the slope.

Looks like cross-through to me. Some get closer to cross-over, some to cross-under, as the terrain and tempo dictates. And yes, board rebound should be used in high level riding. Your last sentence, I don't quite understand... Actually more like, last paragraph.

Can we keep it in one thread?

^ Trenches have been taken already, so I have to settle for smoking the skiers in the mogul runs. Other than that, I have large Cypress stickers on each side of my helmet.

Poor girl, you'll make her learn on those 2 runs Wonderful runs for an accomplished carver, though! Exhibition is probably my favorite. I'd so much rather be at Peaks, or Cypress right now, than siting in Europe...

Let's say 55/50 on 20 waist.

Plus Nidecker themselves. Also, is Tomahawk still functional? Apex?

Thanks. Ha, amazing how black makes it look wider than the Cult. The sidewall code gives: titanal, length, model, year, original owner's initials, flex index with nose decamber.

How wide is the BXFR? Looks a fair bit wider then the Cult. Any idea of the SCR?