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surfinsmiley

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    http://www.dirtsurfer.com

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  • Location
    Tokyo
  • Home Mountain/Resort?
    Yuzawa.
  • Occupation?
    Importer
  • Current Boards in your Quiver
    164 Rad Air LSD.02/03?
    200 Tanker 03/04
    165? Rad Air Worldwide 2005?
    Dupraz D1, 6 footer 2004
    Coiler Monster 188. 2009
    Dirtsurfer
    A few skateboards for carving the summer to bits
    Lots of Mccoy Surfboards
    A couple of Kites and Kiteboards.
  • Current Boots Used?
    Head Stratos Pro - Bright orange models!
    BTS with blue springs.

    32 TM2 for softies.
  • Current bindings and set-up?
    Head carbons 60/55 canting out on rear heel 3degree(?)
    Forward binding has built in cant of 1(?) degree.

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  1. Pretty much the only coverage I've ever seen is the Winter Olympics, so no, can't say I'm a follower in any sense of the term. I will sit on the hill and watch the local boys racing. They always seem to be do race training of some sort in my part of the world(Japan), which is really cool because I'm like monkey see monkey do... except my gates are always super sized:rolleyes:
  2. :eek:Yikes... Thanks for the heads up. Much appreciate it. It"ll be checking mine out tonight...
  3. I'm in exactly the same postion. I just don't get enough time on the slopes to really master Alpine riding. It seems like 80% of the time I go it's snowing and I'll always choose a Powder specific board with soft boots for anything more than boot deep. On the rare day that I go snowboarding and it's not snowing I'll ride an Alpine setup. Nothing like railing groomers in Hardboots in good conditions but for me, I don't think I'll ever really try to ride anything but groomers on an Alpine board. I just have more fun, at my level, riding different boards in different conditions. I can always find a board in my quiver that is fun and easy to ride in the conditons of the day.
  4. I might be completely wrong. I`m thinking along the lines of this visualization. Take a 6 inch long stick and attach it to the center of the board. Use the stick to tilt the board up on edge and note the required force. Now take that same stick and make it 6 feet long. Use the stick to tilt the board up on edge. The required force is substantially less due to the lever effect. Does that same theory not hold true when talking about riser plates?
  5. Kex, think about what the term "lever" actually means. Think about how a lever works. See folly of previous statement.
  6. Hmmm... one of us needs to go back to class then:sleep:
  7. I`ll be comin` around to your place to get tuned up Gleb ......
  8. I remember that animation. It was a really good little bit of brain food. SO... Yesterday I went out with one goal in mind, learning the compressed heelside turn. Unfortunately it was like 15C the day before. I ended up trying to ride a snow base that was soft as soft serve icecream with 10cm of fine powder on it from the nights snow and then another few cm of hard popcorn snow falling during the morning snowstorms. Without a doubt the worst snow I`ve ever tried to ride.... Progress=ZERO. I`ll try again next week:mad:
  9. Many Thanks for your input Rob. I much appreciate your effort. I`ll try and put your ideas into some lame semblance of reality tomorrow and then get back on this thread relate my experiences...
  10. I`m wondering if anyone here has some tips they`d like to share regarding the PureBoarding style? I know there are a few people here that attended the Clinic at SES. Care to share? I`m very interested in learning the heelside rail grab turn. I seem to be able to do a fairly adequate version of the toeside but the heel side version is eluding me. I`m not interested in the laid out turns but I love the look of those fast powerful, compressed body, rail burying turns that they seem to have worked out so well.
  11. Of all the boards I own the Dupraz is my personal fav. Does everything pretty well. It is my only true all-mountain board. Sure the "Tanker 200" holds more speed through the chop but the Dupraz comes to the surface with much less attention when it`s deep. My "Worldwide" has more POP but sucks arse in pow and slaps me for landing badly... The Dupraz nose lets me get away with attrocious landings and still ride away while the stiff tail is still plenty of fun to POP of terrain features. The "LSD" holds a much better top speed in good conditions but make a mistake and it spanks me hard. The Dupraz forgives my mistakes and allows me to keep going on my merry way. My Apline boards rail much better but are basically confined to groomer days. The Dupraz can rail very well and has the option to go anywhere you`d like to. The centered stance is really different when you first get on it but after awhile it has become a complete revelation to my riding. I can loose an edge on it and just keep pressure centered between my feet and get the edge back in 90% of the time. On any other board I own, once I`ve lost the edge I can probably only get it back 20% of the time.
  12. This is kinda off topic but...Since my last post on this thread I`ve had a few days riding the Tanker and the Dupraz back to back in conditions ranging from 60cm deep pure fluff to crusty refreeze and plenty of time on the groomers to get to the stashes.... I never thought I`d say this, but, for me, the Tanker is becoming obsolete to my needs. The Dupraz just seems to do everything with more ease, I can get away with things on the Dupraz that would have the Tanker spanking my arse. Purely a personal feeling and I know it may well raise the hairs on some peoples backs... it is only my opinion and your mileage may well vary. I think I might have to take a saw to the Tanker and transform it into a swallow tail. Wish I could transform the nose as easily, I`d love to get more float and less push out of the nose.
  13. Bump... For anyone who might be able to tell me anything about the Delrossi.
  14. My local last week. I`m lucky to see 100 people on that hill on any given day.
  15. I ride a 03/04 200. I`m 170? 78kg. 30Mondo boots. I like both softboots and hardboots on mine. Either 32TM2s and flow bindings for semi soft snow carve orientated softboot riding or change the binding to Rossignol (model?) for deeper softer snow surfing. Harder snow conditions and I`ll set it up with Head Stratos Boots and Bindings. Slow to medium speed carving is great. I`m sure once you get used to the board you be able to bend it really well. That said though, do you what year the 192 is from. I`m under the impression that the Tankers have generally become softer over the years.
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