Jack M Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 World record set by Edmond Plawczyk. It's on the face book. Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExcelsiorTheFathead Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 (edited) Here's a link to watch it on YouTube. The poster of the video won't let it run embedded. Edited April 4, 2015 by ExcelsiorTheFathead 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieran Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 zoom! plates clearly improve straightlining stability. now maybe everyone will shut up about völkls having a speed record Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Guy... Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 zoom! plates clearly improve straightlining stability. now maybe everyone will shut up about völkls having a speed record Having a speed record for a while as your main claim to fame is one thing. Having a consistent presence on various podiums is another. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philw Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Having a speed record for a while as your main claim to fame is one thing. Having a consistent presence on various podiums is another. :) Agreed. If I have to choose between watching grown blokes standing on a podium versus a guy doing 203 km/h on a snowboard... well I think you'll find it's no contest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.oldsnowboards.com Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Impressive!! Love to know more about his equipment / set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffV Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Impressive, wonder what the side cut of that board was? 85m? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Dahl Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 Impressive, separate zee knees-cause them cajones are huge! I cannot even fathom what that would feel like on any board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowrider Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 Apex sent out a media page on the subject. 23 m side cut. He broke a 1999 record but with a 15 year difference in technology beating it by a couple of MPH doesn't seem like a huge leap. I have a feeling beating the record has more to do with not messing your pants than anything else ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philw Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 Well from what I remember they don't really build speed courses for "world record" purposes, if you see what I mean. The not-quite-FIS people design the course to give a reasonable speed, and the race is about relative times on it, not about absolute speed. So maybe it's not so surprising that things haven't changed. Plus most people are riding the same boots we have all been riding for 20 years, and the boards are just big. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieran Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 Apex sent out a media page on the subject. 23 m side cut. He broke a 1999 record but with a 15 year difference in technology beating it by a couple of MPH doesn't seem like a huge leap. I have a feeling beating the record has more to do with not messing your pants than anything else ! so you're saying instead of measuring the highest speed, they should measure the briefest brown smear? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stokely Posted July 25, 2015 Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 . . . yeah that would probably be a suitable enough measurement for that and most :) anyway stoked about and thankful to Edmond for that he found time to answer an informal interview request so some comments about his background and last but not least his equipment for the successful world record attempt are online if you just click the orange CARVE ON link at freecarvers.com you get to the weblog posts . . . Cheers (jack daniel's it is as for me and after a crazy week of taxi driving) and have a good weekend :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmatic Posted July 26, 2015 Report Share Posted July 26, 2015 (edited) It's amazing how people get a focus to Edmond Plawczyk after his World record on a raceboard. Even way more people as before he run down his new record (he anounced some great things, taking focus to a FIS-legal record last autumn!) Well, unfortunately his home speed downhill track was closed for ever the season before. This was a speed track which was excellent for carving extreme on a slalom board (the ones call it extremecarving), the days after annual XSpeed event. Not every Year, because Sunday of the race week was a backup day in case of bad weather and lifts are closing season that sunday evening. But there had been Years with one week longer lift operation. Well, track is now down - no more preparation possible. We are on Global warming on the Alps now. Global warming maybe doesn't affect ever to US or other mountains. Glacier there (Edmond Plawczyk local track on the Alps) looses hugh mass of ice. So downhill-track-profile became unusable and dangerous rocks became visible. In case of this April 2015 new World record on snowboard, we should know that speed record on skis was also broken that day. There are no informations to get about weather conditions on Speed Masters against earlier Years, or other races. We had unusual weather conditions that days on the Alps, unusual compared to other Years. I guess they had been lucky to have some supporting wind falling down the mountain. Edited July 26, 2015 by snowmatic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stokely Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 whatever :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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