Dr D

He doesnt have an answer:lurk: He just cried BS and took his plates and went home:eplus2:

And just where exactly do you think these new recruits come from? Figure skating or maybe greco roman wrestling:freak3: They are skiers and softbooters looking for something better. there is a lot of middle ground between the halfpipe and the pgs course snowman. Our community is best served by recognizing that and using it to our advantage. If we all had your attitude we wouldnt be seeing the growth that we are presently experiencing. Lots of people came here to learn more about the carve. Many had no idea about gear or technique or anything. they just saw someone carving and said I have to learn how to do that. Everyone has to start somewhere and softboots is where most of us started. In my case sorels and duct tape

I have seen the occasional hardboot setup in BX but they never seem to win. I think the lack of flexibility is the issue there. my setup is the best of both world's in my humble opinion. The guys I watched had no idea how to stack their weight on the edge. They were doing the old barstool pornstar technique and the stool fell over on that corner for a lot of them. there is obviously a missing piece of technique in the BX world:lurk:

You may notice on rereading that I said hardboot roots and my setup I said nothing about my big gorrilla as s on a BX course. if you watched the qualifying rounds you would know the corner I am talking about. one after another they sketched out because their butts were 3 feet from the board and below the board. no way to even come close to holding and edge thru the chop. A hardboot body technique and a forward stance would bring the butt and the weight back over the edge and that heelside chopped up corner comes a lot easier! all I'm saying:biggthump oh yeah and the board I am riding is a one off from an oxxess BX board so its just as advanced as what was on that course. props to Bruce and the coiler tech

Plus 1 STOP petting the dog and ride! you will be able to get thru a whole season without buying new clothes to:biggthump

might try and come for thursday if that works. I will see if any of the whitefish locals are up for a road trip!

at any rate I ride a similiar boot to what you originally talked about. I ride a vans switch step in one size oversize with heatmold hardboot liners in them. the hardboot liners replaced the original heatmold liner and take up the extra room. They make the boot 3-4 inches taller in the front and 5-6 inches taller in the back. This is very comfortable and not as stiff as you would think. I ride powder very much from the ankles so flex is necessary in the boot. The tall liners give a feeling of security while allowing a great deal of controled flex. I have also ridden with cateks and malamutes but the stiffness is a hinderance in deep POW. If I can hit bottom with the edges I stick with the stiffer setup and if its bottomless I go for bedroom slipper comfort and flexibility and a BIG Swallowtail:biggthump

I am on the left in the group foto. you can clearly see the stance and angles of the cateks.

The fact that we still have elitists that are literally presiding over their own extinction baffles me! I would think that most of us are here because we would like to see more carving and less jibbing on our mtns. I don't care how you carve as long as you aren't scraping the mtn down to a fine icy glaze with your falling leaf I am happy! I have always said that the best way to grow our sport is to attract more riders thru some interaction with other snowboarders and skiers. The elitist snobbery of some is blatantly self serving and harmful to our sport. You all know who you are....... When a gaper jibbermonkey advances beyond the park and realizes that there is a whole mtn there that he is incapable of attacking with style and control he has one place to look and that is us. IF we welcome him in and teach him to carve and show him better and better gear we grow the sport. If we call him a monkey tell him to go back to the park he will in most cases and he will be less inclined to advance his skills. If he can rip on a banana with serrated edges in a duck stance imagine what he can do with real equip. If he stays on said banana and acts as a middle man interpreter to the monkey nation he still is serving a valid purpose. Last but not least I am gravitating away from hard boots for a variety of reasons but that doesnt mean you will ever find me in a park airborne and upside down. I ride better than I ever have on catek fr2's and a coiler x3. It just fits me and my physique/style the best. It is also very versatile in any conditions. I would love to have a forum to talk about soft carving. besides being a crossover area for jibbers its a subniche of our sport that isnt going away. If the Bxer's in vancouver had some hardboot roots and my setup that hard left chopped up corner would not have dumped half of them on their butts. the sittin on the pot jibber stance burned a lot of them. I ride at over 60 degrees in soft boots inspite of the often stated "thats not possible" here on bomber. could I make more powerful carves in hardboots? yes for sure. would I be out on the hill no matter what the conditions are? No A forum would be a great idea

on how comfortable you are riding with your back foot. Its not the equipment that gets you in trouble its the technique of initiating a turn with the nose in an aggressive manner (good hard groom technique) try moving the bindings back a bit and steer with the tail instead of the nose. laying back onto the tail of a big alpine board in the slop is one of life's little pleasures. stay off the nose tho:biggthump I ride the softie setup in this stuff cause its more fun and more forgiving but that doesnt mean it isnt possible to ride hardboots in the slop safely!

Coiler X3 is the answer to your prayers:biggthump I ride the lunchtray with catek Fr2's and saloman malamute softies at 60/63 and love every minute of it. I only miss my hardboots on really fast bulletproof days and I am not convinced that a longer coiler wouldn't solve that issue! Welcome to the board wanderer

Coiler X3 lunchtray:lol: at least until you want to go switch!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2986009/nucap_spider_tech_back_spider/ http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2986074/nucap_spider_tech_full_knee_spider/

check out kinesio tape and spider tech. great stuff for staving off the old man noises and for protecting weaknesses and old injuries etc. helps a lot with pain. I am currently researching applications specific to our rather lopsided sport. the assymetry in our stances etc should be able to be offset by the tape. I will let you all know what shakes out as the results come in

why yes it is! and those strange looking bindings are cateks! freeride2's baby. somewhere among the cameras is actual evidence that it can be ridden that way:biggthump token skier has some vid to if he would be so kind as to share it:lurk:

nice vid john

cya at 9am chair 2

I will be riding the Coiler X3 lunchtray at 63/60 on catek fr2's and solamon malamutes. unless we have a ton of POW then all bets are off:biggthump

catek fr2 or the originals work fine. I ride mine with solamon malamutes at about 60 degrees. I can do anything with this that I can with my hardboots.

Well I am stuck working today but I will be back up for the next three days. I should be up early tomorrow. Cya all at 9 chair 2:biggthump Shred is there and is even on the board. I haven't seen a nap attack yet!

mambo lives! and is excellent! It is disco nite at the great northern Shred is stuffing himself into the polyester as we speak! great groomers today you should all be here! A note to the jibbers there are several new terrain features on chair 3. MASSIVE TRENCHES I will be up in the morning shred

:lol::lol::lol::lol: easy Dave you'll have him frothing at the mouth and stuttering soon if you aren't careful. did you get the cateks from me? looks familiar

cold is GOOD:biggthump good snow conditions and it keeps the tourons in the bar and off the slopes:ices_ange

I think its market perception. I love my 4807 with its little fish tail cut out. Most people in the lift line think I am riding an old burton elite tho. ITs percieved as old and somehow dated technology. The Dynastar LEGEND autodrive has a very narrow slit in the tail and is one of the more dynamic technologies out there. ITs no longer made tho since the market didn't want to pay for the tech. We are in danger of losing the progress we have made in technology to a disposable skateboard deck mentality.

DER SCHNEA KOMMT:biggthump can't spell in english so forgive the bad german! ITs gonna snow for the next week looking good for WTF:biggthump