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  2. Gilmour bias with alpine board & hard boots ?

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    I've just set up my soft boot rig (Rad-Air Reto Lam LSD 164 with Flow Team bindings & Malamutes) with Gilmour bias and am wondering should I do the same to my hard boot rig (Hot Blast stiff 176 + TD2 SIs + Deeluxe Salt Lake City).

    John ? William Blake ? Bordy ? Jack ? Anybody ?

    P.S. Australia down here so I have a couple more months before the snow.

  9. Carving with a bigger radius

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    Thanks for posting that technique. Way back in my self-taught Burton Elite days I fluked upon discovering that if I "swept" my lower legs forward I could get the edge to bite in and they were the only carved turns I ever made back then.

    But later when snowboard instructors came into being and lessons became available nobody ever told me about this technique. They mentioned fore to aft weight shift instead.

    I must try this technique again.

    "Sweep the legs Johnnie !" indeed :D

    Dobar Dun, Skalpel-

    You live in one of the very best countries I've ever ridden.

    I'm usually nearby, in-season, taking a fluke season here at home, though.

    Sidecut radius, when you're really working your board correctly, has less to do with turn radius than many think it does.

    The Classical European method involves riding at the mercy of your board's sidecut, while the classical North American method involves working the board both to flex it and to drive it forward , beneath you, through the turn.

    Try not to just stand there, over your edge, but, instead, push your board GRADUALLY through the turn, from under your knees, starting your turn with your upper body ahead of the board's waist, and ending the turn with your upper body behind the board's waist, by PUSHING the board ahead, NOT by leaning forward, then back.

    Stand centered over it, and allow your knees to push the board through the turn.

    This technique was a large part of the reason that a group of North American riders once dominated WC alpine boarding.

    Unfortunately, it's not taught through the American s/b "teaching" system (:sleep:), and it goes virtually unrecognized in European teaching or coaching systems.

    I may be getting over there for an event or two, I'd glady hook up with you to work on this- which Mountain are you at?

    PS- this post reminds me of one of my very favourite racing exercises. IF you have access to an old Kemper Bullet or some other straight, no-sidecut antique, mount it up and take some runs, using ONLY (by necessity) flex and drive to carve your turns.

    (Coaches, try this- your athletes will really kick ass afterward)

    At first, it will feel cumbersome and "loggy", and you'll be forced to exaggerate your driving and 'punching' (pressuring the waist of the board with abrupt, hard kick-extensions) movements.

    With practice, you'll pull of slalom turns on a sled with almost no sidecut.

    It's at that point that you may leave, Grasshopper.

  14. Other Plate Options

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    S-Flex is from F2. Many posts on about it right here on BOL. The others I never heard of.

    So there has been a good amount of talk regarding Hangl and F2 S-flex plates, however what about the other new options? A fellow BOL member was kind enough to give me a copy of the latest Carve magazine from Japan and they have a nice review sections on these plates, except I can't read a lick or Japanese, so I'm just looking at the pretty pictures.

    They review the following plates: Hangl, S-Flex, Active Flex, FCX-SR and 3-in-1 (the last two both by Grex).

    Does anyone have input on the other options there?

    Prices were listed as (all in Yen):

    S-Flex - ¥60,900

    FCX-SR - ¥18,900

    3-in-1 - ¥47,250

    Active Flex - ¥50,400-¥44,100

    Competition is good! Especially when the options are cheaper. :)

  15. Funniest thing you've seen on the hill?

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    Treble Cone NZ in 93 I thought I was pretty slick on my Hot Logical asym. So I was skidding sliding and scraping oops I mean carving downhill at a good speed on a moderately steep run when for reasons I can't remember I lost an edge or whatever and went up in the air upside down with board right up high. Then when I slammed back down the nose of the board speared into the hard snow and stuck their leaving my body dangling downhill from the board. I was uninjured but pretty uncomfortable and I couldn't reach the bindings to release myself. So I was hanging there upside down. :eek: :eek: :eek: I tried shouting for Help (how embarrassing) but nobody stopped so eventually I dug handholds in the snow and dragged my body up the slope until I could release my bindings. Talk about pride cometh before a fall (but in this case not after). :smashfrea :smashfrea :smashfrea

  16. Hardboots and Tankers

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    You know years ago I took my Japanese wife to Breckenridge for a snowboarding honeymoon but it did not make her happy. (I had to cancel the Jackson Hole part and go to Hawaii). How did you manage to find a beautiful woman who can ride a Tanker ?

    On a more serious note Harry and Atsu made me feel like a total gimp when we all went a Tankering a la 200 with softies. Indeed Harry seemed to be saying that my Burton C14s were too stiff. He was riding stock standard Rad-Air bindings.

    So I really wonder a little whether TDs are necessary. I know it's all personal choice but it seems a little bit overkill. But maybe your choice of boots makes the difference. I really wish someone would make an Intec compatible soft hard-boot.

    I tried the suspension kit out with my tanker and it is a noticeable different when riding groom and boiler plate, but for my tastes it dampens my setup a little too much and the weight is actually pretty significant. Just thought I would share my $.02 with all of you on the setup. Also had my tanker 172 out and tried it with td2's sans suspension and it rides really well. the flex on the 07-08 172 is much stiffer than the 06-07 and is fun to ride with plates.

    Jim, send me an e-mail with your address and I will mail you the suspension kit to give it a try.

    cheers,

    sandy

  18. Racer are people too. Arn't they??

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    Yep Fin just like me is a elitist! Can't everone tell by the fact we both do all we can to put gear into riders hands and keep the sport going!....Maybe some one should tell Fin to shove his web site also??????

    That the response I remember getting! :biggthump

    Fin has a website ? What's the URL ? Oh and who's this Fin guy ? :smashfrea :smashfrea :smashfrea

  21. Asymmetric nidecker?

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    I used to have a Nidecker Extreme SL 161. Think I got it around 1994 but can't remember. Very easy board to ride. I have a photo somewhere. Blue & black deck. Red & black base.

    I found a local selling ad about an OLD, alpine, asymmetric nidecker board.

    Does anybody know which board it could be?

    I can't remember asymmetric nidecker...

    Thanks a lot,

    ciao!

  22. Rip Dfj

    in Carving Central

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    I never met Chuck Bolden. I only knew him as Dragon Fly Jones right here on BOL. In his posts he always gave good advice and had a good word to say about people. He was a class act. Vale Chuck Bolden. Ride on ride on !

    Mick

  23. too much overhang in this soft boot setup?

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    That is way too much overhang. :rolleyes: Everything about your setup is wrong. :rolleyes: The best thing to do is ship your whole setup to me ! :biggthump :biggthump :biggthump

    Sweet setup. Drool......:lol: :lol: :lol:

    what do you think of the setup photographed below?

    angles are 30/15. there's definite overhang, but there's enough lift that it seems like you could get pretty far up on edge before boot-out.

    i tried going as high as 39 degrees, but still had some overhang. i'm thinking i'd have to go to 45 degrees or more to eliminate all overhang. but then i'd probably need cant, which would mean another cash outlay, for catek FR2's.

    i'm thinking of starting out with these angles, and then slowly raising them, if necessary.

    SoftSetup-SideView.jpg

    SoftSetup-FrontFootToe.jpg

    SoftSetup-FrontFootHeel.jpg

    SoftSetup-BackFootHeel.jpg

    SoftSetup-BackFootToe.jpg

    SoftSetup-TopView.jpg

  24. tankers made in china

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    I can't comment on the made in China Tankers because so far I have not been lucky enough to own one. (My only Tanker was an older one).

    But what I would like to comment on is Rad-Air. In my experience they are a good company run by very good people. I count Harry Gunz as a friend and know him to be one of the most fanatical (in a good way) snowboarders I have ever met. He is a dedicated and highly skilled Tanker rider and I cannot for a moment imagine that he would ever allow the quality of the Tankers to decline.

    I ask you "What would Harry ride if the new Tankers were no good ?"

    Aussie Mick

    P.S. I still know that the day that I rode with Harry was the day that I realized how much I didn't know about how to ride :biggthump

  25. bomber soft-boot bindings?

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    bomber folks - do you have any plans to do soft-boot bindings?

    i own TD2s and am planning to buy soft boot bindings soon. would be cool if i could swap between hard and soft, leaving the cant disks in place...

    (apologies if this has already been discussed.)

    I would love to be able to bolt some ultra-stiff softboot bindings on top of my Bomber Suspension Kit and the bottom half of my TD2s. But I think the "Bomber Softboot Binding" would have to use a different Base Plate. (Sorry if this is what you mean).

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