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I couldn’t sit through the cucumber bit, but that riding was right up my alley!! Aggressive and smooth.

What would that do, unless visibility is low?

Super interesting. I’ve always positioned the binding plates to angle the slots across the board — possibly because standard insert stance width seems to work for me at 19 3/4 on my boards, and I don’t need to adjust width. I always have my boots centred on the binding, and always move the bindings themselves slightly across the board toeside/heelside in order to get the boots perpendicular over the edge on both sides. Speaking of that G bias, what is the concern being fixed by using underhang? A body positioning issue or a bootout issue?

Interesting, this is likely a new topic so as to not distract from this beautiful, confusingly-used board. I’ve always centred the boot over the middle of the binding, then angle bindings until perpendicular over the edges. But in almost no case will I get directly over both toe/heel, so I typically adjust the bindings slightly toe/heel (along with stance angle) to centre the boot over the board edges. But my boots are always centred on the binding. It sounds like everyone else uses the slots for adjusting stance width, but the binding is always placed on the middle of the board and you offset the boot on the binding to get perpendicular over the edges?

I mean let me pick some nits here, the soundtrack is brutal and the braided ponytail is a questionable fashion choice at best…..but cannot doubt the riding. Sigi is a rare top rider who has quite a lot of third-person riding footage, and I probably spend an hour or two every year watching his form. Just beautiful stuff.

Two weeks ago today. Earliest season in a while. Spent three hours at the pump track with the kids today, biking has arrived.

Funny, I just took out some old Burton Mission GT bindings I had that had a little wing, from 2002 or so….was doing some hackathon with that wing for some carving experiments. Same thing happened, cracked one strap and one hiback pretty easily, plastic was just brittle af. Time comes for us all!

“And just like that…..*snap*…….his Achilles was gone”

A whole lot of nothing on the carving front other than that one toeside…..but damn nice cord and a great vibe, really cool video!

Looks like you’re Patient Zero for my amazing plan to get outrage views! Smash that Like button and Subscribe for more anti-softboot content….. I’m just kidding around, but count me in as an avid consumer! I love James’ softboot commentary (at least when he sticks to an easily digestible 40 minutes or so, just like a normal Youtuber), and I would honestly be super excited about a little hardboot-specific series from ASB and/or Jack. I’ve mentioned this before — I’m surprised that some of the pro riders don’t seem interested in sharing this type of stuff. But I guess it’s such a niche sport that it’s not worth the extra effort when a quick shot of a starting gate and hilltop sunset will probably get triple the likes. (not to give James any ideas…)

I thought to follow up and say that I read all of those old articles 20+ years ago (or whenever it was) and loved them….the content is still true but it looks so antiquated to read them now, along with the small pictures. It would be super amazingly helpful if this was a YouTube series. Take this article and a nice new iPhone and a buddy who can ski and hold a phone, spend a couple hours getting some footage, and create a 3-to-4-minute short video summarizing each article…. This is 2024; reading is for old people. You could even call the channel “@JamesCherrysucks” or something and really kick off some social beefs with the Cherryhive….really milk those outrage views for all it’s worth

Legend has it that article was literally written on a typewriter…

Yeah, the PowerRides are causing me some instep discomfort & slight bruising as well just on the inside top of my feet. It’s where the bottom Powerride tongue pushes down when my ankles push forward and flex the top of the insert….so it does mean it’s working! I have a high instep and it’s a pressure problem in many liners/boots. I had them in for 5 hours yesterday (in what might be the last day of the season this year) and it was probably too much. Usually I spend an hour or so warming up without them, then stick them in for a couple hours, then remove. They are great for hard carving!

Yeah the soft snow comment clicked for me. We usually have a couple inches at most before you’re scraping hardpack of course. And you do ride with straighter legs as well.

Hard boots? 21.25 seems pretty damn wide for hardboots at 5-8, but your inseam is pretty long….

Haha that excellent Fuego test says line up exactly over the edge!

Ahhh, so it seems like perhaps more of a softer-snow issue where the board track cuts deep enough so that the snow overhang causes drag? As more of a central/east coast guy I’m not quite as familiar with this soft snow you’re speaking of…but I’m pretty sure the guys James referenced are also all Rockies riders? It’s been a 15+ years since I lived out west, although I don’t remember this being a hardboot issue. Is that the case? Hard boots have higher clearance regardless which would help.

Interesting. How are you booting out with sizeable board underhang? Maybe that’s what I don’t understand. With hard boots I thought it’s generally accepted that boots/bindings vertical over the board edge is sufficient to avoid bootout. I’ve never heard anyone say that underhang is required. Is there some difference with soft boots that requires underhang? Like I said, I went wide as possible to experiment with low angle carving while in a BX type stance. Here’s 15f -6r I believe (maybe -3r?), and the camera angle is over the toeside here which makes heelside look like slightly more overhang than it really is. On carpet with this stance, I have to put the board at about 85 degrees before heel or toe just starts to touch — and we get more allowance than that on snow of course (it’s not like any drag is a problem). At 30f 15r, I probably have about a half-inch or more of underhang space over toe and heel on my front foot, little less on my rear. Assuming you’re similar, that’s still giving you bootout??

Congrats on selling out of the run! Why so wide at your 8.5 foot size? At carving angles around 30/15, don’t you have a ton of board underhang? I do and mine’s a 283 waist (although 10m scr so slightly wider underfoot).

That’s an hour and 12 minutes long. My kids watch Disney movies that are shorter. What’s the TLDW?

Frankly I’m slightly disappointed you’re not wildly gesticulating a magic spell at every turn. Maybe a new skill you can pick up…??

Google shows me absolutely nothing for Milkland Ski Resort. Where is it?

Any accessible hills still have decent cord? We’re out.

Out of curiosity, who is it?

@Ster soooo…?