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That always drove me crazy. I think I found at least one of him riding a softboot carver at one point, but it’s a shame that JJ has not produced a bit more content.

Love those hands. Smooth and stylish into the 2015 winter season!!!!

You’ve probably seen this discussed before, but the Flow NX2 bindings have the very shortest front-to-back binding length I was able to find (back when I was trying to get the lowest possible angles on a 254mm board). The lack of a lower heelcup had a pretty solid affect on max board angulation based on my carpet & real-world testing a number of years ago. The one-piece straps are weird though. I still don’t love them, although the hard mesh ones on the higher Carbon version fit me better.

I think I’ve mentioned this before but I think there’s a real torque concern with the hip flexor in that motion as well. (Duck rear foot but pulling the hips forward facing.) I tore my rear (right) hip flexor on a bouncy heelside near the end of the first season I tried carving duck, and had no end of trouble with the rehab. Keep on top of those hip mobility stretches.

Great riding…but count me in the camp that prefers directional riding in the front facing position only

Got a better close up of that rack?

Yeah, that’s a weird and paranoid interpretation of a perfectly reasonable and longstanding urban design goal.

USPS is definitely the way to go for cross-border! Great stuff.

I’m not a bootfitter. You’re in the B shell. And either 26 or 26.5 liner size. Again, everyone seems to have a different experience, but based on mine from last year I would personally recommend sizing down. You’d probably fit 26 liner for the left and 26.5 for the right foot haha, but I don’t know if you can actually get that. If you are cautious about your delicate toes then just get the 26.5, but you might get some slop on that left foot. And be prepared for possibly having to buy new liners. Some people have been fine with the stock ones, but they caused me no end of pain and frustration (the tongue kept working its way down and bunching slightly over my instep no matter how much I adjusted the Velcro…and then the pull loop ripped out, which was disappointing). Switched to Intuition liners and no issues.

Yup, no worries from my end — clearly I must have screwed up somehow during ordering

Yeah, the obvious answer is that you need to see your eye doctor, at very least because they could likely tell you about options to order custom lenses if you need them. I have no idea why you wouldn’t start there. Not aware of any retail snow goggles under 8% let alone 5. Wouldn’t you be almost blind if a cloud passes overhead? I’m not sure you should be snowboarding at all with that level of visibility….you sure as shit shouldn’t be driving. On the bright side, you could take up welding while on the mountain….

Yes, in total the shipping & tax bill was $94. Well, it could be worse for you though….I somehow ordered two Medium size Medium flex, instead of one Medium and one Hard flex. I had first added a Wing that then went out of stock, so had to go back and add the regular Hard flex… I swear I double-checked before I submitted the order, but apparently not!! So I paid $232 Canadian bucks for…..two identical pairs. Anyone in Canada want to save a fortune in shipping on a pair of Medium size Medium Flex?? Will also trade a Medium for your Hard

Low stance angles, too! Not trying to be a soft-hardbooter. I like the approach.

Dave, ps I got hammered by BS UPS fees. Are all the Canadians paying $48 in do-nothing UPS brokerage fees? I don’t think UPS is the way to be sending this type of stuff (or else choose the up-front shipping option that includes all fees).

Not sure what you’re talking about there. Global Warming is still a fact, but Climate Change is simply a better and more accurate description to use. For the next couple decades, variability will be the name of the game, especially for those of us in marginal areas.

Ahhhh….for some vague reason I thought I saw him mention slightly higher angles at one point late last year, but could be my imagination. I moved from Malamutes to Driver X last year and went down a half-size… due to the difference in sizing & boot sole lengths, I somehow shaved a full 1.5cm off the length of the boot. So after all that I might have been able to narrow the 283mm waist from Bruce a little bit, although now I can pretty much run 0 with no bootout

Ooo, I’ve looked at their website a bunch. (It is very confusing….that polygon they use should be helpful in theory, except the labels are too small and they keep changing the names around. ) Are you riding soft or hard boots? I think I kept wishing they built a slightly wider board….are they pretty much ~26cm max waist or so they get wider now? I’m still resisting going to higher angles for SB carving, and I’m going to give it another winter to experiment. But I definitely found it hard to consistently lock in heelside carves last year at super low or duck rear foot angles, and my natural forward-facing carving stance needs a lot of adjustment (and I do a number on my rear hip flexor when in duck). It seems like all the Asian carvers are very posi, and last I checked I think I noticed @crackaddict seemed to be floating up around 15 or 18r? Looking forward to playing around more this winter….

I have that green Dakine Stance and don’t love it. You have to screw the back cap off to get at the bits (which are easily lost) and the cap can twist off if you happen to be unscrewing a tight bolt (you can’t just press down on the end of the screwdriver or the cap will unscrew—you need to hold the sides). Multiple tool head standards on equipment can go die in a fire.

$750?! How many boards do you tune a year??

But tell me what you really think! Yeah, I’m asking because I have no instructions or pictures for how the mounts were intended to be installed—I’m flying blind in putting this together. The mechanism seems very straightforward but that was exactly my concern here—on order to turn a mount around but still have enough slider I’d have to place them at the widest points on the 4x4, which to me would have a weird affect on board flex. So I mounted them as shown only because it seemed like the obvious way. So I’m glad you agree there. I will say that the bolted-on metal straight line across the board makes me queasy, though…I get a vague uneasy flashback to TD1/OS1 don’t-stuff-that-nose concerns in the early 2000s….

Blast from the past! Are the V2 aluminium mounting plates oriented with the axles facing out, towards the ends of the board? This fits the plate OK but I don’t love the idea of those potential fault lines running across the board Debating whether I should turn that front one around….

Yeah, that’s what I always thought. Who needs more flex from the Titaniums?!?

Thanks Gerry, glad we made the schedules work! Cheers.

Jack, stance width is measured centre-to-centre, correct?

Thanks Dave. So the wings would presumably add lateral stiffness to a soft boot, correct? And make them operate a little more similar to hard boots?