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  2. Softboot Carving worth watching

    in Carving Central

    Posted · Edited by crackaddict

    On 3/3/2024 at 12:53 PM, softbootsurfer said:

    I was surprised at the circular arm movement before each turn, I have seen it, on the Heelside only before, I think this is a Learned technique?  normally?  One tries to reduce unnecessary Arm movements, it is a Key for this rider however, who is a Good Carver...

     

    Check out the turn past the slow sign at 40 seconds in the video below.  I had to turn super sharp to avoid my videographer and without thinking I did this kind of windmill arm movement unrehearsed.  Pause the video when his skis come into view and you'll see that I'm about two feet away from total disaster and know that he also saw it coming and had changed his trajectory too.  When I saw this I immediately remembered the discussions here about the circular arm movements and thought I would share.

    After the intro these's no more snowboarding in this video, but a few of you might find it interesting anyway.

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  3. Nakiska April 20th

    in Canada - Alberta

    Posted

    https://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Nakiska/6day/top

    Nakiska forecast looks great for Friday and also for Saturday morning!  They're getting consistently cold temps and fresh snow right now.  Saturday afternoon will be warm and probably slushy late in the day on the lower mountain at least.  I've only been there once for NES 2017 but the map makes it look like mostly eastern aspects so it should hold up well.

    So is this happening?  Who's in?  Anybody for Friday?

  7. More time doing Norms for me!

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    9 hours ago, 1xsculler said:

    I doubt he rides at Crystal Mountain, WA. 

    Get up to Revelstoke this week, I'll give you a free lesson.  Conditions look good for carving on the upper mountain until at least Sunday.  I've been meaning to get my hardboots on all season...  (Actually, all last season too.)

  8. More time doing Norms for me!

    in Carving Central

    Posted · Edited by crackaddict

    5 hours ago, Jack M said:

    the content needs to be updated.  Give me the summer.  Videos next winter!

    Hell yes!  C'mon in...  the water is fine.

     

    2 hours ago, ShortcutToMoncton said:

    I’m surprised that some of the pro riders don’t seem interested in sharing this type of stuff.

    Most of them don't know this type of stuff, and the coaches and racers that do will try to keep any advantage they think they have.

  9. More time doing Norms for me!

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    19 hours ago, ShortcutToMoncton said:

    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 

    Yeah!  Anything for views!

    We could continue the posi-posi vs duck stance wars but that's already getting old.  I'm thinking cant vs lift, asym vs symmetrical, goofy vs regular...  Hard boots vs soft, up-unweighting vs down-unweighting, beard vs balaclava, Coiler vs JJA, mittens vs gloves...  The possibilities are endless!

    Thanks for defending me @SunSurfer but it was just razzing, @ShortcutToMoncton is a friend and I deserved that comment.

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  11. Electric Snowboard

    in The Lodge

    Posted

    Wow...  The comments on this IG post are dead on and hillarious!

    I could see using this contraption to run my girl to the bus stop in the winter (the OneWheel is three season only), and maybe riding around the flats in the valley sometimes but I have to think the paddles will disengage from the snow as soon as you put the board high on edge.  Still, probably funner than snowshoes.

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  12. The Rant

    in Carving Central

    Posted · Edited by crackaddict

    8 hours ago, Xargo said:

    If I extend my legs a lot, I still boot out so I have to maintain a bit of bend. Soft snow is another thing which can result in bootout.

    What he said...

    Extending the legs causes more boot out.  Look at Ryan Knapton's legs in a low carve, all the way straight.  That's why he needs extreme underhang.

    No real difference in hard or soft boots, it's the hard or soft snow that makes the difference.  In Ontario you can get away with narrower boards for sure.  My last custom hard boot boards were 21cm in the waist, @dredman still orders 19.5cm I think, but he rides with more bend in the knees.

     

    8 hours ago, ShortcutToMoncton said:

    I have to put the board at about 85 degrees before heel or toe just starts to touch

    Sure, on a hard surface.  Remember that the board isn't riding on marble, it's sinking into the snow, creating a trench.  And the sinking motion is not perpendicular to the base like in powder but more parallel to the base in a carve, deleting that underhang immediately and then dragging the toes and/or heelcup.

    When you get out here next season @ShortcutToMoncton you'll see what I mean...

     

     

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  13. The Rant

    in Carving Central

    Posted · Edited by crackaddict

    11 hours ago, ShortcutToMoncton said:

    TLDW

    Think of it as an audio podcast and listen in the car.  The footage was just 'cause.  I was gonna throw together a few minutes and put it on a loop but it turned out I had almost 40 minutes of previously unreleased video so I didn't have to repeat as much as expected.

     

    9 hours ago, Chouinard said:

    I would also like to see you slow down a series of turns and overlay audio descriptions of exactly what is happening mechanically.

    Like this?

     

    8 hours ago, pow4ever said:

    I would like to see the original one 🙂

    Well I haven't even assessed all the damage from the fallout and backlash due to the original rant yet...  So maybe soon. 

    What's with the rest of your post?  You need a better AI content generator, this one is talking itself in circles.

     

    5 hours ago, ShortcutToMoncton said:

    Why so wide at your 8.5 foot size?

    Because I'm booting out of course.  My style lends itself to extra boot out potential and I don't want to change it if I can just get a wider board and lower profile bindings to solve the problem. 

    Other styles don't require so much underhang: Jordan Michon rides the same widths as me in size 12 boots, Lars Hostmann rides 270mm waists on size 9 boots.  Yet other styles require even more underhang: Ryan Knapton rides 320-340mm waists at size 8!

  14. The Rant

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    Did anyone here see the original Rant?  I deleted it after 149 views but apparently it made some impressions.

    This is the sanitized version for public consumption.  Boring.  Some good previously unreleased footage here but way too much self-indulgent blathering on for me...

     

     

     

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  16. Softboot Carving worth watching

    in Carving Central

    Posted · Edited by crackaddict

    Got some new footage and some new boards!

    As usual, pre-release for my homies.  Add your own soundtrack, I'm working on a long voiceover for this one - coming soon.  Turns out I have a lot to say.  Who knew?

    This was yesterday and the day before, on the newest JJA prototype soft-boot carvers.  Introducing Daniel K, one of my near-local proteges.

     

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  17. Who's Got Cord?

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    Revelstoke is getting beat up right now but the base up high is deep.  It'll be freeze/thaw for a few days but cold and snow is back soon, starting Wednesday.

    The low mountain is finished for the season but the upper 2000 feet will come back into condition.  

    The last few days were excellent, here's proof:

     

  19. MCC Gear Swap/Sale

    in Montucky Clear CUT 2023

    Posted

    Hey @RM125  

    Use my name next time or quote me, I'll get a notification that way.

    Looked at your profile man, I see you love the Coils!

    So at this event, MCC 2023, there were a lot of dudes riding old school gear.  I want to be cool like them and the Coil was the one I had in mind to keep for this purpose.  I think there's an old  F2 slalom board in the stack I could part with.  

     

  24. The posi/posi and duck stance wars

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    I will certainly admit that the 'penguin walk' works way better in duck stance...   I'm jealous sometimes; I have to lean forward over my nose and do more of a 'surfer's paddle' when I'm stuck on flats.  Miss my TD3 step-ins in those moments. 

     

    Someone mentioned the 'posi-posi vs duck stance war' in a YouTube comment today.  I wrote back to him: "I don't see a war.  But then again I don't see duck stance riders carving black diamonds in Revelstoke either so maybe the war is over?"

     

    6 hours ago, andy scheen said:

    it seems to have pushed some buttons

     

    Are you referring to me?  That was a joke, but it's over now.  For any who may not know, my alter ego is James Cherry, the very same James Cherry of the very recent and surely fleeting YouTube fame.

    Sorry about that @Hug Masso, it was just too tempting...

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  25. The posi/posi and duck stance wars

    in Carving Central

    Posted · Edited by crackaddict

    8 hours ago, Hug Masso said:
    10 hours ago, crackaddict said:

    Who's this guy?  Seems like a pompous jerk

    The new enfant terrible in the snowboard scene, shacking it to its foundations. 

    Yeah, this guy needs to be cancelled before he gives away all our secrets!  Pretty soon everybody and his dog will be railing turns and we won't be cool or special anymore.  

    We are the OG hard boot mafia are we not?  Maybe we can dig up some old footage of him riding duck or something...

    And what's with that stupid shark fin???  Who does this guy think he is?

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