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Hey Charlie, How about $60 shipped to Revelstoke for the Flo liners? James

What a joke!!! Annual sales of 135k and they want to value the company at 5M??? Unless the factory they own sits on land worth 4.8M, there's no value here. But hey, at least you get a free t-shirt...

Ok, I want the Heads. PM sent.

You're forgetting about all the Americans who aren't coming up here this season... They're gonna go ride somewhere. Slopes are empty in Revy right now. Also because there's a covid outbreak in town...

Hey @timrich99, How much use have the Head boots seen? Did you buy them new? Is the liner still in good condition? (This is my all time favorite liner.) Do you still have the stock lean mechanisms? BTS rides good, but I like a walk mode. James

Okay Sculler. Listen carefully this time... You got a lot of advice last season but it seems you only heard what you wanted to hear. I'm not re-reading the entire thread right now, but I doubt anyone would have recommended doing only one exercise with heavy weights all summer. For this season, don't stress; you are stronger than last year, you surely have more muscle mass with all those dead lifts. However, now you have to teach those new muscles how to snowboard. Do that by riding. Your new muscle fibres pretty much only know how to deadlift right now but they will adapt quickly. You also have to develop anaerobic endurance in your legs. Anaerobic endurance is very movement specific, so it's difficult to build it up pre-season, but it comes fast if you ride regularly. If you ride two or three times a week you'll be close to your peak by x-mas. So my advice for now is ride hard and take as much rest as you need to fully recover. That might mean two days of rest for each day of hard riding through December, and then less rest and more riding as the season progresses. Don't dig yourself into a hole by riding too much and not resting enough like last season. Don't ride if your body is tired, you need high quality rest to recover, and you need to fully recover to continue getting stronger. Easy days can count as rest days, but if you're sore the next morning you should take the day off. The season is long, take it slow. For next season, add some variety to your routine this summer. That will help prepare you better and reduce the chance of injury too. You can't just go cold and do three sets and call that a workout. It might be better than nothing, but it's priming you for injury, especially at your age and skill level. You should be doing ten to twenty sets with light weights in quick succession just to warm up your body and get your blood flowing... Do the same exercises you plan to do later in your workout, get your heart rate up for at least five minutes. Then... Add some squats, some lunges, some jumping and such to your routine. Core work is always good too, variety will produce even better results. (Bodybuilders will do the same exact exercise in the same exact range of motion to develop muscles that bulge out and look good, athletes will vary their positions and range of motion constantly to build a healthy, functional body.) My favorite preseason exercise: Deep, slow squats with 20lbs per hand, making sure not to stand up all the way and rest on each rep. Keeping my legs bent and not resting on each rep goes some way toward my anaerobic endurance, two or three seconds up and two or three back down simulates snowboard turns reasonably well. It burns. It's also quite possible your stance is causing the stress on your quads. Can you straighten your legs all the way and stand comfortably on flat ground? Maybe you just have too much forward lean in your boots?

Rides great of course! Everything you would expect from a Coiler, only bigger. The 194 was the board of choice for my final runs when the resort announced the closure in March (with three hours notice). Hard on the legs for sure, cumbersome at slow speeds, but a totally exhilarating ride!

Will Do! Howdy West! 22.75 inches wide, 9 and 27 degrees for softboot carving, -3 and 18 for freeride and powder boards. Nine degrees is as low as I can go on the backfoot and still get smooth deep heelside carves. And by the way, it's not about huge feet, the width is necessary for extreme angulation. With a 17m sidecut at such a short length I'm going to have to tip it up real high to turn tight enough to keep it under control on the steeps. The NeverSummer is not as wide but the extra sidecut (about 9m SCR) means it's almost as wide under the bindings and it won't require as much angulation. I expect that one will be better suited to slower carving on mellow terrain. Allee! It would be great to see you here. I'll ride my Exegi too! No promises about the trenches but there's always plenty of clean cord when it's not snowing...

Oh ya... This one too. Jasey-Jay TCX 166 T4 titanal soft boot carver! 17 metre average radius, 30cm waist, stiff as ****... This one was a bit of of a collaboration between Bruce Varsava, Jasey-Jay Anderson, and John Gibson. Bruce had so sell Jasey-Jay on the contra sidecut idea, John had to design the actual sidecut, and Jasey-Jay built the board. Thanks again to the team! This is my third custom board with a 30cm plus waist. I think this is the one I've been waiting for. I hope that with this design and the advanced materials and construction techniques, I'll finally be able to figure out this soft boot carving thing... Look out @Ryan Knapton here I come, and I've got the stance for a beautiful heelside!

NeverSummer West Bound 157 DF... 28.0mm waist!!! I have high expectations for this beauty. I'm so psyched not to have to choose between a carving board and a freeride board anymore!

Did anyone else notice that NeverSummer started offering super wide DF (drag-free) options on some of their boards? The West Bound , for example is now available in regular (25.7cm waist for the 160), X-Wide (26.5cm), and DF (28.4cm)!!! Most of you won't care but some of you probably ride soft boots and suffer from toe drag. You, my brothers, will be so excited to see wide waists finally making it past the custom market niche into production models. It's finally happening! Props to@Ryan Knaptonfor having the vision and pushing the limits! No more stressing about whether it's a carving day or a mini-pow day, no more going back to the parking lot because I chose the wrong board (it happens a lot when you have as many board as I do), no more having to tell my buddies on the lift that I can't ride with them in the trees or the back bowls because I'm on my carving board... This, I expect, will be the first ever true all mountain snowboard for those who carve hard. What a relief! I bought one. It's up to us to buy and promote these boards and make sure the wide waist thing is never relegated to the dustbin of history like so much other great snowboard tech; the three strap binding comes to mind. If these sell out, we'll start to see other manufacturers making wider waists next season, the competition will drive R+D and we will all enjoy the benefits. If these linger on the shelves and sell at a discount next fall, it's possible no other manufacturer will ever take the risk again.

Just found out that these things are illegal to ride on roads or sidewalks in BC! That makes it way cooler. Now I'm keeping it.

Lol... I think I'll keep it for the summer. It's a decent choice for following my four year old around on her bike, and towing her on her skateboard. The upside is that I look pretty cool riding it, it turns a lot of heads. But I'm open to offers. It's only got 20km on it, comes with side handle and fender...

What is up with this thing??? I bought a Onewheel XR+ because everyone is raving about how radical it is and that it's great exercise. I have to say I'm quite disappointed. It's dangerous sure, but not that rad. Maybe I'm missing something but I wouldn't say this thing carves. I get more lean and g-force out my longboard, even at slow speeds. It's like a sideways Segway. I would hardly call it exercise. It's kind of fun, but not really exhilarating until you almost crash. I should have bought a dirtbike... Way cheaper. I'll keep practicing, maybe it gets funner when the rider gets better.

Hell yes!!! So stable, turns tighter than I expected. Feels just like a regular board, only faster. Fewer total turns but they are of the highest quality. Hard on the legs, cumbersome at slow speed, barely fits in the gondola... wouldn't trade it for anything.

...So how do we access the google drive? The link is gone.

12 in the back, 27 in the front is pretty minimal for soft boot carving. If you're dragging your boots, go to steeper angles, get lifts under the bindings and/or buy a wider board.

Hey @Jack, I'll tell you what I tell the curious kids on the gondola: "It's not about the speed, it's about the turn!". @GeoffV, I'll tell you what I tell the ladies: "It's not too big, it'll work just fine". Seriously, I'm not trying to compensate for anything, I just want more g-force. @snowwjob1: Ahem... It's 5620 vertical feet... @lonbordin: I'll see what I can do. @dredman: almost any decent board would have been a blast in Sundance Bowl on Thursday! But yeah, the bigger the better if you have the legs. @Mr.E gets it. Don't forget that the longer a board is, the longer the sidecut radius needs to be to keep the sidecut depth somewhat consistent across the different sizes. This radius on a 175 would be ridiculous but it's right in the ballpark for a 194. Remember also that the difference in sidecut depth between 20m and 22m is a whole lot less than the difference between 10m and 12m. This raises a discussion topic for another thread: "Be it resolved that sidecut depth is a better predictor of turn size than sidecut radius." Debate amongst yourselves. All doubts will be settled by 9am tomorrow...

My oh my... Look what was waiting for me upon my return from Montucky! 194cm big T4 Contra 18-25m scr 210mm waist I hope it fits in the gondola tomorrow!

@Allee and @Corey, Are we doing this? You guys want to hit Revelstoke on your way down south? I've got lots of room here and heaps of snow. Anyone else? @Riceball? @Neil Gendzwill? Depending on Conditions I may head to Schweitzer for the pre-party. James

Well Rob... That's a lot of questions... In the words of the great Bruce Varsava, "you don't really notice the width once you get going". I found that to be true with the VSR AM 171 with its 24cm waist (but you sure as hell notice the extra smoothness when you go back to a 19cm waist). Is soft boot carving hard on the ankles? Yes. Is it more physical than hardboot carving? Yes. Does a wider board make it harder on the ankles and the body? I can't say. I can't carve a 26 waisted board as fast or tight as a wider one, or on the steeps either, so sure it's less intense. There's going to be a tradeoff with extra width for sure, but if you're booting out and yet you want to carve harder, what other choice do you have? Lifting, canting and extreme angles? Now you might as well be riding hard boots... These boards were designed as dedicated soft boot carvers, not all mountain rides. I don't believe in "all mountain". It seems to me that in general, equipment that is supposed to do everything well doesn't really do anything very well. Hence the massive quiver. Missing in the quiver had always been something worth riding in ten centimetres on groom. That's why I bought the wide boards. Why not just ride the VSR AM on those days? Fair question... It started at Grand Targhee circa winter 05/06... I was the only carver at the hill that year. There was a well established group of senior locals who had been skiing there forever, showing up at 11am and enjoying the smooth soft corduroy all day on the empty mountain. Now, some foreigner comes in and just destroys it all first thing every morning. I was not well liked. Then someone trips in one of my ruts and gets injured and all of a sudden there's mounting pressure to ban hard boots at the 'ghee. That's when I bought power plates and started to get into real soft boot carving. I wanted to show them that my ruts are the same depth in soft boots... Anyway, within a couple of seasons @dredman showed up with the crew (@johnasmo, @bigdogdave, and @tworavens) and smoothed things over. Everybody loves Dave. There was no more talk of banning hard boots after that. But still, I find people treat me as less of a freak in soft boots. I'm more approachable. People maybe get the idea that they can do it too, that it's not a different sport it's just great style. I wouldn't change much on a new Exegi. Maybe a slightly softer tail would make it less committing and slow things down a bit, but I've adapted and I love it. So glad to have that board this season, good corduroy has been so rare and I need to carve!

Thanks Boys! Yes of course I discussed stiffness with Sean. In Aspen and then again a week later on the phone. I told him 185lb aggressive rider, I'm only 155lbs. I rode with both Sean and Carl just prior to ordering the boards. I'm working on a better edit. That one was done entirely by the videographer at his discretion. When I see a carving video with a bunch of toesides cut together I always assume that the rider can't do a decent heelside or link deep carved turns. I want to rework it soon with longer cuts and better music in an effort to capture the flow. Stay tuned.

$90 plus shipping. I rode that exact board for a few seasons. I'm very curious to try it again (on a green run). Been saving my TD2 center disks for this board...

I have a Furberg Freeride 162 split from last season, and a Freeride 168 from 16/17. Not a quiver killer. Not a carving board or a piste board at all. I would travel with only a Furberg if I was going heliboarding in Alaska maybe. It's the shit for steep lines and tight trees in fresh and chopped powder, but a bit boring in open bowls or mellow terrain where you might prefer something with some sidecut and pop. This is a board for big lines. Very stable and forgiving, easy to land and it turns tighter and easier than any other board I've ridden. (Which is why I had to have the split.) Awkward on groom or hardpack, it's a different kind of ride. Be careful on your first run. Never tried the all mountain.

@1xsculler: a few points to consider. 1. It's too late. We're halfway through the season already, it's too late to start a strength training program. Especially if you plan to start doing eccentric and plyometric exercises that you've never tried before. If you were riding weekends only I might suggest a light workout on Wednesdays, but I think you ride more than that and high quality rest will probably do you more good than intense cross conditioning at this point. Just ride and rest; give your body a chance to recover and get stronger. In January, riding is the best training for riding. Light cardio and stretching are advised on rest days to speed recovery, but plan to start your strength training for next season in April. 2. Likely you have muscle imbalances in your legs. Muscle strength and particularly endurance are very position specific. If most of your quad strength comes from rowing, then you may have a lot of strength and endurance when pushing from a seated position but that's not going to transfer well to standing on a snowboard. Further, because rowing demands a very narrow range of motion parts of your thighs are likely overdeveloped while other parts are comparatively underdeveloped. This may be why you tire out so quickly; it's the weaker muscles that can't keep up. An over reliance on your larger muscles may also be influencing your technique. This kind of imbalance can also lead to injury when the smaller muscles are fatigued and get overpowered by the larger ones. I also suspect your knee stabilizers are weak, because you're (over) training sitting down. You'll need to train your legs this summer in a wider variety of positions (mostly standing), get off the cable machines and use free weights for your squats and lunges. Train your calves and adductors a bit too. 3. Core strength is at least as important as leg strength. If your core is weak, no amount of leg strength will support the body tension needed for carving. This is a very physically demanding sport. Getting low will help you cheat that a bit and carve with less core tension, but stretching it out feels so good! Mix in some isometrics when training your core and don't neglect the obliques. Your lower back is probably already strong from rowing, but maybe your abs are weaker (by comparison) and so also imbalanced and so also contributing to your fatigue and then to your poor technique as you try to rely on your stronger muscles to carve. Pullups, dips, leg raises,medicine ball situps... Look up preparation exercises for isometric gymnastic positions like levers and flags. Good luck. Don't quit.