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anyway, right now, two things are coming to mind. with bts and cut wings to have some give, i'm naturally thinking "what happens to my response? is it noticeably diminished?" i do like the fact that everything's stiff, just perhaps it'd be nice if i can get into the neutral position more easily in the mean time, what if i swap out my front 3* disk for my extra 6* in order to make crouching down easier, resulting in double 6*? kind of seems unheard of. does it sound like a possible improvement (even if little)? maybe also help to go near max lift on rear and near min lift on front with the boots, though there's already a pretty big difference. um, if the info is relevant, my current setup would be... -stance width (i'm measuring center of center disk to center of center disk, not sure how else to measure it) is 19''. -not sure how to quantify the disk angles, they're both at 70 degrees such that i have inward lift and inward cant on both feet. -55-55 boot angles @Cuban: i don't see a direct relation to what i'm riding, but of course if i'm going through soft snow or just cruising while standing up straight, there is no stress. just when i'm in an alpine position and turning and about, even in hero, the rubbing will still happen. i don't see how the boots can possibly be safely secured any tighter without replacing stuff; my feet are already sometimes cut off of circulation when i'm at the bottom of the hill, not moving, and not yet on the lift chair.

yeah, it's definitely a push to (try to) get into the same position as the rider in the photo. i assume the bts + cutting wings will fix that aspect. my wigwam socks go all the way up to the bottom of my kneecaps, and footsize-wise, they're the right size too. i do have a couple wedges my bootfitter gave me, i'll mess around with those as well when i'm on the slopes again. hell, i may get lucky and it might align the axes and prevent rubbing altogether. not counting on it though. shaving legs, maybe i'll do that if i get desperate. not looking for that extra trouble =P

whoops, skipped over that one. i'm using wigwams.

ack. posted and went to sleep, and i wake up to a barrage of people trying to help me out some answers that you guys are asking for: -i already crank down my boots pretty hard to where sometimes i'm losing circulation. -completely stock setup. no surgery done, no cutting done, stock liner, no bts. yeah, the idea of cutting my $500 boots freaks me the $@#% out -yeah, when i first got the boots, they were a tight, very snug fit, but now the toes are pretty packed out, and my heel even lifts inside the lining on toeside sometimes. perhaps the liners suck, but i'm confident that the shells are the right size, as i bought the boots new from elite feet with a fitting appointment and all. i even pass the two-finger test (well, i can't actually fit my hand in there, but from eyeballing it, it looks like a pass) -i've played with my stance so much for the first several days on my board until i got it to where it is now, where i'm having the least problems. can't imagine too much further improvement from here given how much it's already improved, comfort-wise, result-wise on my trenches made (perceived or real), etc. -i'm 5'4'', 120 lbs. skinny asian guy. -not sure what you mean by that one. can you rephrase/elaborate? i do ride in the ride mode, adjusting the stiffness spring whenever the need arises (usually have to slacken the stiffness when it gets very cold and makes my feet go numb). perhaps i've missed the mark here.. -no thank you to shaving legs :) thanks guys for the replies. other than neoprene and booster strap, everything else seems like a pricey fix and i'd have to stick it out for a while. anyway, these answers are hopefully enough to make way for some followup responses.

i used to have the bruising type of shin bang from pressure pointing that left bruises about 1.5cm in diameter on each leg. went to bootfitters, they said that the most likely fix without having to perform surgery on boots was the eliminator tongue shims. it relieved the bruising, all right, but now i have the rubbing shin bang. needless to say, the affected areas sting when in physical contact with anything. as you can see from the picture (goofy, this is the rear left leg. right leg gets the shin bang too but a little bit milder), the pressure is distributed, as hinted by the sock impression (i use the thin kind that goes up to almost the knees). from here, i've thought of buying the thin plastic sheet kind of kitchen cutting boards and cutting some of it and sticking it in the insides of my socks. that, or dropping another 40 bucks on a booster strap, but i'm tight on $$ can i get some outside thoughts? any other ideas? i've seen tiger balm suggested on other threads of rubbing shin bang, but i'd prefer a prevention measure rather than letting the damage happen and having a post-session fix.

i see. time to bust out the whiteout :)

wait, graphics say 161 but it's a 163?

very generous. i'll let you know if i run into problems with the buckle i dispatched my friend to pick up. thank you. and yeah i use f2 intec heels.

thanks neil and volvos. messed up the REI buckle i had yesterday. wrapped foil around everything except the middle prong and held it above a flame. however.. a side prong melted off first went looking around at stores for another buckle today and found one out of like five stores i checked. snapped off the middle prong, sandpapered the remainder of the prong to make it skinny enough to fit in the female receiver. however, the gap between the male connector base and the side-prong notches ended up being too small closest REI to southshore is in freakin' reno i'm having a friend back in the hometown go to REI for me to pick up another buckle before he visits me, and hopefully i will be bending over no longer by friday

i woke up fifteen minutes ago and realized i slept on my @^#%ing neck, and bagged it right there in bed, if that counts as bagging it, despite being a 3 minute drive away from the slopes :) hopefully i'll be fine tomorrow. time for some breakfast and movies.

*Shrug* I will be experimenting with everything, trying new stuff always I presume. Just need the hours on the slopes to rack up :)

uh, shoot?

They have measurements stated on their buckle thingies? Anyway, I've been to REI multiple times trying to find a compatible buckle for my intec handle, with no success :( Well, I guess it's about time to pay another visit and check again. I don't want to bend over any longer!

how 'bout rapidshare or one of the many similar sites for UL?

any other time i'm available, i'd be up for meeting and tearin' it up with any new fellow carvers (though i'm actually pretty slow), but this weekend i'm going riding with some personal friends, which happens maybe twice a season if i'm lucky, so i'll be trying to stick with them the whole day(s). we haven't set anything in stone yet, other than the fact that we're heading up saturday. we'll have many other chances, i'm sure! maybe even this weekend if they decide to just ride one day. anyway, i'll have to see once i plan out w/ friends.

also, feeding the dollar bill will probably help with the heelsides if you're not starting your turns up in the front. scroll down just a tad, the explanation's in the Weight Shift paragraph.

so amazing, i'm seeing doubles!

violin, you can only play two notes simultaneously at most. and everything you need to see is within your field of vision. flute, only one note at once, and on top of that, many of your fingers are fixed 100% of the time. of course, you have to learn individual playing techniques with each of them, but they didn't compare to the 738292375892375932+ simultaneous notes at points on the piano, some offbeat of each other, some with twice or four times the frequency of other notes, not to mention that your field of vision is not infinite. i do kind of think that having been in the groove with the violin and flute first is partially responsible for the overwhelming feeling of the piano. also, i don't feel like i have it made, 'cause piano is the only instrument that i feel sounds pleasant to listen to on its own. not to say there aren't ridiculous pieces made for violin that are freakin' insane and sound great solo, but pieces like that are pretty scarce to me.

i hit a skier today for you, ernie ;) that'll show them! bunch of slow movers on one of the most popular runs at heavenly. saw a lady in front of me, and the question i asked myself was: carve around her, or just slow down? i chose to slow down, but now in hindsight, i was going too fast for that option. slowed down enough to hit her boots and launch her forward a bit without making her fall, though i did. profusely apologized to her, but she was pretty upset, understandably.. heal fast.

heh, came across this thread at one point but did not dare revive it. thanks jonbass! violin: took ~five years of lessons and played for about seven years. i had a remarkable talent for the violin, but at the same time came to despise it. flute: started in 5th grade band, eventually started taking lessons for a few years. played ~four-ish years total; i was pretty good at the flute too. always found it a pain in the ass that you couldn't eat or drink before playing. piano: my favorite. also the instrument at which i'm the least proficient. by far. honestly, i'm @#$*ing awful at the piano, it's pathetic. took lessons for three or four years and quit. some years later (couple years ago), i've started playing some videogame music adaptations on and off. honestly, i enjoy the piano very much; i enjoy listening to pieces that i personally like (which already filters out almost all piano music); i wish i was very good at it. i'm still awful at it today. i can't sight read for @#%^, and learning passages takes ridiculously long. i've also messed around with the guitar. nothing really worth mentioning, but i'm mentioning it anyway.

Because of having used a cool board, some of that board's coolness rubs off on you. Transitively, my physical contact (in a nonsexual way, mind you) with you would make me cool, too. One of those little elementary school nonsense :)

Can I touch you?

looking forward.

similar, related question to the one you asked in my thread, but in case you still don't get it, the technique is to have the line formed by your two shoulders and/or the line formed by the left and right sides of your hips perpendicular to the long axis of your snowboard (and thus, also the direction of travel, assuming that your board is carving at the given moment) at all times and having those same anatomical lines parallel to the immediate slope of the hill below your feet at all times. that was kind of hard to explain, so perhaps it's equally hard to read :p Edit: So I'd hope that the long axis part made sense. If the second part about being parallel to the slope of the hill is going over your head, the "pencil pinching" exercise from one of Jack's tech articles (not to wrongfully credit him if it wasn't written by him, just says "compiled by..") achieves said second part of the technique, known as "angulation," that I was trying to explain.

Are you coming to Heavenly? I have a pass there and owe my mom lots o' dough, so I'm not so much in a position to go anywhere else.