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Thanks Jack! I got long torso but short leg. 6 feet height with 32 inseam. Remove back foot canting seems to be working toward the positive direction. Thank you Allen/Corey!! will This times seems to be dialing in the setup (fingers/toes crossed). I am hitting some sort of hard stop. I do have a snowboard journal on technique cheatsheet :-) dear diary: mountain spank me hard today and i like it. Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday to all!! YES! the back foot cuff seems to have mind of its own. wandering boot cuff syndrome. That goes away without the boot cuff buckles.

What! like a control science experiment? . that's too much logic. 6 Degrees Toe Lift and 3 degree heel lift. The good part is that i am start to be more sensitive about setup which does help when trying to dial stuff in. I remembered trying more forward lean last year and more splay didn't help.

regular rider 951 MS WC boots Big calves TD3 STD binding 60(6degree lift)/60 (3 degree lift 50.5 cm between binding some forward lean on back foot. When put away last season: everything seems to be working well. I notice it last year; when i have a bad start; loose the upper buckle on back foot and it help at the cost of response time. Then bucket it snugged and life is great. Fast forward to this season: I can't ride with the upper cuff buckle(just the rear) at all. front upper buckles are nice and snugged. Naive way of thinking ; getting longer ladder for the upper cuff but front boot/leg is fine; no problem so it's tight but my leg/calves size are symmetric. Another data point - heel side seems off (not 100% but good enough). toe side is ok. Any ideas on what direction to go? Does this happen to anyone else? more/less splay? narrower/wider binding distance? canting? blood sacrifice?

front knee is ok but back knee is not happy. -- Swollen; feels weak. My back gets beat up from the violent(in a good way) edge transition. work out/weights def help in that front but longevity seems to ride smoothly. someone post the meme on Ford vs Ferrari on another post which is quite apt here: Ken Miles: If you’re going to push a piece of machinery to the limit, and expect it to hold together, you have to have some sense of where that limit is. Look out there. Out there is the perfect lap. No mistakes. Every gear change, every corner. Perfect. You see it? Peter Miles: I think so. Ken Miles: Most people can’t. Most people don’t even know it’s out there, but it is. It’s there.

Thank you Sugarloafer for making it one of best early season in memory. early season Mental notes: Keep weight in front carve like you know what you doing. Be aggressive/confidence. wear boots/liner properly. Lace the liner and stump a few time to make sure feet are fully in heel pocket. Need aft/fore motion and side to side. When motion/riding is right it shouldn't hurt. it hurts because i am doing something wrong. stay low/rotate help with transition but dynamic weighting is even better and sometime need both.

thanks for reading and responding hopefully the object doesn't cross at the exact same moment lol... Hahaha! my ski club member actively avoiding me regardless what i am wearing. now i make myself sad lol... Yes agree; i see many people share the same sentiment. I agree but that does take away from the flow state/experience. Skill wise i can not walk and chew gum at the same time yet maybe an early warning system. camera mounted backward. With some openCV we should be able to calculate speed/people detection. Seems we have all the ingredients but to packaged it and make it consumer friendly will take time. i am just an armchair engineer.

thank you for the feedback! i do try to wear bright color; love the price tag at discount rack plus safety bonus. It's never "fool" proof but to minimized risk. logic(flawed?) is people will pay more attention when they see someone with safety vest on. Past experience: on avoiding un-planning high speed hug. (for my mental notes) writing it down help this doo-doo brain of my 1. Pull to the side and waiting for clearing. Patience is a super power; but sometime it feel like people purposely messing with you by taking the maximum time for it to be "not clear to send". or pull over to wait. see above patience is virtue. Go out early and quit when it get busy doesn't work for those of us who don't get many days in. 2. A dilemma - i want to tackle steeper terrain but i need more room and often there are lots of skier/rider not familiar with our movement. if i keep a consistent carving pattern; same radius; predictable then it help signaling that i am taking this part of the trail and i am not hugging it all. But a. i sometime are not fully in control and blow out a carve and had to recover/take a larger than expected turn b. i sometime like to mix it up and vary my turns size or changes edges as exercise, and/or trying something new 3. Not too sure what to do about: Those curious onlooker that got too close but didn't hit me are annoy as heck... sound/shadow in your peripheral/blind spot. Try to remain civil and educated ie be an ambassador for alpine snowboard; often people's intent is to paid a compliment and we know where good intention lead. Be safe!

shower thought? Is it ok for me to wear a high visibility vest while on mountain riding? Don't think there are any rule against it? This is for collision avoidance.

Love it; that sum it up nicely for me. meme - internet hieroglyphs. it can convey so much

this short video at 0:33 <-- i feel the exact sentiment. "i discovered I was useless, i had no practical skill" but at the ripe age of 40+ I am just another key board pounder for the man. https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski_open_sourced_blueprints_for_civilization?language=en found out too late about this: other wise it's one of those circus that i am serious consider run away from home to join: https://www.opensourceecology.org/ose-apprenticeship/ This is a reason i think why lots of tech ppl end up as literal farmer. at the risk of sounding /iam14andThisIsDeep https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3208874-i-am-andrew-ryan-and-i-m-here-to-ask-you a bit Objectivism/Ayn Rand-ish. There is definitely something about making something with one's hand. On the complete flip side: I am complete at awe with the technology advancement look up laser-produced plasma (LPP) which shoot high power laser at tin droplet twice (once to shape it, and 2nd burst to produce plasma/light) so we can build crazy semi conductor that enable modern life and the advancement of AI. I never quite understood the concept of "lost tech" in movie/book but now i get it. because what ASML does today is manifestation of “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” There is a happy medium to be achieve here. STEM is important but so is shop (i find out there is no more wood/automative shop in my local high school any more). not sure about the PEX/sharkbite generation lol... sorry for my rambling time to get off the soap box and dream about that perfect carve.

might be related: On the years that i ride really well; i like to explore the mountain/different trails. since those days are long gone. One thing i enjoyed about Alpine/carving is that i can ride the same trail over and over and still challenge myself. Last year - few of us rider Gun barrel in Highland almost non stop for the whole day. it's that good. Sometime i almost pity those super skillful rider that they had to find more difficult trail to do what i can "flow" in them more gentler slope.

thank you for the great write up!! k168 for the East Coaster (especially earlier season) sounds like a chicken dinner. I LOLed at "The bottom line is I really don’t think I like riding on ice". as i get older; i can't chase snow like i once did so i had to plan and ride what mother nature brought trump my personal preference

chatGPT + copiolt seems to make l33t code type of interview question obsolete? which beg the question in my head. perhaps we are focus on the wrong thing in hiring CS ppl. It's a balance we need to juggle well. In someway the AI is reaching a level of uncanny valley for me. There is something about it that make me uneasy. there is subtlety in Learned Knowledge vs earned knowledge. Or maybe i am just old and grumpy... Having information (which if we squint our eye it might appear to be knowledge) pop out without much work/efforts. i am not smart enough to forecast how this will impact future human development. similar to autonomous driving - level 2 where human driver still need to pay attention. But the chatbot seems to full of hubris in some reply that even the facts are wrong but it appear to be right. Similar to stable diffusion (Open source equivalent of the DALL-E) when it was first release; it took over the "airwave" at least the one for geek/people in the field. Future is now and exciting.

Ford Voodoo is first domestic/"mass produce" flat crank v8 engine. i wonder where GM's LT6 (flat crank) engine going next after the halo car. likely Cadillac suv. i love a big sedan with that engine in an affordable package. (ex Impala SS). That flatcrank design have been use in the exotic: such as Ferrai, Lotus for a long while. It's awesome that those technology trickle down to where i the commoner can almost afford.

prompt: write me a poem on Alpine Snowboarding chatGPT is text generate model from OpenAI that seems pretty magical. some call it AGI but quickly approaching the uncanny valley for me (something unsettling). this is what computer came up with: Alpine snowboarding, oh how grand To glide and carve upon the snow To feel the wind whip through your hair And hear the snow crunch beneath your board With every turn and every carve You dance and play upon the mountain You are one with the cold, white world And nothing else matters in this moment The thrill of speed and the rush of air The freedom and joy of each descent This is the beauty of alpine snowboarding And nothing else can compare. and in haiku format: Snowboarding in the Alps Carving down the mountain's face Winter joy supreme.

https://youtu.be/yImlXr5Tr8g?t=7936 an awesome descriptive on flow state that i had hard time to put into words. this explain to me why we/I chase it and why the frustration/anguish when i am block from it. excerpt from the video - there are much nuggets of wisdom in there. It's the optimal experience and one's best performance state. flow state exist between the secular and the sacred (at oneness, lost of self consciousness; free from self super ego. World is vivid; effortless but high intensive physically, realness) cascading insight and increase insight capacity akin to adaptive Implicit learning (can’t quite explain it but able to perform it) - adapt to complex dynamic pattern/condition implicit learning -> intuition for pattern (it can’t tell diff between causation vs correlation) just beyond one's ability, immediate feedback, and consequence matter -

that's how i found and join the forum. bought a used Donek Snowboard off Craig's list and doing some research on it. The origin of this obsession story.

David Edinburgh voice over sadly his body is not ready

i member it fondly.... usenet/NNTP have a new-ish live in context of "media sharing" in modern day. https://www.binsearch.info/ https://www.newshosting.com/usenet-plans/ > 5k day retention

Michigan Mike and I planned to ride at Snowbasin from Jan 28 2023 - Fe3 2023 love to meet other carvers. Both of us have Ikon. PowMow is near by; maybe we will take a detour. In term of lodging - my ski club stay in Ogden before and seems to work out pretty well. Any recommendation/suggestion are welcome.

Oxess have a "special edition" as well https://oxess.ch/en/content/89/58/snowboards/carve-skwal Team version/edition is popular in skateboard and many other consumer sector. "Win On Sunday, Sell On Monday". for the mere mortal maybe a custom from Coiler/Donke/WInterstick is better suited for freecarve. To compete in WC level that's a different ball game. Lots of exotic tech/innovation in racing does trickle down to consumer. As the temperatures start to drop; future looks to be brighter for our sports (thanks to the prevalent flaming graphic). BTW it's proven:

thank you for the recommendation!! Last "sport" related book i read is Shoe Dog which i enjoyed. I suspect i am predisposed to love this one. it deserved it's own topic

oh wow! how did i missed this - https://forums.alpinesnowboarder.com/topic/51474-thirst-tesi8/ thanks for the info!!

DC also make Burton step-on compatible boots https://www.dcshoes.com/men%27s-control-step-on-boa%c2%ae-snowboard-boots-194466024608.html#cgid=snow_men-shop&start=3&hitcount=15 K2 have a new clicker system: but all these require vendor locked in boots. you might be able to use the "step in" boots in regular softboot binding but not guarantee.

substitute swim for drinking....