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13 hours ago, bigwavedave said:
Where did you use threadlock? On the nut affixed to the end of the adjusting screw for the slider?
FWIW all these are brand new binding. I did recalled i had to tighten the nut for the slider but never put it to test since i just stick with TD3 for now.
Part of the process of eliminating one variable at a time.
Once i got the technique down i will go back to try different binding.
I did cut my teeth on TD2/3 so back to basic. -
On Large sidecut/short board:
i recalled some time back. Sean from Donek make some really large side cut snowboard for Super Pipe and those worked out well/podiumed. -
Ivan is great to work with.
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not to thread jack...
on F2/SG type of binding. My standard bail keep on getting looser over time to the point where the boot is flopping around in it (morning it's nice and tight and few runs later). I use thread locker and didn't seems to help. Any ideas?
Had to go back to TD3 and the bail position been solid for 10+ days. -
+1 on the new F2 Porto 163 SL
Amazing board. took one/two run to get familiar with it (For me that's rare).
Given the proper input it does amazingly. with less optimal input - it save my ass many time.
For me: in SL size - I don't need to look any further. found my forever board.-
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maybe mystery solved. it's all in the boots.
liner - booster strap - tongue - buckle
Boost strap move around and wrecking havoc on everything. Goldilock positioning.
at least One season wasted.... but the detour is an interesting one.
not sure how to solved it. starting with maybe longer ladder on the boots. -
On 12/23/2022 at 5:15 PM, Jack M said:
Remind me how tall you are, and your inseam? IIRC, stance width seems good.
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!!
19 hours ago, Corey said:If your toes point at 12 o'clock, what angle is the pain on your leg/shin on that clock face? Find a way to move the cuff/boot that way.
Mine was always at 12 so I increased forward lean, and finally added a 6-degree heel lift once I bumped up against the limit of my ankle joint with lean alone. YMMV
YES! the back foot cuff seems to have mind of its own. wandering boot cuff syndrome.
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2 hours ago, ibrussell said:
Do one adjust at a time. Try more forward lean on rear boot, puts your rear leg in better angle before you put more forward pressure and drop rear angle 3 degrees that will put more pressure on heal edge good luck Is that 3 degree toe lift front 6 degree heal lift rear ?
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.
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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?
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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.
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23 hours ago, dropthebody said:
Hopefully our trenches will cross someday!
thanks for reading and responding
hopefully the object doesn't cross at the exact same moment lol...
On 12/13/2022 at 12:46 PM, Jack M said:Not if you want to ride with @trailertrash and me.
Hahaha! my ski club member actively avoiding me regardless what i am wearing. now i make myself sad lol...
On 12/13/2022 at 9:36 AM, barryj said:Keep your head on a swivel and wait for your skill and comfort level to tell you go or no go.
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.
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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 my1. 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.
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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.
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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?
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On 12/8/2022 at 8:56 PM, rjnakata said:
"Look out there. Out there is the perfect lap"
Love it; that sum it up nicely for me.
meme - internet hieroglyphs. it can convey so much
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2 hours ago, big mario said:
Good plan b. AI cannot turn a wrench under a sink. I wish more of our youngsters would consider the trades. I started in construction as a way to finance my education, I found that I was much better suited to building in the real world than in the abstract of civil engineering. I still use all of the trig I learned, and pass it on to anyone who will stay around as I proselytize about the awesomeness of carpentry. I am saddened by the fact that there are very few youth coming in, and that the encyclopedic amount of knowledge I have gleaned from the crusty old timers that both mentored, and tormented me will leave with me when I hang up my occidental tool belt in a few years.
Sorry for the partial derailment here, gawdzira touched on something that has been bothering me for the last decade or so
Mario
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.
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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
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7 hours ago, st_lupo said:
Chatgpt is pretty cool! I’ve asked it some pretty niche questions and got impressively correct (if at times superficial) answers. It’s crazy how correct and in-depth it gets regarding comp-sci stuff.
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 boardWith 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 momentThe 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.-
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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 -
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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
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Binding Angle changing while riding
in Carving Central
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Interesting. May i ask for your reasoning?
I know plenty of great riders on either binder; it's interesting to hear different opinion.
I start out with stiffer binding - Catek, TD2
In the beginning I gave it too much bad input; so the SW(sidewinder) and F2 was great to filter out my poor input/technique at the expense of responsiveness.
akin to trade off between harder/softer suspension.
During the heyday of my carving prowess - binding/boots/setup make for little difference. i can over power the setup to do what i intended. Now with a busted knee, shoulder and one too many trip around the sun.... Mostly just preference. I find myself liking TD3 again in recent day.
SG is much better at tweaking setup; except the sled keep moving. otherwise it's like the perfect binding for me. (responsiveness, adjustability)