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Yes very nice last picture, if you can do that with a lamy jungle what would it be with a radical skwal board!

The easy jungle would end up directly thrown in the bin i bet These boards were not too bad 10 years ago to learn skwal but now the should be forbidden, they don't really show what a skwal can be (the SK200 was already a better one) ! :) For those in the area you should consider next week event : http://www.skwalusa.com/blog/ A bit too far from France unfortunately ;)

Now ou are part of the fight club! ;)

Perhaps you should go faster?

The easy jungle is a limitated board especially if you are used to alpine boards. According to me it is not well balanced, turns are not natural and personnaly I had great difficulties to ride it and I would not recommend it. I did not experienced such problems with other skwal boards I tried (FC180, Sk200, contest, Mpride, Oxess, 173°F, RS176, ...)

You are right. But the stance is not really the point, the real difference resides in the angles. The skwal technique requires 0° on the front foot (and from 0 to some degrees on the back foot). There is theorically no "front" and "back" turns, both should be similar.

Without doubt we can say that the angulations shown below on the left skwal are wrong : 3 degrees on the front foot and more than 5° the back foot is not right. The front foot should always be at 0° and for the back foot, it should range between 0° to 4° max (especially on a board like an easy jungle with very short SCR).

Looks like the R-A-D is much more efficient ;)

Yes you can apply push-pull in skwal also. There is a small tutorial in english to learn skwal on a new italian resource : http://www.skwalclubitalia.it/ see "Tecnica-skwal" and "english version". Some videos are provided.

Most skwals are extreme carving oriented But there are also several skwal board designed for powder. The Thias TS176 with soft boots : and the Fall'US : and here in action: Some are fine for both offpist and slopes : the Thias FC180 and the new Lagriffe board coming this season codename "white ambiance 180".

My Lagriffe RS176 is 33 cms from center to center. You can make some measurements based on photos of Mpride skwal boards which are very well balanced boards: http://mpride.net/products-page/xrace/

Hi Ace, I have a question with your TD3 skwal, it seems very wide to me since it goes off the board itself, isn'it a problem when you carve since it probably touches the snow? I would suggest that you put a angle of 0 on the front foot, your easy jungle will be a lot more easier to ride. I own an easy jungle too but it's an old an rather limitated board (very short 8M SCR which is the smaller SCR you can find on a skwal). I do not use it any more since I tried the new Mpride, Oxess and Lagriffe boards. You should try one of these, they are just amazing. Sure the guy on the video from japan uses one of these boards. If you are interested in more information about skwal you can find it at www.skwalzone.org especially in the forums. unfortunately the web site is only in french but with google translator you can grab some info. The new boards can be found here : http://www.skwalzone.org/boards.php#nouveautes2008

Most of skwalers in europe are at 0 and 3/5 degrees. But the back foot not perfectly in the axis is for a matter of comfort since this foot doesn't play much role in riding. A few guys prefers to set both at 0.

Can someone tell me where this thread is? I would like to update our skwalzone.org website with this history but I can't find if this is a hoax or not. I the skwal community it is said that they were banned from snowboard races because skwals where just faster, but where is the truth?