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try some modern ones and compare with your Easy Jungle...
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 :
A bit too far from France unfortunately ;)
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Now ou are part of the fight club! ;)
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Any suggestions to stop snow sticking to top sheet?
Perhaps you should go faster?
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Yup. Thias Easy Jungle
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, ...)
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I don't think you'd be able to ride that board like it was a skwal with these settings. Too wide stance and alpine angles.
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.
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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).
What are people using for back foot angulation? Never even thought of this possible variation:
Source: Snowgo: Riding the Skwal in Courchevel
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Looks like the R-A-D is much more efficient ;)
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I got myself a skwal, too. An old Lacroix, just to try. ...
But whether it is possible to apply push-pull plus rotation technique (extremecarving-esque) remains mistery to me. ...
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.
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false. Some skwals ride better offpiste and in the crud, though.
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".
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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:
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Well the test ride of the Thias Skwal Easy Jungle 165, 8m sidecut was last night.
This board DEMANDS you attention at all times. You have to be aware of your speed at all times. Once you start picking up speed you run the risk of being ejected over the edge, which happened more than once to me. I had my bindings setup as wide as they would go.
Riding a Skwal seems to put a lot more of the pressure on your knees and quads. Definetely felt like the bastard child of alpine and ski carving for the frist few runs. Once I got the hang of it, it was an absolute BLAST! I was being launched in the air in between my tiny little arcs in the snow. I am pretty sure I was leaving trenches that were deeper than this board is wide. The snow looked like it had some crazy DNA structures running all the way down the hill. More than once I saw someone track into one of my death trenches and bite the bullet.
Do yourselves a favor and get on one of these things if you can.
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 :
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I've been meaning to experiment to see how ridable a skwal is at 0 and 0 degrees. I think mine is set at 5 and 10 at the moment.
BobD
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.
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There was a brief discussion on another thread about skwals and narrow boards being banned long ago from competitions. Not many hard facts were offered and it left me with some questions.
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?
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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!