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From what I've seen most are on Burton CO2, followed by the C60, then there are a few on the Nideckers

I second the foam roller. They are between 20-30 bucks online, a little more at local fitness retailers. Purchase the hardest one you can find. It may be a little much in the beginning but after a few weeks you'll like a firmer one more than a softer one. If you are in a pinch and want to start working it out today find any cylander object that will support your body weight, like a nalgene, or a colman camping small propane tank, ect. Put that on the ground lay sideways on top of it roll on top of it starting at the hip and roll down to you knee. Go back and forth along the entire length of you theigh about ten or more times. It WILL hurt ALOT, but after a week it will feel less painfull. You may need to support yourself a bit by placing your top leg on the flood to take some weight off the leg you are rolling. I know I've mentioned this site a few times before, but honestly it is the best site I've found for conditioning for our sport. Check out these four links. http://www.coreperformance.com/knowledge/training/foam-roll.html http://www.coreperformance.com/daily/recovery/q-a-tight-it-band.html http://www.coreperformance.com/daily/recovery/q-a-why-does-it-hurt-to-foam-roll.html http://www.coreperformance.com/knowledge/movements/foam-roll-it-band.html

DjulesD, don't get park boards and pipe boards confussed. They are very different. The trend in Park boards has been going to rockered boards, but pipe boards have not going in this direction because of tracking issues and the boards tend to squirt out while going through the tranny. I still don't know what the original question is supposed to be. When it comes to a snowboard you have sidecut. Or you can reverse it, or you can just make it with no side cut. I don't see how reverse or no sidecut can be logically promoted as being viable. Am I missing something. Other than we are supposed to stir up the industry and revolutionize "pike" board design on our carving site?

I really don't get what you are saying??? I watch quite a bit of pipe riding and see how side cut works and why you need it. You are saying that a carving board and a pipe board should be designed differently. I said that they already are. I asked you how you think a snowboard should be changed design-wise to suit pipe riding better. Then I made the comment that you had the wrong wording on one of the most basic snowboarding terms. If you want people to take anything you say seriously you should get the wording somewhat correct. Then you come back to me with....don't be closed minded.......wtf

pipe boards are designed differently than freecarve boards. And you should be landing fairly flat when riding the pipe then edging through the tranny. Plus with the size of boards the pipe guys run in combination with their stance width there is little pressure in the middle of the board so it doesn't quite turn like an alpine board. What are you suggesting no sidecut? Reverse side cut? Something new that hasn't been put into production yet? And Please it's half pipe, not half pike. You are going to flamed pretty hard for that one.

Do you go straight in the "half-pike"???? No you do have to turn so you do need sidecut. It's half pipe by the way.

Yeah the lottery for tickets has come and gone. Now you have to go through legal scalpers

I missed the part about being ready to race after 5 days on the board. I would say that this is not likely. Like I said you really need a SL board and a GS board because they are so different. So now you really have 3 days on one and 2 days on the other, not probable that he will pick it up that fast. If you really only have 5 days look for a GS board and have him race the SL one his current set up. On the last day of training you can make the call if he is ready to race on the hardboot set up or not. Even if he is not ready by then his soft boot riding will be better because of it.

Honestly you will need two boards, one for GS and one for SL. It may sound over-kill for a new person, but if you are racing there is such a differance between a SL and a GS board that one board can't do both. You end up with a board that does neither GS or SL well. The piolets are good entry level boards. You may be able to find one on the classified section of this site. Dave from YYZ is a great resource and his advice is as solid as it comes.

He has always had stock lengths available, the flex was what was custom.

Measure the stance set back first then go from there. What board is it? 22 inch stance on plates???? Or are you 6'6"

I dissagree. The main reason why anyone outside of snowboard racing has heard of Chris Klug is because he was the first organ donar receiver who won an Olympic medal. The general public does not know who Graham Watanabee is dispite winning the Jeep Overall, being the first American to win an SBX World Cup (he won two before Wescott won his first) and getting a silver in the x-games. It isn't USSA promoting Shawn White, it's his agents and his sponsors. People like to "Do the Dew" and Mtn. Dew does not do alpine snowboarding.

Dom did get a medal in Torino. Lame that the CSF missed that one.

That's why I thought it was "interesting", there is always coaches discreation though. If the coaches thought she was a better person to go than the next lady in line the coaches can come up with a reason to justify her going.

When I was in Utah, we ran one of the largest USASA Series in the Nation. I'd guess over 80% of our participation came from local Teams (Park City, Snowbird, Sun Valley, Jackson, ect.) Very little came from randoms who wanted to compete. Yes some randoms would show up because they heard our Radio adds, or saw a poster in a shop, but they would usually only do one or two events, not the entire series. Teams hit all the events and keep the numbers more stable from event to event.

The $75 fee is an annual membership fee. Covers USASA insurance, office staff, marketing, etc. Similar to just about every other sport out there. The $25 day to race is a race entry, very reasonable, many ski races are $50. This fee covers on hill event staff (timing staff for races, judges for HP), and any fees needed to pay the mtn for hill usage, and sometimes extra insurance. The events usually are not listed on resort websites because they are not the ones putting on the event. It is the local USASA series directer not the resort. You probably won't find any ski race info on the resort page either, unless they are the ones putting it on directly. If you require info you need to contact the person who puts on the events in your area. RDY_2_Carve if it really is as bleak as you describe, all the marketing is not going to help. If there are no people, there are no one to market to. I feel local teams are the best option. Teams and series go hand in hand. If the team(s) are strong then they will want to show it in competition. If the series is weak, the teams suffer because why would a kid pay money to a team if the competitons they go to are not fun. Support a local team and they will support the series. Kids talk a lot if they are having fun and it's well organized parents will put kids in the program meaning more will compete.

Calling out product placement. Most of the boards in the front row don't have bindings on them.

Interesting to see Cristelle's name for PGS. I'm glad though she is a great racer and could be one of the best, she just got a little side tracked with all her SBX concussions.

Kex you keep saying that no one is offering an explination, The above quote I feel sums up well why a waxed board is better than an unwaxed on. Yes you are right there is no scientific data presented here, but I feel you should be able to follow the concept. You have more control over a board that slides on the snow versus a board that is grabbed by the snow.

Well considering that board was designed as an entry level GS boards for small girls and grooms, I would think you would not like it for a SL board. 160-165 length 10-11 meter sidecut seems to work well these days.

Board should be built around which plate you are planning on using since each plate is a little bit different. The nice thing about the vist plates are that they are adjustable.

Kex you have been so far off in this entire thread, do you really beleive what you are saying or just laughing at the responses?

Slower board is not safer. The reason an unwaxed board is slower is because it does not slide as quickly on the snow. Hence the snow "grabs" it more to cause it to be slower. This means you must put more effort into making the board to what you want, because the snow is trying to hold it in place. Safe is when you have more control, NOT when the snow has more control. John G. your idea of making everyone wax the same is good, but then that puts people out of jobs and in this economy.............. Until there is a rule that states everyone must wax the same, everyone will be looking for that little edge in the competitions.

Ross Hindman and myself live in Copper now and will be offering our tech services during USASA Nationals. We haven't determined cost yet, but it would include race prep the night before, plus on-hill support, ie overlays at the start, ect. You would have to provide your wax and overlays, or if we used our wax we would have to figure out a wax budget for you and make it work with that. For X-Games the athletes Ross was teching for had over $150 in wax at wholesale prices on their boards. This is why our prices will not include the actual wax, because it can vary so much depending on how over the top you want to go with it. We are already booked for the Open Class SBX day. Send me an email if you know anyone interested.

First weather a person tunes or not has nothing to do with their technique. But a person with bad technique will have a better time on a well tuned board. Plus most people tune in the evening, a time when they can not work on technique, so them tuning does not take any time away from working on technique. Your first point makes no sense. If you keep your gear maintained, most people will do fine by running a course stone over their edges and it will make a differance. To put things in a perspective you may understand. I ride mtn. bikes often in the summer. I by no means am a competitive bike racer, but I do like it very much. When by derailure is out of adjustment or "tune" my bike shifts like crap. Yes I can still ride it, I will enjoy riding it more if I tune it. Yes Lance Armstrong (yes Lance rides Mtn. bikes very fast he was 2nd place in the Ledville 100 last summer) can still beat me on a poorly adjusted Huffy even if I'm on the best bike in the world. Does this mean I should work more on my fitness and not care if my shifting is not adjusted properly? Or should I take the 30 seconds to adjust the barrell adjuster and fine "tune" things, then go riding? A properly maintained machine allows a person to perform better regardless of the individuals ability. Will a good tune turn someone into a World Cupper? NO. But it will help that person perform better on their equipment.