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  2. New Board Porn 2013-14

    in Carving Central

    Posted · Edited by Puddy Tat

    New Coiler just arrived today!

    NSR 185cm/14-17SCR/20cm waist. Ghost Green Topsheet. Built for a 215 lb rider.

    It's currently sitting in my living room, giving me the "you're not man enough" eye. I'm going to have to tie this one down just to get the bindings on it.

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    My crappy photo doesn't do this board justice.

    Dave

  8. Help me evaluate if I need more setback

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    If its relevant, my angles are 46F, 36R.

    Maybe it is maybe it isn't I guess it would depend on your technique. I know the PureCarve guys ride with much lower angles. But perhaps they ride with more of a rotating,or rotated style?

    Anyway it occurred to my that if I tried to ride, with my style,with your stance angles my weight shift would be diagonally across the board rather than along it because of where the ankle joint in the boots would direct my center of mass as I flexed the boot at that joint.

    Incidentally don't let the angles of your bindings dictate what you can or can't do. The more you ride with whatever angles and equipment you like the better you will get. I consider myself pretty intermediate in hardboots but I'll jump turn the Incline (50F/45R) down off piste double black steeps I've taken the Schtubby (60F/55R) through moguls, and done nose rides on it. I've found as your angles steepen skidding a board, or flipping it around in a jump turn, starts to come from your rear hip.

    Definitely get out to ECES. At a minimum it will let you see what is possible. The first time I went to NES I considered giving up and going back to softies because the reality check was so substantial. I stuck with it, changed my equipment (softening my boots), and changed my technique (unlearning a huge number of bad habits that I wasn't even aware I had), and now I can actually hang with them when I go down there. I've still got a ways to go but it's feeling better every year.

    Cheers,

    Dave

  9. Help me evaluate if I need more setback

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    The Fuego test is BS in my opinion. It's probably fun to drink 2 boxes of wine and play with your board, but if you can't get the board to tip over at 90 degrees to the slope, then there is no need to be at those high of binding angle to support the test case. And even if you could get up on edge, you would still have boot drag since the board edge would be cutting into the snow to provide a surface for the edge and base to ride on.

    Well I dunno. I've had, as Corey once described it, a spectacularly craptasic day when my boot cuff was hitting the snow and levering the edge out of the snow on heelside turns. My boot cuff is six inches above the board edge. Since that point I've used a box, or carpenter's angle, to ensure the boot is inside the board edge. Strangely no problems since then.

    Personally I was unzipping my rear pocket my forward facing hip in heelside turns last year. I also find the board tends to get pretty vertical to the snow especially when you cut hard on steeper pitches.

    Cheers,

    Dave

  12. Help me evaluate if I need more setback

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    Question for you on the below statement, makes me wonder if I have the wrong definition of setback. If you increase setback, wouldn't that mean you're shifting the stance rear-ward, and in so doing making it even easier to fold the nose?

    I'm not an expert on this by any means. And we are both thinking of shifting setback the same way. I've had this conversation with Sean (Donek) and he thinks of it the same way you do. That is to say "that the length of the board in front of your foot is a lever that you are acting on."

    That viewpoint is counter-intuitive to me so I think of it as below; which gives an opposite result. I could definitely be wrong here (and I think Sean has a much better ability to describe this than I do).

    The Carver's Almanac seems to agree with what I'm saying. I think of it as how easy it will be to get my weight forward. With a shorter nose (less setback) I can more easily get my weight onto the nose and initiate a turn. If it's easier to get my weight forward I can too easily get my weight to far forward and fold the nose. If it's hard to initiate a turn I'm having a difficult time getting my weight forward because my stance is set too far back.

    Dave

  13. Help me evaluate if I need more setback

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    thanks Dave. Good question, especially since I have mondo 31 boots. I had Sean build my board with a 26cm waist :o.

    Oh ok that makes sense. It also gives another reason why the board looks comparatively "short" (beyond you being 6'3" that is :rolleyes:) . Do you still pass the Fuego test with your binding angles on that then?

    When you get a chance you should jump on something narrower. Maybe around 21-22cm. Narrow waisted boards make ridiculously fast edge transitions. While I wouldn't recommend you jump on a 18cm waisted board with a mondo 31 boot; with my mondo 28s I was on a 167cm Sims Burner with an 18cm waist one time that felt like it switched edges at the speed of thought. Made for an amazingly fun ride.

    If you can get out to an expression session. Here's the link to ECES on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/East-Coast-Expression-Session/174167805963323). Getting to ride with people at NES who really knew what they were doing changed my entire outlook on the equipment and technique I was using. It was a huge eye opener and completely changed the way I ride.

    Cheers,

    Dave

  14. Help me evaluate if I need more setback

    in Carving Central

    Posted · Edited by Puddy Tat

    Honestly I'm not sure I agree. I think LDP on a skateboard is a sport of ongoing tweaking. I'm a free carver and have never raced I'm 6'2 and 220+lbs riding mondo 28 boots.

    I use TD3 SIs with 3 degree cants front and rear. For me I generally center my 20" 'ish wide stance on whatever board I'm riding with the toe and heel lifted and outward canting until I'm comfortable. I'm bowlegged and without outward canting I get shin pain. Then I set my angles such that they are just inside the board edge using the Fuego method (http://www.extremecarving.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7172).

    Then I just go out and ride. I'll only adjust setback after that if I'm folding the nose (too heavy for the board - increase setback), or completely unable to initiate a carve (too light for the board - decrease setback). Generally speaking any board that I've purchased from Donek (Sean) or Coiler (Bruce) that has been built for my weight I've just set up with a centred stance and it's ridden like a dream.

    BTW how are you getting away with stance angles that low on an alpine board? I'm pretty close to your height and in order to keep my boots within the board edges I have to run 50F/45R on a Donek Incline with a 24.5cm waist. On a 21cm Schtubby I'm 60F/55R and on a 19.6cm Prior WCRM (R.I.P.) I was using 65F/60R.

    Cheers,

    Dave

  15. Girls first board (kids)

    in Want to Buy

    Posted

    Thanks, A 126 might be too stiff for a 60#er...according to Burton. Their specs say that the Chicklet has a convex base. Does yours have a flat base?

    Based on your account I do think a flat base would be better in my case. I'll keep looking for a smaller board with a flat base...if they make one!

    FWIW I seem to recall my daughters went to the Feelgood smalls 125cm board at around 60 (something) pounds. Both of my daughters were pretty tiny so the board was closer to their eyebrows in length when they first started riding it. Neither had any difficulty even though they were slightly under, or at the bottom of the weight range for the board. Both could already ride snowboards when they went to those particular decks though.

    The weight range of the board was something I thought about though it didn't seem to have as much of an effect as was worried about.

    Dave

  16. Girls first board (kids)

    in Want to Buy

    Posted · Edited by Puddy Tat

    One of my daughters only used the chicklet for maybe half a season, and then I got her on a flat based board. The other one started on a flat based board. Both girls are currently riding Burton Feelgoods in 125 and 135cm lengths. They weigh 74 and 85lbs respectively.

    I found with the convex base that it was a little easier for the second daughter to learn, but she rapidly out grew the boards capabilities and when she came into the flats at speed the board would saucer out from underneath her as should couldn't get an edge in. This would invariably result in her catchi her edge at speed.

    We also didn't use the single strap bindings from Burton, but went to K2 Kat bindings. Both of my daughters are using the Gnu Park binding this season (I had to special order a 3D disc for it though).

    Sorry didn't notice that this was in the WTB section.

    Dave.

  22. Castle Mountain

    in Canada - Alberta

    Posted

    Never been to Castle. I personally spend most of the winter up at Sunshine.

    Most of the carvers in Calgary go to Nakiska, which is phenomenal for carving on, especially mid-week.

    If you are in town you should definitely come to Naskiska for NES on Jan 10-12.

    Dave

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