SunSurfer

I'll be waiting for next season's BarryJ thread "I should have bought UPZ!"

If you are more visually oriented this may help you understand the interaction between your body shape and your boots/bindings/stance. https://youtu.be/mBTTJMo6Me4 The video lays out what canting is, what lift is and why you might need either. It also contains a link to an ASB thread on 3d printing binding wedges. I have homemade binding wedges on my F2 Intec bindings. I made mine from exterior plywood with a sheath of fibreglass cloth/resin which I already had in my garage. Buying a second set of F2 wedges may be the fastest/simplest option.

I know that many recommend the Booster inside the tongue but I ride with my Booster straps outside the plastic tongue. Would that help the discomfort?

As another experimenter, I'll congratulate anyone who has the courage to show their experimental setups. The riders look relatively short for a 53cm stance (watch the vid with English captions). Lots of rear heel lift will make a long stance feel less stretched out. But the extreme canting also drives the riders rear knee forward and across the board towards the heelside, and the other knee. The resulting stance seems dysfunctional to me, with twist and slope of the rear leg forcing the rider to put most of their weight onto the front foot. The design of the cant/lift may have utility for someone trying to correct for one short leg or with significant skeletal misalignment.

@TopboostMaybe you could try searching the Forums for "hand armour".

Compare the angle of pull of the ankle level buckle for the Mountain Slope vs. the UPZ RCR 2023. My view is that the heel hold down in the rear boot is likely to be better with the MS boot due to this difference. The original Northwave .951 shell didn't suit my wide forefoot. (I've not had the chance to try an MS shell of the appropriate size). I've modified my rear UPZ RC 10 2016 shell to change the angle of the ankle buckle to more like the MS/Northwave with improved rear heel hold down the result. The UPZ shell does suit my foot with a wide forefoot and narrow heel. The UPZ shell also takes Intec/FinTec heels which is a requirement for me given my aging and inflexible hamstrings and lower back. Given the limited array of boot choices you have, any boot upgrade will be a compromise between factors that are modifiable and choice factors that are non-negotiable for the individual rider.

@pow4evero Compare your Mountain Slopes to your previous boots that presumably worked well. Both sole ramp angle and heel position are significant variables that may affect your relative position to the board edge. I've just been trying to find a thread where @Coreytalks about the technique things he reminds himself of when his riding isn't going the way it used to. New season and new equipment not riding well makes it a good time to remind oneself of the foundation of technique. Merry Christmas from NZ.

Illustrates at least one reason for "wind holds" on chairlift operations. A detachable chair, loaded with one person, generating a twisting force during a gust and detaching prematurely. Great the rider skied away unhurt, but operators everywhere are likely to take note and reduce their wind safety range for operating.

So many different possible reasons for knees to hurt that others experiences count for little in solving an individuals pain. Arthritic worn out knee Damaged meniscus inside knee Damaged ligaments inside and around knee Overweight (well known in medical circles that losing weight markedly improves knee pain) Poor quads strength Knee too flexed when under strain (saddle too low on a bike / trying to get too low on a board / front boot flexed too far forward) causing pain behind kneecap Misalignment of binding canting/boots/rider causing ligament strain and lateral knee pain. Etc.

The plate takes your mass and transfers the points at which it is applied to the board to the axle positions. If all your mass is placed in the middle of the board then the maximum flexion occurs. If the axles were at the very tip and tail of the board there would effectively zero deflection. Having the front axle under the ball of your front foot and the rear axle equidistant from the effective edge centre is probably the minimum functional interaxle distance. Any shorter and you'll likely start to feel like you are on a diving board with your front foot. By all means experiment with going longer and shorter, gain your own personal experience, and see what you prefer. You could also try putting the non-sliding axle under your front foot. Conventional plate setups put the sliding axle at the front, but the plate still allows the board to flex freely with either orientation.

@ktvYYour photo shows the axles of the plate are mounted under your bindings. Having the axles at least slightly outside the centre of each binding means you won't feel like you're riding on a diving board. The further the plate axles are apart, the greater the length of board midsection that has its torsion resistance increased. The further the axles are apart, the less the board will flex along its length under turn loading for a rider of any given weight.

I thought the U was supposed to be Universal not Unique!

Bruce has been building boards with 0.4mm Titanal since at least the beginning of 2017 and will have a very good understanding now of how it performs compared to 0.3. I have owned from new a Jan 2017 build Coiler Nirvana Energy Torsion+ built with 0.4mm Titanal.

Still room for humans then. It also scans better than the chatGPT effort. NSFW or children --- An alpine snowboarder named Gin Hard on, laid out, turns was carvin' The female instructor Will say that he f****d her "So deep!" in the trench he was in.

where the board is perfectly "stuck in a rut" the whole way down.

https://www.steamboatpilot.com/explore-steamboat/aussies-help-winter-sports-club-reverse-drop-in-membership/ Given the lack of training facilities in Australia quite a number of Australians have made use of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club in the USA. Thedo Remmelink is/was the alpine snowboard coach there. My memory is that there was an Aussie alpine boarder training there for a while but I can't recall his name. Others may be able to recall who it was. The path you want to go on is really expensive as well as competitive. Hope you are able to make your dream happen.

Dear Mr Wintergold, I write on behalf of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Action Cameras, to protest in the strongest possible terms about your latest video.....

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2022/nov/29/why-laax-could-be-switzerlands-greenest-ski-town? "Last day" at Laax predicted to be in April 2056.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-world-cups-new-high-tech-ball-will-change-soccer-forever/ I was intrigued reading this piece about the hitech ball and other systems in use at the current football World Cup.

I would say there isn't a fundamental difference. Snowboard carving a turn implies the board balanced on edge, tracking along its length against the sidewall of a groove/trench cut in the snow. That can be achieved on a wide board or a narrow board. It can be achieved with hard boots or soft boots. Binding design/setup needs to mesh with the riders skills and technique for any combination of board design and boot type. Torsionally stiffer boards are generally easier to carve because less rider input is needed to keep the edge angle consistent along the length of the board. Boot/binding setups of either type with boot overhang at the edge will be limited in high on edge the board can be successfully carved. But it's very clear from all the videos of "Softboot carving worth watching" that hard boot setups are not the only way to carve great turns.

Agree that the descriptions of his behaviour sound awful. Plenty of great performers are far from perfect people.

RIP JLL

Currently using the 3rd iteration shown. The whole thread the post comes from illustrates the range of issues/opinions around touching the snow, protecting hands/wrists etc in falls etc. This is it in use in August this year. I mostly ride without touching the snow, and just occasionally touch down. The profile shape glides smoothly across the snow.

My Hestra Heli 3 finger gloves, first used Jan 2016, are still going strong inside my hand armour (helmets for my hands). No upper limb injuries in falls since I fractured the index finger on my dominant hand at Aspen Highlands in Feb 2013 and decided I needed better protection than the wrist guards I was wearing at the time. My hands are essential to how I make my living.

Not just billionaires though Peter Theil is the most politically hypocritical one our government has let in (extreme right wing advocate essentially bought a bolt hole residency in what he would probably describe as a socialist society). Amongst our friends are an American couple who have recently gained NZ residency.