SunSurfer

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.

Thaw/freeze cycles in peak season have been a routine part of NZ snow sports for 20 years. We have just had a major ski field essentially go bankrupt for lack of snow. This is despite it being a significant tourist drawcard and focus for local small businesses and receiving significant financial loan support from our national government (federal equivalent). Global heating is deniable only by the intellectually dishonest. My response to this is political, and personal. Look at the images provided by the Hubble and James Webb telescopes. The space even just in our galaxy around us is incredibly hostile to human life. There is no Planet B available to us.

/\ above. The boards design/construction plus the riding style made for a really twitchy nervous ride compared to the ride of boards made in the last 5 years, ridden with a longer stance distance.

No surprise for those people who had their eyes open. RAL did not explicitly acknowledge climate change as a risk to their business in their annual reports. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/130146363/ruapehu-ski-field-crisis-a-climate-change-wakeup-call

That is peak snow sports season on a field that was opened in 1978.

Ruapehu Alpine Lifts goes into voluntary administration. This is the operator of 2 commercial ski fields in the North Island of New Zealand. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/300710275/ruapehu-skifield-operator-placed-in-voluntary-administration

This explains why inward canting can feel more natural with lower binding angles, but also how the need for cant and lift changes as your angles change. It also has a reference to a thread on 3d printing binding cants, although for a different model binding.

My thought precisely. Or some company make soft boot bindings that actually provide 360 degree lower leg support?

Looking forward to being there and catching up with lots of people I haven't seen since the last Bomber SES/ATC! Well used to driving front wheel drive cars, and to the smooth driving technique needed on snowy/icy roads from my winter driving here in NZ. A gravel road is unfortunately NOT a sealed road and I have no wish to void any indemnity on a US hire car contract.