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There are other threads recording failure at the UPM inserts. I have a 2012 build Coiler NSR 180cm with UPM inserts that failed non-catastrophically at the same point as Nitro's Donek. In correspondence with BV he's clearly had the same issue occur with other boards and recognises that these extra inserts in a thinner part of a boards core are weak spots. He discouraged me from getting UPM inserts in the replacement board I bought from him. The buyer should beware, especially buying 2nd hand boards with UPM/AllFlex inserts.

Helvetica Now? Since there are different ideas about what a spade is, if you really want to derail this thread show them the difference between Aussie and Brazilian thongs!

Apart from a sense of adventure, is there a rationale for this?

Was not unexpected. Talked with some people who were good friends with him during my time in Aspen in Feb this year about the great memories they had of carving snowboards with him at Buttermilk.

You'll need someone to make him lie still while you fix him.

You could get implants!

Pictures of Left handed 3D design built in TinkerCAD. Matching Right handed version. .stl files available on request. Minor problem. Local commercial 3D printing company quoted me over $500 per hand to print them in Nylon 12. http://3dprint-nz.com/3d-printing/3d-printer-materials/ My "found item" construction method suddenly looks a whole lot more reasonable.

To quote/paraphrase someone's signature here "Trenches don't lie". No real difference between us. "Lots of spray" is subjective. Joerg Egli in a body dragging, edge grabbing, Pureboarding style turn is, for me, a good example of lots of spray and the turn not being cleanly carved. Example from around 3:25 to 3:40 in the video below, and the second turn clearly shows the squiggly "trench" left behind. Earlier in the video are lots of much more cleanly carved Pureboarding turns, short and with modest amounts of spray. @Calle loved your photo sequence.

That would be Richard Knapp. He's come to a number of SES/ATC and taught a range of clinics from beginner through to advanced skills. I credit Richard's teaching with me making real progress in my riding during the 2015 session.

Nic(r-typo)e promo for Kessler. (?all 168s?)

You've watched/read the material Autodesk provides?

The secrets of sports recovery https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/apr/21/the-secrets-of-sports-recovery?

Causing an outburst of fat shaming wasn't my aim. Even lean cyclists know the cheapest way to lose total weight from bicycle and rider is to lose rider weight. Chris Froome is seriously LEAN. I deal with the consequences of Western calorie rich diets every day in my work as a doctor. For me, obesity is a health issue that robs, the person trapped inside, opportunity and length of life.

That's the carving equivalent of wearing Speedos away from the training/racing swim pool.

Just don't be physically concentrated with that!

Some of that is power to weight ratio, as well as optimising the rest of the design to take advantage of the P-to-W ratio. Where I come from the Harley Davidsons are mostly ridden by nutritionally accomplished people. Whereas Valentino Rossi and his machine are both a litttle leaner.

@1xsculler I had made some measurements through the sole of my UPZs that when I calculated the slope for the whole sole length came out at 6 degrees. I more recently came across an X-ray image of a foot in a UPZ boot and measured a heel to ball of foot zeppa angle of 11 degrees. I ride a 6 degree toe lift under my front UPZ RC10 and find this is both comfortable and allows me a relatively long stance distance (182cm tall, 56cm stance C-to-C). Unless I walk around barefoot, or wearing Birkenstock sandals, the majority of my footwear has a heel higher than the forefoot. Not sure that we need to be completely flat under the front foot, but I do need to compensate for my front foot being substantially in front (relative to my pelvis) of my rear foot with my roughly 60 degree stance angles.

https://doi.org/10.1139/p04-010 Or this article from the Canadian Journal of Physics. "The ideal carving equation and its applications." A key concept is that there is a maximum speed for any SCR where a carving turn can hold without skidding. The longer the SCR the higher the speed.

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Found a 4 video hard boot snowboarding intermediate to advanced skills instruction series, not sure if the speakers language is Japanese or Korean. The riders skill drill set is impressive, opened my eyes to quite a few things! The autotranslate captions setting on YouTube is kind of helpful in making the speakers intentions clearer. He has a range of other videos but they look like they're mostly aimed at softbooters. Anyone able to make accurate translations for these?

Absolutely. No one will ride with you!

Lots of instruction videos out there for softbooters wanting to carve in softboots, even extreme carve in softboots. I'm really after instruction videos for hardbooters.

Update on my immediately previous post. Found this xray image of a foot in a UPZ RC boot on the kimcarving blog site. A little work in Powerpoint shows an effective ramp/zeppa angle of 11 degrees. Looking at the xray that's the slope between the heel and the ball of the foot. Forward of the ball the boot sole flattens out. Thanks @daveo , followed up your hint below.

Korean carving blog link. https://m.blog.naver.com/PostList.nhn?blogId=kimcarving Lots of links/photos/videos to stuff I've struggled to find elsewhere. A treasure trove of stuff for off-season stoking.

The German riders are doing well in their races, but they're getting sloppy with the end caps on their FES plates. See detail closeup from Selena Joerg's board @ Secret Garden. Photo from the FIS SmugMug site.