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Sounds like a need for some recommendations for suitable freeware tools for the Apple world from, and there must be some, people here who have solved this problem already.

Great raw footage. Shooting vids of your riding buddies is such a good thing to be able to do. Would be even better with some form of stabilisation run over it. Freeware options include http://www.virtualdub.org/download.html https://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm I use this software myself. Lots of online resources to give you tips to get good results with VirtualDub & the Deshaker plugin, including YouTube vids.

I "found my feet" in @ Cardrona in August 2018 and embedded what I'd learned in Aspen in February 2019. A Kessler 162 works pretty well in a NASTAR course. http://skiracing.nastar.com/index.jsp?pagename=results&page=comp&compid=830957 I also learned that there are some Thirsts that even alcohol cannot quench.

As I watched these I was struck by how the racers generally are much less in the - style on heelsides than was the case a few years back. Is racing technique evolving?

CASI Softboot Instruction/Instructors Playlists from CASIACMS YouTube Channel Level 1: Level 2: Level 3: CASI Tips (English et Francais): PSIA-AASI How to Snowboard Playlist

Trying to bring together a YouTube playlist with useful instruction videos. "Instruction Videos - Snowboard Carving" is one of the series of playlists on my YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbFkVPcmsd5oH-Oe0s3LEMw/playlists Includes some SES Clinic videos, Marc Cirigliano's race technique series, and one of the Russian extreme carving tutorials. Suggestions of videos you've found useful gratefully received. I will add suitable ones to the playlist. Edit: After suggestions both as PMs and the vids below, have split some videos off for things like Pure Boarding, Swoard & Doctorfilm.RU Extreme Carving, and examples of + & - heelside styles.

Follow cam section shows pretty consistent slarving / wide track on heelside. Nose cam shows what your Right knee, the knee on the outside of your heelside turn is doing. Deliberately bringing my Right knee, on the outside of my heelside turn , towards the inside of the turn helped me solve that same slarving problem. Same effect could be produced by trying to make it feel like you've put your weight on the left hand side of both of your feet.

Next you'll give up the beer and go "on the wagon"!

@bryandifrancesco You wrote that you wanted to "carve amazing turns" having watched others do it. What kind of "amazing" do you want to start with? Just leaving clean C's behind you as you freecarve the mountain? Getting really low with the sides of your trousers and forearms on the snow? Full blown body dragging Eurocarve /Vitelli turns? Pureboarding style as per Joerg Egli? Race carving through a NASTAR course or similar? Your answer will help others help you get there faster.

Skiing, cos I was riding a chairlift wearing skis when I saw my first carver. And I was always into trying to make carved turns even back when a GS ski was over 200cm long. Skateboarding only a nose behind because I was always more at home on my slalom and downhill boards than my ramp/halfpipe boards.

For 3 or 6 degree lift may have to go the custom build route (3D printing option?). The standard set provide about 4 degrees lift +/- 3 degrees canting.

9 degree cant disc, offset to binding baseplate, is a solution for appropriate lift and outward cant combo for skwal riders.

@bigwavedave Rode Pat Chouinard's Thirst Superconductor at Snowmass recently. They're resonant rather than damp, and that's quite a roar they make! Quite a contrast to my stealthy P-Tex topped Coiler Nirvana.

Like @daveo interested to know year of manufacture, days of riding estimate, any serious crashes? I had a 2012 Coiler NSR 180cm fail at its' outermost nose UPM inserts, fortunately not catastrophically, but a noticeable crimp became visible. Bruce Varsava told me that every extra insert creates an extra weak point so it's an issue board makers are aware of. AllFlex mounts are in even thinner parts of the board core. Given both of those things builders are now presumably reinforcing those areas to reduce the failure risk. On that basis, and that of material use fatigue, older boards with plate specific inserts are presumably at greater risk and should be inspected regularly. Thanks for posting @nitro and hoping your recovery goes smoothly and quickly.

Love fresh groom videos. They make the long hot days if summer almost bearable. Love the gradation of movement in your body as you ride. The slo-mo shows that even on fresh groom the board is flicking and twitching in response to the surface, even though the carve tracks are very clean. You show a great + position on both heelside and toe, allowing your legs to flex at hip and knee and absorb the board's movement. Your trunk is beautifully steady and because of the great suspension action in your legs effectively isolated from the movement below. Smoooooooth as @Lurch wrote. And despite handling the camera on a selfie pole you still make almost no unnecessary movements with your arms. A video like that gives me plenty to aim for next time I'm riding.

Lateral flex is useful if you need to absorb shocks from side to side, across your pelvis, because you're using a - stance on your heelside. Stiff boots useful for the same reason, that you want to "lock" that edge angle on heelside. I suspect that I am more of EBs mind. The + stance for heelside with edge pressure through the soles of the feet benefits from laterally stiff bindings and because of the different alignment of the pelvis relative to the direction of motion, allows more effective suspension while maintaining an accurate edge angle. I've said before that Vic Wild and Ester Ledecka both ride more + on heelside than many other racers. I think Justin Reiter may kill the goose that lays the golden eggs if he manages to coach Ester to change to more - position, as he stated to me in a Facebook conversation.

@daveoInstead of using an argument that appeals to the authority of a gold medal winner, why not go back to first principles, using that mathematical mind of yours, and consider the force vectors that bumps and ruts might produce to act upon a rider's centre of mass while they carve their board at 40+km/hr. Then think again about how bodies absorb those forces by using muscle tension and joint movement. You just might come up with a different answer than the "received wisdom" of current race technique.

The video @AcousticBoarder referred to doesn't do quite what they say. It shows how rider shape/size, stance distance and binding angles interact together to make it likely a that rider will benefit from varying amounts of lift and canting. For many riders body shapes, a reasonable stance width for them will mean that binding angles around 60 degrees should need front toe lift, rear heel lift, and no canting. But blanket recommendations of that angle/lift/cant combo for every rider is an oversimplification. Working through the process described in the video is designed to individualise a riders setup so it suits them. People come in different shapes and sizes, there's no setup that fits everyone.

Justin doesn't have proper starting grips, just 4x4 inch starting posts. He is racing on a stubbies course, and with a steepish drop off from the starting gate so that his competitor pushes only to start with her poles, then skates only the first gate to try to get additional speed. Still a remarkable performance on Justin's part. Learning to ski gate bash is my next step for improving my own NASTAR results. I have the body armour, just need the face protection.

Can vouch for the pleasure of riding with Bromada and crew. Extra thanks to Larry C and Curly for hints, tips and a great day at Buttermilk in early Feb. Alan (guy in red on the blacktop Coiler)

So @daveo , can we take it you didn't walk out empty handed?

Just imagining a video of this guy and Ryan Knapton ripping in concert!

Thanks for clarifying. Lift and cant adjustment are both useful in my view. I'm a fan of the Trench Digger design because of its' ability to provide incremental adjustment to both parameters. The recent creation of 3D print designs for F2 binding wedges, allowing precise cant and lift combinations, is a great advance.

Voted. Lift, but no cant, both bindings. I'm of the opinion that Rider physique Stance distance Binding angles Cant & lift requirements are all inter-related. To ask the question as you have is an over simplification. I have published the reasons why I hold this opinion as a YouTube video. A number of forum participants have written to me saying that my theory makes good sense. Links to the video have been posted multiple times already. Search for "binding angle secant curve" on YouTube to view it.

Straightlinin' Ted? I thought the point of this Forum was "THE TURN", or as Fin pointed out "One good turn deserves another." B TURN O