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Lucidcarving.forumotion now shows up on Google searches. I registered the site at Google yesterday which is a recommended way of getting a website found.

While Bomber exists, Lucid is insurance. My own suspicion is that one day, quite soon, I'll try to log in here and get the dreaded 404 Not Found error.

Bump! The number of people logging in is growing. Make sure you have created a link to the backup forum. When I last Google searched for the new Lucid forum it wasn't showing up, so being able to find it easily that way isn't guaranteed yet.

The thought this post recorded didn't work out like I planned.

Just checked the FAQs on Invision Community, the hosting service for BomberOnLine. Pricing to stay with Invision would be steep - https://invisioncommunity.com/buy Getting a download of the data is possible, but since Bomber has been paying for it there would need to be some kind of negotiation with the bankruptcy trustee/receiver. see "If I cancel, can I keep my IPS software?" in the FAQs on the same page.

Do you have a link for that news?

Thanks Jack, good for a defined fall-back position to be well known.

IF, and it's a big if, the Bomber Forum was to stop running without notice, looking to somewhere like Oldsnowboards (moderator) Facebook page for updates/ new beginnings might be a way forward. It would all depend on how many friends Bryan thinks he could cope with! Something like that would be a way to regroup and build something new. I would hate to lose contact with all the people here.

I went through the process of ordering a Nirvana Energy with Bruce in late 2016. One of Bruce's comments was that the Nirvana designs' length sweet spot was the 174cm. You would need to talk to Bruce to find out whether the Nirvana concept would translate to both a shorter length and SCR. That said, you could probably buy 3 Coilers for the price of 2 metal Doneks. Bruce is an artist. Plenty of people here will tell you how Bruce produced the board they didn't know they wanted, how he essentially, in the conversation before the design was finalised, read their mind and produced something they loved. Bruce has started to talk about retiring in the last year or so. How much longer you'll be able to order one of his works of art is unclear. NB:Disclaimer: I own 3 Coilers, 0 Doneks.

Unlike J Bay, there are no big hungry munchies in Conwy!

Depends what you liked about the Head fit. Have you actually tried on a pair of the 700s? I'm a similar shape to you, 6'0" and 180lbs. I started off in Deeluxe 325s and needed more forefoot width and better heel hold. The Head Stratos Pros I bought gave me the width, and adequate heel hold with some modification. When the Heads started to crack & fail I transitioned to UPZ RC10s, (2016 model with the gull wing tongue). Bought mine during the off season sale at UPZ Canada in the same size as my Heads (mondo 29.0 - 29.5). The forefoot width was fine and the heel width a good fit for my relatively narrow (compared to my forefoot) heel. Quite a number of RC10 users have rapidly gone to aftermarket liners and for a range of reasons I've done the same. Although the UPZ doesn't fit the Bomber BTS there are equivalent aftermarket flex adjustment systems if you don't like what the boots come fitted with. I used BTS on my Heads, but have used the stock spring system on my UPZs. Hope you find a good fit in whatever you end up buying.

3 boards, out of the current 12 in the quiver, that will carve snow every season while I, and they, still function. From newest to oldest - 2017 Coiler Nirvana Energy, Titanal 0.4mm, P-Tex deck, 174 x 20cm, SCR 12/14m. It was love at the first turn. There's a reason this is the 4th Nirvana in this thread, and there I'm sure there will be lots more. If you haven't ridden one, if you get the chance try one! 2003-4 Hot Blast Slalom (Red) 160cm x 21cm, SCR 8.9m, with my own design & build isolation plate (hinge/hinge & slide). Edge hold and ability to carve a wide range of turn radii is like the Donek MK I rode at ATC 2017. Mid 1990's Riot Supercarve 178cm x 17cm waist. Effective edge 171cm. I think the SCR is about 12m. Bomber UPM mechanicals with a DIY plate core from a trashed F2 Eliminator with 3 layers unidirectional carbon fibre laminate, shaped to cope with the narrow waist. I keep coming back to this board. It was the one I first really carved linked turns on and as my skills improve it performs better and better.

Jack, that is almost, almost, too beautiful to ride!

Not damp, as in "wetter", more as in "damping ratio" (see below). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping_ratio I haven't ridden a board I thought was overdamped. Possibly a custom raceboard might be overdamped (and also overly stiff) for a weekend warrior. The metal in most boards seems to have been Titanal 0.3mm https://www.amag.at/en/our-aluminium/sporting-consumer-products/sporting-goods/amag-titanalr.html but recently, due to supply issues, Bruce Varsava @ Coiler has been working with 0.4mm Titanal. I own a 2017 Nirvana Energy with 0.4mm Titanal, and my experience with it at ATC 2017, and that of other more experienced riders, is that this thickness seems to also add to the torsional rigidity of the board, i.e. the edge hold is a step up from the equivalent 0.3mm Nirvana. Mine soaks up the bumps so well that though I ride many of my other boards with a full isolation plate, I'm very happy to ride this Nirvana without.

Picked up my Nirvana Energy .4mm Titanal 174cm 12-14m SCR with a black P-tex top at ATC this year and white Coiler logo. Love at the first turn....... Look at the front of Coilers updated site (link above).

It would be funny, except that the burning crosses and lynchings were real. And in today's America the same attitudes are still widely held. Time to change the subject back to carving.

Tanglefoot, factor in that hard boots are ridden from angles of around 0 degrees on wider boards right up to 90 degrees on skwals. The way lateral and fore/aft motion are needed varies accordingly. At one extreme fore/aft flex weights the board edge, at the other lateral flex weights the board edge. And in the transition zone between, where most of us ride, both styles of edge weighting have their followers. Both the cant and lift that bindings are set up with, and board flex as it carves a turn, create pressures, and discomfort, on our feet, ankles and lower legs. The appropriate cant and lift in the "at rest" position and full isolation plates vastly reduce these pressures. For the greatest control, and comfort, both the riders style and boot/binding set-up must be consistent. Trying to ride out of the side of your boots with a set-up that suits heel/toe riding will be an exercise in discomfort and frustration.

I'm going to appeal to reason here rather than make a vehemence based argument. So I won't be SHOUTING! But I am listening to and considering what others say. Corey noted above that lifting weights makes him puffed. (So does Usain Bolt at the end of a 200m sprint, which takes him just a tad under 20 seconds). Corey has posted a video in the past of him riding a Donek Rev 163? at his closest hill, a low altitude slope that takes between 20-40 seconds to run. teach likens a carving run to a series of repeat lowish weight squats. That strikes me as a reasonable parallel. he doesn't say how long those repeats go on for. teach also notes above that after more weights and less cardio that hiking (sustained exercise) at elevation was much harder this year. We'll assume that not just 'cause he's got older and decrepit. --------------------- To an illustration of the different requirements for strength and endurance lets look at another area of predominantly lower body exercise of various durations, running track. The distances vary between 100 and 10,000 metres. The durations of the exercise vary from less than 10 seconds to just over 26 minutes. The sprinters, doing the 100 & 200m, do a lot of weight training, looking for explosive acceleration. Endurance is not an absolute necessity for them. 800 metres and above are absolutely endurance races, with muscle strength needed, but the duration of the event requires substantial cardiovascular stamina for success. The current record for 800m is around 1 minute 40+ seconds. For these duration events and longer, endurance training is a key part of preparation. The transition, speaking as someone who raced track as a teenager, is the 400m. The first 200m sprint is easy, the next 50m is tough, and then after that it's full blown lactic acidosis agony (aerobic supply capacity exceeded, anaerobic lactic acid production) to the finish before you feel like vomiting on the grass beside the track. Human bodies can only sustain peak exertion for very short periods of time, due to the energy sources used. For sustained exertion aerobic capacity (the ability to transport oxygen to your muscle mitochondria, the cell's power station) is the key to sustained high performance. So if Corey rides only his little hill, he'll be fine with just his weights. He will develop some cardiovascular fitness, but more importantly he'll have some really strong muscles to pull some really deep carves, and make his short duration ride hill as much fun as it possibly can be. But when February rolls around and he makes a carver's pilgrimage to Aspen's long runs, he'll be puffed, and sitting in the snow catching his breath because he doesn't have the endurance for a run that takes several minutes of sustained carving. Both strength and aerobic capacity are needed by track athletes. The proportions of weights and cardio, and the ideal body type and muscle development vary with the duration of the event. It's not one or the other. It's finding the right balance of both. Maybe we should follow teach's illustration, and off season train with lowish weight squat repetitions every 3-5 seconds for up to 5-8 minutes at a time.

Hamstring tightness, by tethering my pelvis and placing more strain on my lower back muscles, has just prevented me from going on my planned week long snowboard trip this winter. Severe lower back muscle spasm was the result. I have known of a very powerful hamstring stretch for years, but not used it with anything like the regularity I should. After this event that has now changed. To do the stretch lie on your back on the floor just before a doorway. Place one foot as high as you can up the door frame. Keep the other leg straight, through the doorway, on the floor. This keeps your pelvis flat and isolates the stretch to the hamstring. Importantly it also prevents strain on my lower back. As your flexibility improves gradually move your butt closer to the door frame. When I began my raised leg would be at about 45 degrees to my body, now I'm closer to 70. My aim is 90 consistently. As I get older I need to work harder to maintain the range of movement needed for snowboarding.

Or you could try this Not sure I'd recommend it though!

Video title says it all!

That's the way to sell it to the other half! "Honey, if I go to Aspen to ride with the ATC crew I'll come back sleek and trim." ;-)

Riding fitness is one part of the equation. Drinking and eating enough while you ride is important as well. Even piling in the calories and fluids I usually lose weight when I've come to SES/ATC.

I have to disagree with Joe about the need for cardio, especially if you are a sea-level dweller who is coming to ride at Aspen or similar altitude resorts. The oxygen level on Aspen's mountains is only about 2/3 that at sea level so you'd better have your oxygen transport systems in shape if you want to ride hard. https://www.higherpeak.com/altitudechart.html That said, I live at sea level, I turned 58 just after ATC 2017 and was turning in repeated 10,000+ vertical metre (33,000+ feet) days during the week before and the week of ATC without problems, and I don't stop for the rest day. My cardio and quads exercise includes hill climb repeats on my road bike as well as long rides year round. I haven't made weights part of my fitness routine, I enjoy being outside in the New Zealand sunshine and scenery too much! As I get older stretches and core strengthening are a growing part of my routine in order to keep my stiff back functioning enough to be able to reach the cable release for my Intec heels!

Like the photo. Will it go on the wall at your office next the diplomas during the off season? That would blow a few patients minds!