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SunSurfer

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  1. Anyone recognise this Oxygen snowboard, made in Austria, looks like cap construction from the images, which is up for sale in my home city in New Zealand. The seller is acting on behalf of her son and clearly knows nothing about it. All my InterNet searches have turned up no clues. I've run out of image space so I've posted the link to the NZ auction site, TradeMe.

    https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/sports/ski-board/snowboards/161-170cm/listing/4362987507

    I'm assuming from the brand and dimensions that it's probably either an all-mountain or powder board design that's been sitting in storage for a good few years. The price is low, so you could argue I should just take a chance. With 14 boards in my rack already (11 rideable) I don't want to add one more unless I'm actually going to do more than just try it!

    Many thanks for any info able to be given.

  2. For me, it will be fascinating to read actual rider's comparisons of
    a OneSki with a modern race ski underneath
    vs.
    an AllFlex plate with a modern race snowboard underneath. 

    (Sadly, I won't get to repeat my 2023 visit and attend MCC 2024)

    As Mike has noted above, the OneSki puts the riders mass effect exactly where the ski designer intended it to be. An AllFlex plate / snowboard combo spreads the riders mass effect, and plate induced torsion control over a much greater length of edge. Both allow the ski/board edge to flex along its whole length.

    Race ski vs. race snowboard - which has better edge hold and carving performance?

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  3. @Ladia You will almost certainly miss all of this Northern season, but that is major surgery and no matter how fit you were beforehand, it will take some months to recover even if things go smoothly. There is one hell of a lot of healing for your body to do. Your preop fitness will make a big and positive difference to the chances of a good recovery from the op. You will likely feel tired and lacking energy for quite a while as your body gets on with the work of repairing the surgical wound.

    Getting your head around managing a stoma and what's possible with a bag(s) will take a while.

    Wait and see how you are placed at the end of next summer before saying the carving part of your life is over. Best wishes

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  4. On 9/23/2023 at 2:38 AM, Jack M said:

    I don't believe the Oneski has a sliding axle, or any kind of movement like Allflex or Apex, in which case this consideration is less important/relevant.

    Find and look carefully at the exploded mechanism diagram.

  5. 5 hours ago, Mike Kildevaeld said:

    People do need to try ONESKI to understand it.  Not possible to explain the feel.....

    Actually, just looking at the mechanism images you've posted here and available on the OneSki website, I suspect most people here who have ridden a sliding axle isolation plate on an alpine snowboard will know pretty much what it feels like. And that's quite a few of us.

    The fundamental flaw in your design is the very short effective interaxle distance. Your axles are effectively between the bindings. On other plate designs that has given riders the feeling of being on a diving board!
    Fin's Bomber Boiler Plate axles were able to be outside the binding centres by some way.
    The current snowboard racer's plate of choice, AllFlex, has the sliding hinges at the ends of their plate well over 70cm apart.

    I'd also recommend you attend the Montucky Clear Cut. There are many riders on this Forum, who are far better riders than I am, who will be there and be able to really give your concept a proper test and comparison with modern construction alpine snowboards, with and without isolation plates.

  6. And the flight at the beginning of this thread just got topped.

    Top to bottom Red Bull Hardline 2023 MTB Downhill course.

    The Hardline, set in the Dyfi Valley in Wales is an incredibly hard, spectacular and technical course, with massive jumps and drops. Only the world's best riders are invited to compete. And to follow a rider down at race pace with an FPV drone is a challenge for the pilots flying skills, and the technology given the distance, speeds, and landscape.

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  7. @mike kildevaeldIf you are serious about trying to convert alpine boarders then you will need to create videos showing better carving performance before I personally would even begin to entertain the idea of a OneSki. And no allowance made made for your age, I'm 64 and can make my Coiler Contra 2023 alpine board carve better than you show in the linked OneSki video above. 

  8. GoPro frame grab from my August trip to the South Island, NZ. @ Roundhill Ski Area. Camera - Peter Clark
    I've filled up my image quota so you'll have to click the Imgur link.
    Our season coming to an end as spring's warmer weather arrives just as the very first snows are starting to land in North American resorts.

    https://imgur.com/a/jPllNOU

    Full video: (previously posted in RideBoard - Southern Hemisphere report on Roundhill)

     

     

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  9. 6 hours ago, leeho730 said:

    Personally I believe the writing’s on the wall for Australian ski fields. For me, I used to have a ski house in Methven so I’ll buy there again.

    @leeho730 Mt Hutt is busy mid week and bonkers busy at weekends in our shortening ski season. Rode there for 5 days this year during August. Managed to carve in shortish bursts with the traffic and rapidly lumped up snow.

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  10. I used and appreciated the old one.

    That said, with variable radius sidecuts common on modern carving boards and a greater understanding of how board flex/bend influences turn shape as the board gets higher on edge, the average sidecut of a board doesn't tell as much as people once thought it did.

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  11. Been riding with a snowboarder's version of heavy duty ski pole punch guards for 8 years after a finger fracture. In heavy, thicker snow they can catch a little if I touch down but on the majority of hardboot carveable snow they just slide over the surface if I touch down for whatever reason. So far all the carvers who have seen me using them are too cool to be seen wearing "knuckle-draggers". But the type of protection they provide might have saved both the shoulders in the 2 posts above.

    Current version in use below.

     

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  12. Maybe try some smaller ski areas near you, you might find a hidden gem. I did!
    Found good grooming, Green through Dark Blue slope gradients, minimal slope traffic so that I can carve all day with minimal fear of being collided with, reasonable season pass prices especially as I qualify for their Seniors discount next year, and all in one place. Good enough slopes for the USA ski team to train there over the Northern summer.

     

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  13. View not as steady as I'd like. Inadvertently shot with in-camera stabilisation OFF, then rescued in post with Da Vinci Resolve. I'm the rider, board is a Coiler Contra 173, 10.5m SCR, MCC 2023 demo.

     

  14. Just finished my 3rd day here and finding it hard to wipe the smile off my face.

    Roundhill is a smallish field serviced by 2 T-bars, and a rope tow (nutcracker required) for some serious off piste steeps for skiers. But look past the T-bars and see at least 5 different pistes that are wide, well groomed, and of ideal gradients for carvers wanting to progress from the absolute beginner slope.

    Today I rode with more hardbooters than I have ever seen together in NZ. There would have been between 10-15, a mix of Koreans, 3 Kiwis, and Russian guy who is working in NZ at present. To make the point the Koreans were part of a snowboard school, with riders of widely varying ages and abilities.

    And despite it being a weekend and like other places, horrendously busy at the major resorts, there was little traffic and the longest I queued for a lift ride would have been 5 minutes. Advantages of being a little off the beaten track and relatively small. To give you a taste....

     

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  15. 7 hours ago, philw said:

    Hence my question: what feeling is it that the double-stack is intended to fix, and are there possibly not other ways to fix it?
     

    In my TD3 at 9 degrees experiments I was trying for 2 things.

    A longer stance. Discovered that while that kind of angle made the longer stance possible, that the even longer stance beyond that comfortably achievable with 6 degrees wasn't functional in terms of managing weight distribution.

    A toe and heel lifted and significantly outward canted skwal style stance with bindings at 80 degrees plus. That worked.

     

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