SunSurfer

@Fathermathew What are the boots, bindings and board(s) that you have been riding? What have you thought was good or bad about that setup? The answers may help people here advise you on what may best suit.

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?

@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

Find and look carefully at the exploded mechanism diagram.

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.

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.

@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.

Came across this in my wandering through the InterNet. https://www.racebox.pro/ The Mini or Mini S version looked like something that could go on a ski or snowboard as through course segment timing tool, or just give you board angle and G force data. Any car nuts used this for the intended use?

The actual limits of human beings ability to compensate for heat. https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00738.2021 Comment on what the significance of that research is in a warming world. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/08/deadly-humid-heatwaves-to-spread-rapidly-as-climate-warms-study

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)

@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.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/03/major-australian-ski-resort-perisher-closes-some-lifts-for-season-due-to-lack-of-snow Make turns while you can.

@NateW Not sure if you saw this thread.

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/climate-crisis-quarter-of-european-ski-resorts-scarce-snow News article describing a specific climate change projection for European ski resorts.

It's a Bomber Boiler Plate, UPM pattern mounts. The mounting screws should have specific countersunk washers included. The thickness of the thin part of the carbon fibre is also relevant. The 5mm thick version is pretty stiff. Most recreational riders preferred the 4mm version.

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.

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.

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.

Good enough that the USA women's and men's ski teams are here slalom and GS training, plus the South Korean alpine snowboard team. So many pairs of Mountain Slope boots and AllFlex plates being ridden. Boards range from Kessler, Oxxess, Black Pearl amongst others.

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....

https://arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/greenland-ice-sheet-3/ Not just Wikipedia, US government body NOAA says 7.4 metres of sea level rise.

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.

The Guardian is not your typical newspaper/news website. Wikipedia summarises - "The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian, and changed its name in 1959.[4] Along with its sister papers, The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited.[5] The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of The Guardian free from commercial or political interference".[6] The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for The Guardian the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders.[6] It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK.[7][8]" Its overall editorial slant is left wing in the context of British politics. It is an excellent source of worldwide news with several "editions" depending upon which part of the world you come from. While it can be read for free, I pay a very modest amount each year to support its news gathering.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/29/something-weird-is-going-on-search-for-answers-as-antarctic-sea-ice-stays-at-historic-lows While the Northern Hemisphere burns, Antarctica is not freezing the way it should in our winter. Something weird, and worrying, indeed.