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  3. Transitioning toward a hard setup

    in Carving Central

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    If you find a hardboot setup fatiguing you're probably fighting a wrong setup, or the boots are just way too stiff. I make exactly the same motions on hardboots and softboots when it comes down to carving. In the beginning my boots were completely locked up, so I couldn't get enough flexibility to push or pull the board, this made everything much harder. There are many topics here and on Extremecarving.com or frozenbackside.de discussing how to modify boots and how to install a BTS.

    Everything else is secondary to good fitting, properly flexing boots. I would rather ride a ten year old Hot Special board with Nidecker bindings and a perfect boot than the latest Virus with Bomber Sidewinders wearing poor fitting stiff boots. In general, all types of toe clip bindings are considered to be flexible, except for Catek and older Bomber bindings.

  16. giant continuous ski ring

    in The Lodge

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    They're going to build Amsterdam INSIDE that mountain! :lol: I can just read a part of a sign reading COFFEE...., I wonder how realistic they're going to make this "Amsterdam street" :o

    Unless you are right in the middle of this ring, you will spend a unproportional time on either heelside or toeside. But it must be pretty special to ride this thing. Too bad they can't change the tilt.

  17. Binding Angles

    in Carving Central

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    Binding angles are useless metrics without knowing board width and boot size. I would always put my rear boot in an angle that is as flat as possible without having boot out. On a race board, you can have a little bit of boot out if you're riding a narrow board (19cm ish wide), if you want to do recreational laid down carves, allow no boot out at all.

    So my rear foot would always be set up automatically in this way. Now you have to add a little splay (most of the time). You have to find that out for yourself, but most people have about 5 degrees of splay. For myself, at the moment I ride with 7-12 degrees of splay, since I'm a bit bowlegged. A bit more splay when it's a wider board, a bit less when it's a narrow board.

  18. Pet Peeves

    in The Lodge

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    Fine, that still doesn't mean I should have to pay for people's deliberate self destruction. By "serious consequences" I just mean they should have to pay more. Like via higher taxes.

    So if the government would put enough extra taxes on liquor and cigarettes to cover the healthcare costs it would be fine?

  24. Where is Carving Headed?

    in Carving Central

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    The softbooter is way better skilled than the rest, I'm sure he would be doing even better when on hardboots. I see him perform very dynamic push pull and rotation, the hardbooters don't really do that, just some lazy carving. You can also see the combination of his angles and rotation technique prevent heelside ass out.

    I'm pretty sure this guy normally rides hardboots, probably Swoard or a similar board. The technique is pretty much the same and works perfectly to get your angles up on such a wide board.

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