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Making a perfectly laid heelside EC turn with full extension is still on my list of goals. There is a poster on this forum whose avatar is one of those. It IS very esthetic. That being said, I can think of a few more difficult goals: 360° carve, linking EC turns with jumps direct to carve, fakie ec turn (?)

Search didn't return anything, so here is my question. Every saturday or so, I am taking our eight years old daughter skiing and carve while she is in the lesson. So far, we have been to Windham and Blue Mountain, where I found nice carving spots. Problem there is the ski teaching is not up to my expectations. Somebody recommended Catamount for their teaching program. So I checked this section of BoL for opinions on catamount, but couldn't find any post, which doesn't sound very good. Has anybody been there with feedback on the resort and the carving possibilities ? Many thanks.

Is the O'sin sold ? Can you ride it with plates ?

Hey Russell, if your sale doesn't work, I'll take the binders and heels.

Didn't receive your PM. Are you looking for bindings as well ?

I have pair of burton reactor boots with intuition liners that I am considering selling. They are both 27 mondo. PM me if you are interested. I may also have bindings, too.

Being new here, I can say that you can pretty much forge your opinion by searching the thread for, say TD2 SI vs TD2 classic bails. There is even a thread on this one. I also agree that overal rating doesn't really work. If you look at reviews out there on the web, even on good websites, people tend to mix technical specs with feel on the ride and even looks (that deck rocks, man....). But instead, why not use polls to get an overall picture on some of the most frequent questions, like, for instance, what is the softer hardboot out there or the best plates to do EC turns, etc. I agree with previous posters that for a review to be accurate and reliable it has to eliminate as much as possible all factors that blur the imahe like different riders ability, very different terrain, etc. On the video thing, I must say after reading a lot about soft vs hard carving here on BoL I was thinking of some kind of video experiment: same rider, same terrain, same day, one shooting in softies and one in hard boots and see how it looks...

Sorry about that. I was reffering to this one that I saw this morning. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170297177552&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&viewitem=&salenotsupported Didn't think there would be two of these boards on ebay at the same time...

I remember seeing a swoard like this fs on BoL in December: http://www.bomberonline.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=23083&highlight=swoard

Thanks for this. The tour involves long traverses and it will be with top notch skiers. Looks like the best option at this point would be to find a good board to ride in plates on mostly all conditions (tanker 172 or 182 I guess) and approach skis (I had this side glance at my daugthers' skis...). This gear question is important because you don't find as many splitboards in Europe as you do here, for sale or for rent. Maybe the terrain explains it. Thanks buell for the info on the splitboard forum and customsplitboards. I had a look at their website and thought I could give it a try on an old powder board before considering splitting a swallow. Doesn't look like the best thing to do, though.

I am planning a touring trip in the alps with fellow skiers and for that I thought about either a swallow/longboard with approach skis or a splitboard. I don't have the budget to go for both and I was thinking a middle way could be to have a good powder board, like a 3800 or 4807 customsplit. Unfortunately, I have never been on a splitboard and can't say how the board would behave after having been sawed. Any feedback, recos ? I searched for a while the forum and found out splitboards have a lot of supporters, but could not find exactly what I am looking for. In short, as anyone riding feedback on a powder board before and after split ?

You might want to check ace's post in the FS section. Just in case.

Thanks:biggthump

Is it to protect the topsheet or to act as a raiseplate ?

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Can I take a pair of 0 deg disks ?

Seems like vantage is the new name of the diablo, with titanal construction.

Ok they may not be marketed as such, but a lot of main street shops boards are good carving machines. F2 and Nidecker have what they call freecarve or soulcarve boards, though. Is it because they never rejected their alpine roots or because it may be a good marketing call in Europe, I don't know. Anybody out there to have tried the F2 Vantage ?

Anybody has a pair of TD1 Cant disk 0 deg. they would be willing to sell ? I can also trade them for 1 3 deg and 1 6 deg.

Mr Orecchio, I was just referring to my recent experience of trying out hard and soft setups on the same terrain, situation where riders' skill (mine) doesn't vary. Carving on steep and uneven terrain in a soft setup is possible. I still argue though that a hard setup will provide more grip and allow for more speed/radical turns.

MUD, that was my point about high angles not helping to carve better on softies. Actually, what I forgot to add in the pros for carving on softies is precisely this: because of the lower angles, you have a more natural position. Too bad the softness of the setup does not allow for a better grip and more agressive riding.

Hey I just had the same experience, except that my HB setup was ready on saturday for me to try it out. It had been six or seven years I didn't use a hard setup and the first run was a little hectic, but it came back like riding a bike. I did two runs at the end of the day on my freeride board with softies, so here are my fresh impressions: - soft setup: Pros: the touch and feel on the snow remain incredible, just as the lightness under your feet, you can ride and carve with any angle Cons: you can't hold an edge with the same strength as you would do with a hb setup, so your carving would be limited to easy terrain and moderate speed. You can't go for EC carving with a soft setup. The flex of the board (mine is a nitro pantera 163=on the stiff side) doesn't allow very aggressive, laid down turns, but more important, the soft boots won't help you at all to lift up your body after such a turn. Riding at high angles won't help also, on the contrary. - hard setup: you loose in lightness and versatility, but you have an incomparable strength under you feet. It's more about surfing with your body and the board coming as one. True for carving, but also to ride steep slopes with bumps. No problem to jump directly in your carving turn with a hb setup. So, in short, softies can carve good, if you have good conditions and at medium to fairly high speed. If you are more attracted by the feel on the snow and all-mountain use, then softies win. Especially if you have no gear or can't afford a big quiver. For a quiver of one, a good all-mountain/freeride board will do it. But carving on HB is really exhilarating, with more feeling of strength and speed. All this of course is my humble opinion to an ongoing question. Note that one of my best snowboard rides on anything else than pow are with a F2 eliminator and clicker setup. Too bad this line of research was not continued...

I will be at Windham on Saturday. They expect one inch today and should resume snowmaking as well. Hope it will not be too icy.

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Interested. Do you have specs for this board ?