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I plan to bring several models of monoboards and, two V0 Sidecarves one V2-10 Sidecarve one V0-xl Sidecarve Aaron offered to bring an extra set of bindings as I only have one set of TD3 that I use at this time. I had figured that it is probably easier to use your own bindings that are all set up for your personal stance and your boots. That is my demo "fleet" for now :) If we have a typically beautiful sunny so cal day, I will have bee, soda, and grill hamburgers in the parking lot at the CODA mobile for lunch for all Carvers and anyone with them :D

Bullwings- My hope is to get a couple of demo monoboards and snowboards into a shop in the Big Bear area. Aaron is being awesome with helping me on that front. I also hope to make a few more trips to summit to ride with you guys and bring demos this season. As for the tail strength, you will see when you get your hands on one of the boards, that the tails are super strong. They are made with a torsion box construction with added reinforcement at the top of the V. We also do not profile the tails. The flex in the tails is controlled with the depth of the V cutout and the tension in the Tail Cable. KingCrimson is correct on the Metal option. We use an aluminum alloy on top of the core and I just finished a prototype with the metal on top and bottom. I found with my prototypes last year that just having the single metal layer made a nice difference in dampness in the nose and in edge hold when carving through crud. I am working on the typos (like "2008") with my web designer :o I am looking forward to coming down!

Hello So Cal Carvers! I have been planning with oldvolvosrule, and CODA will be at Snow Summit Sunday Dec 20 with a few of the new CODA Sidecarve Demos. I will hopefully be getting a good parking spot early in the morning for my black explorer with CODA logos on it. Hope to see you there!

Railer - I have never talked to Mike about skate boards. It is possible, but he would have been in Junior High I think in the 70's... The stories of he and his mom riding monos at Mt. High are true, although that was in the early late 80's I believe.

As soon as the free ride snowboards and skis are out of beta testing, we can totally do a package with matching graphics!

Unfortunately the TD3's are too wide to put side by side, but the Bomber Elite binding that I recommend for monoboarding, will work with your snowboard hard boots. Thanks. -Chad

We have just released our updated website for this season. Here is the page that is most relevant to this thread http://www.codaboards.com/snowboards.php In the near future we will have all new graphics to choose from, or of course, we can build a board with your own custom graphics. We have added a line of carving snowboards, an option for a metal layer in your board, and we plan to add the option for custom base graphics at the start of the new year. Thanks again for all the great support! -Chad

Here is part of a discussion I have had with a customer: The CODA monoboard is the only mono made these days specifically to be ridden with non-release bindings. There are several reasons for this: board flex, board weight, binding price, one binding for lots of boards, and safety. Board flex: the non-release binding has a much smaller foot print (50-70% smaller) than traditional bindings, so the dead spot under your feet is much smaller. Board weight: the non-release binding weighs on average 50% less than traditional bindings Binding price: the most expensive, and best binding I would recommend, I would also sell to you for $170 compared to $250 and up for a good traditional DIN binding One binding for lots of boards: we use inserts in our boards with a standard pattern so that you can easily take your bindings off without ruining the board and put them on a different board if you want something different for the day, or for just one run. Safety: when one foot comes out, you have twice the board on one leg than a 2-planker does. I don't want to come out EVER! I feel that the bomber elite is the best non-release binding for monoboards. I know a few people who have mounted these bindings to a snowboard, mono style. The biggest issue is mounting them in the correct place. Usually you need to use a demo binding of some kind so that you have the ability to adjust the location of the binding to find the sweet spot.

Without a doubt there are several board makers such as Coiler and Donek that are well established and produce awesome products. CODA is not trying to copy or out-do these leaders. yama and now CODA have always had a focus on experimentation and prototyping and with the way the CODA monoboards are able to carve, it seems silly not to add some carving snowboards our line of products, and so far I am very pleased with the way they are turning out. As for the bindings on the monoboards,... I am big fan of the non-release bindings on monoboards and that is why CODA monoboards all come with an insert package that is set up for 4x4 pattern skiboard bindings. Don't get me wrong, I am not a fan of skiboards, but the bomber Elite binding happens to be a perfect match for CODA monoboards. As for custom shapes... we can totally do custom work. Each season we have tried out several variations on our current shapes... some work well, others not so much :o As for the 190 Sidecarve... I really enjoyed it. It could crank tight turns, but it was also great just riding edge to edge at high speed. It is based on a monoboard model that was the result of monoskiers wanting a long board. Also, the first time I took a prototype out at Mammoth earlier this year, one of the carvers I hooked up with mentioned that he would like something around a 190 length, so I thought it was worth trying. Thanks for the enthusiasm y'all. I look forward to getting more involved in the carving snowboard world.

I hooked up with Frank M. and couple of other carvers at Mammoth this weekend. It was great riding with them. I was very happy with the performance of the 170cm V0-Sidecarve. It was almost enough fun for me to switch from riding monoboards... almost ;) Frank test rode the 170 board today. I will let him post his thoughts. I plan to be back up to Mammoth the weekend of May 9 and I would love to have some more dedicated carvers try out the prototypes. I also prototyped my first Monoboards with METAL. I figured after all the talk on this forum about how metal is the wave of the future, it was a good idea to try. I found that it definitely helped with damping and made carving on non-groomed conditions easier. As of right now I plan to launch the Sidecarve line of snowboards in the CODA Boards store this summer. You will be able to choose from 3 models and over 100 different graphics, or supply your own graphics. I will also offer the option to upgrade to a METAL board. Thanks for all the support in the BomberOnline community.

Bullwings, on the morning of March 15, that was definitely me. It was a good morning to lay some trenches and I believe that I was the only one of my riders up there that day. That was also the day that I signed a deal with The Ski Surgeon (http://www.codaboards.com/rentals.html). They now rent CODA monoboards! They have a V2-10 and a V0 with bindings ready to rent for about $25 a day. Here is a video of a few of my riders and I carving it up in Utah this year: <object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoEadRlkoMg&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoEadRlkoMg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object>

Mark, I guess it might be narrow... 334mm at the narrowest point with no offset from the center of the effective edge. Being that my background is monoboarding, I am more comfortable with a narrow stance. But since each board will be handcrafted, I can make the stance whatever width the customer would like.

:) I only just finished these boards and haven't had time to add them to the website. They will up there under the "Development" link this weekend, and hopefully soon after they will be in the online store so you could order one!

I am going to be at Mammoth tomorrow testing my new proto-type carving snowboards: 170 cm, 19.5 cm waist, 10m sidecut radius 190 cm, 19.5 cm waist, 10m sidecut radius I will be at the base of chair 2 at 9am (although I will be carving starting at 8:30 ) I would welcome anyone to test these out and give me feedback. I rode them both today and was very happy with them. I am admittedly not used to snowboard stance, so I would love some other feedback. I will put up pics of the two boards later this evening. -Chad

I am going to be at Mammoth tomorrow testing my new proto-type carving snowboards: 170 cm, 19.5 cm waist, 10m sidecut radius 190 cm, 19.5 cm waist, 10m sidecut radius I will be at the base of chair 2 at 9am (although I will be carving starting at 8:30 :) ) I would welcome anyone to test these out and give me feedback. Thank you. -Chad

Sorry for the delay. Yes, I am also a high school assistant principal :) The students are very intrigued, especially because I keep a couple of boards in my office! On another note, here is a pic of the first prototype carving snowboard I made: <img src="http://www.codaboards.com/uploads/IMG_0340.JPG" It is 21.5cm at the waist with a 10m sidecut and 170cm long. I thought it carved quite well, but my legs are definitely trained to be standing that direction! :) The next two I am going to prototype will have 19.5cm waist and one will be 170cm long and the other will be 190cm long! Once the are ready, I will post back here with a time a date at Mammoth that I will be taking them out, and I would love for anyone from the forum to ride them and tell me what you think. Thanks!

This last weekend was the annual gathering of monoriders. This year it was at Powder Mountain in Utah. CODA had at least seven dedicated riders on the hill and as carvers will do, we chewed up a few runs :) Here is a image of the carving we can do on these boards: <img src="http://www.codaboards.com/uploads/IMG_0359.JPG"

Nope, not me, just coincidence. :)

I will be at Mammoth this weekend trying out a prototype all-mountian/carving snowboard and mostly riding my V2-10 Monoboard. I would love to meet up with some other carvers and ride for a bit. I will be at the bottom of chair 2 on the side opposite the Mill at about 9:30 Sat, Sun, and Mon this weekend. Hope to meet some of you there. :)

Kimo, I have had a few Cannondales myself, but I can honestly say that the CODA Boards name was not inspired by that :o You have a great point, and I appreciate the thought. We did do trademark searches before we finalized the new name. We picked it because of the musical and Italian definitions of the word coda, and because of the logo that my artist came up with. There have been 85 registered trademarks of the word coda, only 42 of which are still live. (the Cannondale one is dead as of the year 2000) None of them had a logo like ours. We are CODA Boards and Skis or CODA Custom Boards. We are in the process of registering our logo as a trademark. If there are any trademark attorneys out there who would like to give input, please email me directly :) I also appreciate the quick responses of volunteers for prototyping. Thanks for the support!

CODA is the evolution of Yama Boards and Skis. The short version of the history is that Michael Lish began developing carving monoskis about 15 years ago and then disappeared and stopped making skis about 12 years ago. I was one of his loyal riders at that time. 7 years ago he resurfaced and made a few carving monoskis that we called Tools. He never really started making the skis for customers so I offered to take it over and he helped me set up a shop and taught me how to make boards. After two successful years making Yama Tools, Lish asked me to stop using the Yama name. He is now making skis out of a trailer in Mammoth under the company name 333. This last summer I upgraded my shop and invested in the equipment to do dye-sublimation topsheets "in-house", acquired access to a CNC machine and launched CODA Boards and Skis. Our current focus is carving monoboards. We do use a baltic birch vertical laminated core, stainless steel inserts, 22oz triax glass with, and cap construction. The Deep-V serves three main purposes: 1. allows for a 10 m radius sidecut with dramatically reduced surface area in the tail so that when we ride powder the tail sinks without effort on our part. 2. our tails have a variable flex... one leg alone is soft to help initiate the carve, and then as the tail flexes the tail cable becomes taut and the tail stiffens up right when we are deepest in the carve. This increases the edge hold and helps with transition from edge to edge. 3. it looks fricking cool! As a part of the business plan we are prototyping carving snowboards, all mountain snowboards, free-ride skis, and split board technologies. The carving snowboards are inspired by our monoboards and the feedback we have received from carving snowboarders at Mammoth Mountain in CA. I plan to incorporate the technologies we love on our monoboards into our first line of carving snowboards, the V3 sidecarve. I just got a set of trench digger bindings so that I can ride the prototypes, and I will be looking for volunteers first here at Mammoth to help me with test rides. Once we feel we have a great board, it will be offered factory direct from our online store. Riders will be able to either pick from our CODA select graphics or supply their own graphic. As with all CODA monoboards, no two CODA carving boards will have the same graphics. Thanks for the interest. We are very excited to be a part of the carving community. :) If you are interested to see more about our monoboards, we have video posted at: http://www.codaboards.com/videos_main.html