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With ACSS or DGSS (or similar - I've made my own) you don't need to think about the mode. Just ride. Best tuning possible for a boot, I think, and has effect for the whole running setup, and it's allowing you to move more freely, from EC style to slalom, no problem. Great riding dynamics which you can't get with locked settings. Huge change in how much more range of movement you will get when changed. Before the spring tuning, I've been running lifts: 6 deg front toe (FTL) , 3 deg on the back heel (BHL). Now running 0 lift and cant (TD3's). Or 3FTL/3BHL on my secondary bind/board setup (with TD3 sw), no problem to change, perhaps two runs and fully adapted. With regular springs would be impossible, after the change, it feels like you're first time in slope. RSV's tongue is stiff and I changed it to black even when I already had ACSS spring system. Unfortunately the heel of the RSV boot broke in -20c. Changed to RC10's with similar setup. Same parts fit to the both boots, just minor changes.

Flat TD3’s front and back, upz rc10’s with ACSS mod and blue springs (just short of 90 kg). So basically with no lean or very much forward lean, depending on the turns phase.. ACSS allows perfect movement, to extremely low and in that phase huge fwd lean or tall/ no fwd lean. Can do ec or slalom with the same setup

2 fingers seems still okay, on the smaller it would be just below one finger- most likely.. I have 27.8cm foot length in 312mm (28-28,5) rc10. Perfect fit for me, wouldn’t ever think smaller. 27-28 mountain slope 951 is too short as is 27-27,5 Deeeluxe Suzuka, if that helps. Depends very much what you prefer, but 27 seems too small - perhaps ok, if you like very tight fit and thin liners and if shell is otherwise perfect for your foot (with help of boot fitter or being lucky fitting straight to that shell), as it depends also what’s your front foots shape is compared to shell’s (and liner’s) shape. No need to suffer, it just ruins everything - tested with too short ones for half and an hour, and it felt like never been snowboarding before. I have Sidas pro form foam liners, so very tight fit in heels/ankle and generous on toes. Haven’t got any thermomoldable’s even close to fit compared to foams. Extra room is easy to fill with foam.. That’s the way even my boot fitter is nowadays making boots for ski teams (with foam liners), one size bigger without not so much punching.

Sidas Conformable Proform soft foam liners on Virus/UPZ RSV superlight, since 2010 and still perfect. Excellent on the ankle, where the foam part resides. Could be better on the upper tongue/shin part, which is a bit too thin and I must use extra padding, even as the boot shell is quite soft now, as the tongue is changed to softer (black) one and spring is ACSS (by Arnaud). I have had several 'toasted ones' ie. thermomoldable (Sidas Conforfit Alpin, Deeluxe Black/white (worst of Deeluxes ones), and Dalbello ID (Intuition)) versions, and those are nowhere near as good on the ankle, which I think is the most important part of the whole boot - to provide very tight fit (can't even put my hand through the ankle part, as that's so thin). All of those thermomoldable's are too loose on the ankle. And I think I don't have extra thin/bony ankle.. So foam on the ankle and some overlap or extra cushion on regular style on the higher part of the liner - that would be perfect.

I had an accident last april - on those dam skis Normally on snowboard but this was on the easter slopes and there were rather much 'traffic', so I decided to take it for sure and so on skis.. Weight a bit too much to tails, and I was lying on nets before noticing anything else than hurting on the knee already on the air.. Couldn't move the knee or stand on it at all. On that time I was 46, doing all kind of sporting and doing now again :) (eg. skiing (nordic, dh, snowbord), skating, golf, badmington, tennis, mountain biking). End result of the accident was unhappy triad, ie. almost totally ruptured MCL, ACL and a slight rupture on lateral meniscus back horn, opening to up, down and back side (mri doctors explanation).. Did hurt like h*ll and was swollen and stiff. Orhopedic doctor thought that we should go through the conservative way (more common in Finland than in US, I think, depends of cource with the doctor) to see if it's going to be stabile (as the MCL was healing well and as the ACL was not totally ruptured). Doctors comment about the meniscus repair itself (with 'bioscrews' or how they call it) was, that they don't last well for over 20 year old people, and that the meniscus rupture itself was not big enough to cause surgery.. Have insurance, so was not an money issue in that sense. At about one month of accident started a hard period of physical exercise with Physical Trainer's help (even on that time the doc couldn't do the normal twisting tests). Had a movement about 50-60degree on the knee on starting phase of the excercises and I was limping. All the muscles seemed like they've collapsed above the knee.. Hard work, even getting the movement on the knee better was tough, not to mention about one leg exercises on unstabile mattress and stuff.. At three months doctors opinion was that the movent was normal and his conclusion was that if there's significant instability issues (once or more in a month) then the ACL reconstruction and perhaps a small shaping of meniscus, on the time of one year from the accident (or earlier if bad).. At about six months from accident the other orthopedic doc said that the knee is almost as stabile as the other one (those lachmann and other tests). This was when I went to complain about 'some new sounds from the knee' - trademark - snap/crackle sounds must have been from the meniscus (mainly on doing overextension and in about 20 degree, ie in cycling). This doc said that I have that kind of knee that it's not suffering badly of the ACL rupture, and no issues on doing meniscus tests, just sound on some phase, so let's see. That doctor also said that almost all of the partly ruptured ACL's are totally ruptured when it's actually operated, so this doc suggested reconstruction. 11 months from accident.. I'm still doing phase by phase harder with all the sports I've been doing earlier (had the persimission to do all sports from the begining of this year) and following the first doc's treaments at least for the moment (and not doing surgery). Now the knee is actually about normal, but still a small amount of restiction on passive move (heel to the bottoms) and leg muscles on a bit lower level than on the other, no issues on instalibity (except perhaps on the head as the knee didn't hold just after the accident - for the first time ever).. And still extra exercising besides those loved sports. I'd say you can do the exercise and check out if it's going to be stabile. If not - go to the surgery. Rapid actions are necessary for top athlete who must be back on business as quicly as possibly - to earn their living, and when you can't wait for perhaps the double time and results of conservative treament and in case not recovering well enough, the surgery. At least for me it has been ok to check out the conservative way, which is a bit faster to recover than from surgery. The things are not that black/white for even doctors, for the arthirithis sake or any other way either. Then there's always risks related to surgery. Have a friend whose wrist has been been stiffend on the third surgery, as the screw on the first original surgery was slipped out and so the joint was left to wrong position. Some other risks also.. Not to scare you, I've been doing a bit of consideration also whether I go or not to surgery - that is mainly - before I had the permission to do some more 'serious' sports :lol:

Here's the link to Arnaud's ACSS (seen on the benttech's pictures, mine is just a bit different, so no picture attaced).. http://www.extremecarving.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8405&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 That ACSS + Booster strap + Conformable Foam Liner works like a dream - for me on UPZ RSV or something (Virus labeled). Removed all the shin bang, and using hard tongue (so I didn't want really soft, and 88kg's).. First phase was Booster Strap with a tongue raising mod (pictures attached of the bootster strap and it's related tongue mods), helped a little on the shin bang. Second Phase was Conformable Foam Liners with shell modifications on a local bootfitter to get it properly fitted on the ankle section, removed the shin bang totally and feels like slippery without any foot movement, except on toes section (must find out the foam liners for my skiing boot also :)) Last phase was modding with springs of different hardness with ACSS, default spings were too soft for me, but the original spring system a lot too restrictive on movement, but good for racing. With soft springs and with soft tongue (red) I think that the combination can be tweaked to rather soft.

+1 , Teaching my kids to ski, would be a perfect way to jump from board to skis or vice versa without changing to skiing boots and back.. StepIn is absolutely a must for small slopes..

"Calories are calories." This is so old knowledge that weight loss or getting fat is based only on calories. Eating is not mathematics. KISS principle: Change from high GI to low GI carbohydrate is enough (as a very simpicated version, not the whole thruth, eg. foods acidity also affects, meaningless for athletes..). Eg. leave out white sugar or change to fructose or artificial sweetening and so on.. => You don't even have to think how much you eat or have to be hungry - well to certain level of eating Low GI food keeps your blood sugar at a correct level for a lot longer time as high GI food. High GI food makes a strong peak in blood sugar and after that it's getting even to a lower level, which makes your body to think that you should eat again to raise it.. Pancrease is providing insulin to correct this situation. And after enough loooong time of this peaking on insulin level's, you'll propably get diabetes and all the related diseases Those diets based on calories restictions/calculations won't last long anyway because they all think that you should suffer and be hungry. And as a consequence you just lose a lot of weight but by losing mostly (heavy) muscles - looks good on weighing, though. More serious side effect is that as you lose muscles you will get fat even easier after that wonder diet, as there's not that much muscles anymore..

I asked my older son (9 yrs) how did they find me after being in offpiste, (where you can end into three different lifts): We just followed the tracks..

Hi! I've used Burton Reactor, Burton Fire and now using UPZ Virus Special Edition.. Points goes to Burtons - too bad (from harbooter with rather wide front foot and rather thin ankle and bones, but big volume bones in ankles) Best combination to ride has been the Fire with Burton Physics race. Very stiff binding to boot hold and no movement side to side, connection to board was like magic. Had to get rid off the Fire's because of shell's cracking.. (Had them bootfitted, a bit more volume to toe parts and a Comformable Alpine thermo liners. Good liners, but rather thin, anyway very good fitting shell even with that very thin liner. Had to make more padding to the liners tongue, as a hint of shin bang started to show..) Most comfortable boots were the Reactor's, no kind of molding to shell or liner, and a perfect fit. Very poor bindings to boot connection, which made me to move to step-in's and Fires. Now UPZ RTR's (Virus) red ones for about 3-4 years with Deeluxe liners (thermo, black and white) and a shell bootfitting with Cinderella Fit to four places (now excellent fit but not on the shells tongue), and TD2 SI. Tried the Deeluxes before UPZ's in the shop and they vere too narror in toe part and a hint of heel lift.. UPZ have very stiff shell, and shin bang results very easily - at least to me. Mondo 28 - as Burtons - but the shell is a lot worsely designed than the Burtons. When fitted without liner, foot seems to be too far behind in the shell and a result is that the shin attaches tongue in a small angle only in the upper part of the tongue (so that the whole shin is not touching the tongue all the way from the lower part to the upper part) Tried shintroric's (Manoove's), not helping a lot. Now Eliminator, a lot better. Booster Strap is rather good.. And have the old Burtons padding/clip added to upper part of the tongue.. I think I should have a Mondo 27 shell with a lot of moding, which might fit, and a more supportive tongue in a liner. Might be that the over 10 years of usage of these various boots, and the changes in the foots too, that the boots require a lot of molding, but might be that not all the people have the ideal foot that the shell designers dreams of