Corey

Wait; if you can make it to Loveland to meet the gang, just do that! Seriously. You'll find good people, invaluable coaching/feedback, good carving terrain, etc. I fumbled in the dark by myself for quite a few years. I didn't realize how in the dark I was until I met experienced riders who gave direct feedback based on what I was doing rather than written generalities. It'll shave years off your learning progression! I suspect that the 180 may be a bit much board for you at this point. They're fantastic boards but require a lot of rider input/enthusiasm on milder terrain to be turn tighter. Bring both boards when you go to the Loveland meet-up and they can help you immensely. BTW: there's a reason most alpine riders have a quiver. Some boards do some things better! I'll be taking 3 boards under 170 to a little prairie ski hill today. I didn't bring any of these to the Montana event as they're not as fun as my 180 board on steeper runs. And the 180 is near useless locally.

Ah, I meant that you have to put energy into the board to change the radius. If you just tip it up on edge it'll make a bigger turn radius. Any board is like that, but the race-y boards are even more so. This lets the user determine the turn radius by how they load the board. So you can try putting a lot of downward pressure into the Rev at the start of the turn to get it bending and working that tighter front sidecut. A "tight" turn on a 180 GS board is still pretty big though. Are you cruising green runs at 15 mph? If so, that board isn't a good match. That's not a dig, it's a genuine question. I'll be cruising green runs all day tomorrow because that's what I have access to. I'll be on a 160 board to make it fun.

Rev 180 is a big board that makes big turns unless you beat on it a bit. See racer's tree trunk legs...

Note that there's nothing wrong with your riding either - very smooth and graceful! You could happily cruise greens and mild blues for the rest of your life and still have fun. But if you want to turn sharper and get lower, take all the above and add more energy and/or speed. You can't lean more unless you're turning harder or you'll fall over to the inside of the turn. Don't think about leaning more as that leads to bad habits. Think about tipping the board up higher and turning tighter. The lean angle comes as a side-effect. Great tip: Tweaked for those with the sinister foot forward: - reach down with my right hand toward the heel of my front foot on toeside carves, and reach down with my left hand towards my toes on the front foot on heelside carves. I added a small change in bold. With this exercise, note that you're bending your body in a ) shape when viewed from the front or back, with your hips closer to the snow than your shoulders. Have fun with the learning process!

Thanks ink! Slush is something I rarely see. But will keep it in mind!

Tell me you've never been to Montucky Clear Cut without telling me you've never been to Montucky Clear Cut.

This the best page in this thread so far

That's awesome lonbordin! The problem for me would be picking which JWST pic to use.

I rode a .4 mm AsmoCarve version at MCC for 3 runs. I emailed Bruce to order one when I stopped for lunch. The immediate word that came to mind was "intuitive". The board seemed to work with anything I threw at it. It worked with centered riding, worked if I loaded the nose, anything. John suggested a sweet spot for loading was just ahead of the front binding. It made a large variety of turn radii depending on how you loaded it. It also ate up the skidded-out lower section of Turner. Fascinating board!

Exactly. Like the late Ken Block's Gymkhana series for drifting cars; lots of setups and attempts we didn't see before the final cut, but the final result is fun to watch and motivates you to go play. I won't carve on lake ice, and I won't do AWD donuts around a guy on a Segway, but both were cool.

Yes, but it's admittedly a bad idea once you sketch it out like that. LOL

Yup, totally ok to flip the toe block around. You can center your boot on the board? My front foot is all the way forwards with M28 UPZs and it's still slightly biased to the heel edge. Rear foot is fine due to sidecut taper differences.

Let's not get into this debate here, ok? @ShortcutToMoncton, @bigwavedave, please drop it, no matter how correct you feel. Arguing is better done on Facebook where you can have a proper echo chamber to agree with you.

I begged Fin to put an angle on the back of the heel piece to permit this, but the die was already made and expensive. He suggested I buy real boots. (i.e. not UPZ) Thanks Fin! You need that ramp to engage the little pins to add preload to the system. Flipping the block around means all loads get taken by the big pin and its plastic bushing. Sorry.

Looks fun, if not insane. Kart tires would be epic. We will pray for you!

That's pretty cool.

If only there were a way to adjust the volume of your music per your taste! You could have a knob and label it from 1 to 11. ('cause 11 is one louder) It's amazing how loud everything is when riding; wind, edges, etc. I didn't realize this until I tried playing music at a very low level, like background music in a movie when people are talking. I couldn't hear it once moving. I like my tunes low enough that I can talk to people on the chair lift and hear any yelling or skidding coming from uphill. Music: I've been loving Boogie Belgique, Wax Tailor, and Ours Samplus lately. Chill stuff.

Problem was on my end. Don't use a special character in your password or you can't log in. But you can successfully change to that password. Liners ordered, thanks so much for the heads-up!

Thanks team! Shaka had a great day today!

Looks like their ordering is down. I can't get logged in. I was able to update my password though. An unknown error occurred.

Having the screws in the 4x4 pattern is perfectly fine for 99% of loading. This is a minor detail, but makes us techies feel better. I do it when convenient, but my heel block (TD3 SI SW with UPZ boots) blocks one of the rear holes, so meh...

Awesome, thanks!

Our friend Shaka broke/bent two of the screws for the Intec step-in heel. Does anyone have some of those at the event? I think everyone knows Shaka by now as he might be the friendliest human on the planet.

Aspen? I think any of the big destination ski resorts would work for you.

Sweet!