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  1. Carrying the Carving Mindset to Softboots

    in Carving Central

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    You gotta have fun, and pain stops fun pretty fast. 

    That said, there's a strong focus on this site on taking small hardboots and enlarging them to fit the bumps of your particular feet. This is fine for many, but you can also get boots for your foot size and still get 70% of the performance with 5% of the work. 

    There's a decision point for everyone of effort vs. performance. Only you can decide where you sit on that spectrum. Some people will gladly deal with some pain and make 5 trips to a bootfitter in the fine tuning process. Some will quit hardbooting if their feet hurt on the first day.  Choose your fitment accordingly. 

  2. Shipping

    in For Sale

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    That's likely a shipping service, like dropping off a naked board at a UPS store and having them box it. 

    Look up "burrito method" for how to pack a board. If the seller is unwilling to do that, then get a board somewhere else. 

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  3. anyone adjust their boot cuff? aka Boot cuff alignment

    in Carving Central

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    1 hour ago, pow4ever said:

    Every year/season - my back foot shin took a beating.  wonder if boot cuff adjustment will help.

    Two thoughts: 

    1. Added forward lean may mean you move the cuffs to a more-neutral position, sitting at an angle to support your 'resting' position rather than preloaded. 

    2. Focusing on pressuring the board with the soles of my feet rather than levering the boot cuffs reduced my shin pain considerably. Especially those early days in the season when my legs are getting used to any pressure at all. Oh, and it made me a better rider as a nice side effect. 😃

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  5. WTB Donek F Plate

    in Want to Buy

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    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. 

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  6. WTB Donek F Plate

    in Want to Buy

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    8 hours ago, Chris C said:

    Pardon my ignorance but by "Beating on it" what exactly do you mean?

    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. 

  8. A little virtual coaching please?

    in Carving Central

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    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: 

    8 hours ago, ShortcutToMoncton said:

    As a regular left-foot-forward rider it’s helped me to try and remember to reach down with my left hand toward the heel of my front foot on toeside carves, and reach down with my right hand towards my toes on the rear foot on heelside carves. 

    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! 

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  13. Contra Contra

    in Alpine Board Reviews

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    3 hours ago, pow4ever said:

    What is the latest and greatest in Contra Development?
    I seems to remember an ASMO version?

    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! 

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  14. Literally carving on ice

    in Carving Central

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    54 minutes ago, philw said:

    Perhaps the more important thing is that... they're selling carving. 

    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. 

  18. 279mm UPZ shell and TD3 SW step-ins?

    in Carving Central

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    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. 

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  21. Music for Carving

    in Carving Central

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    11 hours ago, Ladia said:

     Benefits?  
    you will not hear the snow under your board and even worse, you will not hear idiots around you till they hit you.

    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. 

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