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Those guy of the "Apocalypse team" made me lie to my parents to build my first snowboard in my backyard. ...It was .... loooooooooooooooooong ago! Thanks a lot for the pics and thanks a lot to the "A-Team"!

As a thief hasn't got to run when he robbed no swag ... Already out ...

Is the rebirth of this logo the first step to the rebirth of a new alpin/race line??? ARF!

A duck stancing kid looking at my P.J.: "look mom, it's broken!..." An employee (with the same deck): "it's been a long time i've seen such a board!" ... me: "I don't think I'm that old."

I find this thread very useful! Please, more advices and tutos. ;)

I can confirm! PURELY COSMETIC! For those of you who read french ... here ... and here, the answer of M. Fivat . For those who do not, M. FIVAT (SWOARD's creator) answered that it is only due to the fact the varnish is too thick. The boards were then made in Nidecker factory and the method used to varnish the decks has lead to such problems (only a very few of the boards were concerned by an excess of varnish). S&H are too expensive for me, I'm sorry, I leave. BONNE VENTE A TOI.

M.P.

Tu as des photos, s'il te plaît? Sais-tu me dire les frais de port pour la France par la poste (pas DHL/FEDEX/UPS)? Merci.

Vous seuls le savez! ;) Bonne vente.

What stance would you recommand? I read that "rider's size/3.55" would the best ... what do you think about that? Would you recommand something else?

May be a link to a shop/item? Please?

As I said, the seller I contacted seemed pretty much sure of the year he bought his deck... ;)

Tu risque d'être déçu par la teneur en alcool de la San Pelegrino. ;)

I DO NOT KNOW! ;) I personally never had a deck of that brand. I'm stuck with my old Burton(s) ... My P.J. and my ALP. I do not consider myself as a great rider but I have lots of pleasure when carving. I do not know what's pureboarding style either ... I'm affraid I do not know how to define my own style :))) I've read lots of thing about E.C. on the SWOARD WBsite, this kind of "carving" seems (TO ME!!!) very "elitist" ... -please, be kind, english is not my native language- ... So, "elitist", I said, because your boots need to be that way ... your stance and angulation need to be that other way, ..., your board needs to be wide enough but not too, yous boots need to be as felxible as possible (to meet the "surf" -bare feet-), etc. You'll surely find some clues reading this. ;)

I met a seller of such a deck. He told me it is from 2006. If this can help ...

Bump to say that they are amazingly high ... for the S&H charges.... they ask 30EUR. to ship from Italy to France ... I received a compound from the U.S.A. for less! I asked them because I'm also looking for dampening pads ... I was "surprised" that S&H is twice the price of the dampers! ... May be a good deal for overseas shipments ... as I've understood, it's the same wherever you are.

EXCELLENT!!! If I knew this before! thanks a lot! And I've found the dampers I need ...

Yep!

SWOARD are comming in red AND in black. Depending on what kind of board you buy ... EC >>> RED EC PRO >>> BLACK

As said, I filed down the grooves to fit the insert pattern. I removed (approx) 1.5 mm each side. Now, it works and I can reach my 50cm. stance. I'll keep you posted if any problem happens. Right now, I can't test it as there's no snow in the southern Alps ...

It seems I have found a solution ... Filing down gently the discs of my bindings. Everything looks O.K. . Lets see when there will be snow.

I use to do the same 'cause I've ragularly got kind of muscle cramps on my feet arches. (mostly the back one). This the more acceptable compromise I found.

Particularly full speed ahead skiers!...

TX for the links.