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  1. Powder board perfection

    in All Mountain Hardbooting

    Posted

    On 1/1/2022 at 11:19 AM, svr said:

    For me, I will never ride something shorter than 170 on a pow day…my go to boards are my Tanker 201 for almost everything and Tanker 186 when I want something a little more playful.

    Can you elaborate a bit on the tankers. I am looking for a new pow stick. I am 6’4” 250lb. 

    i gravitate towards the 201 but worry if it’s too long for trees.  Any comparison you can offer would be helpful. 

  6. Input from the community for developing a Alpine Snowboard specific Zipfit liner.

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    For those who have used zipfit...

    I have been riding Intuition liners for a few years and keep having the same problem.  Boots are good at the start of the day, but by the end of the day the foam has packed out and I am flopping around inside the boots.  As the liners age, the time to loosen up lessens and I start the day barely able to do up the boots but after 4-6 runs I have tighenened them down 3 notches (which is uncomfortable). By the time i hit 40-50 days the liners are toast.

    Intuition has been good and replaced liners for me, but I want a better solution.  Will zipfit work better?

    Full disclosure, I am on the large size for a snowboarder so probably load up the boots more than the liners are designed to handle.

     

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  7. UPZ Stiff Tongues Size Large

    in Want to Buy

    Posted · Edited by jatkinson

    Hi. I am in need of some of the new style UPZ tongues. Stiff ones, ideally the race, but stiff grey might work too. For Size 30 boots. 

    UPZ guy doesn’t have any and said he won’t until next year, which really sucks. 

    Can an anyone help?

  11. Donek vs SG - Advice please!

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Jack Michaud said:

    You did very, very well.  Nice going.  You'll be blown away by those boards.

    Boots... tough call but with Deeluxe there is a significant chance you won't be able to find a spring system to replace the ridiculous rigid forward lean selector, which should be scrapped immediately.  UPZ comes with a spring system.  If you go UPZ try them for a day and if you feel like the liner is "squirming" inside the shell, replace with Intuition Power Wrap.  This is fairly common.

    Is the liner squirming inside the shell a known issue?  I just had my first day on new UPZ boots and this was driving me crazy.  I asked UPZ and he said that my shell must be the wrong size.  I felt like the liner fit really well, and stayed put on my foot but the whole thing was moving around unless I had the buckles cranked way too tight.

  12. Name the Wipeout

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    On 11/30/2017 at 7:37 AM, Neil Gendzwill said:

    Super-G Misty Flip

     

    I did this once....  Way overloaded the nose and got launched into the air.  Managed 1 and a half flips with my front foot having come out of the binding.  Seeing snow/sky/snow between your foot and the board is not a good feeling.  Lucky for me I landed right on my head and didn't torque my knee into 1000 pieces.  

    My wife was right behind me when it happened.  She was white when she skiied up to me.  Thought I was going to be dead or something.

  18. Head Stratos Stiffer Tongues

    in Want to Buy

    Posted

    If I can find them, you're welcome to them.

    Let me know if you can lay your hands on them. I can email you a Fedex label if that works for you.

    the orange tongues on your boots - do they have these numbers/letters imprinted ?; 295.320SX

    They do indeed have those markings. What did you have in mind?

    Thanks

    JJ

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  20. Steep and icy conditions. Any tips?

    in Carving Central

    Posted · Edited by jatkinson

    Thanks for all the feedback from everyone!  The short answer to my question seems to be yes, this terrain is carvable, but my skills aren't there yet. 

     

    Planning to head back out this weekend to put this into practice.  Which of course means that there will be a pesky 2 feet of fresh snow, zero visibility and a million people all over the mountain to interfere with my progression. 

    You are welcome whistler powder heads :)

     

    My thoughts on the highlights of this thread so far....

     

    Great link.  I hadn't found that one yet.  Thanks!

     

    - Tip the board up high
    - Do a J-turn to control speed
    - Early edge pressure

    I was trying to do this, but probably not committing enough to get the board to a high enough angle and early enough edge pressure.

     

    Your next best bet is to euro carve it. Body will act as an anchor and speed will be less.

    Thanks Boris, but I think I will save this until I have a bit more practice.  Perhaps you can teach me the finer points of this if we ever manage to get together for that lesson...

     

    The problem is he probably isn't actually carving competently on the easier terrain. He's riding the side-cut, sure, big deal. His speed is dictated by the angle of the slope not his control of the board. He's probably not controlling his speed by forcing the board to turn tighter.

    This is probably at least somewhat true, though if I pay attention to my turn shape and think about pointing the board back uphill between downhill sections I am controlling my speed without skidding on moderate terrain.  Other than more aggressive angulation/inclination what do I need to do to get the board to turn tighter.

     

    Do it wrong, and it's just a bunch of noise.

    I have noticed that when I feel like I am really on my game I am able to carve quite quietly on even very hard/icy slopes. When I am not at my best it seems a lot noisier.  I realize that this is probably not exactly what you meant by noise, but would be interested to hear if anyone else thinks of the sound they make while riding as an indicator of how clean the carves are.

     

    Concentrate on flexing your knees more and driving both of them down to the snow to make your turns. Along with ankle flex ion your knees are absolutely crucial when making high board angled turns. This will help bring that board around your turn and back across into transition.  I think a great article for you to read is "the physics of a snowboard turn" I think it is one of the best articles written and totally gives me the idea of exactly what I need to do in order to carve a good turn.

    Be more aggressive with the knees - yes.  Cool article on physics, but now my head hurts a bit.  I was competent at math and physics a very long time ago but that has all left me at some point, meaning I will have to blindly assume that the math is right and stick to accepting the principles explained in the article.

     

    Cheers,

    JJ  

  22. Steep and icy conditions. Any tips?

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    I am about 20 days into my hardbooting career. I think I am carving reasonably on green and mellow blue runs with mixed results on steeper harder blue terrain.

    This weekend I discovered the downhill course on whistler that was in pristine condition (very hard corduroy). It is a black run that is groomed very well and is not busy because it is too steep for the newbies. If you were to sit down you would slide on your butt for a fair way before stopping.

    I was certainly not carving on this terrain. More sliding than clean carves, and didn't seem to be able to complete a carve without sliding out as I approached perpendicular to the fall line. I was still in control and having a lot of fun, but not getting the nice carves I was hoping for.

    Is this type of terrain possible to carve without skidding around? If yes, any tips on how to handle the steeper stuff?

    Cheers,

    JJ

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  23. Feeling the straps on head boots. Do I need stiffer tongues?

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    I have head boots I bought used with orange tongues intuition liners and BTS. I am around 250lbs.

    I am feeling the individual straps/buckles through the liners. Not super painful, but by the end of the day it is uncomfortable.

    I am wondering if this is normal or if I should look for some stiffer tongues or additional padding over my ankle/shin?

    I am fairly new to this, so not sure what to expect.

    Cheers,

    JJ

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