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st_lupo

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  1. That wheel is _not_ compatible with my park-rat pants and wallet chain.
  2. Here is my calling card, sometimes visible from LEO. Small children have refused to participate in ski school when I've been spotted at the hill.
  3. Hmmm, alternatively not over developing prime skiing land, not overselling passes, not offering every luxury and convenience under the sun for the entire family, and enforcing a zero tolerance to bullshit on the slopes would be my preference. Chilli in a drafty cabin served by a group of volunteers, half sketchy chair lifts without safety bars, only t-bars to the very top, deathtrap-one and a half lane road to the base, Subarus in the parking with skis and boards bungied to the rack, not a condo in sight and God's own stash of powder and glades. Long live the dirtbag skiers/boarders that truly burn for the sport. The dorks that complain that they can't get Wagyu beef on their burger in the lodge can get bent.
  4. Not an endorsement but to add to the list: Goltes Snowboards: goltes.com Idea: would it be useful to add a column to indicate HB/SB board availability and a column for which continent they are based in?
  5. That's awesome, but don't let it bore you! It sounds like you've got a great baseline to refer to now, and I'll bet that if you keep working at it on that same slope you will improve your technique even more. If your tracks are deep enough to survive from run to run, use them as a guide. Repeat the same run and keep your turns and transitions in the same general areas. Focus on tightening your turns each run by pushing your ability to angulate the board. Reaching/touching your front boot-cuff with your outside hand is a really good mnemonic for this. By using your previous tracks as a guide you will get clear and immediate feedback on how your progression is going. Keep trying to turn inside your previous tracks. Repeating this will develop your balance and board feel. Eventually you will probably notice that you are going slower and trenching deeper, you might even notice that you start ending the run with a dusting of snow on your knees... Now try something steeper! Focus on that mnemonic (I don't think you can over exaggerate that movement) and it will get you pretty far (it tends to stack your body correctly rotationally and it forces your board to angulate steeper). Other problems will eventually arise (backward weight shift on aggressive turns, etc), but don't worry about those until they show up.
  6. Some observation from my pov: A lot of people over-drive the "balls" you need to attack the steeps (because they try it too soon?) and it builds an unnecessarily big mental hurdle in everybody else. Practice the basics on terrain that you can master and graduate to steeper when you are ready. Mastery over speed control is alpha and omega in freeing yourself from the tyranny of the mountain and the snow conditions. The degree that you can ride within your acceptable level of risk is completely dependent on how well you can manage speed. A big part of this (for me) was realizing that I was consistently letting too much speed build up even before the first turn. You very likely accelerate through the apex of the first turn, so you need to learn how to keep your pre-turn speed low enough so that the exit speed is acceptable and controllable. Given you have a good entry speed, it's only edge pressure and completing those turns that are going to keep the speed in check unless you want to start skidding >yuck<. This leads to... the realization that steepness is your throttle. If you can ride your favorite trail with your hardest repeatable pencil carves and decelerate, then your are ready to move up to something steeper, not before. Assuming that you've browsed the tech articles and know what you should be practicing, do it. Try to make virtually every turn of every run valuable. Maximize edge pressure on every single turn. Analyze what works and what doesn't. Groomers are like refined sugar, but crap conditions builds character. Stay out when the trails are rutted up and teach those legs to ride hard but lite. It's kind of an oxymoron, but you want to be able to set an edge with maximum pressure and at the same time you need to conform to the contours of the terrain. Age is a factor. Don't mean to sound ageist but the general HB carving population is probably getting older and we either survive long enough to see a decrease in our abilities until we throw in the towel, or we get seriously injured. I'm getting into an age where I have to start thinking about that more and more and I'm not happy about it. The only person you should measure yourself against is you. Are you having fun? Are you getting better? If no or no: take a deep breath, slow down and try to break the problem into smaller bite-sized problems. Prioritize them and attack them. What gives you the worst problems? Steepness, ground clutter, ice, being able to carve repeatably,... Then pick _one_ item and focus on that until you solve it. There is no magic or talent required here. Repetitive hard-work and reflection should get you on the path to improvement.
  7. I'm guessing that Ligety has put in way over his 10000 hours.
  8. . Oh man does that hit in the feels.
  9. Don't forget the V's. (I've only ridden my own and it is awesome)
  10. I tried the same and got this (I think this is OddJob's ideal ski area customer). Mind the gap!
  11. One thing I happened to realize recently is that while I generally pick a lane and stay in it, I really get off on carving close to the trail edge/obstacles (half a meter or less). This year there was a close call where luckily the person sneaking up approaching from behind wound up bailing before hitting me. It finally went up for me that a person behind me picks the wrong side to pass on, the gap between me and the trees can disappear really quickly. Given the choice they will pick hitting me over a tree any day.
  12. Isn't that the falling leaf technique?
  13. For info: A friend has this for skiing and loves the system. I contacted Carv to see what their plans were for alpine/racing snowboards, and given the small size of the global community, their response wasn't a surprise : >>> Hi Jason, Thank you for getting in touch! Unfortunately, our data models are built around the pressure and motion of downhill skiing, so our units aren't compatible with snowboarding. We are keen to really perfect the space we are in right now and truly understand technical skiing, but this is something we might look into for the future! If you have any further questions or queries please do not hesitate to ask! Best wishes, Katherine — Customer Success Team | Carv by MotionMetrics <<<
  14. On wider boards I can get speed wobbles if I am riding too high angles. But if you are used to riding steep angles and want to try low angles on wide boards, I think you need to incrementally adjust your stance and let your reflexes acclimate. I normally ride 65/60 and even adjusting to 60/55 felt really alien for a few weeks. Then I went to 55/50 on that board and it took another month to get comfortable with it. The wide board definitely rides better with the shallow stance, and now I can swap between my narrow boards with 65/60 to the wider board at 55/50 without any mental dissonance.
  15. Learned a new term today: Back Skeg Stitches.
  16. Man, I looove the shape of the Moss Modern Fish… ( • - • ) ( • - • ) ( • - • )
  17. This is one of the real killers. If you want to stay in the flow, but don't have capacity to check behind you from time to time your risk goes way up and the consequences are impossible to estimate (unlike collisions with static objects).
  18. Alpinesnowboarder.com and you leave Peter Bauer off the list…
  19. I’ll just put this here: I want this board sooo bad but if I return home with another snowboard, I’m sleeping at work (I’m already sleeping on the floor…jk… nk). Virus boards ride sweet!
  20. Lucky you! Magnetraction! Sucks that its a Virus tho…
  21. I had/have one too with the 3 strap Torque bindings. I think I know where it is and keep thinking that I should get it back some day. The edges are totally shot, but that woodgrain top sheet… was sweet!
  22. Open the flood gates!!! This is my goto: https://beckmannag.com/hardboot-snowboarding/hardboot-binding-configuration
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