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  3. PowMow

    in Utah

    Posted

    On 4/6/2024 at 7:28 AM, boardguru said:

    $1649.00 for a season pass!!! Oh so glad a tech billionaire bought a majority interest in PowMow, NOT. Looks like I just got priced out of having fun there anymore in the winter.

    A benefit of enjoying old age (80) a privilege denied to many! I tell my 80 year old friends not to get too excited because old age doesn’t last all that long. 
    Snoqualmie, 80 +=free

    White Pass season pass $24 age 73-122???

    Crystal mid week season pass was about $600 when I was 79 and is $49 at 80!

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  4. Tracks

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    10 hours ago, RoroSnow said:

    Two days running before the closing day....Last turns with the K168...

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    Nice connected pencil line C-shaped carves! line!  EVEN I can leave tracks like this on a perfectly groomed gentle slope like this…even when SLIGHTLY steeper requiring finishing the turn up hill (S-shaped). 
    BUT, add a few more degrees of steepness requiring me to get down low and get my board high on edge and all goes to hell and I end up with a slarve!

     I am not knocking this set of tracks just comparing it to my level of carving. I don’t have enough bdays left to ever carve Turner. The best I can hope for is to carve more, or some, of the terrain at Crystal. 

  8. James Cherry

    in Carving Central

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    17 hours ago, Hug Masso said:

    Yes indeed, we NEED TO TALK ABOUT JAMES CHERRY. I read the snowboard forum. 

    I also thought the same and I asked him if he could do a comprehensive guide on hardboots. But he is meant to become a Youtube Star and hardboot videos are watched by a 0,0000000001% of the population so no bizness here.

    In all seriousness, I would say with very minor tweaks his softboot technique is very similar to the hardboot one, as he was a hardbooter it seems.

     

    My guess is that’s about the same % of softbooters that watch, or have any interest in, pure, S-turn, pencil line carving!

    In my past 200, or so, trips to Crystal I have observed only one other snowboarder attempting serious carving

    Since the first moment I watched Pure Carve (VHS) in about 2000 I’ve thought pure carving was the coolest thing on planet earth BUT none of my ski buddies, children or their spouses nor my grandchildren, most of whom are snowboarders, have any interest in it whatsoever…blows my mind but I will press on until I can’t almost always by myself at Crystal!

    Hard, soft, 55/55, 30/20, duck, steep, flat…I couldn’t care less so long as the goal is connecting pencil line S turns!

    Having just become aware of James and Lars on YouTube and having Ryan thrown into the mix on one of those vids has been revolutionary for me!  A total values clarification!

    I’m on a ten year plan, i.e. win another Big Head of the Charles medal when I’m 85 and 90…LOL…a lot of moving parts to accomplish that AND connect as many S shaped pencil line turns as I can before I can no longer pick my ass up when I fall over on a flat surface in the lift line…that can be problematic!

     

     

     

  10. James Cherry

    in Carving Central

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    An awesome carver for sure!

    With all of the monkeying around he does with a multitude of soft boots and many, many bindings I’m surprised he hasn’t addressed hard boots, more positive angles and narrower boards!

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  12. More time doing Norms for me!

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    I doubt he rides at Crystal Mountain, WA. 
    Having said that the very few times I have found a fellow carver where I ride I have been much inspired and my carving was much better when I had a good carver to follow down the mountain!

     I ain’t giving up yet!

  13. More time doing Norms for me!

    in Carving Central

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    I’m just going to have accept the fact that are only a few sections of various runs where I can link up a pure carve or two, i.e. perfect slope, perfect grooming, maybe a little bowl shape to help with the carve, etc!  Most of the run I will have to slarve like 99% of the other shredders! Problem is I never have had any interest in slarving back and forth down the mountain. I had zero interest in owning a snowboard until I watched a VHS tape of Cliff Hamada carving in about 2000!

    Not than anybody else would care but I really don’t even really consider myself to be a snowboarder but just a carver. I’m a wannabe carver/slarver on most slopes and only a pencil line carver under super ideal conditions! Unfortunately, at 80, I’m running out of bdays to become decent at this niche sport BUT that’s not going to stop me from getting a few more seasons in. 

  14. More time doing Norms for me!

    in Carving Central

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    Thanks for this link!

    I really like that quote from Galmarini as back in 2005 I remember that feeling and I was in my Solomon SX-91 ski boots and riding a 175 Maverick Pure Carve. I’m struggling to get that feeling back on other than on a perfectly groomed bunny run!

  16. Getting down and riding the pencil line turn to turn?

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    Maybe no hassle having to be on the snow BUT asphalt and concrete are unforgiving!

    3 hours ago, jng said:

    @1xsculler Good on you. Recommended progression at Snoqualmie after Holiday:

    1. Outback or under chair at Silver Fir. First 100' vert pitch will be too steep, but rest is longer and narrower than Holiday while still mellow. That will force you to tighten your turns without worrying about pitch.

    2. Dodge Ridge at Summit West. Wider and a little steeper. 

    3. Pacific Crest at Summit West. A little steeper still and a pitchier section at the end that you can avoid. 

    @Soultrencher rides there often 

    Thank you for those run recommendations…very helpful!

  19. Softboot Carving worth watching

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    Extremely nice and solid carving, IMHO!

     I Bought a board specifically for that kind of carving which I call Korean Karving, i.e. Nobile N8 158! As you would expect I still can’t carve like that guy does. IF I ever did cut a half dozen turns like that my quads would send me straight to the bar or my car!

  23. Getting down and riding the pencil line turn to turn?

    in Carving Central

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    I found a hill that turned out to be very conducive to my carving ability, i.e. the Holiday Lift at Snoqualmie Central. It was perfectly groomed and just the right slope so I could connect pencil lines and even turn back up the hill a little when needed to slow down. It bored me and it would be a hill few of you would even consider (their bunny run) BUT I loved being able to connect pencil lines!

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  24. Getting down and riding the pencil line turn to turn?

    in Carving Central

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    3 hours ago, st_lupo said:

    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.

    Maybe practice Norms a little each day rather than make slarves my norm!

     I’m only 80 years young and my ten year plan is to win the Head of the Charles rowing regatta again at 85 and 90…LOL! One can dream!

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