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  5. Skwal Riders General Discussion

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    Attempting to build a skwal, at the moment design stage, stats are 180 - 110 - 156 mm (12m radius) @ 180 cm, just wondering what effect nose width has on performance? Wider nose width for deeper snow, narrow nose width for hard pack, or am I off-base completely - appreciate any and all insights.

  10. Skwal Riders General Discussion

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    13m SCR is optimum.

    Anyone care to guess what the SCR is on this board? ... (see video)

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  11. Skwal Riders General Discussion

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    I'm looking forward to get my order of my second skwal from Donek. My 200 lbs need rather stiff stick (length-180, 13 SCR)

    Hello Alexx, gee a timely reply indeed. Lately been contemplating ordering a Donek stick also. Was wondering what board specs would best suit my 200 lbs - thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

  14. Skwal Riders General Discussion

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  17. Skwal Riders General Discussion

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    What was good was trying downhill boots which were more responsive with greater edging power.

    Very interesting ... two questions:

    1) what model of downhill boots were you wearing, by-chance, flexon comps?

    2) did you have heat mould liners?

  18. Skwal Riders General Discussion

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    definitely carving.

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  19. Skwal Riders General Discussion

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    Take this to "Off-Topic".This is a snowboard forum.

    Respectfully, this thread doesn't seem to be "off-topic" – presently a few of us are discussing alpine carving using hardboots on a skwal board. I'm assuming you are taking offence to the mention of the Ostness Dragon ski. An interesting factoid about this ski is that it contains the best assets of a snowboard. Equal height tip and tail, center mounting, symmetric forgiving flex, deep sidecut and even uses snowboard dimensions. Kind of sounds like the characteristics of a skwal to me.

  22. Skwal Riders General Discussion

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    Gee, I think these binding might be early 90's "Cateks". They were supplying Jason Levinthal's "Line" boards back then. Which by the way are the skis I'm thinking of using as a skwal – a pair of "Line" 193cm Ostness Dragon. Probably one of the first twin tip ski ever on the market.

  24. Skwal Riders General Discussion

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    you might want to glue your binding screws in since they will likely be outside any binding plate reinforcement. You could also drill through and put inserts in more than one position. What are the bindings?

    Whoa ..... thanks for the heads up Wantok. It was just last night that I observed the plate under the base (lighting was just right), thing was I couldn't figure it's purpose. You're right on, inserts would be placed outside of plate. You just saved me some headache or worst. Thanks again.

  25. Skwal Riders General Discussion

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    I'm still thinking about mounting these bindings on 193 cm twin-tip freestyle ski. Not so much to do carving, but to start to get the feel of skiing on one single board. A proper skwal and binding are planned for the future. Anyways, any suggestions how to position the bindings on the board. I do have a "centre of sidecut" marking on the ski. Should I position the binding equally on either side of this line or position my body centre of gravity?

    by-the-way, thanks for all the great input

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