pauleleven

The biggest problem would be battery, current energy to weight ratio is not very good even on the ground, this bottleneck could take between a decade and half a century to solve. An example, the Tesla Semi, amazing machine, but also big batteries. Batteries are so proportionally big that someone did a calculation based on existing technology from Tesla and current legislation: Basically battry weight eats into the amount of cargo the truck can carry, making the trucks less profitable than existing solutions, but with the rise of price of oil one day the margin for electric trucks will be better than oil trucks.

I found conflicting information on upzboots.com the NA distributor: this image is dated to 2013. In any case, the best optim for OP to check fit is put foot into shell and do the shell fit, stick toe to the frontmost of the boot and check how many fingers between heel and back of boot(fingers on top of each other not side by side) Then determine if he needs a low volume or large volume liner, it then wouldnt be something like us talkign about conflicting sizes. For this i will refer to Intuition for this information: https://intuitionliners.com/choosing-a-liner-model/ If the boot shell is indeed too small or big than the information from the above link, sell and buy anothe shell? hey daveo :)

Horizon is a scam, they've since eliminated all presence around the world, between the 16/17 season and 17/18 season they did a bit of promotion on the chinese side of the web, high prices and sponsoring people, now their public account is dead as is their website. Before they were taken down, they had promotional images of cool snowboarding photos in both alpine carving, pow-surfing, park riding and halfpiping, with a noticeable "H" at the head of all their boards Except it's not their photo, they just took cool photos of good riders and photoshopped their logo over SG, Kessler, Burton and such. I suspect it is someone in the exploding Asian carving scene doing this, the people who've endorsed and taken sponsorship from them have stopped talking as well........

But also, we have to keep in mind that for racers their preferred style and stance comes first, almost never will they angulate to the point where the board travels more than the range provided by the plate (more than 6mm) and hits the "constraint". In order to do that, they just get custom boards for the style they need, to make sure they only need to angulate so much. Unlike us amateurs who buy a board and figure out how to upgrade and work for the board, rather than to buy and adjust everything to work for us...

Hey! I have a short holiday in late February, could be interesting to make the trip out to you, how's the condition for carving? (Based in Lugano, no local carving scene) Cheers, Paul

Holy shit that must suck so bad... Could a side folding happen with softboot funcarving? ~45 front binding, higher speed (60-70km), super aggressive turn?

Holy shit man, I have never paid attention to that, gotta be more careful next time I go for the aggressive turns then...

I've been experimenting with different angles, my two setups: 45/42 is for those super aggressive angulations, extremely like hardboot technique. 36 27 I use for freeride, and I've found my butt is naturally more outside the board during heelsides, it has nothing to do with highback support, the stance physically pushes your butt out. A lot of people say when you start learning carving (softboot), you should try it out with setups like 27/9, but we've learned that going big is the best way to really learn the intuition of the side to side transitions, I set up anyone starting out with ~40/30, and it works! Apex boots are super gimicky, they also have that softboot in DIN ski boot, it sucks really bad. After one season my dad ditched it and switched to a basic Salomon 90 flex. As state above, higher binding setups are always better at alpine techniques, but going over 45 would mean dramatic decrease in side to side support.

I doubt that it would happen in the US tho, these japanese boards and technique(especially) don't work all that well in powder or skier mogels, I had quite some problem with the alps covered in mogels trying to carve. The boards that can handle these conditions well won't be able to hold an aggressive edge, maybe something in the 800 USD+ range but that's beyond your average price range of a snowboarder also what is it with hating on forward stance in the US???

BX shapes are very much a thing in Asia, these softer boards like Gray and BC are created for people to learn alpine/forward carving. As of right now in China, after someone gets a few days on the snowboard they either choose BX shapes or park boards, it's that big. However, out of every 10 people riding a BX type, only 1 carves decent. The top riders can actually do amazing stuff with superstiff actual SBX boards like Kessler or SG, but then you also have stupid rich beginners getting a custom order Oxess when they don't even understand how to do the edge. Once the intuition sets in for the edge to edge, the power and ability to ride stiff boards come very very fast. I'm in a conundrum, either finding one of these super stiff boards to do the full work out, or just upgrade to hardboot hmmm..... choices sadly I think Gray sells too many boards outside of Japan, I think for 17-18 they added carbon, mach and something else to the lineup, before it was just desperado, ti and TR. why buy one board for all conditions, when you can have six boards from us for every condition? taking that damn Riedel approach that broke the fine crystal industry. Gray to me is just way too hyped, great boards but too hyped.....

It's basically the japanese taking the BX shapes and making a funcarve board. None of them will do well in a BX competition because the base and materials aren't quite on par with the award winning ones, they understand what makes a board carve well, but speed oriented BX races not so much.

been listening to them since like 2006, when I was but a wee lad that's right, hardcore from a young age

@Shred Gruumer wait.... your profile pic, that's Rammstein right?

Libtech Cygnus X1 much? Seriously, WTF, how dare you? I'll get new boots, plate, and a race board and still probably have enough for a season pass

These are the guys, fresh off a competition this weekend The competition was a mess, Genting Cup, at one of the facilities for 2022, after everyone signed up they changed the rules saying no hardboots allowed Then after the first team won by a margin of whole 10 seconds (out of 2 minutes), everyone on the team magically became pro athletes according to Chinese Wikipedia, score was canceled. Good thing is, second and third team were so angry they didn't go on the podium during award ceremony, great guys in the pictures there. This whole thing is just blowing up, Genting is gonna be a major competition facility for snowsports in 2022, hmmmmmm.......... p.s. the first ranking team was riding SG Froce and Soul

I'm a board nerd, or tech nerd, love this stuff ;) Literally called desperado carbon, refer to the picture on page 2 or 3 with the titanal inserts Seen the virus silver top sheet board? UFC I believe? That ones cool, too bad when I tried the UFC I had neither the skill nor my own bindings :(

So many of the pro riders used them in the olympics, search .951 in forum and there are some great comments here.

Gray type R, the alloy board, and this Chinese IS double titanal are the only three boards I can think of on the Asian market that would work for you. p.s. I literally registered to post on this thread lol, the soft boot carving phenomenon thread is too complicated to comment so I didn't bother Both ONE R-one and B-one would work great for that, the Alloy board looks similar to R-one was talking to a ski super G racer today, when I mentioned it's hard and soft at the same time he totally got it, anything with springy and high tensile strength like carbon fiber would be awesome, best application of carbon so far is on the ONE. Gray has a carbon version this year as well but haven't tried it. Alloy could be the same, but haven't tried

Beijing, there's like three or four importers for all the carving boards essentially, haha From Kessler maybe something like Ride or Cross Light would work well, I'm in the same weight class. currently I'm not sure if I should get a stiff and aggressive soft boot board, or upgrade to hard boot, will have to see........

If you're under 150, you may get some trouble with typeR as it literally feels like a metal plate for newbies, between the really good carvers here in China we believe a stiff board like that for someone without the skill set will be very counter productive. For newbies we always recommend BC's R2, or gray desperado basic but if you already ride hard boot you'll be fine

That's awesome! You know which company in China ordered them? One of the guys on that racing team got first place in a slalom competition with B-ONE, crazy fast base

on paper the board looks friggin amazing, there are some good carving boards from Korea like Eno, but i have never tried them. would be interesting to add european boards to my experience then try this one, see where it falls. so many new boards to try, uuuuhhhhhhhhh

damn, where all the good food is if you go over summer, hit me up and I'll meet you there havent been there for like six years, fantastic old town

Genting, near Beijing, one of the resorts contracted for 2022 when I'm in china tho occasionally Wanlong and Taiwu, same area

Looks like a cool board, where is it from? It has not made its way into the Chinese Market. the flex ratings tho, completely arbitrary, every manufacturer has their own rating and it's all different lol