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Yes. But much more on the toe side.

On a heel side carve your biggest problem is the heel cup/forward lean adjuster hitting the snow. Flow bindings and SP fastec bindings do not have this problem so they are the best for heel side. Flows have an aluminium disc and base plate. Check my posts for pics of my modifed flows

I agree, but until the rider becomes concious of what a real turn is, they will fight that board width all day long. Zombies need skinny boards to allow for side slipping 6 hours a day. For me personally I find heel overhang to be the hardest one to manage so I stay close to flush on the heel and put all my extra width on the toe side.

Because your body weight shifted toe side with the binding move it allowed your same body position to put more weight over your toe edge and kind of fixed your problem. Kind of fixed the problem but certainly identified it. You could achieve the same end by thrusting your hips toe side a bit and relearning that as your new normal.

I see people getting stuck like that every day coming off the lift. I bet at that moment your behind is poking out and you can fix it by pushing your hips toward the toe edge. Bring the front knee in toward your back knee if needed. Snowboards only follow the inputs you provide.

Cheers Lurch. All my boards are bookmatched woodies but the 8m radius ones always look sexy with the curves haha

8m sidecut 261mm waist 12m sidecut 304mm waist 12m sidecut 322mm waist

I ride this course almost every day! Intresting to see that old gondola is now at a different resort.

I have not checked for years, but ferberg used to use a quite short edge length. I like a short edge because the turn size is more stable with board inclination than a longer, deeper sidecut. Short edge length buys more time in a turn at a given radius. Large radii boards are harder to move around on at slow speeds, but produce a beautiful turn shape at speed. Adding edge length causes more board flex which takes away the big turn size we are trying to achieve. We need to start with a bigger radius on the board to achieve the same turn size as edge length increases. The board becomes inherently harder to ride. I found shortening edges is just as effective as increasing radii.

Thanks for the kind words Rusty. I wear size 10 burton photon wide boots with no modifications. I shape and build my own boards ✌

Spark burner top straps fit directly to flow NX2 chassis and maintain the fancy locking washer. Burton top straps require a hole to be drilled in the strap and you lose the fancy locking washer. All toe straps require a hole to be drilled in the strap. Removal of plastic highback saves total length. Reversal of highback lever prevents ejections if you slide out on a heel side carve.

I am using modified NX2 binding for soft boot carving and have achieved a setup where my binding does not hit the snow before my boot on both heel and toe side. Flow bindings have lots of unnecessary features for carving, but the chassis/highback combo CAN save you some board width if you set them up correctly. I actually fit burton straps and ratchets to mine