[Flow NX2-CX]

On 1/25/2020 at 12:00 PM, Atom Ant said:

Do you sell them?

Next season I will be

[Big foot softbooters, maximum practical angles?]

On 1/26/2020 at 3:55 AM, BlueB said:

I only see underhang there... 

Yes. But much more on the toe side. 

[Soft Board Bindings]

On 1/22/2020 at 7:24 AM, Mac81 said:

It will sound maybe silly, but I am not really sure why

Mostly because I read that this is important and gives better weight distribution on heelside edge. 

I also read that pads with canting also help. 

I also read that pivot "suspension" at Now Bindings also help.

I can not check any of those , if this is marketing shit or pure truth - in Poland you can not rent top bindings and test them. 

I ride for 20years, I had many boards, and each of them behaved completely different. But all bindings gave pretty simillar effect.

So now I wanted to buy binding that will give me as much added value as possible. 

I know that I can make toeside Exteme carv on any binding for 50$. 

But on heelside I have some problems. 

And If : 

- highback rotation at Rome

- Skate pivot suspension at Now

- arc form highback with spring at PHK 

Or carbon fiber, nylon, kevlar, steel, titanium or space dust offered by anyone else can give me 5 or 10% , I want to take it.

I am interested in best soft boot binding that helps at extreme carving on heelside. 

 

P.S. does a 3rd strap gives you a lot on heelside ?

Wonder why no manufacturer has it as an option... 

 

 

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

[Big foot softbooters, maximum practical angles?]

53 minutes ago, kitejumping said:

I'm on 11.5's, before getting custom boards I tried like 45 in front/back to try to get rid of most of the overhang but it was terrible, boots were way too soft side to side.  Now I ride 15, -15, but on a 32cm waist board so overhang isn't an issue.  My thoughts now on it is that if you're really into carving, boots should never overhang  ...hardboots or softboots...  When surfing/wakeboarding/kiteboarding your board is always way wider than your feet. 

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. 

[Setup question: Bias towards the toes...]

On 1/12/2020 at 4:43 AM, JRAZZ said:

 I finally figured out that the size L binding may have put my boots too far back towards the heel edge. I moved them one hole in the toe side direction and the board transformed! Made it much much easier.

 

 

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.

[Setup question: Bias towards the toes...]

On 1/12/2020 at 5:37 AM, JRAZZ said:

 

 

My main problem is that the board never wanted to go straight. Coming off the lift it would always swing counterclockwise (I'm a regular rider). 

 

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.

[Flow NX2-CX]

9 minutes ago, Lurch said:

@Kijima that bookmatched woodie is beautiful!

 

Cheers Lurch.

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

[Flow NX2-CX]

8m sidecut  261mm waist 

12m sidecut 304mm waist

12m sidecut 322mm waist 

[The First Olympics - Nagano 1998]

I ride this course almost every day! 

Intresting to see that old gondola is now at a different resort. 

[Furberg 162 for Powder and Carving]

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. 

[Flow NX2-CX]

Thanks for the kind words Rusty. 

I wear size 10 burton photon wide boots with no modifications. 

I shape and build my own boards ✌

[Flow NX2-CX]

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.

[Flow NX2-CX]

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