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  2. Binding set up with plate system

    in Carving Central

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    I use toe lift and cant for both feet and  heel lift on my back foot

    Ivan from I-carve told me this belongs to past, old school. Now most if not all riders ride flat, especially when using plate systems like Allflex.

    I’ve been using cant and toe lift from 4years ago with I started hardbooting and still now. 
     

    I feel like I’m missing out now and I need your opinions

     

  4. Waxing question??

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    7 hours ago, NByrne said:


    First… with a new board is it better to start with a hard wax before going to softer more temp specific waxes or go temp specific and let the layers do there thing?  And yes I clean, wax, scape, brush, and polish almost every time I ride. I never use chemical wax removers.  With high quality bases they improve as they are waxed and cleaned over and over
     

    For the new board, I put Base Prep Wax  scape, brush, and put glide wax depending on the temp

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  5. Binding Angle changing while riding

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    On 12/28/2022 at 11:37 AM, Kneel said:

    Just throwing this out there, but maybe your feet are trying to tell you something about your technique?  I agree, it shouldn't move, but there's something dynamically fishy going on too.  As my feet are carving here in the office under my desk trying to replicate getting the rear foot to go negative, you must really be pushing off the ball of your rear foot to get it to rotate back to the tail.  Especially starting at 48 which gives you a lot of extra leverage compared to say 60 where the ball of your foot may be pushing towards the toe-side edge.  There's gotta be an explanation in the Beckman Bible for this.  I'm at +63 on the  back foot and it feels like it's just along for the ride at times outside of some gentle heel/toe action...

    Most of the racing boards limit their binding angles around 58~45 do you feel more comfortable with those angles? I’ve never had a higher angle than 55

  7. Plate vs no plate?

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    On 1/21/2021 at 5:31 PM, dredman said:

    No plate for me.

     With a well engineered board, I do not believe you need a plate. Especially when you are a recreational carver living in the Western US/CAD.  

    I tried some of the first generation plates many years ago, and found them not to be hugely beneficial for my style of riding nor the conditions I typically ride in.  We rarely have to sharpen our edges in Montana.  

    I could see if I was racing or riding a lot of man-made snow / icy condition they could be very benificial.  

    The latest generation of boards from the US / CAD board makers are some of the easiest riding, quietest, great handling on icy condition boards ever for recreational carvers.  

    Recreational carvers in the US are very interested in a step-in MS boot however.  

    East(ice) coast carver and entry racer here.

    We have 95% man made snow, mixed  with icy, slushy, hardpacked, and sticky snow in uneven slopes. My isolation plate(apex v2) is doing great job. Not just for the edge grip but it is the best medical device for my knees.

  8. Binding Angle changing while riding

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    Hi I’m using f2 race titan binding 53/48 but my rear binding angle is changing while I’m riding sometimes. After few runs when I check my binding bc I feel something is wrong my rear binding angle has been changed to 45 or lower even though I mounted it hard

    Is there a problem with the binding or angle or my riding?

     

  11. Softboot Racing

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    On 7/22/2021 at 2:23 PM, Jack M said:

     

    If you did somehow establish softboot-only gate racing at the world cup/olympic level, you'd just end up with people modifying their softboots in search of more speed and better carves.  Just like how the Korean softboot carvers are reinforcing their boots with plastic tongues and internal battens and whatnot, running stiff molded liners, and adding lace-up braces over the liners.  3rd straps would come back, unless you banned them.  And then would you put limits on board length?  Because if not, the boards used for GS would get longer and longer until they were probably around 185cm.  There would be plates, if not banned.  So ultimately the hardboot ban would be purely cosmetic, in other words, a joke.  The equipment used in gate racing would bear little resemblance to freeride equipment.  Someone interested in this new "softboot" racing would need to buy a whole other "racing" setup, if they want to be competitive.  And now we're back to square one.

     

    Here's a Korean soft boot carver

    I have 3 sets of snowboard and bindings for snowboarding

     

    1. Fun, freestyle 

    Never Summer proto synthesis 158 / soft flex bindings / medium flex boots Stance 55cm 16/-9

    I use it for rails, jump, ground tricks, switch carving

    Down Unweighted sliding turns on stiff slops(this is the best)

     

    2. Softboots carving

    Never Summer east 161 / stiff flex bindings / stiff flex boots Stance 52cm 39/24

    For Euro carve and racing

     

    3. Hardboots racing

    F2 speedster WC SL 163/ F2 titan race/ UPZ rcr / stance 49cm 55/50

    Racing and carving

     

    I changed my setup from 1 to 2 bc I enjoyed carving than other stuff. I was going to get a stiffer board and stiffer boots and I realized my setup will end up with hardboot snowboard. 

     

    -For my opinion softboot snowboarding is a figure skating.

    That will allow you to jump, spin, and have fun

    -Hardboot snowboarding is speed skating (SL for short track)

    It's for speed, you can have the maximum speed

     

    You might jump and spin with speed skating skates

    You might race for the short track and speed skating with figure skating skates

    Even for car racing, you might want to race in a track with a monster trucks

    you might want to jump and drift with F1 machine .

    But we don't bc there is different set up for different purpose to maximize the benefit

     

    We can't ban hardboots in racing bc those for racing. I've been racing with my softboots and it was still fun.

    On 7/26/2021 at 7:49 PM, west carven said:

    howdy

    I hope everyone dies before me … as for me, I have always been on Hawaiian time … later the better ...

    slow down and enjoy the ride … you are missing the point … go softboots … 

    Try(go) hardboots!, I can carve better on softboots after I started hardboot snowboarding. Not beacuse, hardboot snowboarding is better it's different and less forgiving. I learned a lot from different skills for hardboot snowboarding.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  12. My Introductory period on Alpine snowboarding (Need some tips)

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    My 6th and 7th day went so well

    I went to boot fitter before snowboarding and now I can press 2times harder than beforE


    The snow was so forgiving I tried a lots of things

    I found my own BBP I think I was not bending my rear knee much before.

    I can make sharp turns and slowdown now. I really appreciate to people who l told me to press my front foot heel when I make heel turn.

    I got used to the stiffness of my board and boots. 

    Now I feel like I’m controlling my board not my board controls me🤣

    On 11/29/2021 at 7:38 PM, big mario said:

    lots of really good info here, try not to let it blow the top of your head off.

    I will add 2 things, and keep it simple:

    Soft legs, keep your knees slightly bent to act as shock absorbers, and get your center of gravity closer to the edge of the board, rely on your musculature for support and not your skeleton

    Exaggerate your movements, there has been many a time where I am thinking i am moving up and down like a piston in a stroker, only to see myself on video and i am barely bending my knees

    I exaggerated my movement at the point I thought I was flapping my wings  but this allowed me to have a better rebound, edge change, and press. I was to excited and I got too much rebound and I had an unexpected jumps between turns.

    I had a big crash on my night snowboarding. A snowboarder hit my back right after I changed my edge. I was fast but he was faster. I end up face landed and I was not able to breathe for 20sec. My helmet saved my life.

    Even though I have a SL snowboard I have to make a big a big curve on stiffer slopes but most of the slopes in East are narrow so I have to use the whole width. I usually let people pass me when they are faster than me. But most of people don’t make any turns and just go straight down the fall line (they are too fast). I wish there is no passing rule for some slopes🥲
     

    My whole body is in pain so I will skip next week snowboarding(I also have finals)

    I will try Intuition SBC next week thanks to @Eboot I hoop this liners can help my heel lift problem

     

     

     

     

     

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  13. My Introductory period on Alpine snowboarding (Need some tips)

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    On 11/28/2021 at 6:03 PM, SunSurfer said:

    I'm assuming with those angles that you are initiating turns by putting weight/pressure onto your toes and heels.

    So, toeside turn will feel strong if you pressure the toes of your rear foot.

    Heelside turn will work better if you can put the pressure onto the heel of your front foot. 

    This weight distribution will keep your overall centre of mass relatively balanced between your bindings.

    Try to "feel" the board with soles of your feet. Use your knees for shock absorption. Fatigue is common when your body is learning what to do. As you get better you'll turn with less effort.

    If you have access to a suitable slope,  a gentle Green slope is the best place to practice carving to begin with. You don't build up frightening speed so quickly. You can concentrate more on technique.

    How tall are you? Leg length in particular. Up to a point, a longer stance will make you more stable and able to maintain balance. I'm 182cm and ride @ 56cm just to give an example of proportions.

     

    I am 179cm. Do you think 49cm is too narrow? Recommended stance of the board was 50cm

    How do you think about my binding angles?

  14. My Introductory period on Alpine snowboarding (Need some tips)

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    I really appreciate for tips!! I didn’t know this many people will help me

    I wish I can ride with other hardboot snowboarder or get lessons. But I live in GA and I go snowboarding in Tennessee and North Carolina. I’m the only one who ride a alpine snowboard(people ask me about my snowboard at least 15times a day). My goal is participating in NASTAR racing in January  with my hardboots not softboots

    I did better on my 5th day. I figured out how to bend my rear knee to put my weight evenly. I practiced making one extended turn(J turn, uphill). And I was able to slow down. But still having a rotation issue with my heel turn. I will change my binding angles to 55 50 next time to see if it can help my heel turn.

    When you turn do you press towards the snow, edge, or board?

    I didn’t change the cant setting for my Upz boots should I change it?

    I had to press waaaaaay too much to make a sharper turn. Is this normal?

    I tightened my boot as tight as I can and my feet are still numb🥲. I went to my local skishop to get my boot fitted but they said they can’t do it bc they don’t have knowledge about it. But they said they can heat mold Intuition liners if I bring it. Which Intuition liners will be fit for me? Prowarp and SBS looks good

     

     

     

  15. My Introductory period on Alpine snowboarding (Need some tips)

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    4 hours ago, Eboot said:

    What they said
    I would add that you could concentrate on just a single turn at a time and ensure that you end up stopping by going back up the mountain at the end of the turn.  Once you can do this at will, make 2 linked turns, controlling each and stopping at the end of the second. 
    With your setup, if you don't learn this early it will only get harder to break the habit of accelerating with more linked turns, in the future.

    And there is no harm in stopping after 4 turns and starting again.

    Our ski resort have a narrow slope sometimes I feel like I will hit the wall

    what is your opinion about slipping little bit before turning 

  16. My Introductory period on Alpine snowboarding (Need some tips)

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    4 hours ago, Bobby Buggs said:

    To control speed you need to cross the fall line more than going down hill. The more hill you give away with each turn the faster you go so you need to finish your turns off almost going up hill. Thats extreme but its something to think about. As fun as it is to link a ton of turns as you get tired you dont finish the turn as well and end up with down hill orientation at the end of turns. That causes you to pick up more speed than you might want. Take some time to make sure you can control the finish of each carve to help with speed check. Doing just a couple turns paying attention to how they finish is a great way to figure it out. 

    Thank you for the tip
    I tried to extend my turn and it works

    I can link my turn from hellside to toe but not from toe to heel

    I feel like I’m upside down when I start the heelside turn after extended toeside turn 

  17. My Introductory period on Alpine snowboarding (Need some tips)

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    I started alpine snowboarding last week and today will be my 5th day riding alpine snowboard. I ride 6~7hrs a day.

    Boots : upz rcr

    Board F2 speedster WC 163

    Stance : 49cm regular 

    Angle : 53 48

    1st day I couldn’t even make a basic turn. 
    2nd day I was able to make basic turns and I tried to figure how press the board

    3rd day started basic carving but I had a problem on heelside turn

    4th day I figured out how to heelside turn and tried to press. I learned how to put my weight on my rear foot

    Today I will work on controlling my speed, press and rotation(I keep looking at fall line when I make heelside turn not the nose of the board

    My problems

    I can’t slow down when I carve . I’m getting faster and faster so I have to stop every 4th turn. 

    Every single turn is soooooo hard I have to rest at least 2min for every 10th turn.

     

     

  21. First time hard boots snowboarding

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    I have a soft boots snowboard in a Forward Forward stance (binding angle 39,24). After participating in my ski resort racing last winter, I got interested in hard boots snowboarding. I want to learn it this season. BUT I don't think any ski school in ski resort teach hard boots snowboarding.

    How can I find a lesson for hardboots snowboarding near North Carolina or Tennessee?

    Can I use hard boots for NASTAR SL and GS(if I can how many people use hard boots for NASTAR racing)?

    I'm planning to buy Donek Pulse  or F2 Speedster Proto SL. Should I get a softer flex snowboard? My snowboard has flex 9(Never summer east)

    Do you have any recommendation for a club to join to get some help?

    Sorry for sooooo many questions, I'm an international student from Korea. So I'm new to US and new to hardboots snowboarding. Ski/snowboard club in my university has very few snowboarders and no hardboots snowboarders.

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