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Lower lift line at MCC yesterday. Not my cleanest work but there's always next year
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Tatsu is awesome! It's him and others from his crew like Char Huger that motivated me to order a Donek Saber this year and I love it.
Most of the japanese & Korean riders with that style are riding the Grey Deseperado TypeR
(I know Tatsu rides Kessler but I'm almost certain the Grey is loads cheaper and very comparable)
https://sbn.japaho.com/en/2122_gray_desperado_ti_typer/
I'm kinda bias as I am an ambassador for Donek and love all my boards from them but the Saber seems to really give me that serious acceleration out of a properly done carve and shoot me across the fall line like you see Tatsu do so smoothly.
You could send the specs sheet from the Desperado TypeR or Tatsu's Kessler over to Sean and ask him to make you a Saber that resembles it. One thing to note is that Donek Saber and Incline are the most popular models sold by Donek's Korean distributor and because Koreans are so into ground tricks they like them a bit softer than what Tatsu and other riders of this type who are into pure carving would like. I ordered my Saber a bit stiffer than a Knapton Twin and after a few days or riding and breaking it in it really is the perfect board for this style.
Here's a reel from day 2 riding the Donek Saber and if ever you are interested in that model feel free to tell Sean to look up Jordan Michon's Saber for stiffness rating etc.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmxIAFJKNO7/?igshid=MWI4MTIyMDE= -
Donek makes wide boards and sleeves so I'd try and grab one from them.
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Had been wanting to record this drill for a while and this talk about rotation and hips had me thinking about what skills would open you up to more freedom to be creative in your style. Obviously pitch, speed and corridor are going to effect how liberal you can be with self expression but if from your knees down you are doing the right things and you're stacked and mobile over and across your board I think you should be able to get away with a lot of style things like counter rotating on the toeside without enormous consequences.
Anyways, this is a little exercise I love to do from time to time to keep my lower body steering on point.
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On 9/2/2022 at 12:57 PM, aeonneo376 said:
I'm considering the Contra vs. a Donek board right now for softboot carving, looking to do something similar to the Japanese style: https://www.instagram.com/p/CestnREDrYP/
What's the difference & what would you recommend?
Talk to Sean at Donek. Donek is distributed in Korea as well where tons of riders of this style order the Saber and the Incline. Over the years Sean has kinda dialed in the different wants of BX users of the Saber and the Korean/Japanese style that incorporates some ground tricks. Too stiff and it makes the ground tricks very hard. Generally the Saber isn't an overly stiff board to begin with but when I ordered a Saber this year I used the Knapton Twin I ordered from them previously as a stiffness reference and Sean nailed it. If you have ground trick ambitions getting it made a bit softer than a Knapton might be helpful though.
From what I've seen of the Contra its not super well suited to that style of carving but I could be wrong.-
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5 hours ago, crackaddict said:
Jordan (@StrangeFuture808) has been encouraging me to expand my skillset this season. He's also challenged me to try to get my butt to touch the snow before my hand on heelside, an extreme balance challenge.
I also tried to get you to do a toeside carve touching nothing to the snow but your edge and helmet. You should know by now I cant be taken seriously out there
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5 hours ago, crackaddict said:
Now, without putting words in anyone's mouth, @StrangeFuture808 has expressed that he finds the EC style cheating a bit because his body weight on the snow helps his board track smoother. If anyone wants to argue this claim, take it up with Jordan, I wouldn't know about that.
Not really what I said or meant, I was speaking for myself and how I feel looking back critically on videos of my own riding from last season. I destroyed a couple of pairs of snow pants shredding the pocket because I got comfortable with my ass sliding on the ground on my heelside carves and this winter I wanted to use my leg strength more. I solved the pant shredding problem by having a seamstress sew vinyl on the lead hip/butt of my pants but even that was getting a bit chewed up. I admit riding like that with the butt slide felt smooth and the board tracked straight without chatter but I definitely felt like I was sitting my way through turns.
A properly executed layed out EC heelside is nothing like what I was doing and I didn't associate what I said with that style. I wasn't laying it out on my heelside I was doing a angulated fairly standard carve with only my hand ass and edge on snow and when I look back at my own footage like this carving segment at the beginning of this video I feel like I was cheating by having my ass on the snow for too long.
Good news, January is almost over and I haven't even scuffed any outerwear yet this season
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Damn thats huge! What was the width of your previous board? .
Assuming by the way you're riding that thing this isn't your first Knapton Twin lol.
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21 hours ago, Jack M said:
The poke/reach at the end of that toeside looks great and I love how it feels when that results in a burst of speed across the fall line! Nice turns! Totally what I was talking about.
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1 hour ago, Rob Stevens said:
** I think this is very relative to binding angles. For me and in the clip Jack posted of me I run +28 / -3 for stance. In that position, I constantly remind myself that if I allow too much countering too late in the turn, I'm only supported by the back half of my edge. By rotating back into alignment as I leave the fall line, I engage the entire edge. Again, if angles are higher in both feet, this return to neutral will still appear (and possibly be) more countered.
Agreed I ride 2 boards +27+12 (this is my first year riding ++) and 2 boards +27-9 and that counter rotated toeside feels way more dramatic when riding duck and ++ makes rotation on my heelside feel much more efficient. I'll never go full ++ but its hard not to see it as the most efficient stance for carving.
Your current turn is usually only as good as your last turn and your ability to return to a neutral stance between carves is kinda your only defence against your own consequences.-
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I'm going to say something I know wont sit well with a lot of people but most of the best riders I see carving rotate on their heelside driving with their hips and then counter rotate on their toeside (to a varying degree) by putting their hand down further forward on the snow than their lead shoulder. The trickle down effect of that hand down is going to fairly mild at the hips but the motion of driving your rear knee down towards the snow also contributes to the communication to your board that you are counter rotating. I've played around with this a fair amount on the mountain in the last few weeks and found that mild counter-rotation in your toeside carves like in this main image of this video has great effects. If you watch videos of Japanese "mustard" riders you'll see they initiate the toeside turn with their front arm almost behind their back and sweep it forward as the turn progresses bringing them from a heavily counter rotated initiation to a more rotated position at the end of that toeside carve, then they do the same sweep on their heelside with their back arm from back to front. The super aggressive ones will make this sweep almost look like a punch.
It's unfortunate that carving on that level is an afterthought to the governing bodies of instruction/coaching in North America so we're left guessing, debating and playing around finding out what works best for us. At least they got something right, "there are no wrongs in snowboarding just consequences".... aka #^(K around and find out.5 hours ago, nextcarve said:-
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1 hour ago, Neil Gendzwill said:
How is that Delirium? Looks like you were under Angel chair.
I don't know the runs that well and really dislike Sunshine so I never bothered to learn them. I was mistaken about the chair name though this is under Great Divide Chair. The one that takes you to Delirium.
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Caught a couple laps on an empty Delerium at Sunshine Village this morning.
Riding a 160 Donek Nomad Goofy with +27+9 stance 29.5cm waist width
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On 1/9/2023 at 12:28 PM, Kneel said:
I know, friends don't let friends snowboard at the mall, but every time I've been to BigSnow there are a handful of the softboot carvers you describe. Super nice too and I'm sure they'd be happy to offer help. The compact space and consistent conditions are also good for some deliberate practice. Also, Dan Richards who goes by @icecoastcarver on IG is also pretty solid rider frequents there...
I second this. Dan Richards @icecoastcarver and Marisa Mckellar @marisamckellar are in your area and both great knowledgeable carvers.
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8 minutes ago, slopestar said:
Strangefuture8/ Sorry for the thread Hijack! I used to work for Craig and Kelly Jo back in the 90's digging pipe at Blackcomb all summer and 6 seasons year round at Crystal Mountain Wa. before that. Hope to ride sometime!
No sweat, I'm always curious about what different companies out there are doing.
The tech seems great but those boards would need to be about 4cm wider for me to try them.
29.5cm ww seems to be my minimum width (on a small sidecut) without bootout on soft boots and for 12m radius plus I need 30.5cm ww or bigger. Damn feet are too big for my sport.
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As far as the comment about Asian mustard goes..
I think it comes down to what audience you are trying to inspire with your videos.
30+ people will look at carving as a low impact option with longevity and the ideal in their mind is to make it look smooth as butter and like it was easy. Unfortunately those aren't the kind of things -30 people get inspired by. The mustard is the visual stimulation that is going to draw young blood to the sport. On the plus side, the young blood will get old like we did and swap out the mustard for butter eventually.
Not sure if anyone has noticed how Korean's teach beginner carving but sheeeeesh, that could use some mustard on it. Never seen such static motions BUT they do pump out some of the worlds best talent as soon as their students get comfortable with the speed needed to make nice dynamic turns.-
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17 minutes ago, Jack M said:
Looks like you had a buddy holding the pole, yes?
And what did that skier yell?
I was filming and yelled "What's so hard about just waiting?".
For the sake of politeness on the mountain it's a good thing I usually wear mitts and my hand signal vocab is narrowed down to just thumbs up or thumbs down.-
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Some turns in Revelstoke this morning
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Hard to beat James's perfect run, especially on a volume shifted powder board with a nose rocker but this is the same 2 runs this morning. I just started a bit higher and ended before the last pitch in@crackaddict's vid. Riding duck because this is my daily driver and not one of my dedicated carvers.
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On 1/5/2023 at 6:32 AM, slabber said:
are you in Revy as well @StrangeFuture808? I used to live in Lake Louise and am hoping to get back to the Rockies for a family trip this spring. Miss the bigger hills...
Yeah kinda doing the snomad ting but Revy is as close to a home base as I have this winter. Hit me up if you end up out this way!
On 1/5/2023 at 7:46 AM, O.o said:Well, I'm a softboot carver from Canada! I'm based in Edmonton which is much too far from the mountains, but I still do all right. I started on softboot carving shortly after I learned to snowboard - I was lucky to get an instructor who really knew how to carve. After multiple bad seasons since I broke my foot in 2014, I'm back at it with a bunch of hardboot setups as well. Still not quite where I used to be, so working on that this season - I'm sure I'll get there.
I don't have any footage to post yet, but I want to start a snowboard YouTube channel and instagram this year.
That's awesome you've carved with Ryan, it would be on my bucket list to carve with him someday.
Let me know if you come out towards BC at any point. I'll be around Invermere, Kicking Horse and Lake Louise a few times this winter but mostly around Revy.
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5 hours ago, JohnE said:
Nice style! Who was doing the filming (skier, boarder)?
I was filming with an iphone 14 pro in cinematic mode (first time I have tried that mode) while snowboarding.
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Happy New Year everyone. New to the site and clearly should have been here much sooner.
I ride soft boots on extra wide boards around 30cm waist and aside from crackaddict in Revelstoke and some friends out in Whistler I haven't met too many carve focused riders up here in Canada. Generally I rely on instagram videos of Korean and Japanese riders (and Ryan Knapton of course) to keep me inspired but I know out there in this massive amazing country there are other low-lifers and irl inspiration to be found. I'm a life long student of the sport and love to share what I've learned with others so hit me up Canadian carvers! Throw some footage up in this thread.
I post riding footage almost daily here https://www.instagram.com/strangefuture808/
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Compression fracture of my L1 at 24 means Sacroiliitis for life either way. Funny enough its way worse in the summer than winter and the more engaged I am with work and riding the less I get any sciatic nerve type pain. I definitely try and keep it from touching down hard (keeping it off the snow has been a huge focus this year) but that little corridor leaves less room for the ideal standard.