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Anybody in for a possible New Year's Day session at Bear or Summit? If the weather looks good, I'll stay sober on New Year's Eve and carve it up on New Year's Day!

I'm gonna guess Dynafit AT ski boots and Phantom plate bindings...

I passed on the 901T's because I wanted mittens with a gauntlet and removable liner. So I'm trying out the surplus mittens with the Nikwax waterproofing. I'm sure the hardboots/alpine board will get a lot more strange looks than the trigger mittens:-) Thanks for the heads up Erazz. Upcoming weekend will be the test run for the surplus mittens. I'll be stoked if they last a season without needing any ShoeGoo.

I have had some close calls while carving, but the only time I got hit, I was not actively carving. I slowed down as I went over a blind roller so that I wouldn't hit anybody. Then a teen snowboarder aired off the roller and slammed into me. I was wearing body armor and a helmet. The teen slammed his head into my helmet and had to take the tobbagon ride to the bottom. The teen got a concussion and bloody mouth. I had a light bruise on my bicep, which I didn't notice until later.

Relative to pumping to gain speed, surfboards, skateboards and snowboards can be analogous. When the SB racer extends his legs through the turn, he creates an angular impulse which changes his angular momentum. I would agree that skis and snowboards function very similarly. However, if the current world class coaches/athletes can't figure out how to make a SB racer look like a ski racer, then it will be even more difficult for a recreational racer/rider.

Howard Sheckter is predicting an awesome April. Probably be in Mammoth the weekend of 4/15/16.

I'd read the Wiki at least once. This BOL link should be more prominent on BOL or show up more often on Google searches: http://www.bomberonline.com/newbies/

The compression/extension shown in Cirigliano's videos I think are analogous to pumping on a surfboard. So instead of a waste of energy, it adds energy which increases speed. The quiet COM that Beckman is talking about seems closer to the technique used by Carve Master Curt in the clip below. However, I don't see any world class racers that ride like CMC. I applaud the riders that are trying to find better techniques, but for the average recreational rider, I say copy what is currently winning.

I remember Bruce telling me my Coiler Schtubby has some decamber and the SG website says my 157 Full Race has "RCR Rocker". Also, my Burton Custom has V-Rocker. So I voted "hybrid".

There are a lot of instructional videos on the web for extreme carving. Not so much for racing. Marc Cirigliano's YoutTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/mcirigliano52/videos, is the best that I've found so far. I don't race so I don't know if his advice is valid or not. His advice seems good to me. His explanations on drifting a turn, entering a gate early or late cleared up the subjects for me. He's got 15 videos on race technique. Here's the first one, The only real critique I have is that he seems to have confused flex and extend in the diagram below. From the videos, it looks like the racers "flex" or get compressed in the fall line and "extend" their legs in the edge transition between gates:

Stop guessing. Get the SkiTracks app.

Steep, groomed and wide: I'd go with an EC style board and EC it from top to bottom. My EC board is a Coiler Schtubby 171 with a 13m side cut. As mentioned in other threads, EC is not necessary for steeps, but it makes the steeps easier because you're scrubbing speed with body parts. With less speed, you need less energy to hold your carve, so it's less tiring. If it's steep and narrow or the grooming is not so good, then a slalom board is easier.

I thought there use to be a FAQ for this? Pros: More comfy if fitted properly Shorter sole length = lower binding angle to prevent boot out Better for carving/edge control Wins races Better for splitboarding (if an AT boot) I originally got hardboots because soft boots started to kill my feet whenever I carved a turn.

LOL, free demos end up getting expensive. Definitely interested in trying out the MK if you get one. It will be good to compare the MK with my SG 157 Full Race.

Then maybe your hardboots are too stiff. Depending on the brand, you could install an after market spring system to customize the flex. My old Raichle 413's were too stiff in ride mode and too floppy in walk mode. Installing the BTS made the boots good for all terrain riding. I'm now using Dynafit AT boots for everything. For untracked pow, I'm not sure yet if I prefer hard or soft boots. But once the pow gets tracked out, I definitely prefer hard boots.

You probably need an invite. Post or PM your Facebook name and get an invite.

Did you get to compare your MADD 158 (2nd/3rd gen?) with the MADD Killer? Did the MK meet the hype? Any reviews on the various plate systems?

On the endo scene, is the dude's board too soft or did he just overload the nose?

Do you have a video sample of someone carving on "difficult" slopes?

Mammoth season pass goes on sale on 3/21/16, $749 (includes Bear/Snow Summit). Can start using it at MM on 4/11. Can be used at Bear starting. 3/21. I haven't gotten a season pass for a couple of years. Looks like a good time to get the season pass again. I'll probably ride at Bear during Easter. Maybe go to MM after April 11th.

Due to the forecasted hot weather, I'll be skipping out on SNES 2016:-( Good luck this weekend, and hopefully the MADD Killer lives up to the hype!

I've got an Osin 4807 in 168cm. I think I rode it with binding angles in the high 30's. Your wife must be riding her board with a lot of underhang. I find shorter boards to be much easier once the snow gets chopped up. My go to powder board is now a Furberg 162. It rides the deep untracked pow just as well as the Osin. It does everything else much better: carving groomers, moguls, chopped up pow etc. Furberg now makes boards in women's sizes (shorter and softer flex).

I would disagree. Technique would be the science part and style the artistic part of snowboarding. Racers tend to be compressed when they cross the fall line. EC'ers are extended when they cross the fall line. That would be the technique part. Sigi and the Extremecarving.com guys (Patrice and Jacques) all look smooth when they are carving turns. That is the style part. Downhill and Super-G are speed sports. I wouldn't call recreational carving a speed sport.

I recently saw the Sigi Grabner free-carving video. It's the best carving technique that I've seen. Despite the crappy song, it's now one of my favorite carving videos.. My other favorite carving video is CARVED, by the extremecarving.com guys. I think it's the two best videos to compare/contrast techniques. IMHO, it is much easier to carve a steep run using the EC technique. I don't race, but I did recently buy a SG 157 Full Race. I do quite a bit of EC on a Coiler Schtubby 171. I will try emulating Sigi's technique and save some wear and tear on my jacket and gloves:-) Race Carving: Extreme Carving:

This is the best free carving I've seen, EVER, but sound track sucks. Video has been out about 2.5 years and I just watched it yesterday. So I'd agree with the low visibility/low marketing comments. But as long as we have enough carvers to make sure we continue to get great boards, I'm happy with that. As a recreational rider, the only positive I see with a bigger community is the possibility of getting some hard boots that don't need modification to work well.