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Anyone riding there this year?

Dhammon is correct. In BX you don't want 3 degrees, 2 is most sufficient even at WC level (although up there it's much more personal preference). You need a little forgiveness as you navigate the terrain in a BX course and you want to avoid ultra fast hook up if, say. You come off a roller funky.

I'd call BS on the spring effect. Ridden a lot of risers- a lot. Dampening - sure l, leverage - yep. Much else- not really. Bombers do provide a large advantage due to lift / canting options and that makes them unique, but you have to get over the insane weight.

Sold mine a while ago and never should have. I cannot replace the benefits of the canting and toe / heel lifting in other set ups! Let me know if anyone wants to part with a pair.

Sold mine a while ago and never should have. I cannot replace the benefits of the canting and toe / heel lifting in other set ups! Let me know if anyone wants to part with a pair.

In regards to grip and powering out of a turn, Jack is correct than a neutral alignment is superior and ideal... But for those after "good enough" generally trying to face the nose of the board does the trick. This is what I start riders with as well. So co-signed. One could liken this to squats: rotation destroys the explosion upwards (and will injure you... Maybe that part is mostly applicable to squats but racers can injure their back in ruts with too much rotation should something not go to plan). Flexion should come from the knees and a hip-hinge movement allows for power.

Right... So it's unfair somehow to point out that 19 is old enough to know how to look up some videos on YouTube? Or that a 19 year old these days statistically watches more YouTube than actual TV, but somehow this one never thought to pull up some snowboarding? Honestly, I get the same thing at the gym all the time. "Well, I might know how to perform XYZ movement if someone would be willing to show me"... As if it's everyone else's responsibility to inform others how to do something. Take some responsibility, show some effort and gumption, and do some research yourself prior to asking easy questions. Don't be intellectually lazy. This is actually helpful, if one can get out of their own way to see things properly. Many, many of the life changing conversations that have occurred in my life were geared towards my own (at the time) shortcomings. Be mature enough to see the truth in them and one will be better off 100% of the time. My advice: put some personal effort into your desired outcome by reading / watching everything you can on the subject, inclusive of reading through every old thread from this very forum. Then ask questions. At that point, and I truly mean this, you will not be wasting anyone's time and will make many, many friends here (including me).

Honestly it's less the amount of time he has been riding and more the level of riding AND the amount of time relative to the stated goal of WORLD CUP AND OLYMPICS. Smacked of "trolling". The riding and posting is so disconnected from the goals it makes one wonder if he has ever bothered to watch WC riding. Or understand the landscape for coaching and competition. It's delusional. Super happy to help anyone, but this process needs to begin with the proper level setting of one's ego in reality.

Troll, brah. I'm telling ya'll.

This dude's a troll.

Killington is still going.

Burton has a bindings with a "lip" on the side of the high back. Not carve orientated, but I could see this being a starting point.

Cosign Jack... Cost? Leming-brain? What is obvious?

How old are you?

Pass on that particular one. Thank you for the option, though.