Jack M

I don’t know the temperature needed, but the material is Grilamid. Maybe your bootfitter is familiar with it or can research it. @MountainSlope, is there an optimal temperature for shell stretching?

Welcome @Spoon Shao, glad you found us. You can mold the stock liner yourself. I strongly recommend the oven method. There are good instructions here. It's certainly worth a try for your wide feet. You can add padding (like layers of Moleskin) to the sides of your feet during molding to create more room. And definitely make a toe cap. The rice sock method only heats the inside of the liner. This results in less deformation and doesn't mold the liner to the shell. If you mold your liners and they're still not wide enough, the next step would be Intuition Plug wrap liners. Good luck!

Here. https://forums.alpinesnowboarder.com/topic/40762-gilmour-bias/?do=findComment&comment=415270

Centering the boot on the binding and centering the binding on the board is a good practice, but not the only way. Then both your feet are aligned and levering the board on the same axis. Due to the hourglass figure of the board, this usually results in your front foot toe and rear foot heel being inside the edge of the board - "underhang". You can compensate for this by moving the front foot toe and heel blocks forward, and the rear foot toe and heel blocks rearward. This way you can really geek out and zero in on a stance that minimizes both binding angle and underhang. John Gilmour of Madd Snowboards stamps his name on this as "Gilmour Bias" but he didn't invent it. Maybe he was the first to describe it online. You can search that term here and see his thread about it. I've tried it (before reading about it) and I'm not sure it amounts to a hill of beans for my riding. YMMV

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That is putting it nicely. As long as we're nitpicking, the hands/arms are rather deliberate, like he knows he's putting on a clinic for the camera. Which is fine, it's a good example of not being lazy.

Agreed. That is the standard. I mean I can name several other exemplary riders, members (and moderators) here, but this video is an easy choice.

It was unreal!! https://www.jmphotocraft.com/Events/Eclipse-2024

ZipFit and Intuition have liners with tongues.

Oh yeah, Edwin Coratti is a great rider.

You might look into electrolyte powders like Skratch Labs or LMNT ("element"). The idea is that the electrolytes and minerals allow your body to absorb water better. Then you might not need to carry and manage so much water.

Yeah but what's the radius?

Yes, very sad, an outstanding veteran instructor. Fortunately I believe he should recover.

I suspect nobody is truly carving beyond 70 degrees.

I intended the Winterstick Squaretail Plus 170 to replace my Kessler 168. I spec'd the sidecut at 9-12-11m, based on Kessler's published "sidecut range" of 8-12m. The first 170 was too soft for me and turned much tighter. At least as tight as my F2 WC163 (radius 9.8m) at the time if not tighter. It held a great edge thanks to extra torsional reinforcement, but it was redundant with the 163 which was not the desired outcome. I sold it and had another 170 made stiffer and I tweaked the sidecut a little and it was a success.

Very important. The calculation of turn radius = sidecut radius times cosine of edge angle is just an approximation. Cosine of 90 degrees is 0. I think it describes the "projection" of the sidecut onto a flat surface. But because the length of the snowboard does not change, and because it sinks into the snow some amount, and because of flex, it's not that simple. I believe the actual radius is slightly tighter. My maths aren't up to the task.

A lot of the same material is covered in the tech articles, but I know video is better, and he does a great job.

Nevermind the softboots...

Haha, we get powder sometimes.

Like this one: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ZvPKBBpPWJypuRSe/?mibextid=WC7FNe

No boot-out here. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/rQiNpQvevXZrf6Lc/?mibextid=0VwfS7

Nice riding! I'm getting an optical illusion in the first scene - looks like you're going uphill!

Unreal David! Glad you are on the mend and that it wasn't worse. Thanks for the reminder!