Jack M

Enjoy!

Well, you said best... http://www.skimd.com/

Looking good on my iPhone! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I upgraded the forum software tonight, and also installed Tapatalk. Fin will just need to register BOL with Tapatalk and then it will be listed and ready for use on your smartphone.

Never rode a pair, would love to know the definitive answer to this. The shell is a 3 piece design very similar to Deeluxe so I'm not sure what the difference is. I asked Jasey Jay at the ECES last winter and he said "They just got it right. They just work great." *shrug* However I'm afraid falling in love with a pair would be like falling in love with an original Madd 158. Two things which will never be built again.

CF OMG!! Adorable little princess there Curt, congrats.

Water under the bridge! Welcome back.

I would say yes absolutely, open your wallet and get good footbeds. They should help with circulation, but even if they don't for some reason, the benefit to your riding will still be worth the expense. I wouldn't ride without them, and I have no foot/leg issues.

With the right board and right stance it's a lot better than it used to be. I don't even own softies anymore. My Coiler 161 SL with 21cm waist does it all. Powder, trees, ice, whatever. </sigh></sigh>

I see that and I will raise you Shannon Melhuse riding hardboots in powder trees with Craig Kelly in '91: That's the whole movie, there is a significant amount of freecarving and racing in it if you scroll around.

Jacopodotti, if you would actually like to help, I suggest you contact Bomber directly.

Cool, but not as cool as this! <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/z5u_2bGPdUY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

The forum and the rest of the site was fine, it was just the main index page.

Yep. I've emailed Fin and Michelle, I'm sure they will fix it as soon as the sun rises in Colorado. A quick google suggests the hackers politely just rename your index.php to index2.php.

"Bored skiers go snowboardin'!" LOL. Andy Coghlan I think? Gonna save this until I have time to watch it all at once.

terrible snapshot.

Very sorry to hear this. Never met him but I always thought he looked like a fun guy. Pretty sure he had the biggest stick on the forum!!

Shredhead Diaries

No Asyms for you!! Haha, thanks guys. Job is going well.

Terrible news. Condolences Chris.

Here is a writeup about the recent trend in board technology: http://www.bomberonline.com/resources/Bomberfiles/the_new_hotness.html

Double heel lift? Asyms? I'm out. It's all good, bro. Just ride, man.

I have never even seen Northwaves in person, nevermind used a pair, but from pictures I have to wonder if the high heel was purely an unintentional by-product of trying to tuck the heel bail in under the heel for shorter overall boot/binding length. Minimizing boot drag, or at least the appearance of minimizing boot drag was a major trend started in the 90s and popularized by the Burton Megaflex boot. It's entirely possible Northwave was just trying to one-up everyone else in this regard with the bail-under-heel design.

No, the point about Northwaves was that they simply have "more" heel lift than Deeluxes, which still have heel lift as well. So technically anyone riding with flat bindings is riding with double heel lift, but that's pretty academic. I've never heard anybody, not even the EC guys, recommend heel lift in the front binding. The need for some amount of heel lift in boots is this. You are supposed to bend your knees while snowboarding or skiing. Thus, ski boots and hardboots have forward lean to make this easier and more comfortable, and so that the boots encourage or at least do not resist a bent-knee posture. The heel lift or foot ramp is built into boots so that you will have more ankle range of motion than if only your cuff had forward lean and your foot was level. Many alpine snowboarders use bindings with toe lift on the front foot and heel lift on the back foot to comfortably allow a wider, more stable stance. This is a very simple concept of geometry and anatomy. Look at Vitruvian Man and you'll see why. There is no rocket science to it. If you mistakenly ended up with heel lift in both your bindings and it felt good, that should tell you that your technique is too straight-legged, or your stance is too narrow, or likely both. It's a band-aid. I recommend turning your disk the right way around, and working on your technique now that you have been given the insight from this accidental exercise. How tall are you and what is your inseam? If you can use a 19.5" stance on one board, then 17.5" is surely too narrow on the other. I'm 5'11", 31" inseam, and I like a 20" stance. With toe and heel lift.

read it again, he is talking about resetting his bindings back to a carving stance AFTER a powder day. As you can see, I was not addressing you there.