Jack M

Whatever position gives you the most balance wins. Seth Wescott gettin' it done in softies: Funny, we have an article with almost the same name here: http://www.bomberonline.com//articles/your_butt.cfm (there is more to this site than the forum!)

ya know Paul... if you want to continue this annual rub-in thing, it would be nice if you learned about exposure compensation! :p Or at least doesn't your camera have a snow/beach setting??

I haven't checked this year, but last year Burton didn't make a board with a sidecut radius longer than 8.9m. Not very useful for carving at any sort of real speed.

Who cares?? Buy a Donek, Prior, Coiler, Madd or any of the several other companies that support alpine.

My foot measures 28.5, so I bought a 28, but next time I will get 27. Putting my bare foot in the shell with my toe at the end, I can almost get three fingers behind my heel. I had to use my old gray Thermoflex liners to get a better mold and take up more volume.

what, no Snow-Stix?

BS flag thrown! ;) I have 28.0 boots and a 21cm board. I have to be at ~58 to eliminate overhang when viewed from above. Are you saying you have overhang but it doesn't cause an issue? Cuz I can't imagine you don't have overhang.

are you naturally pigeon-toed? Sorry if that's not a PC term, I don't know what else to call it. 10 degrees of rear toe-in is monstrous. I have to believe it's messing you up if you aren't naturally this way. As for long boards, yeah, you just have to get that edge angle up to crank the radius down as much as possible. This requires a lot of speed and all the good technique you can muster. Angulate angulate angulate. Cross-through to avoid lag time in turn transitions where speed builds up and can get out of control.

100% disagree. Very easy to mess up a landscape shot in many ways, or just take one that is completely uninteresting. Loc gets a ton of credit for those shots. You couldn't take your point-n-shoot out and just whip this off: or this: both physically impossible with a typical point-n-shoot.

Basically what D-Sub said. My board is 21cm wide, and I just put toes and heels on the edges with no overhang looking down from above. These are the lowest angles I've ridden since my last 21cm board (13 years ago ), and I'm loving it. Feels like a snowboard again! I like the extra ankle leverage while carving - it's more stable and balanced. And while not carving it's a lot more natural and fun. There's a reason racers went to wider boards.

Umm, maybe. Not sure though. Maybe I've just been doing it too long. I also desperately need to log some more hours on the board this year. The mojo isn't quite back yet. Out of shape and all. Desk job.

I live basically down the street from LLBean. I now have absolutely no qualms about sticking it to them with their 100% satisfaction guarantee if I am not 100% satisfied with a Chinese product, even 2 or 3 years out, like if I paid $100 for a pair of shoes made by communist slaves.

ok. I was a co-perpetrator, but enough with the love-fest already!!! man. someone say something to bring the manliness quotient of this forum back up quick. ;)

ski boots can work. They're not ideal, but for someone who primarily skis it makes perfect sense to use ski boots. My wife does this. Being able to easily switch between the two is ideal. Even just the mental factor of knowing you can bail out back to skis at any point in the day is a good thing for the attitude. I've taught several skiers how to snowboard in skiboots, and they actually had an easier time than the poor folks struggling with crappy rental softboots.

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dude? pretty sure those are women's boots.

This is why I will always have a place in my heart for Burton, even though I bash them for their disowning of alpine. It would just suck to have a ski company be the #1 snowboard company in the world. No reason. It just would. I despised K2 for jumping on the bandwagon with the Gyrator in the late 80's. Still do. Posers.

Bruce Varsava walked into a Burger King and ordered a Big Mac.... and got one.

I was expecting full Bluetooth capability so I could actuate them with my iPhone. ;)

I *think* I saw JJ at SES 05. If it was him, he rips. I agree with JJ that a more upright upper body is preferable and imo, more balanced and efficient, as opposed to bending too far forward at the waist. I like knees apart though, or at least able to act independently. Sometimes they end up together: The main thrust of my separate the knees article was to get people out of the 90's style of riding with the back knee tucked firmly into the back of the front knee, and held there as if by velcro.

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Yeah. This is NIMBY to a tee. Posers.

Not that there's anything wrong with it... http://www.gaywired.com/Article.cfm?Section=66&ID=21300

M-spec best board ever

Volkls are great boards, I used to ride one. 12.5m isn't very long for a 178cm board, so stability at speed is going to be subject to what size turn you're trying to do. It will want to come around fairly quickly at speed, which is why I suggested Volkl over F2 for ice and fall line turns as you said. But if you're looking for a GS board for longer high speed turns, F2 would be better there.