Jack M

Here's a cheap idea!

Yes, I have to consciously make myself do it, 33 years in.

Yes, this happens if you're going fast at carve entry. Perfectly normal. SL racers rarely layout carves. An earlier edge change and commitment will allow you to get lower, if that is the goal. Cross-under technique is your friend here. You just do it, but with the understanding that things need to happen quicker on a SL board. Turning your head and LOOKING into the turn and across the hill well in advance helps with this.

Cross-posting for a friend not on here, Coach Gandee at Gould Academy. Buy with confidence. $450. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/984192429478000

The boots should have come with red and blue springs. I'd try the reds before buying more tongues. Can also try this stuff for more heel hold: https://www.tognar.com/boot-fitting-foam-modified-ankle-wrap-pads-pr/

You are most welcome. Taper has nothing to do with it, only radius. Your F2 158 will not carve at higher speeds. Yeah you can go fast and drift long radius turns, but the board is not carving. The sidecut is actually causing drag then, which is part of why GS boards are faster than SL and Freecarve boards. I have a bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and a Master's in Computer Science. I don't practice ME anymore except here. A Math major once told me Engineers take "math for dummies", lol. That is also my recollection. I think F2 had Titanal then too. I believe the first snowboard to use it was the Checker Pig G6 in 1990.

I've never heard an argument for negative rear foot angles for beginners that makes any sense to me. Other than it makes life easier for the rental shop and the instructor.

Sorry for the delay. In slalom you need to finish the turn more across the hill and control speed. In GS you don't as much. Longer sidecut in the tail is faster and accelerates more at the end of the turn. It handles the greater forces that build up at the bottom of a high speed GS turn better. A constant radius or variable radius sidecut that gets tighter in the tail will want to finish the turn across the hill more aggressively, but will not carve at higher speeds. A longer mathematical explanation is here.

$0.02: I've had two custom metal softboot carve boards made for me over the past few years. They carved great on blues and greens with my Driver X's and Now O-Drives and Gecko Stealths. I'm not interested to get to the point where I can carve "well enough" in softboots on blacks because sb's will never equal hb's there. If conditions are good enough to carve in softboots, they are good enough to carve in hardboots, and that's what I prefer. So I've sold those sb carvers and gotten an off the shelf all-mtn board for days when it's not good for hardbooting. It carves enjoyably on blues and greens in good conditions, and it's fun to surf around everywhere else. When I'm softbooting, my objective is to experience all the snowboarding I'm missing in hardboots - not to recreate hardbooting. Furthermore, I discovered something that happens (to me at least) while carving in softboots that doesn't happen in hardboots, or not nearly as bad. Sometimes on a heelside carve, I'm not sure what causes it, hitting a rut or momentarily losing an edge and then regaining it or something, but it feels like someone hitting the bottom of my heels with a sledgehammer. I asked an expert sb carver friend about this and he was like oh yeah, that's a thing, it sucks. No thanks!! I'm out. YMMV.

Not only. +/+ is a more powerful and balanced stance in hardboots because we need to be able to move and pressure the board lengthwise. You don't see anyone riding flatter or +/0 stances in world cup racing for this reason.

The story I heard was quite the opposite. The New England Burton rep once described it to me as follows. In the 90s Burton was on the feet of the vast majority of racers. There was little brand competition in racing then and Burton got sick of basically bankrolling the lifestyle and globetrotting of all these racers for little to no return on investment. It's my impression that it wasn't really until after Burton exited alpine that we saw a lot more competition and innovation in race boards. Kessler made its Olympic debut in 2002.

That's Donny Pelletier, "Maine's Finest Athlete", the comedy character invented by Olympic Mogul skier Troy Murphy. He was in this year's Warren Miller movie and IMO stole the show. Check him out on Instagram and enjoy. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzCy73GJc7F/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== https://www.instagram.com/reel/CekjuwclUhL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Oh and some pro tuning advice: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3qfEnGyGm-

Donny was impressed with my board!

It’s true that the K171 is a junior’s board. It’s also a GS shape which means it has no hook in the tail. The K168 is closer to a slalom shape and is one of my favorite freecarving boards ever. Just get one!

Burton Step-Ons. And don’t forget about Winterstick.

I think a lot of it comes from 2 things - in the mid/late 90s all of a sudden park was king. Wide (stupid wide) stances, baggy pants, chain wallets, rails, jibbing, "switch" replaced "fakie", and if you couldn't ride switch half the time you were worthless and weak. Duck obviously works better for that so it became cutting-edge and fashionable, and a way to distinguish yourself as "new school" apart from those lame old schoolers who came before. Also, rental shops and instructors realized they no longer had to deal with determining whether a customer was regular or goofy and spinning a screwdriver if they simply sent people out the door with perfectly symmetrical boards and bindings. It was a 1-2 punch that created massive peer pressure and power of suggestion and all but wiped out +/+. I think a lot of people who ride duck do it for these reasons alone, not because it actually works better for anything but fakie - err, switch. But now it does work better for them because their riding has been built around it from day one. They are hobbled by it and unable or unwilling to try +/+. IMHO as always.

https://www.yyzcanuck.com/liner-molding-a-little-home-cookin/ tldr: heat oven to 250°F, turn off oven, put one liner in, cook for 10 minutes. Cool with full weight on that foot.

a) sex at birth - M b) height (socks or barefoot) cm/inches. - 5’11” c) inside leg measurement (socks or barefoot, floor to pubic bone) cm/inches. - 32” d) binding centre to binding centre distance for hardboot free carving, cm/inches. - 53cm e) binding angles front and rear - 57/53 f) front toe lift and rear heel lift degrees - 6/3 g) boots: Deeluxe, Mountain Slope, UPZ, Other - specify - Mountain Slope

So, I recently switched from the World Cups to the Standards and I'm glad I did. Kinda regretting not getting Standards in the first place, but I enjoyed the WCs. I would say the Standards with red toeside springs (that's how they arrive, with softer blue springs in a bag) are stiffer than T700s with BTS. I would also say T700s are stiffer than my old UPZ RC10s with stock tongues and liners. Laterally I'm not sure the Standards are much softer than the WCs at all, but the forward flex is noticeably softer which is welcome. I have not noticed any sacrifice in performance, in fact the opposite as I have better mobility and range of motion and comfort. I seem to recall someone here has measured the width of UPZs and MSs and found that UPZs are a little wider in the forefoot. Low volume Intuition Plug liners to the rescue for wide feet. When I used UPZs I foolishly used the medium volume Intuition Power Wraps because I had them already, and my feet hurt. When I bought size 28 MSs, the stock liners were already low volume because that is the end of the C shell size, so they solved my width problem for me. I'm not sure whether MS or UPZ are wider in the heel, they both are the right size for me there. F2 sells longer heel bails for use with MS. I think Donek has them. I don't know what happens if you try to ride with regular F2 bails. Bombers work as is but the fit in the heel bail is tight. You have to twist the boot to get out of it. I suppose I could fix this with Bomber's microadjustment but I haven't gotten around to it.

Hi Bob, welcome. That other seller and you are hoping for a buyer who is completely ignorant of the current market. Given how small this sport is, that’s probably only a handful of people, and nobody here. And then you’d be taking advantage of them. The board is about 20-22 years old, and old tech. IMO this setup is worth $400 shipped, at best.

Tempting. These prototype boards stole the show at ECES 2004. Blew my mind and many others. The following production boards were not as good.

Molding or re-molding your moldable liners with the PR's is the ticket. I also had pressure points before molding. If you don't have moldable liners, get some.

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Excellent news.

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