Jack M
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@Snowgirl, I was curious so I asked The G Team if they give lessons to individuals like you and the answer is yes. You can email alpine(at)thegteam.com. Good luck!
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1 hour ago, ShortcutToMoncton said:
I feel you’re pretty much locking yourself in to on-piste carving at 18/36.
Nah, depends on what you're used to. Choice of binding angles on my first board were limited to about 45/0, lol. Somehow, I went off-piste. On my current freeride board I was using 30/15 but my front knee was hurting, so I went to 36/15. Ahhh, much better. My body is too twisted from decades of alpine.
1 hour ago, ShortcutToMoncton said:That’s kind of what the board is for
That is 100% what the X-Carve is for.
@Samurai le Blanc, check out the PowerRide tongues for a nice boot upgrade for carving.
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Welcome!! Here's a quick start guide:
Stance width should be about 2/3 of your inseam measurement (crotch to floor). Center your stance relative to the center set of inserts in the board.
Binding angles should be chosen such that your boots do not overhang (stick out) past the edges of the board. For your first few days you can tolerate a little overhang. Front binding angle should be about 3-5 degrees higher than the back binding angle.
Hopefully your bindings are adjustable for toe/heel lift and lateral cant. A good place to start is with toe lift on your front binding, heel lift on your back binding, and no cant. Adjust to taste after riding.
It would be great if you could take a hardboot lesson with The G Team, they're in Minnesota.
Some further reading:
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6 hours ago, philw said:
To be clear, are you claiming that the FIS rules do not apply in the USA?
I don't know but that is my impression. The NSAA rules mostly cover the same stuff, albeit without mentioning carving skis and snowboards.
6 hours ago, Rob Stevens said:If your observation on the above is the following, you may have just lost the case.
Not sure what you mean but maybe we are arguing semantics. I agree it's foolish to consciously assert your "rights" as a downhill rider and keep carving if you know there is traffic above you. If I perceive there is any possibility of being hit from behind I simply pull over and sit down, or stop carving.
But that still doesn't cover me 100%. Just today I was carving down a low-angle runout trail back to the chair, not taking up even a third of the trail width, thinking I was all alone. Suddenly I was overtaken by a group of 3 park skiers - you know, the kind that practically straightlines everywhere but in the park. They avoided me appropriately and comfortably, but I was not aware of them until they were next to me. I don't think I did anything wrong, and if one of them had hit me they would be 100% responsible.
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I am using Gecko Stealths with 10mm bumpers on a 26cm waist board. 36/15 angles, US size 10.5 Burton Ions. I can carve it with decent satisfaction on easy slopes, but I still cannot lay it over without booting out. I'm ok with that because softboot carving isn't really my goal.
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2 hours ago, philw said:
That seems clear enough.
Except for a few things. 1, these FIS rules have not been adopted by the NSAA (US resorts) and it seems to me not by Canadian resorts either. Are they the offical rules in Europe? Actually I had never seen them until now, because I've never been to a resort that promoted them. FIS is the governing body of competition, not of the entire sports. I believe FIS enacted these rules so that FIS can take action against a competitor for bad behavior at or adjacent to an FIS event and representing FIS badly.
2, that tertiary comment on rule 5 is contradicted by all 4 rules above it.
3, it's completely vague and open ended.
Are you telling us you look uphill before every carve?
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It turns out our memories aren't what they used to be. It has been pointed out to me with photographic evidence that those guns were there last year. Maybe the rope placement is a little more cautiously out into the trail this year, but, the guns were already there.
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5 hours ago, Rob Stevens said:
So you get 4… If it’s argued you can’t or didn’t look uphill, then you may have a problem.
With 1, it’s tied to 4… it could be argued that you couldn’t avoid people because you couldn’t or didn’t look uphill.
Again, I’m not saying the uphill skier would absolutely win the decision, but if I as the defence lawyer had that video and the defendant had the time and money, you might wind up defending yourself at great cost in both money and time.
Sure, if you don't look uphill before starting downhill, and then you get plowed very shortly after starting downhill, all bets are off. But that was not the case in @slapos 's or my situation. We looked uphill. But even if we did not look uphill before starting, the collision happened well after we were "established" as the downhill person under way.
56 minutes ago, lafcadio said:This is me also. To the point where I can sometimes (often times?) be annoying to anyone I happen to be riding with. I don't care. I detest wasting the hill on skidding around traffic. I'd rather wait so that I can carve turns the way I want to.
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On hard snow I would want the 10.5m sidecut radius of the X-Carve 159. This will keep turn size reasonable. At your weight, 159cm will be fine. For comparison, your Jones has a 9m sidecut radius.
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1 hour ago, Rob Stevens said:
If you’re plainly disregarding 1 and 4…
4, yes, you must look uphill before starting downhill. I'm assuming that.
1, not sure I understand you?
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24 minutes ago, softbootsurfer said:
the Patrol said, do it again, we pull your ticket, you are a Hazard!!!
They said that to you? If so I would escalate that.
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We're gonna have to agree to disagree on that case. I don't think there is one at all. Clear violation of the NSAA Responsibility Code items 1 and 2. (Same in Canada)
This reminds me, I was at Winter Park last month for my daughter's mogul competition, and I was kind of surprised by all the billboards on the drive there for lawyers specializing in ski accident injuries. I don't remember noticing them the last time I was in Colorado.
30 minutes ago, Neil Gendzwill said:As my father is fond of saying about driving, "you'd be right. Dead right."
Yeah. Or, "Sometimes you can choose to be right or you can choose to be happy, but not both."
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On 1/12/2024 at 3:54 PM, Rob Stevens said:
This won’t be a popular take, but that’s a decent example of “shared responsibility”.
If you don’t know that after 2 turns someone pinning it in the fall line will catch up to you, you need to increase your alert level.
I can see why he might have thought that was your fault… he was on edge, watching you and trying to steer away. If you had eyes in the back of your head, you would have seen him. My answer is to grow eyes there, rather than have him act for both of you.
If you don’t know what’s behind you every time you go to the heel edge, you’re asking for it.
You're right in the sense that carving across the trail is risky if anyone else is above you, kind of like walking through a rough neighborhood wearing a nice suit and a Rolex is risky. Not looking over your shoulder if there is any amount of traffic is asking for it. However at the end of the day it is 100% on the people above you to avoid you, and it is 100% on the people in the rough neighborhood to leave you alone.
I've never been taken out from above I believe because I have OCD about timing my starts with lulls in traffic. I think I'm very good at it. I will wait several minutes if necessary. One uncrowded weekday I had a near miss where I looked uphill before starting and there was not a soul except for a skier about 200 yards up. Every other time that is more than plenty of space. So I started doing my thing. Knowing the huge gap I had and that the skier had clear line of sight to me, I did not think I had to shoulder check. About 100 yards later the skier clips my tail and goes flying past me making a miraculous save on one ski. I chased. Turned out to be a young woman, maybe highschool or college age. She was scared that I had chased her but she apologized.
I'm not seeing any shared responsibility there. I think this was a similar situation as @slapos's.
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6 hours ago, Aracan said:
I waved goodbye to that illusion two years ago. I came down a narrow, winding part of the run - a groomed forest road, really, just a connector to the lift. I turned a corner, and in the middle of that run, where it was maybe 15' wide at most, there stood four members of a lokal skiclub, handily identified by their identical outfits, side by side.
I have stopped wondering about people.
shoulda sprayed them. just kidding. sort of.
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Saw that board. The nose decamber is loooong. I would not expect it to ride anything like a normal one.
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Here she is in action at MCC ‘22. Such a great board. The sidecut wraps around you like a hammock.
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Sugarloaf absolutely confounds me sometimes.
Hopefully it's temporary.
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1 hour ago, dhamann said:
noticed the headwall got narrower by at least 12' with that new line of guns. completely ruining one of my favorite lines. glad they have pads on the guns.
Wtf? Sluice Headwall? Do the guns swing out of the way, restoring previous width? Guess I'll find out this weekend but
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Reading between the lines it sounds like the new World Cup version is your personal favorite?
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I don't recall Volkl making alpine boards after 2006. While Volkls were great for their time, they're still quite old and old tech/geometry. I'd say the board is worth US$50, bindings zero. They're very old and not adjustable for cant and lift.
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If you have to loosen your softboots at lunch, you may as well be riding hardboots.
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On 1/6/2024 at 4:01 PM, Shred Gruumer said:
No that's a top sheet..me thinks the top covers the Zylon fiber sandwich between.
Are you sure? I thought it was the fiber, based on a closeup picture of the edge of the material you sent me. Would be kind of an odd design for a cosmetic-only topsheet, IMO.
How to Carve a Snowboard
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I appreciate this effort. The intro is rather antagonizing to other groups and styles. That’s been tried (ahem, EC vs Bomber/racer style) and I can tell you it’s pointless. As much as I agree that falling leaf is not snowboarding, if somebody sees another style and says to themselves wow, I need to carve more, that’s a win for all of us.
And I’d love it if we could retire the term Eurocarve.