Jack M

Donek and Coiler offer custom widths on nearly any model. As for that video, I'll give you about 190 degrees on that carve... ;-P Huh? I agree that people with biggish feet (10.5 is not huge, wth!) who want to carve are disregarded by most of the industry. However "the whole idea of carving on softies" is not mediocre, if your foot fits on the board. I tried @jburrill's carbon F2 Eliminator 166 "wide" (26cm waist, 12m radius) on Monday. It carved great as long as I didn't lay it over. JB squeezes into a 9.5 boot and can rail carves like a fiend. I'm digging the new "carving" fad in the softboot world these days. Oh and by the way, contrary to popular misconception, risers only rob you of leverage.

My soft setup is a Winterstick SW 164 which is 26cm wide at the waist. I ride it at 27/12 with US size 10.5 Burton Driver-X boots. I boot out prohibitively if I try to lay it over. So I don't. I used to try to ride it at 36/27, but it would still boot out at maximum lean. Those angles sucked for freeriding, so I gave up and decided if I really want to carve I'll go get one of my alpine rigs. It's fine for medium-tilt carving and great for freeriding now. I guess my next softie setup will have to be custom width (28cm??) to do it all.

Frank. I did. Results are circular referencing, or hearsay.

Haha, not that I don't trust you but I didn't notice a source for that info, and someone else said the molds still existed. I'd love to hear how the molds were recreated. When NWs were being made I was getting proform Burtons and then proform Deeluxes, so I wasn't paying much attention to NW. They look great, I don't think I can tear myself away from step-ins though.

It's nothing new, Burton had lowback bindings in the 90s. As well as baseless bindings. Silly fads. SBS, why don't you remove your highbacks for a whirl and get back to us?

@Puhutes So were the original molds really destroyed as it says in WinterGold's article? I owned a pair of those Burton rat traps very briefly. I returned them after they almost took off a finger. F that.

Looks like no.

Paging Mr. @RyanKnapton

Totally. Don't mess with the Australian Thunder.

Aside from the actual act itself, any day I wake up in the morning to see crisp temperatures, fresh corduroy, and good visibility, I get that same excitement and urgency as any powder day.

Apparently mine does not. Without thinking about it I was breathing erratically, and often holding my breath during carves. Inhaling during a turn transition (when my body is more relaxed) and exhaling during the carve when I am exerting myself much more (a la, a bench press) results in getting less winded and feeling better. Yeah Geoff, I think at your level you're doing a lot of that subconsciously. This is just one more thing to train into your subconscious.

Seriously don't worry about that. Gilmour bias is not a thing.

najserrot, you're going to have heel and toe drag. If not now, very soon. Also, an 18cm waist is very narrow, especially for a new carver. I'd strongly recommend selling that board and getting something more appropriate with at least a 20cm waist.

SunSurfer, so you're telling me I don't feel better when I do this? Interesting.

It was wicked cold here right up until last night. Every frickin year, The January Thaw.

Tonight is going to be a shit-show after this rain. I wish they'd just cancel/postpone it.

Materials like resin/epoxy, plastic, wood can become brittle with age. Inside your board, the epoxy probably looks like this: I have an '89 Burton Safari and a chunk of the sidewall just fell out. On my first board, '88 Burton Elite 150, I recently went to take the bindings off and they just broke into pieces in my hands. This is why I die a little bit every time a ~15 year old board is sold in the classifieds here. (except for original Madds of course!)

(Apologies to any "real" racers trying to use this forum) Who's in? Some familiar names here: http://skiracing.nastar.com/index.jsp?year=2017&source=selectrankings2&pagename=viewrankings&overallsnowboard=Y&male=Y Doing beer league on Wednesday nights at Shawnee Peak, Maine. My standing is one better with Todd Brown out of the country!

LOL. I know a good softbooter who always beats me at the Sugarloaf Banked Slalom. One year the course was particularly fast and carvey and seemed to favor my alpine setup. Well to my surprise he got first and I got third overall. I asked him how he did it and he just said "race car noises!"

My bootfitter said shell stretching is reversible. But I don't think you need to worry about that, I think it's your only choice other than using a different footbed, or worse, selling the boots and starting over.

And umm, why do you have a douchebag?

What the hell? http://rugo.co.kr/douchebags Can't believe nobody noticed this in the SG bindings thread!!!

Just because I'm sure you're capable... I'd like to see more variety of turn size and transition type, especially cross-through. You guys stand up between carves and the video seems to be 100% cross-over. Nothing wrong with that when conditions allow, and it's probably the most fun way to carve, but it uses up time and real estate during the transition that you may not have on steeps and/or ice. Also I'd like to see more speed. Otherwise your styles are great. Very clean, no wasted motion, making it look easy. Haha, that was 6 years ago and I couldn't justify it when the Coiler NSR was nearly as good for half the money. I'll have one someday. But original Northwaves, unless you want to gift them to me for like $500, I just will not pay the fair market value of those things. If I was racing full time, sure, but beer-league isn't worth it!

I thought this might help because I realized I was holding my breath during carves and only breathing randomly and shallowly (is that a word?). I'm digging it. Ohhhhmmmmm....