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First chair........The day after on groomers, the conditions weren't too bad neither .................!!

Yesterday's Springday turns....Only 2 inches of fresh snow but worth giving it a try............

I'm planning to have Sean build me a Flux for the next season....Till now , my softboot fleet was including two stock '05 and '06 glass Inclines...Very happy with them, but want some new and more damp toy now...What have you guys Flux happy owners been going with?...stock models, special sauce construction....?

Thanks for keeping that forum and website alive. Keep up the good work guys!

No SnowboardCross racer here, but hardbooter and also softboot freecarver. What I use : Driver X and Catek FR2 pro. Old Burton RAF inserts work well for tongue stiffening (Powerride-like). 2017-18-19 models don't allow those inserts to sit well on the tongue. Here's what I did (riveting them) on my old Drivers, that I will also do on my '19 ones once they soften too much.

That's also what I was thinking.......Below is a a picture of those (in)visible lower titanal sheets I was speaking about : Not to hijack that thread too much, the game changing gear for me was getting a 163 Donek REV 11,5 fixed radius proto.... Very fun board, predictable, stable, turning tight and that damp feeling on it....Just, wow !.... what a joy riding that board...

I do agree jack. What I don't exactly understand is why depending on the model, it is specified on the board description, Titanal or two sheets of Titanal....Should the lower sheet under the core be visible near the sidewall, like it is easily visible on racing skis or hidden behind it ?

When the Proteus model came out , I think I do remember having read on Donek's Website that the Proteus even had 2 sheets of Titanal... Donek's website has changed since, and doesn't show anymore which are the differents layers of each board construction... I may have bad memory, so if someone here riding a Proteus from the first hours could certify this, it could correct me if I'm wrong..... Maybe the actual building of the Proteus has also change a bit since that time.........Sean ?.........

Some snake shaped turns....

Some splitboarding turns finally put some icing on the cake after a day of teaching...........nice day end....

Absolute beauty......now waiting for that Sunday report.....

From what I can see in the pictures on their website..... Very nicely build but : Seems impossible to rotate the highback, impossible to change a broken toestrap without removing the binding from the board, seems impossible to adjust the highback forward lean independently than the spring pre-tension, apparently no canting possible but they might have been build more for EC sofbooters in mind who generally ride flat... Do you guys see anything else that has caught your eyes ?....

Austria and Italy are a bit far for me at the moment for any meeting or any test... I'm stuck here in Andorra teaching at the ski school for the season... Nevertheless, many thanks for the answer Alexey .

Who ?....Where ?.....Which boards ?.....Any special meeting/test ?.... Come on Alexey, we need to know more about that (a bit too small) beautiful picture....

Left picture : Might looks like dirty snow but is actually sand. That board was was bought end of spring '85 that's why I started on sand dunes and not on snow! No brand board, 1,5cm stack tip to tail, hella stiff like a door, edgesless build, small swallow tail, and 3 aluminium fins.... High end bindings made of re-cut PVC pipes, velcro strips as straps and no highbacks "surfy" style...... Right picture : Said board next winter in the Pyrénées Mountains....You can imagine the good times I had learning to board on snow with gear like that.......Haha..... Today's gear is so much fun, but I feel lucky having started boarding in the 80's with that kind of gear. It truly was good old years, and something i will never forget no matter how hardwork it was.....

You'll more than probably collect some nice snow between every bit of the chain net... Heavy, icy and cold hands after a few hand drags if I think about it.....

You may find what you're looking for here : http://ironrock.eu/en/

More likely Tara Eberhardt. Another top female racer at the time.

Corey, I think you could tell us a little bit more about that Revelation, couldn't you ?..... The Revelation doesn't seem to appear on Coiler website...

I remember seeing a video on the forum of (two ?) guys riding togother, one on a (the cross ?)kessler ripping in softboots, and I think he was using Now O-Drive bindings. Plus, It's quite hard to find true carving reviews of those bindings on the net..... Apparently, if skilled enough, they seem to let you cave pretty well.... Unfortunatly, I don't remember where on the forum I did see it.......

Hi All, It seems that's impossible to upload pictures (at least for me), in the reply section at the bottom of the page and this in any thread on the forum. The insert picture button "Choose File" seem to have dissapeared.... Of course I cannot attach any screenshot of what I've got on my desktop screen !... Anyone experiencing the same ?....

Very nice field of view.........

From across the pond, on the old continent, what Sean is doing for the carving community is really awesome....even just for some small parts. It's alredy hard to sometimes get some help from the "pro" shops in the resorts we're used to ride, so....... That's quite a good service for the costumers a true dedication to our sport. Hats off Sean !

I might be wrong (...then please correct me if I am so), but if I remember well, some killer Loop boards used to have a foam core........

Resort closed here, so no thin lines to shoot....it will be now holidays time for me far from the mountains... Here are the last shots of the season till next one, all taken this week, splitboarding. Easy access areas, nothing extreme here. Spring time can also be good time !....