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Sadly our resort is closed since April 8th.......But with all the snow left, and what the skies gave us two days ago......well, it's time for splitboarding !...

Late afternoon spring snow conditions.....Yum...Creamy...

Fin, Jack and others who moved theirselves to keep all this alive, thanks, thanks, and many thanks.

Two days ago............Uphill track.........Then, the downhill one.......

Nope. Hooger Booger Snowboards introduced the fingerprint design around '88. Those ones seem to be some Identity Snowboards, a brand that dissappeared as fast as it came out like many brands at that time... Below is a picture of one the models from Hooger Booger with fingerprints. At that time Hooger Booger was own by Scott. Picture taken from the site of Hooger Booger history.

Very very few taxes here PSR....That's true.......till now !...... Is it heaven to live in Andorra ? Surely not.....Even if you guys find the pictures beautiful it's only because like anyone else in this thread, i try to choose the best ones in a bunch of awful ones...... And to answer Corey's Frontside.......

Hi Bigwavedave, Andorra is a small country in the Pyrenées Mountains between France and Spain. Same mountain, different lines....some done with a split, others ones with a Donek REV 163. Welcome in Andorra !.....

Some wider tracks on this Sunday afternoon...

Nice rack and very nice tribute to the Burton M7 !... Cool Coiler board .....

As you're performing "extension turns" (bending the legs for edging and extending them for the board flattening and edge change) you're doing it the wrong way. The extension phase should gradually start after the flattening (+/- perpedicular to the fall line) till being +/- pointing down the fall line. Then, past the fall line, should start the legs retraction phase, pulling them back towards you till being at the maximum flexion at the edge change when the board gets flat. You will be then performing "flexion turns" as you go from one edge to the other one, through a flexion of the legs. If doing "extension turns", impossible for you to extend the legs right after the edge change as you are already in extension ! And of course as BlueB said by extending the legs you want the edge to be locked in for a true carving turn.

65f/64b Hardboots 21f/9b Softboots

Never tried it..... but seen it in '87-88 when that video came out in France....Good old days by the way...... The whole video is of course worth a look, but what you're talking about starts at 6.20. Bring the memories back and enjoy !....

Beeing a young teenager, I had the chance to meet him at the end of the 80's in Paris, at Hawaï Surf, a snowboard shop that, at that time, was probably the only place in France were to get almost everything available in France about the snowboard industry ( from Wintersticks deck to TWS magazines and firsts american VHS of snowboarding movies and so on ). On that day, Jean was giving an autographs session because he already was like a true inspirator for people starting snowboarding in Europe. I had my signed poster hanging on the wall in my bedroom for years and I remember him as a kindly and approachable person. Hats off for his world titles and NGO work as Nils stated above. He will remain an inspirational person. Thanks you Jean. RIP

Learnt that great loss a bit lately yesterday.....Sad news... He truly was one of the most stylish and influencional rider of his generation. RIP. Smooth and Stylish as tribute to him :

^^ What Neil said about touching the front boot cuffs. What also worked well for me was to look for the shoulders to be parallel to the slope of the run while getting lower bending my legs. Engaging your obliques and transverse muscles; try to make your lateral rib cage touching your hip bone. Depending on your anatomy, some Gilmour bias may also help angulating.

It's true that the conditions were seriously looking crap !....

Early morning splitboarding Nirvana.......

Absolutely killing FC racing stripe !....Wow !....Now it would deserve a close-up picture for a nice weave/stripe combo....

Just one more from the old days............

Not a UPZ user but a Palau user with my Dynafit Splitboard boots. I did punch my boots to widen the toebox but some mods were also needed for the liner... Using a precision knife, I took off some material from the liner for the foam to be more strechable and to gain some little more room between the shell and the liner. You can also see the lateral mod for the navicular bone. That's a quite radical and no coming back solution that should be done with care, but it has done the job for me. I of course also thermomolded the liner wearing double fingertoes socks on, with also some spacers for the toes...... Happy feet is definetly priceless....

Sh#@ !!....I was about to say the same....before I read your post !..... I'm late.... Nice BIG boards though.....

+1 ! Totally agree.... AFAIC, I never use backside or frontside terms as Jack explained it. I'm French, from Europe and teach in French Spanish & English. As toes and heels are a direct reference to our body it's a lot more easy to understand. It's of course a personal point of view and maybe a little off topic as well.......

Hi General Tsao, Maybe this one, provided by OES, On Edge Style, Russian manufacturer based since a little while in Spain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me96_f-_3WM Can also be found and downloaded there (+ more info as well) : http://oes.cat/index.php/en/tutorials

As 0.3 Titanal seem to be the right thickness in boards construction at least for freecarving, 0.4 titanal layers seem to have also been tested by Bruce (Sean??) but we're still waiting for true results..... When surfing on carver.si website, i saw the new Elan race orintated boards that seem to be built with 2 layers of titanal like Sean's Proteus model if I remember well. But I think Donek uses 0.3 Titanal thickness. Elan's model already use 0.4/0.5 on SL model and even 0.5/0.5 on GS model.... Anymore info/thoughts anyone? already tried anything similar? Info there : http://carver.si/snowboards/elan_snowboards/elan_ballistic_sl Though the info is available at carver.si, I didn't find it on Elan website....