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Vahur

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Vahur last won the day on October 8 2016

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    Estonia
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    Programmer
  • Current Boards in your Quiver
    Swoard 168M
  • Current Boots Used?
    Northwave .900
  • Current bindings and set-up?
    F2 Intec Titanium 53/47 48 cm

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  1. I love feeling when after 4 year carving break I buy new board, book trip to mountains and after first run realize that not only I can't carve but even sideslipping makes problems. I love chattering sound when heelside turn fails. And I lose edge. And fall on my back. Under lift line. With cheers above. I love when I can complete couple of nice turns and getting grip of it and then see flock of skiers bombing after me so I have to slam brakes and sideslip until they have passed, thus losing feel and rhytm. I love when I am getting nice run and then after turn I see group of students. Following each other. Across slope. Twice across. I love all this right now. NOT!
  2. Nature pic from last day of summer: nature is still green, but there is yellow visible, meaning that winter is coming :)
  3. Good point. Digged in archives and found similar discussion about 2.5 years ago in EC forum: http://www.extremecarving.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5564 So this style gets frowned upon in EC circles as well, not only in bomber forums :D
  4. My maximum speed was 5 somersaults in 2 seconds :D
  5. Not very good angle in this picture. This is bending at the waist: This is not bending at the waist: Have you seen Rejman's film or Patrice/Jaques riding videos? I guess not, otherwise you wouldn't have asked this question, Patrice and Jacques (and other good carvers with push-pull technique) keep their upper body quite erect, it's strong leg bending during entering into turn, which could make such impression.
  6. OK, it was wild shot from me anyway, as I don't know spex. I had front leg tiredness problem on heelside turns (or keeping heelside edge on flat sections) when my binding angles were unnecessary high. Lowering them as much as possible helped but this doesn't seem to be the case here. But another thought if you try both boards on carpet: does the stance feel same? And is front binding centered (i.e. same distance from edges on heelside and toeside)? If heelside (or toeside) turn feels more tiresome on front leg then adjusting binding position might help?
  7. What are central widths of the boards? It seems that Coiler Freecarve is quite narrow by today's standards (<19 cm) but I guess that VSR is much wider (21 cm? more?) If this is the case then I see no point in using same binding angles as it requires more effort to put board on edge and could be reason for leg burning. Set rear binding so that there is no overhang from binding and boot and set front binding angle some degrees more (I use +3 degrees).
  8. Actually it turns only counterclockwise: Swoard is made in Switzerland and in there everything which turns clockwise goes into clocks.
  9. Read recent thread about injury due to touching snow and remembered couple of images which I recently edited, hope you like them as much as I did:
  10. In 2008 I visited Vancouver and Whistler and bought also olympic souvenir, olympic sign can be seen on top of label :)
  11. Beautiful and well-edited video! Though if I'd go to heli/powder trip, then I'd probably go to place like Uzbekistan: thanks to continental climate powder is really fluffy and you get miles of free run (no need to dodge trees :D). Here is small vid from estonians trip in 2008:
  12. Found in dpreview forum: http://www.rodlaird.com/Aspen.html Nice and high-resolution view of Aspen mountains, mainly Highland.
  13. Weatherproof and sports means D300, which is sealed and has best AF-system from mentioned cameras. Quite good in low light (though D90 is tad better) as well, though you have to take care with settings and exposure otherwise noise could be visible even in ISO 200. I'm not sure that battery grip is needed with D300: it's 6fps without and 8fps with it (but then it needs another type of battery and charger), and adds considerable size and weight. Of course shooting with large lenses is little bit easier as well as in portrait orientation but still... I used D300 ca. 15 months and never missed battery grip (power kit set with grip + battery + charger cost here ca. 700 USD 8( , so this was also one reason not to buy it) .
  14. For couch potato like me photographing is good excuse: "No, I'm not tired, my legs are OK and not burning after 2 runs. I just want to make couple (thousand) pictures!" :D But actually I wanted to commented last picture: damn, what a nice backyard view! I wish that I had such backyard!
  15. Not odd, just normal. Erm, regular Seems like you are representative of minority here, as you noticed such discrimination, I didn't give this any thought before. But I promise that this discrimination will be eliminated next year and goofy riders representation will be at least 50%.
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