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Nicely done. Soft forward flex point: We always ride bumps in "The walk mode" to allow full extension of the knees. A soft BTS may be what works best for you, but it is imperative that you be able to move both knees to absorb the bumps (extension/contraction). Stiff boot/stiff bindings make bumps very unpleasant. That is not to say that hard boots and plates can be any less than remarkable on bumps, but full on race gear and and very stiff boots don't go hand in hand with bumps.

Springs. I like that. What boards are you riding? Metal or Fiberglass?

As everyone else has suggested, plus the snow conditions. The harder the snow the more forward I place the bindings. In this position when the snow is softer and deeper the board wants to submarine, so I'll place them much further back to give me some float, when the conditions warrant. Also it depends on how you want to finish your turn. The longer tail finishes the turn a little more solid, and for me gives me more energy when releasing at the end of the turn. Experiment is the best way to figure out what suits your style. It's only 3 or 4 screws.

Actually we run bump runs all day long if possible. The better you get, the easier it is. I know that a good bump boarder can look as good as a decent skier, but it does seem to fall apart when it gets to be a double black (west coast blacks). Wouldn't ever say that a boarder could look as good as the pro skiers, but then who can except pro skiers. Foot position for carving would be tough. Modified angles with 15 to 20 degrees difference between front and back make a whole lot of difference. A racing stiff, damp board (IMO) is not that good, but a lively all mountain carver is terrific. What all the posts are saying is that everyone has their own way of handling bumps. It is all in what you get used to and what suits your style. Not picking on anyone, just trying to open the field up to experimentation.

Yes. I have all kinds of 4 and 3 hole burton plates. I'm not sure about earlier than 1995, but everything after that has the same cogs on the plate.

For my son and I, we use a short and stiff all mountain carver. One that has plenty of pop to jet you to the next bump. For us, the slimmer the waist the less leverage that works against you when you come off the side of the bumps. You can't carve around them unless you are going very slowly and so the livelier, thinner boards are much more adept at a faster turnover rate going down. The stiffer boards (and still lively) set an edge and initiate the next turn much easier. You don't have to worry about washing out on the face of the bump. I try to push the tip down the face after each turn. I also try and emulate the same motions as a bump skier, although that falls apart on steep faces. We try to keep the shoulders perpendicular to the fall line. If your shoulders turn out of the fall line, all of a sudden you have your back facing down the hill on the toe side turn, so quick short turns are de rigueur if you don't want to catch the death edge. We're using Burton Ultraprimes as they seem to be the best for us. 156 or 162 and I'm weighing in at 150 and 5'9" and son is 160 and 5'9". Both very fit and relatively strong, he much more than me. The boards excel at coming off the bump and making your turn in the air, which keeps the tail from catching. Once your tail catches, you have a problem especially if you're deep in the trough. We're both using a 15 to 18 degree difference between the front and rear bindings. Me 66-45, my son 54-39. With the difference we're able to swing the board with more leverage, and also have a stable platform fore and aft, and side to side. We turn at all different spots on the bumps, from the top to the face to the trough. Hope this wets your appetite.

This got sent to the wrong thread. Sorry.

Burton made both 3 and 4 hole plates. Let me know if you're thinking of the 3 strap torques.

couple of good articles. The Lexiconnedyou article really sucked big time. Here's a another article on some "Very inexpensive speakers for what you get". Click on equipment reviews in the center of the first page "Spending time with----Magico. http://stereotimes.com/

Read the whole article on Never Summer (hope that covers my required reading for the year). Some of the things I gleaned: Made in Colorado, not in China One of first orders came from Japan that financed their factory upgrade. Keeping production in States because they can change board technology and have it on the slope in a week. Sold out every year. 3 year warranty for guys that beat the snot out of their boards. Developing new technology for sidecut. All this and they're selling boards for under $500. Hmmmm!.

That gentleman sounds like a role model for Thoreau. If only I could aspire to be that happy with so little. As it is, I'm pretty happy with what I have--a wonderful wife, and all the rest is just window trimmings.

One short word that could distort what we do as Negligent. LAWYERS If corporations can now be considered to have same rights as humans, why would anyone presuppose that a lawyer couldn't argue that we are out of the acceptable norm for slopeside behavior. Really take a look at the videos of carvers coming across the slope and see how many other borders/skiers do the same. We take pride in those cross slope high speed turns, that skiers can't hardly replicate. Was at Crystal and I figure there was about 5000 skiers/borders. I saw 2 hardbooters--my son and me. That figures out to be .0004%. Sometimes I have seen as many as 4 on the slope at one time.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/trainfire.asp

I started at 45 and that was 15 years ago. Still hitting it hard, very hard.

Legal definition of negligence. www.medlaw1.com/Negligence Conduct that falls below the standards of behavior established by law for the protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm. A person has acted negligently if he or she has departed from the conduct expected of a reasonably prudent person acting under similar circumstances. In order to establish negligence as a Cause of Action under the law of torts, a plaintiff must prove that the defendant had a duty to the plaintiff, the defendant breached that duty by failing to conform to the required standard of conduct, the defendant's negligent conduct was the cause of the harm to the plaintiff, and the plaintiff was, in fact, harmed or damaged. Here's the can of worms. If carvers only represent a very small if not insignificant percentage (calculate 5000/2 = .0004%) which is about what was at Crystal yesterday, how can the ordinary skier/snowboarder ever expect to have slopewide turns materialize in front of them. This is not the expected standard on the ski slope. We as carvers do no conform to the norms. Are we in fact Negligent?

I just tried Sumatran whole beans for espresso. I'm really happy now. Put to shame the Espresso/Black Satin blend I've been using.

So my buddy who owns a high end audio store told me they finally got in the new speakers, and I need to listen to them. So I popped into the store and listened to them for about 45 minutes. Undoubtedly they were good, and crystal clear and fabulous, and accurate and I wasn't really having that much fun. So I went home and played a couple of the same cuts and I enjoyed my cheapo's much more. I have fun with those. Now the reason that I mention this is because I'm still enjoying the heck out of my $200 boards and realize there are better sticks out there, but it's all in what you like and what you enjoy. Just maybe you'll even like those old fiberglass boards with pop and energy much more than those damp titanal boards. I thought it was a good analogy. Anyway off to Crystal Mt. in the morning.

But then again if you buy one of these you don't need to buy anything except ski boots. Don't even need skis or a board.

To welcome Len to Bomberonline. It would be good to have a countermanding voice to this Forum. As far as the age joke go, don't trust anyone over the age of 38 or under the age of 37. (I would be 60 so don't trust anything that I say) I think it would be most productive if Len was to be given the opportunity to have his picture transposed onto the film that was taken of Fin during his flaunting of authority. This way he could better judge if there was an infraction unclouded by means of locomotion, such as this. http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/4876ZeUzRSVi633b

No wonder it was $2500. With credentials like "Expedition 151" (that you could show all your friends while sipping on Dom at the Exclusive Chalet at the bottom of the Bunny Hill with the Magic Carpet) you could regale them with the experience of the single Black Diamond that you conquered after getting up the courage to get off the lift and snowplow down till you had to sidestep the "Gnarly" crux of the run. It does appear to be a one piece, so I'm still worried about my butt looking big.

Fun is the name of the game, and that looked like fun.

Bumps are only to be partaken when the slopes are bereft of powder. O'Sin Swallow when it's deep, Burton coil when it's merely 8" or less. Glades are always the best, and trees are the best slalom course ever devised.

Still have a couple pair of these, and they are the next best thing to hardboots.