Neil Gendzwill

Wasn't aware. Hopefully he'll build something for me next time I'm looking, seeing as I've had 3 already. Assuming he's still active by that time.

Curious as to why you're ditching the JJA.

I think for $30 a nearly 3 decades old snowboard would make a nice wall decoration. I would not recommend riding it.

Yeah, I have seen some photos where they were laid over pretty good. Maximum skill there though. I don't know if I have ever seen anyone on skis in the wild with that kind of inclination.

I think it's pretty tough to generate the same inclination on skis as a snowboard, your inside leg gets in the way not to mention boot out. So it's entirely likely that instructor can't turn as tightly with the same SCR.

OP explicitly said he doesn’t travel and doesn’t need padding or wheels. A sporttube is pretty much the opposite of what he wants. DaKine makes great reasonably priced bags. Their Pipe model in size 165 should do the trick at $90, or pay another $15 and get the Freestyle which is much the same but padded. https://ce.dakine.com/collections/snowboard-travel-bags/products/pipe-snowboard-bag?variant=39770984284240 ETA: I have the Freestyle and mine is not padded. Maybe newer ones are? Anyway it is well constructed and has high quality zippers which in my experience is where cheaper bags usually cut corners.

So not all-mountain then.

If you're riding all-mountain, I don't understand why you want a narrow board. I prefer shallower angles so I have more leverage in the bumps and trees. A little extra width for float doesn't hurt either. I'm running 21.5 or 22 cm on my alpine boards.

I know this is not the style we normally showcase here, but this dude is killing it on a #$%^@ 205! Carved turns are in there along with all the freestyle. Don't like that they included him cutting off a skier, not cool.

Welcome to the couch, dude. Had my hip replaced in November, no season for me either.

That Moss sure is purty.

Sweet turns!

12/27 club ! To be honest, I did not get my softboot rig for carving, in fact I explicitly avoided a dedicated carving setup. If I want to dig some trenches I will get my alpine gear. It works really well for what I want it to do.

All that CASI cred ought to be worth something, eh?

27 and 12 is what I am going with as well. I have nothing scientific to back that up, just picked something mid forward and decided to try to make that work.

I can see the rotation there but that guy is pretty much at hard boot angles as are many of the Koreans. @crackaddict, what kind of angles are you rocking these days?

They’re not even necessarily compatible within the same brand. Burton has changed their tooth pattern at least once that I know of.

@nextcarve those are some beautiful EC turns but I feel like we’re talking apples and oranges here. James is doing it in softies on a slope so steep that most resorts wouldn’t groom it, and you can see the grooming isn’t great. You’re in hard boots in perfect conditions and it’s not particularly steep or narrow.

Put it up on youtube and link it, please.

You are riding quite steep forward angles on alpine boards there, and your hips are not rotated much past your binding angles. We're talking low binding angle softboot carving here.

That's part of the trouble I am having in softies, rotating my hips to where they would be on my hard boot rig which loses my edge on heelside. I only have a handful of days on softies so far so lots to learn yet.

Don't you want your hips lined up with your stance in the soft-booting world? Meaning, I agree with you, that picture is wrong.

I wonder what the real math is on inclination, SCR and flex combining to create the actual turning radius. Complex, I expect. I do know that on my Jones Flagship even though I still kind of suck at softboot carving the radius of 9.3 m feels pretty short. When I push it, it tends to hook around faster than I like and I lose the tail so I need to figure that out. My heelside needs a lot of work. When I was shopping for a softie board I saw reviews that said boards like the Yes PYL were good for carving, long radius turns and going fast. That board has around a 7 m sidecut, this does not compute. Do these guys have different definitions of "long radius" and "fast" than I have, or do they actually make that work somehow? My NFC with the 12-14 m sidecut feels stable at speed and does long radius well. 10 m or less feels twitchy to me at mach schnell.

Had an argument on the chair once with an instructor who said I was riding a "carving board" (fair enough) but insisted that it was not a snowboard.