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  1. Next Friday June 17. from 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. there will be skiing and snowboarding for free at Rettenbach Galcier of Soelden (Tyrol / Austria / Alps / Continental Europe) There is also a free bus transfer from Soelden village up to the Rettenbach Glacier (Schwarze Schneid gondola) and back. It's highly recommended to go up before 1 p.m.
  2. It's a Völkl Renntiger from 2001/2002, right? What's the board length and what's your body weight?
  3. You can still buy rad-air tankers, which was confirmed to me by a phone-call last springtime by rad-air owner Harry Gunz. So if you won't belive Tanker's are still alive, these are the pictures from today Saturday April 9 https://www.flickr.com/photos/longboardclassic/26328758875/in/album-72157666840757021/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/longboardclassic/25723903014/in/album-72157666840757021/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/longboardclassic/25725990853/in/album-72157666840757021/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/longboardclassic/26055899180/in/album-72157666840757021/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/longboardclassic/26262542401/in/album-72157666840757021/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/longboardclassic/25723905704/in/album-72157666840757021/
  4. I don't know what you are on, but I think hardboots on raceboards have the main goal to be ridden fast, I mean F-A-S-T which can have also the interpretation of: F A S T With all doo respect, but wasn't today a race softbooters wouldn't be able to follow on that speed AND no-one here on forum did take notice about at all. Hey come on, you won't take interests to what is going on out there on snow? So you don't like to bee true hardbooters? Today March 26. we had Speedski at Vars resort (France) and the fastest snowboarder went down the mountain straightline at 200.334 km/h (= 124.482 miles/hour) what can be called as F-A-S-T. Thats not similar like to be placed with hardboots on a raceboard riding down a hill on a green slope on slow motion. For that you realy don't need to be on hardboots, you rather ride softboots! It's good to know, there are no speed limits on Alpine snowboards like you have it on streets / highways driving a car. I want just recall, hardbooters on raceboards have the intention to ride fast! Just feel the flow of the air around your body and you are fast enough! (Beside snowboarders we had today a new World record on skis from an Italien rider at 254.958 km/h which is 158.4 miles/hour)
  5. Thats realy the point!As I showed once here (3rd photo, entry #11), or here (entry #122) and here (entry #124) carving would give a more spectacular thing which lets younger riders and younger female riders taking interrests about hardbooting. Just because it's way more sportive as what we can see now more and more from 50-70 Years old men on tools for easy slopes which do carving down early mornings carpets of snow. But similar things on FIS-PAR racing too. They are on easy slopes since now more than a dozend of Years without any change on competition.
  6. Well, on Northern Hemisphere (European Alps) we usualy wear clothing/gloves witch contain so called No-Friction-Technology and no more clothing/gloves based on No-Technology-Friction as we had once on the past millenium!We like to ride fast, even on steeper runs. Sigi Grabner free-carving skill as CARVED by extremecarving too are based only at easy to ride slopes, right?
  7. Amazing double Engadin hardbooters carving test camp 2016 No. 1 Corvatsch peak on the right upper corner, slope on backside of mountain to the middle station with a great sight to the glaciers. 4900 ft of vertical on slope from Top of Engadin down to the lake - just only 2 stages back on modern cablecar cabins to the peak of Corvatsch. March 28. to April 4. will be hold again Action-Snowboardcamp on same location like descibed on first post High Engadin Mountains of St. Moritz you will reach by rail from Zurich airport (ZRH) or by bus from Milan Malpensa airport (MXP) Official site: Action-Snowboardcamp 2016 St.Moritz-Corvatsch - German language only, please use google translator. More nice slopes up there on the mountains, picture shows slope of many Years PGS/PSL races right beside T-bar lift. and tree carving slopes like shown here. Huge range of actual boards available for to ride and test: Kessler - Oxess - F2 - Rabanser - Pureboarding Clinics by a Canadian hardbooter and Georg Rabanser from Rabanser Snowboards (Italy) 3-Day camp package about $ 535 4-Day camp package about $ 685 5-Day camp package about $ 835 6-Day camp package about $ 975 contact: george@actionoutlet.ch No. 2 Same week March 31. to April 3. Nevin Galmarini (FIS-Ski Worldcup snowboard racer) hold his Carvingcamp Scuol too. Scuol is located at lower Engadin. For to go there from Corvatsch ski area you need 1 hour by car, or 1¾ by bus/train. Due to the constellation of days you will be able to combine both camps.
  8. Ski sales declines on a much higher rate than snowboard sales decline actualy in Europe. There are upcomming markets like Russia and China, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Iran and so on. Snowboarding is a hype there, like we had it once upen a time on Western hemisphere. Well, in Russia it's more a market for the elite and Russia will run out of money (bancruptcy) within the next 2 Years. So ??? to rising sales figures for snowboarding there. On Western hemisphere we can count now much more (younger, but older too) couch potatos as on the fly-high Years of snowboarding. They are realy not interessted to go to the mountains for doing sports. We could find once many stepin binding systems for softboots too on market.Snowboard industry declared them later as un-cool (Burton ahead) and discontinued to produce them. That was the most significant and worse fault of snowboard industrie ever. (And yes, newer binders are comfy to open now too, but entry isn't that easy like stepIn's) Even children up to teenagers, which want not to ride that spectacular like them on ESPN X-Games and Olympics, are kept out of snowboarding this way. Children often have not the power to close themself strap-bindings tight as it must be. And it take a lot of time, but energy too to them, to sit down, strap on and stand up again. What can be a cool thing shown by riders strap-on the bindings on X-Games and Olympics, wouldn't be that practical for normal snowboarders. They don't need "hype", they just want ride snowboards and have fun! So Step-In's had helped them once alot to get into snowboarding and they had been only some vew seconds slower for to be ready to ride with companions on skis.
  9. Light snowfall at finals! Men's final: 1st Edwin Coratti (Italy) Kessler/ Allflex / UPZ 2nd Roland Fischnaller (Italy) SG snowboards / ? /NW .950 3rd Rok Marguc (Slovenia) Kessler / ? / UPZ 4th Christoph Mick (Italy) Black Pearl / Allflex / NW .950 Female final: 1st Alena Zavarzina (Russia) Kessler / ? / NW .950 2nd Ina Meschik (Austria) Oxess / Vist / UPZ 3rd Ramona Hofmeister (Germany) F2 / ? / Deeluxe 425 Pro 4th Ladina Jenny (Switzerland) Oxess / Allflex / ? There was to the end of course a (seems to be) tricky pro-jump. For to succeed, riders have to enter following turn on the edge while landing. Many riders came in trouble because they didn't handle that pro-jump smooth. German female rider Cheyenne Loch had to be rescued from slope to hospital. Mirko Felicetti (5th on final ranking) was on .950 Northwave boots holding together by green duct tape, like I wrote here. (one more rider using duct tape on .950ties) Blue course was faster. For the only one Norwegian rider on Worldcup Hilde Katrine Engeli it was the last race of her career. She won Winterberg PSL last Year. Today she get rank 19. Small crystal globes (PSL) goes to: Patricia Kummer (Switzerland) and Roland Fischnaller (Italy). Big crystal globe (ovarall ranking) goes to: Ester Ledecka (Czech Republic) and Radoslav Yankov (Bulgaria). Both are the sole riders representing their country on FIS PAR Worldcup! So what we can say about this season races: All of them had been hold as single run format for first time of any FIS PAR race-seasons. Next season 2016-2017 we will have again World-Championchips. At season 2017-2018 we will have Olympic Games.
  10. Check F2. F2 has Speedster SL Junior sizes. The shortest is 129cm, has 17.4cm waist and a radius of 7.4m, suitable for 25-35kg. Price is € 499.-
  11. Don't worry Neil Gendzwill, bending them on such easy to ride slopes dosn't matter that much. Well flexing Titanal sheets many time they wear out until they crack. that happens only in Russia.We had last season a seller of a rare .950 yellow-red which get about $3500. Sold to a Russian buyer. In that actual case ( $4'000 ) the .950 Nortwave boots had been sold from Russia to Russia.
  12. Don't miss to use live-timing on fis-ski.com right now! No luck for Americans on the race today. Jasey Jay Anderson didn't reach finals because he was 6/100 of a second to slow! 17. Anderson (Canada) 25. Fields (USA) 26. Beaulieu (Canada) 28. Reiter (USA) 29. Farrell (woman/Canada) 29. Burns (USA) 34. Rosencranz (USA) 37. Gardener (Canada) 40. Muss (USA)
  13. Today we have the last WC PAR race of season 2015-2016. It's a PSL. 8 of 44 men riders which will start there are Americans from Canada Jasey Jay Anderson Darren Gardener Sebastien Beaulieu from USA Justin Reiter Aaron Muss Converse Fields Ryan Rosencranz Robert Burns but only one female rider from America Megan Farrell (Canada) Webcam: The course is on left side at along forest. Finals of race will start 1. 45 pm (CET) and ends 10 minutes before 3pm (CET) Please subtract 6 hours for East coast and 9 hour for "left" coast Actually weather is sun with some clouds. You are able to watch the race live from 14:15 to 14:50 (CET) on Germany's first television chain.
  14. just because of missing/poor riding skill ! Yes, Nortwave was allways writing clearly from Nylon if they brougt them to market, except the shell of .350 Just wait some more Years and you will see how the psychological boost takes affect! ;-)All of these Nylon shell (made by Nordica skiboot factory) will crack/break the next years. It feels and looks terrible if a Nordica shell crack, you will get many dozens of smaller and bigger Nylon parts back. You need to walk down the slope to valley with the liners. And :-( for them who paid $$$$$ for a pair of second hand ones! If anyone here do watch current WorldCup races you can see riders using NW's holding together by duct tape on heel area but toe area also, inner side and outerside. Why do you think? Read just what I wrote above! On FIS-PAR snowboarding that's professional wintersport gear. Don't forget, that €350.- NW's have a high foreward shift. Much more than Burton's and Raichle's do have. Foreward shift is as high like you put the half of a thickest F2 Titanium bindings wedge which are designed for to use on backfoot only. NW's foreward shift is a little more than on UPZ and for sure it remains on front boot too. So many riders on Worldcup need to ride with shifting wedges on front binding for to compensate that shift of NW's are not to much forward. About Titanal boards: they wear out way faster then fiber based boards do (there are snowboard labels here on the Alps with lifetime warranty to the camber). Titanal you can't bend tight and if you do it there remains a fold. Many bendings/fibrations on Titanal will create structural fatigue by time. Also impact (shark-attacks) will let crack any Titanal sheets of your boards. Cracked Titanal boards you aren't able to repair, you have to throw them away.
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