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Yes, Donek's are not findable in Europe. But You can buy Coiler's in stores. ;) Hummer's from Eastern Europe skiers can be found on Glacier parking for sure. You are right, snobbery can be find in Soelden in any case. High Society will never join Soelden. Soelden has only one single 5-star hotel. High Society turns to Lech-Zürs, or to St. Moritz if traveling by own jet. Well, if we take a look to FIS-PAR alpine snowboarding races like EC & FIS on Eastern Europe against North America NAC & FIS we find out amazing things. Last season there have been 15 races in CAN & USA. Eastern Europe region carry out 22 races (RUS/SVK/CZE/BUL/ROU/SLO/UKR/LIB/IRA, missing TUR and POL) For sure riding level in Eastern Europe is not that high like in North America yet. But we can see fast risings and upcomming winter up there is an extra motivation, the Olympic Games. Japan & South Corea stays stable now since Years, maybe China will be upcomming more and more.

There is now a truck load of new skinny boards from Donek on the way to Europe? Things are going pretty fast! Even if riding on that new boards on slopes of Solden? So that new line of boards can get a name like the Rettenbach-Series. Markets are different. I mean even places/terrain of slopes/lifts are different too. Most, but for shure the well known North America resorts are artifical resorts made to fit the demand of US customers for skiing. Thats what happen in the Alps now more and more similar. Resorts which can offer slopes which are easy to go for people of the flat lands are the winners. Soelden takes big care, to turn the slopes to tourist friendly conditions. Can we just take a loop-back to that glacier, where Donek was letting Europeans riding the boards. I'm shure everyone joining carving masters remind that two rows of snowmakers in picture as well. Thats a place where glacier is running out of any ice the last Years. The area with the rocks between snow-makers and gondola is representing a natural mountain surface which was once all under ice. Similar ground will be found as a base of many European slopes on higher mountains. But diggers and tons of dynamite help now to shape that landscape of Soelden mountains to "full Dutch conform" groomers. They are conditioning all the mountain to best available shape, like Soelden lift coperation does it the last time on Rettenbach downhill too. As you can see, Soelden cut and remove remaining ice of glacier last autumn for preparing underground of "Schwarze-Schneid" slope to an easy-to-go and featureless downhill. Next photo, with a socket for one of the sky-snowmakers on left-bottomn. On the left lower part we find what nature was giving us for having fun with snowboards when covered by snow. On the right upper part we see what's the demand for to be in conformity with the needs of snow tourists. That right upper part is just the steeper one of the slope above the test exchange area of carving masters. Since some weeks diggers above Soelden are in progress continuing to shape the lower part of slope (see webcam). So all things gona be right for a test-ride of new skinny boards handcraftet from USA on next Carving Masters. For to say to Donek snowboards, Yes You get the right impression at Soelden Galcier ski area on which kind of slopes some carvers in Europe like it to ride. It's a good idea to make boards for that to enter Western European market. Keep in mind, around the Alps overall snowboard sales are broken in every of last Years more than 10%. Donek rather should turn to the growing Eastern European market, like Poland, Russia, Czechia and so on. Beside this, what You saw on Carving Masters, is not all the best about alpine snowboard-carving in Old Europe.

Draft sheet from FIS shows the way for next season PAR events. 8 PAR races are planed, all of them in Continental Europe. December 14. PGS Carezza Italia January 10. PSL Jauerling Austria 12. PSL Bad Gastein Austria 18. PGS Rolga Slovenija 25. PGS Sudelfeld Germany February 19. PGS Sochi Putin-Games 22. PSL Sochi Putin-Games March 9. PGS La Molina Españia PGS/PSL Worldcup has a late season opening like last year too. We see twice time a nearly 1 month break during season. Even second break can be great for to watch Worldcup racers on Europacup, Nor-Am Tour or similar FIS races. There is the hope Sudelfeld has now the financial power to carrying-out that race. Jauerling, a pure-and-only bloody beginners lift area (only one single T-bar skilift) seems to have that power. Because of the 2014 Putin Games, there will be no date for the ramp-PSL in Moskva or a PSL in Leningrad. We can hope all the constructions works in Sochi have been finished before Olympic Games. Sigi Grabner reported on a interview Sochi is still now a huge construction area with a lot of mud on the road and dusty air. He was travelling with his roadbike together with Roland Fischnaller and Aaron March from Trentino (ITA) to Sochi (RUS). see also here: http://www.fis-ski.com/data/document/draft5-1314-3v1_06.06.pdf

Just a simple answer: Kessler The Cross is not usefull for carving and worse on carving with softboots. You can buy China-Made labels which are way better for carving and less then the half price. Kessler The Cross was built for FIS SBX (Snowboard-Cross) events and nothing else! Course of SBX World-Championchips 2013 shows you what for Kessler The Cross is good and performing best. You will find only 5 turns on a 1.0 km lenght of a course. All the 5 turns have been done on banked corners, so no carving is need. Ask Swoard how many turns they do with X-treme carving boards on a downhill lenght of 1000 m. Ask them if they do it on banked corners, or where else. Make then Your decision which board You want to ride! (If You like to follow your skiing buddy from Grand Montet 3275m down to Argentiere 1250m at Chamonix without any stops, You should take Kessler The Cross, maybe Kessler The Ride, which is softer)

Nice Sean, to read things like that! So other mountains needs other boards? Sean, You have now some new ideas, where and how volks is doing wintersports on the Alps? One thing is realy different. Wintersports around and inside the alps comes and was born out of the base and not out from the elite. So wintersports well known as Alpine sports like e.g. Alpine skiing, but also Alpine snowboarding is (was) very popular and mostly driven by the domestic volks. Far around of the Alps we can find huge population. Some of people of them have the desire to do wintersports similar. So they ride hours and hours in a car to join wintersport resorts of the Alps for it. In Europe it's not that usual like in US to start the engines from own Cessna Citation, leaving Tampa or West Palm Beach for to spend the weekend in the Rocky's. You have visit Soelden Glacier ski area in Austria, right? So You have meet there many riders from far away of the Alps but only vew domestic riders from inside of the Alps. It's good to know snow-tourists from far around the alps are coming more and more the main customers for ski and snowboard producers. Even inside the alps mass of skiers and snowboarders decrease, because of many reasons. One thing for sure is because slopes and type of slopes are more and more interchangeable and to easy to ride. I'm writing about just that easy to ride and non spectacular slopes up there on Soelden Glaciers area too. Even I can realy not rembember me, there are some steeper sections of slopes at Soelden Glacier ski area. The slopes are more to a tilt airfield, than to slopes for experienced riders. Including the slope down to stage of Rettenbach where the snowboard test exchange area was. Well for sure, Soelden is more a thing for Tourist skier and snowboarders from far away, than for experienced local riders. Such slopes are just called "full Dutch conform" for to fit a wide demand of wintersports guests from the European flatland. Let us take now an eye to what domestic carvers love to ride: Many of "very steep groomed hills" on the Alps are around 30°, 35° and 40° (by the way up to 45°), as you can see it in the line of the roof from the hut here: Upper part is quite steeper. So don't think slopes in good old Europe would be that super grippy. Most time on the start area we can find some warnings about icy surface conditions like above the shown slope too. So good ice-grip of alpine snowboards it's not a wish. It's just bloody basics. Let us turn now to slopes which are used by Worldcup ski downhill races. That slopes can be steep for a long way as well. So Worldcup racer on skis will reach 90 to 100 mph. Thats some vew mph more, what you are allowed to drive a car in the US. They do about 3500 ft of downhill race at 65-70 mph in average. Even this part of Worldcup-downhill is on 38° slope angle (what the Pieps 30°plus shows me). And for carving that place we have a need of nice performing snowboards: Features like good handling and how they are balanced out we need beside some bloody basics of ice-grip. Well, if boards fail, it doesn't realy matter. As you can see on the sky above the skiers, we have a powerfull network of helicopters to help to rescue crashed riders if they went on poor equipment or ride places like that on low skill. Even because they crash on a worse slope. Not every day they groom the slopes and it's most time icy made by artifical snow. So riders can get to much speed and crash to the slope, to trees, to other riders, or to snowmakers. Even we have some died snowboarders and skiers for sure just on that downhill track because of poor equipment or missing skill. You wouldn't find any safety nets, but some warning signs. You know, we call that just mountain adventure, nothing else! So I hope I could gave You some more impressions Sean, how and where we ride and carve snowboards in the Alps.

Yes, everyone on Nortwave Point Series and UPZ's are on a heel lift on front and rear foot. These boots moves riders to a more to the board nose position. Compared to Deeluxe / Raichle SB boots (325), Nortwaves have a marked heellift. The amount is about someting between 2 piece of orginal F2 bindings shift-cants and the half of a orginal F2 bindings heel-lift-block. The Deeluxe / Raichle AF boots (700) comes with minor less heel-lift then 325. So you know now the reason, why Swoard riders (Xtreme Carving) recommend to ad no heellift on bindings. They still have it built-in on the Northwave boots. (I don't think the issue of built-in boot heel-lifts has been discused ever !!) Even this little thing, the built in heel-lift - on front boot too, must be one of the main reasons, why Northwaves are that popular on FIS gate races. (Don't tell me, there are significant less shell deformations on Nortwaves compared to Deeluxe-boots, for sure not at a similar stiffness of shell-plastics !!!) Deeluxe/Raichle and I think the Head/Blax too, are closer to an orthopaedic hell-lift. They are like your Nike jogging shoes or like hiking boots. The Nortwave Point Series and the UPZ for sure, are not that orthopaedic related. They are more "high-heels" related.

They had realy bad chance! In cases like this, avi airbag wouldn't help. The power of snow is sometimes too massive. Study of snow pack can prevent many disaster. Indeed, the blowfish technic would help in most cases of avalanches. So on finest freeride days after fresh dump around 90% of all freeriders (new school ski and for sure snowboard too) are still on backpacks with airbag now. I'm talking from locations on the European Alps, where beside the local and domestic riders all that Norwegians and Swedish are riding. Thats a big problem for the lift companys. Gondolas which are capable to carry 150 persons, can take with now maybe 105-120 freeriders only. The freeriders needs more room in the gondolas, which is reducing transportation capacity. Even more, the new blowfish technic works as a risk-shift well. So avalanche airbaging is now very popular on the European Alps. On days with 2 ft. of fresh snow on the mountain like on next photo, freeriders downhill now every face on the mountains. They know in cases of disaster they can pull the trigger, even on risk level 3-medium like on that day riding this flank. This northface here isn't realy that flat, but it's a just a standard route - and for sure pure fun to ride - but basicaly snow pack should be good! The gondola-station is around 1800 ft. lower, as the snow on foreground. The city where finest downhill through forest ends, is about 4000 ft. lower. If anyone make it on slope, they will find diamonds half the way, but double diamonds all the way too/only - up to an angle of 45 degrees steep groomers!

Have fun with the board! "Factory Boarding" was the PALE Snowboard brand (see hot stamp logo) Pale stoped production in 2008. Was sold also as the "Drive" (on Group 26). Mold-No. is 913 Has Tip-to Tail woodcore and a sintered base. Edge is 150cm, waist 194mm, tip&tail 245mm SCR is 11.5m, stance offset 25mm The Drive has been build on 3 length: 160cm / 170cm / 178cm (SCR 14m, waist 202mm) Official sales price from Pale was Euro 230.- If you want buy a brand new one, you get it now for Euro 50.- in Europe. Jagaball Berlin (Germany) sells it under the own label Jagaball. They had only the 170cm board. Price was once at Euro 259.-, now you can order it for Euro 50.- I think thats realy a good price for carvers on low budget seeking for a new alpine snowboard. Beware, it is not a beginners shape! Don't think it's poor quality. Pale was once worlds biggest ski & snowboard factory, even for well known brands.

Any pictures from the Youth on course? I hope some few of them read and watch this site and thread maybe. So to introduce them what for hardbooting was standing and FIS would never be able to tell us, some pictures for the Youth: Once upon a time in old Europe, hardbooters went for GS gate trainings, and for sure for freeriding too! Quite nothing goods for men riding comfy Cadillac-style alpineboards. Always remember, your bones will not break if you fail on true hardbooting! No-no, they shatter. Just only two pictures, showing why alpine snowboarding by hardboots became once that popular, nothing else more.

Yes, it was cancelled because it was raining. It's not a good idea to race 150miles north of Maroc/Africa on 37° Latitude at end of march.

The Elan snowboard factory at Fürnitz (Austria) was since Years in financial trouble, because of loss of profitability. Even 2011, one of worlds biggest snowboard brand, Nitro snowboards was moving production away from Fürnitz to playmaker (Taiwan). 3 others big brands has turned away also. The Elan snowboard factory at Fürnitz has produced the alpine snowboard brands Sigi Grabner, Goltes and Pureboarding too. There are also rumours about Nidecker in Switzerland producing SWOARD Snowboards, an other alpine snowboard brand. Actually they don't anymore produce boards at the factory of Rolle. But they talk from restarting small production lots again after May 2013. NdK was sold to a foreign new holder. So Yes and Jones snowboards had to switch from Tunesia to the now last remaining big snowboard factory in Austria, the GST (Pale died, Elan is on the way to die). GST, is well known. It's the factory build by and for F2, producing all the Kessler stock snowboards now since 2 seasons. Kessler Ski stock items are from the Head factory at Bregenz (Austria). So Nideckers (no more Alpine Snowboards since a vew Years) goes on to produce in China (cheap boards and children boards), in Tunesia (mid-price boards) and Austria (higher value boards). We wait for a declaration where SWOARD will be produced in the future, maybe at Rolle (Switzerland) or at GST (Austria). http://www.ispo.com/newsblog/2013/03/15/elans-austrian-factory-reportedly-files-for-bankruptcy/

Prommegger and Kummer are overall winners. In final there have been very vew events for season 2012/2013 because of missing tour sponsor and bad weather or poor slopes: 3 PSL + 5 PGS, 8 races on 7 locations and 6 countrys only. 2012.12.21 - PGS - Carezza (I) 2013.01.11 - PSL - Bad Gastein (A) 2013.01.12 - PSL - Bad Gastein (A) 2013.02.08 - PGS - Rogla (YU) 2013.02.14 - PGS - Sochi (SU) 2013.02.23 - PSL - Moscow (SU) 2013.03.10 - PGS - Arosa (CH) 2013.03.16 - PGS - La Molina (E) On some events cost of the FIS PAR event has mainly been payed by tourism agency and by the local community. It's a real mirror about alpine snowboarding, nothing else. Some older WC racers don't speak anymore from a niche sport. They talk from Alpine snowboarding wasn't able to rise out from niche sports last Years" Has anyone ideas about snowbikes? A niche sport since decades! Please note, FISB snowbike Worldcup 2012/2013 finished with 10 events/races.

It's an old story. Just compare them to Aigner UPS (now UPZ) asyflex. Do you realy want to give them a try? You want to try out snowboarding with them? Good luck!

Iron-Lady! And she is on boots I just saw half a dozen on stores shelve last Saturday, the Blax-Head's Stratos Pro.

Signal snowboards make a 3-piece-split too? Thanks for sharing. Signal's are rare to find in Europe. Seems to be a nice gadget, I mean the whole prototype snowboard. They do copy F2 Revo-base system also ;) The serious one I wrote, You will finde here: http://www.t3-splitboard.de/ :) They started at 1986 with slpitboards. All connectors are out of reinforced plastics, to prevent icing-up. Now Powderequipment is selling that board. The brand Powderequipment takes focus to snowboards and skis for Alpinism. Alpinism by Powderequipment means to go for things like that (click link for picture): Chamonix Mont-Blanc - France St. Moritz Bernina - Switzerland On the way from Zermatt Matterhorn to St. Moritz Phenix is known for to ride on places like them above. So improved ice-grip and proofness to shark-attacks is a theme and for sure lightwight for carry them up. You know, carving rough blue glacier ice needs specific boards. Powderequipment comes with a capable for it Alpine board, the Typ-A: http://www.powderequipment.de/pages/snowboards/typ-a-board.php That board is usable for to cut trenches on slopes for sure, even on late afternoon mogul-slopes. More than that, it's dedicated for Alpinism. Nice freeride-mountains like that flank here, can be called the basic area for it. Alpine snowboard Powderequipment Typ-A before downhill that flank. Right for to get a smooth nice speed-ride down, where the board is sticking. Location: Ski-Arlberg - Austria

Clickers? Step in bindings? Watch out to "Kwickers". K2 offers new step-in boots since Years for season 2013/14. They are build for splitboarding. We will see how many of these boots will be used next seasons for splitboarding or even more for general snowboarding.

Is it over now? I mean snowboarding. Quiksilver And DC Cut Athlete Teams, Staff, & Brands see e.g comment from: TownMade: (February 26th, 2013 at 5:39 pm) The action sports industry is dead. It's not a long term career path for anybody. Get out while you can. The industry is going to probably shrink to half what it was. Snow Sports? Holy ****, it's over. Skiing is cool and no other snowsports brands besides Burton are organized enough to do anything. Surf? Done. Hardgoods? Remember the windsurfing industry? Doing the activities are fun and cool. Making a living off of them? Not so much.

I counted 14 gates and Detkov makes local volks happy. Kummer takes one more crystal globe. Was that realy in town of Moscow? As I saw all that everywhere banners with Jeep advertisements, I thought ramp was located at Toledo (Ohio). Yes, snow-ramps are sometimes popular for city-events like at autumn days or during wintertime. Even bigger sporting goods stores offer such ramp for shows and to the customers for Freestyle-snowboarding and freeskiing on so called winter-pre-sales event. Most time they are only at half to 2/3 of that high like Moscow. Almost snow for that comes from the countles hockey icefields around by trucks.

Congratulations, nice Phenix board. 3-piece-splits are not realy new. Jester sports of Konstanz (Germany) was decades ahead and protected by patents (for freerideshapes and swallows, now patent became free). System comes with same lacks (on 3 piece even more then on 2) as on any splitboard. Even Jones carbone one doesn't help to override all lacks.

They will do it similar on Olympic Games 2014? (Switching than to Moscow, because poor snow conditions) About what You are asking? About skiing with a snowboard, or skiing by a snowboard. It's up to the volks, to consider that snowboards can be riden like snowboards too! ISF GS World Series Chamrousse, one of about 170 competitors (maybe DK, Jeremy Jones runs that time on Rossi's): and Giant slalom gate trainings on Austrian Glaciers (must be Kaunertal, I ripped that hill behind by swallow at KTO) You know, hardbooting can be funsports, it's just not that type of sports, what FIS want let us to know!

ashychef1, don't missunderstand me, it's fine if you become lucky with your new board, the coiler stubby. Even if the board fits your demands. For sure BlueB, e.g. Lindsey Vonn went maybe for snowboarding her skis in Schladming too, like many thousends of skiers try it every wintertime similar. Even if we have icy slopes, I call middle station of gondola the "central cruciate ligament rupture collecting-base" for skiers. So if anyone like to merge both, he is free to do it. BlueB, You forgot to enumerate the snow-bikes, they are very fast too. And yes, many snowsport schools (ski&snowboard) merge both body movements. We know the results. Just go ride and enjoy - and watch others skill. Just compare actual teaching books of the unions. We just have now an increasing on snowboard market, or overall wintersport market? - 10 Years ago: worldwide 6'000'000 pair of skis have been sold, for this season we count 3'200'000 pair of skis - - we count now 40 % of snowboards sold on market compared to 10 Years before - "snowboard the skis" and "ski the board" on nowadays everywhere perfect groomed slopes, becomes more and more boring to our volks - we have now growing uninterestings to skiing and snowboarding. In our case please show me some spectacular pictures on carvingboards. All the mass of photos of cuting edges on easy to go perfect groomed slopes are so boring too. The resorts, the skill, the sports-scene became more and more interchangeable, doesn't matter on slope, at snowpark, on freeride areas. That would help up-comming countrys to enter wintersports easy. Otherwise wintersport declines on Classic and Alpine wintersport countrys on the alps massive - ahm, we had 2 winters with plenty of snow! And yes I know, in America they are on a growing trend. So You know BlueB, on raceboarding/alpineboarding many things went wrong the last decade. Let me explain that with a sweet occurrence from last week. There was a little boy, somthing less then 10 Years young, asking me for help to press out the centerdisk of his F2 Titanium bindings. He want adjust his binding-angles. He was there to join a gate-training-group, which I'm not part of it. O.k. he wasn't able to know who I am. He just saw me with my (true slalom) alpineboard (you know that things which are tighter on nose and wider on tail) and asked me for help. He was riding a Kessler (little boy's version, heavy pintail for sure) with that F2 Titanium S-size bindings. So say me, how a hell, he can drive that way to high, to stiff and for him so heavy bindings without getting tired. I gave him the adress of an outlet-store, where he can buy for cheap ($10) new lightweight and low-profile Nidecker's and F2's Youth-bindings. I don't think this boy will ever be able to know, what can be ridden with raceboards/alpineboards/carvingboards. He will be locked on full-sheet-Titanal boards and on FIS rules for ever.

Thats realy a decision to go into gear from this decade. It's so funny, to read about ideas of choosing proper flex to the riders weight later. I don't realy know, but maybe that can just be a part of Swoard philosophy? Even, it's so funny to see on video the SG FullRace Pro Team and UPZ boots, - real race equipment on soft and grippy slope. If you don't have access to such a (made by Elan Ski) "up-to-date" race equipment, just try out some cheap Snowboard sets ($250 for board and bindings). Put on some plastic platebindings, use some softer hardboots and go to an icy 40° steep slope - maybe groomed, or not groomed fresh since days. That's not good for videos, because of missing sprays and missing deep trenches, but earning dozens of perfect carved U-turns can be fun there with such a board. More than on video above, videos with EC and extreme carving became wide-spread on youtube last couple of Years. And - I still can't wait for the first video cutting trenches with a Fanatic LTD EC 165 from the Year 1999. You know, that black board with the red sidewalls, wide at waist and with no deep sidecut! I think it wouldn't be a good idea to write now here, what for that EC was standing than. Back to the theme: Decision was taken by ashychef1. And for sure there should be asked, do you want to go to gear from this decade, or not. But it should be also asked, where do you want to go: 1.) do you prefer to do ski-sports with with type of boards built for ridings through gates and races ? 2.) do you prefer to do board-sports, like snowboarding, similar to skateboarding/slalom-skatebording/surfing ? If you like the first one, take the right boards for it. The full-sheet-Titanal ones. They are fast too. I'm sure, you know all the story how they are developed once. That constructions are founding on skis and only on skis. Just watch the alpin snowboard racers type of turns, compared to Slalom Skiing. Just ask H-J Kessler how he did his developments - on skis and just only on skis. You will find many followers too with copy-items, without that background of H-J Kessler (like we can see it on EC-boards/Swoard also). You can do freecarving too with that full-sheet-Titanal boards, even if not so smooth, not with that easyness and pureness like on true board-sports. Just watch e.g. to the FIS-WC racers if they carve long turns around on slope. Sometime they have to work hard, to reach that smooth snowboarding. Ask them for to go carving with you on light moguls-slope! (I can't stop my big grin!) Ask them to follow you with their kinked nose boards to crust snow, left or right of slope! (Why my big grin becomes even more big?) If You like the second one, take the right boards for it too. You can try to race gates with them. Maybe it's very hard, because flexpattern to/and SCR AND movements of pure boardsports don't fit at all the line of actual gate-course-settings. Just try it out on training days before continental events, or worldcup events, or national trainings. The racers are friendly and ask you sometimes from themself for you want to go down the course too. (Tip: ride it down fakie, I mean backward , it's more easy for a good carver to handle such a course backward than foreward! It sounds crazy, but it's true.) So if you take the second one, the right boards for doing boardsports, you will earn a lot of fun, these boards are made for it! These non-full-sheet-Titanal boards have a kind of versatility, smoothness, forgiving and a ready-to-following boardsport movements, you wouldn't find on full-sheet-Titanal boards at all. Why talking from "traditional shape and construction" and not from "true alpineboards", "true raceboards", or "true carvingboards", which are way closer to any board-sport, then anything else! ashychef1, if You love the EC style and the Swoard philosophy, give a try, maybe even later. These constuctions are made to find an easy entry to EC style and Swoard try to guarant versatility, smoothness, forgiving and for sure they are ready to follow boardsport movements, because Swoard philosophy is based on boardsport movements! Again and again, the big question is: Do you want to ski or do you want to surf the mountain!

Thanks for sharing foto. Maybe a crack can occur by skiing too. Maybe using as harboots give way more stress to the shell, so the can not withstand more than 35 days. You have to be lucky, because warranty don't cover any damage resulting from misusing. Once again, Krypton's are ski boots, not snowboard hardboots. Calzaturificio Dalbello Srl (Dalbello boots industries) has not designed and constructed them for to use on snowboards. For hardbooting there are way other forces to the boot-shell and liners then for skiing, even if you use Krypton's with wide shapeed skis like e.g. Birdos or anything else. You can find riders on FIS-Worldcup using them. They use them at own risk. Never heard Dalbello is sponsoring any of those riders with free skiboots for the snowboard races. So take a look to Dalbello Krypton OWNERS MANUAL: Dear Skier, Congratulations on your purchase of DALBELLO ski boots. ...... RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE.. -> Page 24 FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING YOUR EQUIPMENT: 1) Use these boots only with compatible bindings (DIN 7881, ISO 8061, ASTM F- 939, et. al.) that have been adjusted to them and to your individual specifications. 3) Do not use these ski boots for any activity other than Alpine Skiing. WARRANTY -> Page 25 This limited warranty, or any implied warranties, will apply only to boots that exhibit normal use and service, and will not cover any damage resulting from any misuse, ..... Dalbello recomend their Krypton's for Alpine Skiing only and nothing else. So it's not recommendet to misuse them by Alpine snowboarding.

You will find them as easy as usb-sticks, these Dalbello Krypton boots. Oh, these boots are still ski-boots ;) and no snowboard-boots So look, where that skier keep his focus. There are way more snowboarders with touring ski boots on platebindings, than on these green Dalbellos now!

We can find now something between 400 to 500 piece of Black Pearl's out on the World. And anywhere on the World, there can be found the right letterbox, e.g. for Your orders: