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You can be lucky on the East. On western Alpes we got more than 6.5ft fresh snow the last days. Below 10'000 ft altitude it was rain and see what happen then (click picture for higher resolution): Swimm goggles and snorkel helps to start your uphill with highspeed chairlift! Doesn't matter, it's just Global warming, I mean rapid Global warming. Even wineyards which produce wine since 600 Years (!) had to move the last decade some kind of wine to a 650ft higher terrain for to get similar wine quality.

Style? Style changed a lot (even on raceboards)! While Style was once young, fresh and sportive, now it's more clumsy than ever before. Well snowboard sales declines worldwide. So the snowboard industry is interessted to get new people for riding snowboards. With the help of rocker-build boards (but rocker ski too on ski industry) rider which are not that interessted to ride a snowboard (and learn all/a lot of it) can ride now easy down a slope. Even them which are less sportive or limp. How we can recognize that: Seek for Advice on getting a new board in any snowboard forum of America or Europe and read at which body-weight they ask for advice. 70-80 % of them are at around 180-220 lbs. Thats very heavy for young, fresh and sportive people. I don't think any of them are Schwarzenegger's. There was a time, average weight of snowboarders had been at 140-165 lbs and for teenager less. As I wrote on my post before, snowboarding became with spreading of rocker and magnetraction more boring then ever before. And that takes some serious effect! Let me give you some examples: European bigest snowboard freestyle event ( www.freestyle.ch ) is canceled now for 2015 due to missing sponsors. Tell me which company like to do sponsoring action sports, where the followers are limp and plump. Same thing to TTR. We had once a least six 6-star events every winter (highest level). Now it remains four 6-star events. X-games wasn't a 6-star event the Years before. So if we count true 6-star events, there remains only 3 of 6, thats the half! As I know from one which was hold for many Years, they loss main sponsor too. No other company had interesst.

Rocker constructions on skis and snowboards helps the industry to go straight that way.It's easy to ride down a good slope on such boards, even on higher speed. But that's it. Snowboarding and skiing became better, faster and easy in access to anybody. Otherwise moving a board on snow became more boring like never before. Boring things are interchangeable to other sports. Snowboard labels are talking from innovations and progressions, while sales on market brake away. In Europe some labels had a minus of 10-20% on skis and a minus of around 30% on snowboards for winter 2014/15. There are many reasons for it, but one thing of it we discuss here on thread.

That FP is now 20 Years old. The board I was carving on second picture (18 Years old) is much more modern and more hightech then Btn FP's and nowadays board constructions. It doesn't contain any wood inside and no, it isn't build like Rossignol's! Well, someones think carving the same slope twice a day, or even many more time a day as usual, would be a great thing. But why not carving in continous the slopes which are every run new, the whole long day? Alternate new ground, new mountain sceenes and new snow/slope conditions can be such great for to carve. Let it gone away all that boring and similar looking things! Take a true Alpine raceboard and run it on a harder and icy slope surface, just because it's so fun. Welcome to geniune hardbooting on most authentic mountain sceenes: The ones run 20 gates of 45° turns on a race. I prefer carving 20 embeded half-circle turns for fun. A quarter inch (maybe less) of melting icy crones by early morning sun (it was 9 a.m.) helps to make visible my run. But don't touch that pieces of ice which are frozen to slope on the left, they would destroy your fingers, hands and shoulders! Carving continous 20 half-circle turns like there on a early morning icy slope, it's just only basics of hardbooting & raceboards. Well limitations had been set to me with the lenght of that slope. And Yes, there are mountains/slopes for to go continous carving up to 70-90 half-circle turns!

There are missing track photos since days (I don't know why), but a lot more off-topic things discussed on forum. That's hard for me to understand, even if a great and nice winter is left in the Alps which I enjoyed: There are tons of snow, local skiers are talking from best slope conditions ever of winter 2014/2015 and weather shows Monday to Friday a clear blue sky with fresh air (freezing level not that high) Time of lift operation was enhanced to 8:30 AM - 5 PM. Good for more milage of carving, or more hours to ride on slopes whitch are near to empty mow. We had so much luck the last weekend, there was heavy rain up to the peaks of the mountains. Due to following clear weather/nights slopes could freeze deep into the ground. So there are perfect groomers of very hard ice. Icy slopes on constancy nearly to late afternoon when lifts are closing. It's so amazing to cut tracks on such totaly icy slopes, like here where it get sun since some minutes. Only crones you can cut and nothing else too. No skiers around there at 10 a.m., I had my private 2300ft of vertical Cable-Car and a private slope for sure too. I like to run dream-carving rather than extreme-carving! More action and many more speed on ice than on that way to grippy and boring powdersnow slopes. That slope a half hour before my run:

Aracan, thats o.k. I can understand You. Thats exactly why many skiresorts offers so many blue slopes. Ride and carve on them. And Youtube helps You to post carving videos like we can watch here first on thread. Isn't both great? It's fantastic how tourist-friendly things ever can be. You should enjoy it!

As I wrote: I hope I will see a sequence of it upcomming winter. I was recorded there. He was near to zero of battery-life, but he insisted I had to carve.In such cases you never know what happens with such sequences. To the end of the winter filmers collect as much of scenes as possible. They have time during summer to create a good movie for next winter. Maybe my ride was good enough for a slice of a second on part of a movie, maybe it's just waste. Professional filmer don't post waste of riding snowboards on DVD, or youtube. Let me give You an example: You didn't tell me if You are domestic of the Alps or where you ride. In my case I have a photo of a back-country kicker of a session from winter 2013/14. They did film there with 3 cams big-air from any riders like usual we see it from World best spots. I saw the same kicker again more than one Year later (was published on a final cut 8 month and about 3 weeks later as I was there / for sure no ridings from me) It is from Sage Kotsenburg (USA). He visited the Alps after Sochi Olympics, as he get his slope-style gold medal. (Title: Best of Snowboarding: Best of Sage Kotsenburg) I was carving that day at a hidden and not known by tourists single surface-lift. He was there some days before too for riding powder. His gopro video of his powder rides there I found some weeks later on Youtube. I hope I could explain You how sometimes the things happens on European Alps. No-no, it's interessting how and what they ride. I can manage to stand in middle of them. Just because what/how they ride it's one single of all movements of what we learned how to ride snowboards.

Yes, it's a beautifull country, the gate to the Orient.But let us turn back to actual situation in Turkey. Growing economy isn't anymore now, it's turning near to zero the last months. Disunion is an other thing now and Turkey has just 2'000'000 fugitives from Syria. If you like to have one of the biggest adventure in your live, go to Turkish City Mersin, which is locatet East of Antalya. Throw away or deposite your passport before. Try to take a small place in a boat (wrek) to Europe. That will cost you $6'500 up to $8'500. You will take over the see as a boat-people together with to many fugitives and also with some guys from IS or al-Nusra (Al-Qaeda) which are on illegal intrusion to Europe. (Informations just heard/get today on a radio broadcast from serious journalism.)

Behind China Turkey has the most growing economy of the World. Turkey is very nice to visit. But Istambul is very Western now. If you want to come closer to Turkish culture go deep into the country, or to less known villages beside mediterian see. Don't miss to visit some antique locations and buildings. You can find them everywhere. Enjoy strong tee, coffee, seefood, sweet Turkish food and so on. Turkey has skiareas too! http://www.skiingturkey.com/ Turkey has longest gondola of the World (from Leitner) at Bursa and the longest cablecar of the World (from Garaventa) at Anthalia Tahtali Olympus mountain. Climbing up 5377fts at once, thats a lot. http://www.olymposteleferik.com/en/home/ If you go deep into the country ask for accomodations which are proof to earthquake. There can be strong earthquakes in Turkey destroying houses. Just because of weak construction coming from corruption. Turkey like to show sometimes to the World how modern Turkey is. On skiresort Erzurum Palandoeken they build a great new ski-jumping area containing everything ski-jumpers need (lift and tables K20, K40, K65, K95, K125). What desaster can happen on weak constructions (no earthquake there / on Year after first use) we can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlTFDxvxiw8 Any ski-jumping installations had been destroyed. So not anything is perfect in Turkey, but you will meet a lot of lovely people.

Alternate you can buy Ziener Mare GTX gloves which contains SuperFabric®. Price tag is €99.95 if you buy them during your holidays on Alps in a store. Say to the salesman what you are looking for and ask him if gloves can consist. If not lasting on first days bring them back to store for refound your cash. Or watch out for Reusch gloves You can turn it to the left, to the right and flip it upside down, but there are not so much companys showing hardbooters on homepage.

Thanks for clearing this. I recommend it's better if Thor gloves do some resarch and not me! The whole World of wintersports knows it since Vancouver Olympics. West coast must have sometime days of very liquid snowfall during February.I like to carve very wet snow like this: Very icy ? Carving surfaces like ice, where a carver is able to cut all of the crones, but nothing else deeper of a fresh slope is nice: No-no, that's realy too grippy. Very icy seems to be this: if you can cut only a small part on top of the crones it's icy enough. Great hard surface, istn't it. Every time you carve down that, its like you do it on a pristine slope! Maybe I should add, only excellent and well performing boards let you carve deep and clean half cyrcle turns on such icy slopes. Ice gripp of board does matter. Back to the gloves: Myself I did my research. Please scroll back to both previous posts of me on thread. I only can grin about problems carvers are discussing. I wear custom made gloves, based on an anatomical perfect snowboarding glove design, but Alpine snowboarding specific made. I like to carve and have fun all the day like I show on "tracks" thread of softbootsailer. Thinking day by day and run by run about seams of gloves would come apart, would confine my stoke. Even if grind them on lay-downs mile by mile over such icy slopes.

Thanks a lot for posting these pictures. Be carefull everytime if a company is very new on market and if you can't buy the gloves in your local store! Even if on cheap price, it doesn't mean it would be a usuable quality!Thor gloves (Goostech Co.,Ltd ? foundet November 2010 ?) isn't as experienced like true and only snowsports glove makers like Level, Reusch, Ziener and so on. What works maybe great on dry powder of Colorado, can fail on wet conditions (sliping in with wet hands) and icy slopes on others ski-resorts of the world. US companys usualy doesn't take care to the demands of other countrys/market. They are strongly focused to the demands of own country.

It sounds strange if you have to improve a glove, like sealing and sewing before or after some days of use. Seems to be a cheap product.

It meight be hard to accept it, but there are things which runs some stages above on hardboots. It's just a nice thing to see others carving full speed ahead too on that treeless winter-wonderland, on the flattest part of slope here. Did you know it, Edmond Plawczyk from 127 MPH thread does such carvings faster than 90 MPH ! That's maybe faster than you are allowed to drive your car on highways. Well, it wouldn't help to deny genuine Alpine snowboarding and shade me to negativity corner. As known well, missing/wrong progression on riding Alpine snowboards turned the scene close to death during the last decade. The Youth deny hardbooting totaly. In counterpart to all who send rude words to me, I'm able to show how much fun Alpine snowboarding is. Even with some pictures, maybe never been sawn before here on forum. A double diamond slope, cutting one more track (less-skill doesn't work here, even not on the following steeper and icyer part of slope) at this afternoon slopes of Easter holidays. Fortunately in front of an amazing and impressing landscape, just for showing you: what genuine wintersport is /// where genuine wintersport comes from

No manly-man, no look terrible for carving. I have to recall, it's just basic, basics on Alpine snowboards. The word Euro-Carving was not know in Europe for a long time because no-one does Euro-Carving style here (or only some less skilled carvers). Such Carvingboards and raceboards have been riden too in America and since about a decade now on many more other regions of the World. Just for carving on that how many perfect, empty waves because of missing pure natural slopes. At a time where carving-skis became popular also some resorts in Europe have optimze slopes during summertime by bulldozers and they starts grooming slopes every day during wintertime. So they became tourist friendly resorts. But for such easy slopes Alpine snowboards and carvingboards never had been build until the last decade. Just because there is no needness for ride such perfect, empty waves by Alpine snowboards (maybe for beginners Yes), rather you run there by skis. Well, cuting boring tracks are easy now to do everywhere on the Alps on such slopes, as I wrote above. You can do it with any kind of boards (like on the one of following picture which is a general purpose snowboard, only 48" of edge) But there is no needness to cut easy tracks on a boring landscape as we can see on mostly boring carving videos now-adays. Why not to cut easy tracks in front of an amazing landscape? A landscape full of ice and snow and up to 11'000ft vertical from peak down to valley.

Next pair of .950 shell "C" Snowboard Hardboots Northwave Point.950 C-shell around $200 zero bid now ends April 15. 19:30 UTC but nose on right boot where binding-lever take place was cut and with screws holding rubber-sole in place

That's it!While poster of video want to make a show like to be heros and told something not well about rotation, there must be room for to discuss it. It don't matter where you carve extreme. The ones does it in Morocco, Namibia, or Lesotho and the other ones in Iran. (Yes, there you find ski resorts.) But even on the listed resorts, there is needed more skill and action (low quality of slopes) for to carve extreme. You meight be right at all. Because maybe all of that 3 people don't carve on such areas.There are examples about raceboarders on internet. As I write something above, there on the Alps you will find mountains they do not have any other slopes than black ones. A carving board enthusiast was once missleaded by a domestic skier to such a hidden and tiny resort. He reported than the mountain with black slopes was totaly un-carveable. He went then to the beginners area beside and was reporting what kind of hero carving he did there. Good to know: that "totaly un-carvable" mountain is one of the best location for carving on the Alps. Even carving there wind-pack beside slope is like surfing 7th-sky. Well west carven, for to show what kind of slopes riders of the Alps carve beside brushed cat tracks like shown now in every carving video, watch this: Domestics of Alps don't name such carvings extreme, because it's just basic. As Coreans in video of thread, we like to carve smooth, non-shaking and clean tracks like shown on this photo. Well, skill matters if do it on such ground, otherwise you feel like in a popcorn cooker. What happens on less riding skill, but talking from Extremecarving we see here to the end of video: Thats an absolute no-go. There are now some carvers from Russia which do so called "Extremecarving" under label of velvet.pro. As many so called extreme-carvers around the World they prefer wide and easy to manage slopes for to go carving. But even on such type of slopes he was not capable to dominate his snowboard. Even if no boulders around, no trees, no moguls and nothing else as wide & huge empty space he crash to a lonely skier. That's a result of missing or wrong skill handling a carving snowboard. By the way, velvet.pro has packman's on their logo. After watching crash on video, I know why they choose packman's.

Well, ist's now off-topic at all, and maybe some mod's get nervous reading an other point of view like I wrote. Sometime thinking free and carving free meight be hard to understand. Doesn't matter at all, it shows me why there are strong reasons the Youth deny to follow Alpine snowboarding. I suggest ride harder and go faster. But on good boards and better skill so you will have fun. Day by day and winter by winter, without any injury all the time. @Aracan Well Aracan, usualy printed newspaper of Der Standard or Kronen Zeitung didn't contain the same content like OnLine. Ask Oxess how many boards they can sell annualy to buyers on core of the Aps (I mean to them who pay the full price, like You and me). And I can't understand Your question, please ask more clear. (declining what?) Aracan you are from Tyrol of the core of the Alps, maybe Carinthia, or Salzburg, right? I hope You didn't miss to join at least one of all the fun events the last weekend for to run together with racers of FIS PAR Worldcup. I'm not up-to-date on which places all the events had been hold on the Alps. Unfortunately someone blocked me here on forum and I was not capable to put informations about that before events start (Aaron put infos about to fcb right that days). There must be someone(s) on forum which like to keep (me and) Alpine snowboarding as down as it can. I mean US rider Justin Reiter is 3rd on overall ranking of Worldcup 2014/2015 (14 races) but no ones takes notice about here on BOL forum. What a shame! In Your case Aracan You did join the open-to-everyone Schlag-den-Aaron fun race at Rosskopf mountain (Sterzing) of Saturday March 28. ? Rosskopf ski area is on the border of Italy-Austria, just only 45' by car from Innsbruck. Mustn't it be great to ride down a course with Aaron March and 7 more of his Worldcup buddys? (Austrian racers too) That's real Alpine snowboarding, just to be in middle of the pulsing heart of it. Following day an open-to-everyone event on Sunday March 29. was holded by Whiteout Snowboard Team, which is located close to Zermatt (border of Switzerland-Italy). Surfing a snowboard together with some holders of Sochi Olympic medals around gates, brings You closer to the sceene then ever you think. Way closer than only internet surfing. There was a store on resort Graechen with rental of boards, bindings and boots (F2 Speester's, F2 Vantage). Just good for them who arrived/joined there without any gear. Well, events had been gone over before I was allowed to anounce them here on forum. Did I forget something to write? Ahhh Yes! There had been an inscription of a couple of Corean riders to Graechen event. As usual the last Years, Corean hardbooters take part of a springtime race-tour in Europe. So at March 29. there was a chance to see AND ride with 4 men and 2 girls from Corea. Even a Canadian Worldcup racer was there! (for results see FIS page) I mean everyone like to see and get back video of Corean hartbooters here on thread. But why not to share/ride a slope with Corean hartbooters? I did it this winter and You?

Tracks we like to cut in to nice slopes. Carving 7th-sky! As we know it all if out on snow on the end of every day we find the most amazing slopes. Even if slopes are not groomed daily (icy and hard, so no need for grooming), such slopes give us an additional boost. In case of non runway-type slopes (runway-type slopes looks sometime more like made for landing a Space-Shuttle), we come closer to carving genuine Alpine Snowboarding then ever else, see here: Well in counterpoint to clean and brushed groomers, tracks on best carving slopes are sommetimes hard to make visible. Turn No.1 was carved where the white skier runs on center of first pic: Don't forget before carving on 7th-sky, you should go uphill at first, which can look like that: A steep T-bar lift with some pre-molded icy tracks from skiers meight be way to tricky and nervous to uphill. Even for me it was tricky there. I rode a new to me board, forgot to add a stompad on it and with my right glove in the left hand and shooting pictures with camera in the right hand, it was a nice challenge to hold me in balance on that surface! No stress at all, if you don't like snowboarding this, rather you go to resorts with wide brushed slopes and chairlifts beside. There are so many resorts around the World offering wide brushed slopes with chairlifts beside.

Please don't do that! There is no need to delete things. There are only things to discuss. Even on video section we can discuss. Even in case of writing of things which are not ridden like described (rotation and so on).Like I wrote on my post they develop their own way for it, it's o.k. to see different riding styles/slopes. There isn't "no good feel". On the other side, there must bee room for to show where Alpine snowboarding is comming from and where/how it should be ridden. For sure if you look-up internet and youtube for Alpine snowboarding, it seems to be now the most lame movings of snowboarding in general. But Alpine snowboarding mustn't be / wasn't lameboarding. There are too much people which has no idea about what Alpine snowboarding is. They bought Alpine snowboards, many boards, or expensive boards but are not able to run true Alpine snowboarding. And because GoPro and digicams are such cheap these days many carver put every / a lot of simple ride/turns to Youtube and forums. Talking/writing from negative comments only member does which maybe are not able to understand what true Alpine snowboarding is, or they are not capable to run true Alpine snowboarding at all. Just one simple Question to them who don't like to understand what true Alpine snowboarding is. Is your skill good enough to uphill this T-bar lift? Even with that right one short-rod T-bar which is as nervous to ride? Even if you need to cross that slope/way? This surface-lift is located at Italian-Swiss border. It's simple: if you want carving down a mountain go up-hill at first. Well, ones rather go to resorts with comfy chairlifts for uphill and downhill than easy slopes. I posted some months ago videos of a good place in the Alps for let it carve extreme. They shows us what happens, if skill is missed or wrong, it's so funny to watch: and now some snowboarders, enjoy it: (father and daughter) and at least one more funny movie: That was at Harakiri slope of Mayrhofen (Austria). There over in the Alpes, we have similar, and/or steeper slopes with 1000 ft of vertical drop. Harakiri has only around 330 ft, so crashes are limited to only one third of lenght like on other resorts. And yes we had a victim at Harakiri one week ago. Victim was from an up-comming country of East Europe, he ignored all the warnings on entry of slope (can be sawn on videos too) and he didn't survive riding that slope. Let us just turn back now to Corea and carvingboard maker Oxess as an example. This month Oxess snowboards show us a video on their website from Corean riders carving on Oxess snowboards. And just same month there was an interview at one (of many) of a leading newspaper in Europe with Oxess founder Brunner. Giving many figures and informations to journalist, at least Marcel lament he can't deal with his boards in his country and around the core of the Alps. He do export them only. Same thing to Kessler snowboards. Kessler is not capable to sell many boards to own country and around the core of the Alps. Kessler snowboards are pure export goods. There are reasons for it! The one thing is riders on core of the Alps want to run Alpine snowboarding, not Alpine lameboarding! The other thing is you can buy many much better performing boards (even customs too), mostly not known on internet or here at BOL. Like leading Ski brands of Worldcup, they don't sell any boards online, you get them only in stores. (no sales without personal consulting) One more thing is you pay less then the half to less then a third for a better performing board as for SG, Oxess or for Kessler, even with customisation! A fourth thing is people like to run true Alpine snowboarding. Snowboarding like here, on slopes whitch are real and not just artifical made for beginners. Thats why some usable riding technics had been developed for it. It contains "rotation", even if rotation is one single part only of movement. On the Alpes you will find resorts they do not have any other slopes than black ones (double/trippel diamond for US), except them beside beginners lift. E.g. 3000ft (900m) at once black slopes only at another resort on Italian-Swiss border: Please take in mind: Oxess, Kessler and SG builds boards for FIS races. FIS races runs only on beginners slopes (wide, consistent slopes, limited on length, limited on steepness. The ready for FIS-race boards perform great on such beginners slopes, so they are adapted from many carvers around the World for to carve on similar type of slopes. Even if talking about Alpine snowboarding to FIS race directors they turn to a negative comments- mind like someones here on thread. But they make big eyes if they see how true Alpine snowboarding runs. Most FIS racers don't use rotations for making turns on an Alpine snowboard and are strongly limited to manage tricky slopes! If you have the chance, ask one of the FIS racer (maybe an PAR Worldcup overall winner) for to go carving together in a mogul-slope ;-) my big-grin dosn't end now! Ask them to go carving on steep very narrow pure-ice slopes where ski-downhill racers reach 100mph (160km/h) ;-) my big-grin still holds on. Similar things can be written about Pureboarding. Joerg Egli's videos and photos shows only wide and easy beginners slopes on best powdersnow from foreign countrys. Well he is an old man now on decreasing vitality, but was limited to such slopes since he started his business. On the core of the Alps people are talking more from poor-boarding then from pure-boarding.

That's it. I agree to jeff33 and H2O. Well, there are up-comming countrys in wintersports since the last decade. Just like it happen in America some vew decades before. Even IOC and FIS takes care about it. They bring Olympic Winter Games now to Pyeong Chang of Corea in 2018. It's great to see how people like to make wintersports now on many more country around the world. Like "excarving" they develop their own way for it. But on these up-comming countrys they shouldn't forget, where wintersports is comming from. In case of wintersports things had been developed long time ago in the Alps. Once upon a time where no cars had been found on the ways. Just watch this picture from a horse drawn carriage crossing the Alps. On such flanks of mountains right on the right side of picture we like to ride snowboards and skis: While on the Wild-Wild-West they had to manage some times Indian and gangster attacks, on the Alps they went very often through very hard enviroments (falling rocks, avalanches, wind-storms, rain-storms and snow-storms. Similar things we can find now-a-days on slope. While the ones do carving on easy fully artifical made slopes which had been cutted to hills, riders on the Alpes ride the ground which is formed by all the natural enviroment activities. Look at this black slope embeded to boulders of that mountain flank from the picture above. It's not shaped at all by bulldozers: At the left lower corner of picture you find a skier. Well, this picture isn't from Alagna Freeride Paradise, but it shows even similar things where we do carving in Europe. Northface with no sun over 4 months, and many more ice for sure. Thats way above any artifical build children slopes on a small hill. There you can find blue level (for US =red) slopes for sure, right beside a short beginners lift. Blue levels slopes can reach only 3% of all slopes on resorts of the Alps! Carving such/this black slope (see black sticks on border of slope) looks like that: On European Alps hardbooters like to carve hard such slopes on the end of the day. The slopes are prepared well by skiers over the whole day. Even on lower light of late afternoon, carving becomes then a more interessting thing ever. Wrong skill wouldn't work here! Maybee I should write there are victims, which doesnt survive riding that slope. Well in this case of picture with red dots I was invited by a filmer to perform carving that slope. He was a Pro, maker of spectacular Alaska snowboard movies too. Comming from a freeride/freestyle snowboard company, with some pro-riders beside, he ask me to ride/carve some turns there for his movie, even if I was on hardboots. That's amazing, isn't it! Who was asked ever before here on forum by professional softboot snowboarders/filmer, for to ride and demo hardbooting on such places? And it was hard for me to do that, because I was on a general purpose board. A board which had a good stance setup for riding powder-snow. Stance wasn't as good for carving (let shift bindings 4cm more foreward and it carve well). So no hyper-super and pimp-it to extreme carvingboard below my feets, no metal inside, no funny plates above it, and for sure no riding on best new shaped blue-level slopes. For to have best movie quality the filmer followed me riding himself with a big size and powerfull 3-axis gimbal camera stabilizer. I hope I will see a sequence of it upcomming winter. Conclusion: I think people of up-comming countrys in wintersports should know how limitations are set. Not usable skill and poor ability of challenging slopes dosn't mean they can ride or carve great.

Sorry, I was posting my text on wrong thread. Even if it can be an answer to this thread, I moved content to that tread.

Tracks which are not that boring like usual. Well, many rider like to open a day carving on fine trackless new slopes. Myself sometimes I like to close the day by carving on a trackless new slopes. The ones needs Pistenbully or Ratrac for to have a trackless new slope. I don't hope they are limited to run only such slopes. Myself I prefer real mountains with best trackless fields which the-so-called "airbagers" forced it to groom. It's good to know, there over on the Alps wearing avalanche airbags like BCA Float Systems is very popular now. There are countless of rider having such backpacks for to go skiing and snowboarding. So "airbagers" drop in to steep lines and let than the snow go down. This makes a wonderfull nice carving slopes too. See here, an airbager which has done just his great work: as you can see on detail-pic it's a snowboarder. And no track in and no track out: Before lifts are closing early in evening, when sun was gone since hours (which helps to freeze-up snow) I usualy carve down such nice avalanche fields (photo taken downhill from same field): and uphill on my last run of the day. It's just like a dream to terminate best snowboarding days which a ride on such pure trackless slopes. Way better than carving destroyed slopes on the end of the day. So you can go home with a very good feeling in your mind. So thanks a lot for the great work of any "airbagers" !

Yeah, that's great. Even that Phenix splitboard looks wonderfull! Don't miss to join Ultimate Test Tour at Villars-Gryon (Switzerland) this weekend! Villars is close to lake of Geneva. Phenix snowboards and other brands like CloneInd/Corupt/Dupraz/Pogo would be there! Travel by airplane to Sion airport or Geneva airport. If comming from Paris take TGV de neige. 30 miles more to the East at Kandersteg the splitboard only test-tour "Alpine-Splitfest" (Switzerland) event with major splitboard brands would be hold this weekend. You can book guided tours for up to 4 miles/6000ft long/descent downhill on an imperial Glacier-world. There is low avalanche risk now. (see http://www.summitpost.org/balmhorn/308267 and http://images.summitpost.org/original/308267.jpg ) On both places you can test and ride the newest 2015/2016 boards and bindings as much you need for free.

Yeah, You can find a site with dedication to Extremecarving and Extremecarving-boards on internet. That site contains a user-forum. kurtsk8 is a member of that forum and he was very interested/activ to/on hardbooting outside of slopes since many Years. Use search function on that forum. Type for user "kurtsk8" and "Snowboard Alpinismo" For more freenes of angles take splitboards whitch contains Burton channel system, like Btn Family Tree, Voile Revelator and so on. Sometimes mountains can be higher and on higher challenge, covered by tons of snow and ice all over the Year, and that's the equipment which is needed for to go on that Alps. No wide skis, no wobbeling boots on (wider than wide skis) splitboards! Thats what we came down (on right lower corner there are our trenches): Hardbooter inbound of crevasses