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For moguls thats not the way to go! According to The Rider System it looks maybe like a counter rotation before a turn. But turns are rotational in moguls too. It's evident for not loose control of speed.Anyone who like to try it out, can do it next Monday when Dual Moguls of Freestyle-World-Ski-Championships at Kreischberg (Austria) is over. Maybe you have a local mogul course race the next days at your favorite mountain. Don't miss to enter that course with your Alpine snowboard if race had been closed. It's a great experience which makes fun. Take a narrow board for that. Pro-skiers left very thight furrows between moguls. Even in January 2019 Park-City (USA) holds Freestyle-World-Ski-Championships too (and Snowboarding-Worldchampionships!). So go there. Watch snowboarding and the days after go to that moguls with your board.

Keep and ride the Highlander from Republic of Freesurf. If you have the the no-cap Highlander SL (150/155/160), you have exact the opposite of a Kessler shape too. Kessler is smaller on tail, Highlander smaller on nose. Kessler has wide SCR at feets, Highlander has small SCR between feets Kessler has small SCR on nose/tail, Highlander has wide SCR before-on/on-after feets. And by the way, Republic of Freesurf are the only raceboards ever on World, which had been made in a Winter-Olympics town - Grenoble - embeded in mountains! http://xtupload.com/image.php?id=ACA2_53C98209&jpg.jpeg

Prior: Best rider on Prior, was at rank 54, the only one of 1000 listet riders (W&M, GS/Duel) of ISF World ranking Burton: Yes for sure if build to specifiacations from Burton-Innsbruck Rossis: no! Best rider on that Rossi gs-board we talk here, was at rank 89 on man and rank 33 on women of GS ISF World ranking list.

EC-style and Pureboarding are just a small slice out of The Rider System. You can call it a sub-style of general snowboarding and Alpine snowboard carving. Both style are comming out of that school, but are a free interpretation and not bounded into the organisation (no certification as a snowboard school). Courses of rider System are listet here "Basic Courses" are evident, just to learn all the moves you need. And it takes time and some many more exercise days. Even if you start there thinking you are an experienced rider. After that you need to join the "Allround Courses", which takes again time and more exercise days again. Finaly you can book "Carve & Speed courses" for to get a good pack of basics for snowboarding on Alpine snowboards. Please note: carving up to speed like on highways with car is part of it. Lessons in EC-style and Pureboarding are a less and an uncompleted way to learn something about carving with Alpine snowboards. But it let unexperienced carvers proceed fast to do some great turns in less education time. EC-style and Pureboarding remains a very specific and limited small slice of carving a snowboard on snow. Together with praising the special carving boards, it gives you the opporttunity to do photo-shoot turns on easy slopes as fast as possible. What does it mean? Let me give You some example: Whach this carver here: He seems to imitate the style of Pureboarding (clothing, turns he did before and so on). But due to his, I would say average/intermediate skill only, he wasn't able at all to do cut some nice trenches there. Remark: There are limitations of slope-width by a surface-lift and trees of forest. A rusty razor-wire help to not entry the forest, as you can see on background. On that part of slope experienced raceboarders do 180° EC-like turns on older F2 Speedster slalom raceboards (tilt the photo to the right to see steepness). No problem for that, but skill should reach higher than only to have a small slice of education I wrote above. No protections against rusty razor-wire and T-bar lift are needed - just trust to your skill and to your good board. Yes, the surface was very hard but had grip. Maybe that board he rode (don't know which label) doesn't hold edge enough for cool turns, like F2 Speedster SL perform. Now-a-days many rider buy-in EC-style and Pureboarding-style by hardware (specific snowboard, like Swoard or #Two and so on). It might be popular now to stick in your hyper-carvingboard to snow and feel well. Buying such boards are even cheaper in price / taking less time than joining all the courses I wrote on introduction. What we can see on slope you see here (it is that balck Swoard on high angulation): Subject to change: I'm not well informed yet, but doesn't Swoard come in red color? Black Swoard must be new, or one of any copy. On 100% crop I can read something about like Metal-Acc(eleration?)-Matrix. For me that style looks weird, but maybe that black color Swoard need that special and new to me kind of carving-style.

That was the chute both Rossignol rider downhill with Alpine snowboards (Aig. de Triolet 3870m / 12'700ft): (click on this link for alternate view)

Yes 10.5m thats right. (all datas/description out of the red booklet from Rossi) Rossignol 1997/1998 RACE VAS DUALTEC 146 - 156 - 166 - 171 Microcell foam core, Carbon-Kevlar stiffeneres, VAS dampers, centred base and integral Dualtec transmission. Cap for responce and livelines. Power transmission to the snow via 4mm thick sidewalls along the whole boardlength for extra grip and confidence-building contol. Program: (*) Racers, Super Carvers and totaly mad boarders like Jerome Ruby and Andre Rehm from the Chamonix Guide company who scored the 1st integral of the North Face of the Triolet on the Mont Blanc range. Date: June 95. Snowconditions: little snow / tons of ice average slope: 55° / one section at 65° (Guide Vallot) (click on link for 1500*1000 pixel) (click on link for 1500*1000 pixel) Size: 166cm Edge: 142cm SCR: 10.5m Tip and tail with: 235mm Waist: 190mm Stance: 41/49cm Tip lenght: 180mm Tail lenght: 50mm Weight: 3.3kg I found pictures in a magazine which show us a rider from a snowboard shop doing full laydowns on that GS board. Text beside: "Extremcarving does work with good balanced raceboards, no problem" Remark: that was in autumn 1997 ! Watch the high-res photo now and see what they ride. Chatter on ice/hardpack might be bringing death for them! So tell me pleas where the f*** I can find some pictures from that but a newer board with metal will be better -boards, which are able to compete! (*) please BlueB, don't read this and don't watch the photos!

Podium Bad Gastein (AUT) Worldcup Parallel Team Slalom January 10. 1. Switzerland-1 (Kummer+Galmarini), 2. Russia-5 (Boldykova+Kolegov), 3. Russia-2 (Soboleva+Sobolev) 32 teams (men and woman) did start. 7 teams of them came from Austria, but Austrian riders didn't succeed. 5 teams came from Russia and 2 of them we can see now on podium. Temperature was way above freezing level - 63 Fahrenheit! like never ever sawn on an Alpine snowboard Worldcup race. I mean on 63 Fahrenheit rather you play Golf then riding snowboards. Snow was icyed-up by salt. Race was hold as a single race format for each team. Red course was again faster than yellow course on the beginning, but turns than to via-versus close to the end of the race. Operator was lucky they could held a race again. Because of lack of snow and heavy rain during the night, they need to position the gates to where snow was as high as possible on slope. To the end of race mud became visible, which was the same problem last Year at Bad-Gastein (AUT). (As I note here on post No.4) Long time ago racing on gates was popular to hold at higher altidue (6000-8000ft). Low altitude races like we see these Years reamins a problem. Thats why I did add the altitude information on thread with race overview. We are now on Global warming. This affect a double to 3-time temperature rise in Austria compared to other countrys on the World. Vic Wild (Russia, former USA) doesn't race. He is on pain. They talk from his back. Need operation of intervertebral disc next weeks - maybe after Worldchampionchips. Refering to the discussion we had on "WSJ article on lack of funding for US Alpine / Russia's gain" thread I start here, it can be an effect of overdriving his body, similar like you put a dragster motor on a chassis of a Volkswagen.

Podium Bad Gastein (AUT) Worldcup Parallel Slalom January 9. 1. KOSIR Zan (SLO), 2. MICK Christoph (ITA), 3. BUSSLER Patrick (GER) 1. LEDECKA Ester (CZE) Age:19, 2. KUMMER Patrizia (SUI), 3. ZOGG Julie (SUI) Justin Reiter (USA) was the only American reaching the finals (his rank: 16.), no Canadians on finals for this race. Claudia Riegler (AUT) runs the 1. race in the Year of 2001 and today the 49. FIS-WC race at Bad Gastein. She is now 41 Years old! Sebastian Kislinger (AUT), 6. on ranking is showing on topsheet the well known and great Austrian Alpine-snowboard-club: http://lipizzanerteam.at/ Temperature was above freezing level, snow was hard-icy, 100% artifical, 22 gates, 3865ft -> 3570ft Race was holding in single-pass-format. Red course was conspicuous faster and easier to ride than yellow course. Operator was lucky they could held the race. Because of bad lack of snow, they switched from a night event, like we saw it all the Years before, to a dayligt event. Snow was brought in and some snow was made by machines during the nights. Many of the riders use still their pants and jackets from the Sochi Olympic games for racing on Worldcup now! Benjamin Karl runs a Nortwave .950 yellow-yellow on front feet, but yellow-red at rear feet. On front boot he use a red tongue (Raichle?) Patrizia Kummer switched from green Krypton boots to orange UPZ RC-10. Other woman switched back to older Deeluxe Indy, orange color. Julia Dujmovits has broken her Kessler at 2. qualification run. Kessler K-plate in white color - mounted asymetrical on snowboard / Allflex plates which are modified (cut-out the ends) My conclusion: FIS should stop that bad singel-run format and switch back to re-run format. At Bad Gastein both courses had been very inequal! Even if ground is free of snow some days before venue, it's hard to make a consistent slope. There can be a difference in temperature of ground and different water-amount in ground between the left course and right course! Tomorrow we will see for the 2nd time a team-race. 32 teams of woman&man will participate. At Montafon race we saw only 16 teams. Don't miss to check the webcam tomorow Saturday from 13:00 UTC. The cam covers the whole race area. You can zoom in on left upper corner using the 360° view (still-image).

As listed here we have today January 9. and tomorrow January 10. another Worldcup race. Bad Gastein PSL would be hold as a single run format. The race you can watch all the time by a hires moving webcam, covering all the race area: For live images click here We are now 8.30 a.m. UTC and qualification runs will start as next. Race today would start 12:15 UTC, the teamrace tomorrow at 13:00 UTC Don't miss to take an eye to the race, it's verry special to have worldwide coverage by a webcam to such a PAR event! (webcam is listed also at www.gastein.com / Stubnerkogel - Bucheben)

This is it!What do You think about Hot Blast are made of? They are a piece of old sh**? They came out from a time where no label was forced to sell some piece of ****. On the Years of 1995-1999 best performing raceboards ever had been build. I mean the one Hot snowboard You ride, would give You a blast: I did compare head-to-head Hot Blast also to some actual most famous Worldcup shapes we know. Similar lenght, around similar width, similar edge lenght if hooked-in on snow, about similar stiffness (on Worldcup items You can choose the flex).There was every time ONE board which did rock and perform. A board which has incredible icegrip, which can be taken every time under control (running silence) and which can be riden in any kind of snow. But just don't think it was a board from the decade we are living now! And by the way that old Hot Blast wasn't slower on speed compared to boards with new ISO 900000...... Nano-Pico-.... anything else Worldcup race base! Creating a superb raceboard needs a lot of time, knowledge and many samples which builders throw away, because of not well balanced/usable. For sure you can ride such thrown-away-boards too. But this isn't what makes fun. Modern Alpine snowboards which you can buy now, are sometimes recommended on high volume and proposed as state-of-the-art. Meanwhile I say, many of them are not able to reach the performance of "thrown-away-boards" from the 1995-1999 Years. Note: from that time for sure you can find also bad and not nice to ride boards finding NOS boards is harder than ever before finding a range of NOS boards (same shape, different lenght) is near to impossible now choosing the right lenght/shape/flex isn't possible without having accurate specs. and recommendations from that Years. There are now countless of dissapointed riders of older boards, just because they choose the wrong board, or ride 2.nd-hand worn-out items.Thats why in most case modern Alpine race boards reamain as the best way for to go on these days. And Yes, Modern Alpine snowboards are easy to handle on slope, even if rider is on low skill. They have nose-rocker and tail-rocker, like Kessler and many other brands too. Rocker give you more fun to ride them flat on the base, but less if hooked-in on snow. Running edge of modern Alpine snowboards is dynamic and in any case shorter! You pay for a long edge but get a short one - so you have to take the longer board for to have similar edge-grip. Even edge pressure distribution can run out of control on that modern shapes. I did post pictures from Hot Blast on thread here and here some times ago. This photos show us pure racboard snowboarding action, as celebrating there over in the Alpes: . Did we saw the last Years anything similar too?Photos which are able to celebrate hardbooting that way? Tell me about one single picture! From any brand around the world. We have now Youtube, facebook and more. Imaging is easy and cheap. What can we find there? Exa-byte huge streams showing boring moves on Alpine snowboards only? Wouldn't that be more closer to lame-boarding than to snow-boarding? There are so many small board builders and any of them told us they make the best board ever on the World! Coiler, Ogasaka, ...... than all the upcomming brands like OES and so on? Joining to that there are countless riding-styles with missing action for sure. Just watch what Russians intend to try-out on softboots these days. I mean, they are just even more than 2 decades behind (>20 Years) of what we did try and failed in the Alpes once upon a time. Yes, snowboarding is a totaly new sport for them, so they are on an early learning phase now. Just watch angles of softbindings they put on the boards. They are free to do that, but isn't that awful! They wouldn't perform on true slopes, they are limited to beginner slopes.

Races are hold this week! Update: one more time a new calendar! 2015 January 9. - PSL - Bad Gastein - Austria - (1002m/3290ft) single run format 10. - team race - Bad Gastein - Austria - (1002m/3290ft) 22. - PSL - Kreischberg - Austria - (868m/2850ft) - Worldchampionships 23. - PGS - Kreischberg - Austria - (868m/2850ft) - Worldchampionships 31. - PGS - Rogla - Slovenia - (1340-1490m/4400-4890ft) 2015 February 6. - PGS - Sudelfeld - Germany - (1035-1235m/3400-4050ft) 7. - PGS - Sudelfeld - Germany - (1035-1235m/3400-4050ft) 28. - PGS - Asahikawa (Hokkaido) - Japan 2015 March 1. - PSL - Asahikawa (Hokkaido) - Japan 7. - PSL - Moscow - Russia 14. - PSL - Winterberg - Germany - (630-820m/2060-2690ft)

one more auction: Northwave Point .950 Size 285 http://www.fr.ricardo.ch/acheter/sport/snowboard/boots/hardboots/pointure-43-44/northwave-950/v/an751544130/ ends January 14. 11 a.m. UTC Shell size is D edit: sold for $1200

This season seems to be the one of the most sold 2.-hand Nortwave Point .950 boots ever! Next auction: Snowboard Hardboots Northwave .950 Size 270 (C-shell ?) ends January 7. 22:15 UTC edit: sold for $1350 and one more: Northwave Point 950 Snowboard Hardboot E-shell ends January 7. 13:26 UTC ************ Because of forum crash, some postings are missing. I re-post the ones I wrote: 2.) The second Northwave hardboots trade cheaper than $4000 ! Auction is closed now. Due to the single color of Point .950 the highest bid ends at only $1950 ! as announced Nortwave's Point .900, the grey ones starts at €1 http://www.ebay.de/itm/Northwave-Point-900-Mondo-29-0-Hardboot-Raceboot-Alpinboot-ahnl-Point-950-/331394140088 3.) and missing rear-spoiler! The first two pair b***c buys. Will we see who buy the third one. please note: - second sellers name was: virusmark - third seller was: virusdanger 4.) D-Shell Northwave Point 950 There is one next pair of Northwave Point 950 on ebay: MP 29 - D-Shell http://www.ebay.de/itm/Northwave-Point-950-Snowboard-Hardboot-Mondo-29-D-Shell/231402031360 is now at €600 Please remark: it's a short term auction

Yes You do have a 20 Years old Wild-Duck Crusher 164. I was digging and I just read a detailed test report about that board of 1994/1995 season. You should keep-it, try-it, ride-it. And than let us know which edge (toe side / heel side) would be the Wild-Duck one and which would be the Lame-Duck one! The board earns 3 of 6 stars, like WD World-Cup get it too. WD Knifer was than at 2 stars only. Myself I prefere to ride boards at 6 or 5 stars (42 Alpineboards on test, 1 get 6 stars / 10 get 5 stars) If You prefer to ride wide open and well groomed slopes of powder-snow, it doesn't matter how many stars the board get. Otherwise ask oldsnowboards.com if he take it as a gift.

@ursle Countles of sport stores, even on World famous ski resorts, offer tuning the edge to Ultimate Grip. Skiers and snowboarders are on better grip of edges - 10 time longer compared to normal edge tuning. Cause of less power on legs than the ones which do racing, edges with UG need less force on icy slopes. And UG is recommend too by accident prevention organisations. We had a double-figure increasing of ski- and snowboard accidents last winter. Slopes are more and more super-hard and icy on the Alpes. Just because of wide-area low temperature man-made-snow on slopes. What happens in case of loosing edge grip you can watch on Youtube! And now, please fasten Your seat-belts, it's action time: and now some funny snowboarders: (father and daughter) and at least one more funny movie: That was at Harakiri slope of Mayrhofen (Austria). Please remark, on every video there was splash of snow, so it's not that icy! 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. Anyway, You can think what you want. Good edge grip can be an affordable thing. I ride both type of edge tuning. @BlueB I'm dissapointed now. As I remember me well, You like to ride at Cypress mountain. Wasn't Cypress the place for snowboarding at Vancouver Olympics? Just waiting to Your report about some great rides in an Olympic halfpipe after the games. There are not that much snowboarders which have such famous things like Olympic halfpipes on a home-resort. You had that unique chance! Please tell us about Your rides on a Olympic halfpipe. Wouldn't it be great to feel things your-self about needed skill on snow in case of Alpine snowboarding and freestyle snowboarding. And wouldn't it be great to compare boards and talking about from/with World best snowboarders? About carving on rough steep ice, You refer to this? and/or this: Go to glacier ski resort and try it out! (I mean that videos above show things around a maximum of 39 degrees of steepness only.) Carving was way easier than making photos. You need cramp-ons and pimple for to hold on at such icy flanks. Yes I have pimple and a couple of cramp-ons, even one of them fit perfect my hardboots. But I don't carry them with me on days of general snowboarding. The challange was not to carve there. The challange was to stop and catch a photo!

@ursle Some single nicks on edge doesn't affect edge hold. Well, they decrease speed, thats why Ultimate-Grip will not be found on races. Even like too many metal decrease speed at all. Had You ever hold downhill skier from ski worldcup in Your hands. Edges are thin on that skiers, less than 4/100 inch. @BlueB (My goodness .......) Maybe my text was again too much for You, like we did once discuss about carving on some steeps too. Well BlueB, did You ever ride and fly on a super-pipe? I'm talking from the huge halfpipes. You know, the ones which are part of WST 6-star events. It's just great, You should try it out! Did You ever ride Big-Air tables? You will get for around 70-100 ft air under Your feets, just a great view above ground! You should try it out! But in any case, don't miss to take up very high speed before! Well BlueB, did You ever hold and flex a board of a Sochi Olympics Gold medalist on disciplines I'm wrote. Did You ever inspect and picture-it a board of one more other Sochi Olympics Gold medalist? I mean he is just from America, You know! And by the way, did You ever ride the same slopes and off-slope area, like that American guy love to do it? He ripp some more tricky and challenging ski areas/slopes than only the wide and open easy ones. There is a difference between boring things and having unlimited fun on snowboards. BlueB, did You ever talk to others Sochi Olympics finalists. Did You ever flex and discuss with them about theirs boards, prefered halfpipes and so on? Ahhh BlueB, and now some Alpine snowboard related things: has ever a PAR Worldcup winner visited You at Your home. Even a holder of Big Crystal Globe from FIS = overall World Cup winner of the last Years? Someones think I'm kidding or trolling. But maybe someones are far away from any scene of snowboarding.

Italian rider Roland Fischnaller was the big winner of all of the first 3 races. 3 starts - 3 wins! Together with Nadya Ochner (Italy) he won the amazing and vibrating first ever mixed team race, which was hold on an icy slope and blue sky on Silvretta-Montafon ski resort of Austria. Even Vic Vild did a great show. He race together with his wife and had to equalize her's penalty time of 3.5 seconds and he did it. Penalty time was reduced later during the final runs to 2.5 seconds. Gardener races together with Calve reaching place 7 on ranking. The Sobolev's (brother&sister) climb the podium as No. 2 Japaneese rider Masaki Shiba was totaly happy reaching his first podium on FIS Worldcup together with Tomoka Takeuchi. He didn't stop to hit his board, his head and his body like wild after each heat. Results can be find here. What did we saw and heard else? Austrian team has new head coach, even like Italian team and Swiss team had new head coaches too. Austrian rider Benjamin Karl seems to be back now (4th on actual leader board). As shown before of races on Austrian-snowboard-team webpage (video), he did made a big change. He is leaving SG Snowboards and ride now on Kessler's ! There are now more women on the yellow Deeluxe Track 69 than last Year and Oxess snowboards we can see even more than last Year too. Sigi Grabner did a great job as a commentator on Austrian Television. He was giving excellent background-informations, like we never get before on any TV comments the last Years.

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Hello HHH, I think no!Tell us what You think icy/hard conditions are. I mean there are riders they talk from icy if slope isn't like fresh groomed powder-snow. There over in the Alps we usualy talk from icy, if you can switch between a board or some ice-hockey skates for downhill. Only if you can run ice-hockey skates it's icy enough for to name slopes like as icy, look at this: http://xtupload.com/image.php?id=ADB8_5496CB2A&jpg the man took a surface lift with his ice-hockey skates for to carve down than the slope after that. These are the details: http://xtupload.com/image.php?id=23BD_5496CB5B&jpg Well in that case fresh snow was falling, so there is one inch of fresh powder covering the icy surface. In counterpart you should know only well performing snowboards will be good enough for to carve down in a easy way such icy conditions. I mean there are dozens of boardmakers, even them for alpine snowboards, talking about ice-grip of their products, even if boards are way not usable for to manage such icy slopes, like you can go by ice-hockey skates too. Riding G-force turns on such icy slopes are pure fun for residents of the Alps. It doesn't matter if you choose skates or raceboards on such days. Your question was about magne traction or similar tech. Magnetraction was introduced as banana-boards and rockerboards are comming to store. So as discused above, the bumps along the edge improve edgehold while skidding. Good snowboarders doesn't ride rockerboards, they don't need magnetraction. These things are good for beginners only. You can't see one single rider with rockerboards on slopesltyle and halfpipe events like Sochi Olympic games. Well SBX and PAR riders use lightly rockerboards, known as decambering. They often do skidding and maybe they aren't that good experienced rider (and on way slower speed) than SS and HP riders are. What can help in your case is using Ulimategrip edge preparings ( ultimate-grip.com ). You can buy snowboards from Yes, or Nidecker comming out from factory with ultimategrip edge. Otherwise some ski-maintaince-shop can tune the edges to ultimategrip. I ride a GS board tuned to UG edge. But I think icegrip is similar to a normal sharp edge on raceboards. Maybe icegrip is better, maybe only a little. It's hard to say there is a difference without comparing it between exact two similar boards. But UG edge holds better on ice, if edge isn't anymore on best sharpnes.

As anounced here, there was another Worldcup PSL race Yesterday. Stay tuned! In 90 minutes we will see the next PAR Worldcup race, for first time ever a team mixed race! Yesterday it was clear to me, Canadians would perform again, just because rain / heavy rain was anounced up to the peak of the mountain (2300m/7500ft). Remembering me to Vancouver Olympics Canadians perform always if it's raining! Unfortunately European rain seems to be <way more different to west coast rain of Canada, so Canadians didn't perform as well on slope on Yesterdays PSL race. Yesterday and today race are hold on Silvretta-Montafon ski resort of Austria. There are a least 4 Worldcup racers (Lukas Mathies PAR / 3 SBX) living on the base of this resorts. Silvretta-Montafon skiresort is a mid size resort with two mountains. At the one mountain, called Nova, You can find sometimes German tourist-hardbooters feeling comfy on easy slopes. While the other one mountain, called Hochjoch, is very popular for major freeride downhill contest, SBX and Alpine slalom races. SBX course is permanent available during season. Alpine slalom races are hold many time there, e.g. FIS races, Europa-cup races, but Austrian PAR Championships too. Comming back to Yesterdays race, Sigi Grabner told all the valley WC riders did a great performance during the night. SBX WC-riders Markus Schairer and Hämmerle brothers are helping the slope preparing crew during all the night. They had grooming new snow away from the competition-slope since midnight until early morning. Even because SBX was canceled, they offer a great help to Lukas Mathies and all other Alpine slalom riders for to be sure PAR race would be hold the next day!

Canadians seems to be realy back. 4 of 5 riders had been qualified for the finals. Only 16 riders w/m can reach the finals. Darren Gardener was the only one which failed for the finals. AllFlex plates are different to others. We can find now snowboard makers, they no longer support the UPM insert pattern as a default state. They switched to AllFlex pattern since this summer. For example Oxess show boards with AllFlex pattern only if you click to the Alpine Worldcup boards on website. Oxess is a tiny Alpine board builder located on Continental Europe. And Oxess just enter to the actual century now last May or June. The Oxess company is now closer to an up-to-date snowboard manufactoring, using a good performance and high accuracy CNC sanding machine (Kuendig, a leading manufacturer of sanding machines) for to produce more usable snowboards. As we know it well from Nidecker Swiss-Snowboards, which was every time for any things decades ahead (using Kuendig sanding machine since 1997), Oxess would be capable now to go for good-to-ride and good-to-carve Alpine snowboards too, so I hope. Nidecker boards are crafted than by a much modern high performance CNC sanding machine, which profiled the core in one single pass, including concave profiles on demand.

2 more Worldcup races this season Stay tuned: There will be two more Alpine Worldcup races upcomming days! Tuesday 12/18 PSL-race at Silvretta-Montafon Hochjoch mountain (Austria), finals at 12:00 UTC Friday 12/19 first team-mixed SL race ever at Silvretta-Montafon Hochjoch mountain (Austria), finals at 9:30 UTC finals are anounced live on international TV-station Europsort-2 and Austrian first Television ORF-1 Silvretta-Montafon mountains had cancelled Snowboardcross SBX, because of lack of snow. SBX need plenty of snow for building turns and jumps. Now they go for to hold 2 addidional FIS Alpine races this week, what a great thing. Riders had to move now on a 4 hours car transfer across the Alpes from Carezza to Schruns (Austria)

Good morning Canada - Canadians are back! Carezza 16/12 2014 After desaster on the last races of Sochi Olympics Canadians are back on the podium! Caroline Calve is 2nd & Jasey Jay Anderson is 3rd Caroline Calve kicked out Natalia Soboleva (Russia), even as she was very late on the middle of course on small-finals. She goes for a great chase to take her 3rd place.

@BlueB It's not based on political quarrel with Russia. Investigation on that theme starts many months before Sochi Olympics. There is a 1 hour TV-report about. You can watch it here (youtube: K2oKRwxyBBA ) If there is country restriction use: www.german-proxy.de It's German spoking, containing some English interviews. Vic Wild can be watched at 54' 43" The TV-report shows some very strange things how athlets use doping, how it was hide by all stages and how money goes, even up to the headquarter of IFFA. I mean, it's just as easy like you order a pizza, nothing else! We can say nothing about Vic Wild. Even it was highly suspicous how he showed unlimited power and leg-force up to the last final run, while others and very experienced good riders failed. If you did watch all the runs of PSL and PGS from qualifications up to all final runs that time on TV, it was realy shocking!

There is a wide area and serious lack of snow problem around the European Alps. Because of missing temperatures lower than frezzing level, snowmakers had not been capable to let it snow. Until Yesterday near to all ski-resorts below 7000 ft. had been of brown color, instead of all-white. FIS has shifted as first SBX Worldcup event to upcomming weekend. Now it's cancelled. FIS shifted today the first race PGS Carezza (Italy) from December 13th. to December 16th.