nigelc

Likewise michelle. An opportunity for a(nother)new board

I have suspicions. Impossible to prove anything however. Best to move on. Its only material possessions.

Could be much worse. Bastards broke into my house last week while i was away on holiday and stole a very nice car, all the jewellry, all the keys in the house, including to the business, mother-in-laws and brothers houses and two other cars. I now have just completed the new lock and key thing for four houses and two cars. Plus a new alarm system as that was ripped out also. And every external HDD and USB key in the place.

I think Bluebee nailed it. Metal is bendy but not stretchy, so soft bend with good torsional stiffness. Also wood, frp, aluminium and rubber all have very different vibrational characteristics and so transmission of vibration between the different materials is hindered in the same way as an impedance mismatch attenuates signal transmission in electrical communication. It seems to me there are two paths: either develop a means of treating aluminium sheet to permit bonding, or to find a way to make composite layup mimic the torsional and flexural characteristics of metal

I had a two hour carving lesson at Coronet Peak, NZ today. Scott was riding softies but that didn't seem to be an impediment. He was analytical and technical and a very good teacher and I gained much fro the lesson. I can recommend him to all. Nigel

Many frp pressure vessels are made using filament wound construction. The idea is that under stress each reinforcing fibre sees equal force. Close control of tension is necessary. There have even been attempts to manufacture large fabrications such as a sailing yacht - NZI enterprise in the 1985 whitbread round the world race. I am sure you can do it, just not for commercial return. Normally the justification is to achieve a superior strength to weight ratio for weight critical applications, or simply to save material. Interesting. Post photos!

Oh lordmetroland. I need some of what you are taking. Lots of it. F***ing s**tloads.

I will be there the week before. I have a curtailed visit south this year as its my wife's 50th birthday and I also have some jobs to do on a yacht in Fiji and bringing it home. I do have a season pass for coronet and a life pass for Ruapehu so I will be trying to fit in as much as I can around all the other stuff. Maybe my legs will work this year?....

220lbs. 100kg in real money. Riding the stiffest springs, with which I am totally happy. I have the stiffest elastomers on step-in sidewinder TD3's as well and I may play with some softer items at some point. Lots to fix with my riding first.

A 1.5 cm gap between shell and bare heel seems like much too much. I have 1/3 of this. If your boots are too big your feet will slide forward and your toes will bang against the front of the boot.

Let's be clear that this is not just about carving. I have witnessed two incidents in the last couple of seasons where a group of us have been stopped at the side of the trail where clearly visible from above,and one of the group has been taken out by an out of control straight liner. It's about knowing the rules and riding or skiing in control

I note that the scr of gs skis is a mismatch for the course. Pgs courses are considerably tighter. Is there a greater mismatch between the gs snowboards and the courses. And in this Era of progressive screen has anybody experimented with a board that will carve all the way down the course? Is that even possible?

I appreciate that carving is different. I also appreciate that there will be accidents. It's the bit where after hitting someone from behind the instigator claims it's not their fault that makes the red mist come....

"I don't think, however, that you'd want to think of it as 'pushing the COM uphill' as that might risk a pressure spike at a place in the turn where the snow is just about to give way" OK that sounds pretty obvious now you say it that way, and thinking about how I ride steeps I do exactly the opposite. Is there ever a place then for a true "cross over" turn ?

"If you look at a race course as a closed loop, from start to finish" which I struggle with as presumably the rider can add some energy and possibly (I don't know) gain from that. Is there any video of a snowboard racer tending toward the liggetty/shiffrin style? Also does that mean that an exaggerated movement of COM can be an effective way to control speed on steep slopes i.e. pushing the COM uphill strongly on transition?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga-6wy0Nboo

So that is closer to what Cirigliano is saying and closer to the extreme carve push-pull guys?

Ok I will have to study some Liggetty videos. More detail is always better but there is no rush as there is no snow until July. Here I am worrying about WHERE to extend and compress,while all along you are saying that no extension and compression is necessary. ....

How about an explanation of what YOU see v what you think you SHOULD see?

More elucidation needed

I too am a little conflicted as what the videos show to me is extension preceding edge change and flex/compression through the apex. ??????

A jump in the course at winterberg? How long have they been setting jumps in alpine slalom courses?

With hardboots I can get to the mountain and still enjoy those days that are groomer only "hard as" hardback. It's that simple. We get alot of those days.

By preference off piste as its less crowded and more interesting. Realistically though conditions are only good enough maybe 1 day in 6. It's then that hardboots make the piste interesting enough to enjoy, while on soft boots I would be bored shit less.

27cm feet in a mp26 deeluxe 700 with intuitions. I have maybe a 10mm heel gap with a barefoot shell test. They are very comfortable.