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In this sequence you can see how the entire upper body for a time is behind the board. This occurs while the board is being driven below the body to excelerate through the turn. Early in the turn the body moves forward weighting the front of the edge than moved back as I push the edge and subsequently the board forward through each turn. I feel that other stances, ie. "the bomber way" causes me to get "trapped in the turn" as I like to call it. I am always in charge of the turn. Radius, power, direction, and depth. By keeping my body inline I am always in control, in an athletic stance able to weight and unweight on top of the board, which changes the length or cog of mass without moving outside of the edges of my board. I consider it to be somewhere between the "bomber" and "ec" style.

Forgive me carve father for I have sinned.

I give the T6 a vote. It's a great board. You may find some bias towards Burton from a lot of posters on this forum, but it's a great board.

No, switch is riding opposite what is normal. Right foot forward vs. Left.

I know, unfortunately the size of the hill tends to make that happen. Weeknights are best to keep the onhill traffic low. Once January rolls around the racing clinics hit the hill hard and a lot of terrain gets used up by gate setting. I try to get there early and ride for awhile then head out before the crowds arrive. On Saturday and Sunday I ride from 9am to 11:30 that roll out. Jon

Good to see so many wisconsin posts, stop out by sunburst in the west bend area, I ride and train there. It would be nice to run into some more hardbooters. We have two at our hill.

Both, for sure. Snapping a freestyle board back and forth on groom can be twice as fun than on the hard boots. You can go switch without looking over your back shoulder.

don't step in.

just choose one, any will do, and work on learning to ride it.

Oh I got on it about ten years ago, and have yet to get off it. Now, If I had been like the rest and decided to put myself if awkward body positioning, like seperating my knees for instance, I would probably fold my nose, like others complain of. I've never actually had that happen.

Unless a better deal comes around on ebay, then I'll have another kick-ass season on that snowboard!!!!!!!

I can't wait until it starts to snow again, so I can have another kick-ass season on my burton snowboard!!!!!!

Let's not lead this person down the wrong path. Just because you can't ride the board well, doesn't mean nobody can. For instance myself and many others. I can put any board on my feet and ride it well. Practice makes perfect.

Never!!!!!! Go Brewers.

I've been riding on ultra primes for the last five or so years. I've always ridden burton boards. Honestly, the last few boards I've bought, have been because I found a board for a good price. If a donek would come along for around $175 I would grab one. But the point being, the board is secondary to ability. And a Burton Fp or Fp prime, are both great boards.

tongue out, knees together....what form.

Man, I wish I lived in Colorado.

I actually took all of my photographers pics and made a short movie. This video is in the video section too, but I thought I would post it here as well. These pics were taken with a Canon SLR at SES, then put together in succession in I-Movie on my mac. Turned out pretty cool. <object width="225" height="155"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdsUsnpFX1U"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdsUsnpFX1U" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="305"></embed></object>

Here is a compilation of stills that my friend Sonny took of me at the SES. I put them together into Imovie and they turned out pretty cool. Kind of short, but the continuity of the pics in succession almost make a smooth movie. You have to love the Canon 40d <object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdsUsnpFX1U"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdsUsnpFX1U" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object>

Sonny and I ran across this article in the paper before we headed out of Aspen, and I had to display it the only way I thought fit. Well done SES'ers! Keep up the good work. Enjoy the article, I did.

On my birthday too yet. Luckily they were able to get the groomers out of the shed....whew....that would have been terrible!

I saw the same as carvedog. You have a slight counter rotation that occurs. Like he said, notice how at the end of the toeside turn your lead hand is moving to the left, while the board still wants to head right. You really want to feel everything working together. One thing that is extremely important to do, so that everything will work together is to look in the direction you are traveling. Meaning on the toeside turn, don't look over your left shoulder down the hill, or down fall line, instead you need to focus in the same direction your board is moving. This will help you to hold the turn longer, allowing the board to finish the turn. This is what carvedog is asking to see when he refers to "turn shape". If your head is looking downhill your body will want to move in that direction as well. Not allowing your hips to rotate, or pressure into the turn. When I talk about rotation, it is important to note, that it is very slight. Because if you are moving with the board, than technically, there is no rotation. But you do want to feel the hips slightly pressuring into the direction of the turn, remembering to always focus in the direction of movement, in the direction of the traverse, before transition occurs. This of course needs to be applied to both toe and heelside turns.