David Glynn

Piston Bully centrifugal force is quite real. Centrifugal force is the force that is equal and opposite of centripital force and you can not have one without the other and still have an object moving along a curved path. No centrifugal force no carving. No centripital force, no carving. You may be thinking of the term centrifical force. There is no such thing as centrifical force. Centrifical force is a very, very commonly misused or misspelled attempt at the term centrifugal force.

Bordy , Do you know if it is a full tear yet?

I'm 5'10" 165 and ride boards with 14 to 19 m sidecuts that are pretty stiff ( coiler rure race, simms burner ) and ride on some pretty steep and narrow runs. As things get steeper I try to lower my center of mass and really crank the board up on edge. The higher the edge angle the tighter the turn. Also I try to get the board as far away from me at the begining of the turn as possible and then settle down on to it early and then start pushing thru the turn. Every down has an up. Try looking into your turn even to the point of uphill and don't initiate the next turn until you feel yourself slow back into your comfort zone. Once you start touching that comfort zone you will start relaxing and you'll be able to get a nice flow going. It's pretty fun on the steep when your board's new carving edge is uphill and your whole body is below it for that fraction of time at the begining of the turn. Indian

Philistine: It's the joy of the movement. When you can't move anymore, REMEMBER the movement and you will remember the Joy. So keep moving and create those memories. Life is worth the ride. Heal soon. Indian

I'm going to go against the grain of alot of the advice that you have been given. Don't ice! Don't take any anti inflamatories! Don't elevate! Do only the activities that your body tells you are ok. Inflamation is the key to healing. It creates a natural splinting and immobilization of the injured area. It also increases blood flow to the injured area and triggers the body's healing responses that bring in the cellular material to clean up the damaged tissue and start laying in new callogen to repair the area! Icing reduces this process significantly and retards healing and can even stop the healing process short of complete recovery. Ibuprofin and similar anti inflamatories inter fear with the healing process as well, as does elevation. You want as much blood flow to the area as possible. All that ice, ibuprofin, and elevation acomplish are relife from swelling and discomfort getting you back up and around before you should be, opening the door to further damage. Suck it up and give your body the chance to do what it does best ......Suppling nourishing blood flow to your damaged tissue. Mcls tend to heal well given time. If it doesn't heal on it's own see a prolotherapist!! before you consider surgery. Hope my advice doesn't confuse you but I stand by it from personal experience. GOOD LUCK!!

I ride in ski boots, The dalbello Krypton pro with the gray (softer tounge).I weigh 165 and keep my rear cuff loser than when skiing. They work great for me. But I swap out to skies quit often when things get crowded.So it's a very easy change but I would not ride in them if they did not perform. I do like them better than my snowboard hardboots by far. I'm sure there are some hardboots that I would love out there but I just haven't felt the need to seek them out.

Yo! I'm from Iowa originaly, the quad cities area, and use to go up to Sundown or across the river to Chestnut. I always had a blast. As a matter of fact I can't ever remember not having fun when I went skiing or riding. Hang in there.

KenW, I think we are close to agreement. Good technique iis good technique. I would put absorption into the technique/ bio mechanics catagory. When carving absorption comes into play quite often as a matter of fact life on the hill or the race course would totally suck without it. Perhaps my definition of techmique and bios is just a bit different. To me tactics are a choice more of how much speed to carry or which part of the run to use or how directly to attack the gate or pitch etc. If I fail to use the correct amount of absortion to meet my tactics it is a bio/ technique error. Radar would not soften enough ( absorb) , a technical/ bio error. Now if JJ rides with knees together in the terrain and conditions of his choice and rides very well and with good style his technique and bio mechanics must be just fine for him and his situation. If he was hacking around well that would be a different thing. Now if he was running gates and blowing out or consistantly putting in slow times or failing to progress I think it would become an obvious technique / bio problem to him, and everyone else could say I told you so.The problem would be; he didn't change technique to fit the new situation of running gates. The same (but opposit transition -gates to moguls) for Radar (skie racer extrordinair ) who wouldn't change his tech / bios, and absorb. But again I think our diferences may be only in our definitions of tactics and techniques/bios.

Great mountain. Great carving. Stayed with friends so I don't have any lodging tips etc.. Watch your backside cause it seems like there are alot ( more than some other areas) of good skiers that like to mach but don't seem to be to savey about carvers.

Yes! Where Franz was flawless, Radar was anything but( sorry Radar).Granted I never saw him fall but lack of falling doesn't equate to good bump sking. Finness was not one of his strong points nor was timing and ease. Seldom did he look like he was flowing with the terrain but always at odds with it. If I were judging both skiers ( i do have judging experience ) Webber would have scored high but Whal low. And for good technical reasons! Indian

As a freesyle coach I would like to disagree with the, "this is in no way true.", part of your comment. Maybe there are symantical issues here so lets find out. It is my personal experience with two high level ski racers that I will use as an example. I spent an afternoon skiing bumps with Franz Webber several years ago after watching him ski bumps all morning from the lift. So I got to watch him from all angles all day. And I have never seen a more beautiful bump skier. Equals yes, but better? no! The second example is Radar Whal. Being that he use to live here in the Telluride area I had the oportunity to watch him ski bumps several times. He was fast but no faster than any good bump skier. However he was anything but pretty , he always looked like he was in the race course. My point? Webber made all the adjustments to freeski with style but Radar did not. And it showed in a huge way. Yes good technique is good technique but there is a bigger spectrum to it than most of us are willing to admit. The best skiers and boarders are well rounded with a huge bag of tricks ( techniques) and change things up as needed. By the way it looks like Boardy may have left us .( temporarily?) Anyone else want to take on the question I asked him in my last post? Indan

First I salute everyone's pasion for this sport! It's the joy of the motion! Everyday I give thanks that I am not a rock.To help you understand my prospective: I've been skiing for over 40 years and riding plates for ten.I've competed on the pro level as a skier in the moguls and coached mogul skiing for about 8 years and have raced plates only on the amature level with some fair sucsess. Now having said that. It is my opinion that our bag of tricks should be as full as possible so that we can be as rounded a performer of our sport as possible.Competitive mogul skiing is one way of doing it freestyle bump skiing is another, shall we say, more diverse way. Race technique snowboarbing one way, free carving another, again shall we say, more diverse way. Competition demands that we ride in the most technicaly effecient way espescialy when the clock is the judge. Free riding on the other hand opens the door to style or personal expresion if you choose. I have spent time riding with my knees together and enyoyed it. Currently I ride with my knees apart. But because I have riden with them together it is a trick that I can pull out of my bag when needed. Two days ago circumstances dictated an incredibly tight turn or an unwanted trip into the woods. So I layed my 181 coiler pure race over and squeezed my knees together to reverse camber it and did a near circle that was no more than about 15 feet in diameter. So what is that? a 2 1/2 meter radius? That tight of turn ( not the circle ) might come in handy when late on a gate , no? My point? Fill up that bag of tricks! I have a question for Boardy. To help quantify the differences of the new gear over the old and that gear in between, what would the aproximate time differences ( not the riders enjoyment or revulsion of the ride) be between say a new kessler, a coiler pure race , a sims burner , and a burton factory prime on a gs course of aprx.1 minute length by the same rider ( you if you'd like.) and same length of boards? You get the idea I think, trying to keep as many varriables as close as possible. Or maybe you should use your own judgement to select the best type of kessler best burton etc. for this imaginary or real course. Indian

Yeah prolo therapy is basicaly injections of a glucose or dextrose solution into the damaged tissue ( after the body has had time to heal as much as it can on its own). The proliferant acts as an irritant and the body thinks its been injured (feels just like you did your knee but you haven't) and starts the healing cascade of events. The first wave is the macrophages which clean up the area and the second wave is the fibroblasts that start laying in new collagen tissue. My knees have been bothering me for a while and i finally decided to go for the prolo ( there never seemed to be a convinient time for surgery ). I have had several knee injuries over the years (starting when i was 14 ) but no surgeries even though I was told by my doctor that they were needed. My prolo doc diagnosed me with significant tears in both acl's and one pcl . Plus laxity in both mcls, a tear in one medial miniscus and a hole in one of my articular cartilages. None of that was news to me. Since starting treatment in late august were I was testing at about 10% on my left and 40% on my right acls I was about 75% on both by the first of nov. and the doc says I should be 100% by the first of the year. My torn miniscus which use to move and catch several times a day has not moved since the first of nov. Is it and the rest of it healed? probably not yet but it sure feels like everything is going in the right direction. The proof will be in the pudding as they say so you might want to ask me how things are going after the season is over. But I must say that my knees have not felt this good in YEARS! By the way I was on the moutain today for the first time this season and everything felt good.

Have you ever heard of Prolo Therapy? It is an alternative to surgery. Though it is not main stream it has been around since the 50's. It has even been endorsed strongly by the former surgeon general C. Everet Koop. Some U.S. ski team members have had it and rumor has it that Boddie is one of them.It works on many soft tissue injuries ligaments tendons and cartilages. I don't know if you with your particular tear would be a candidate for prolo or not but I recomend that anyone considering knee surgery of any type look into prolo therapy befor going under the knife to see if this proceedure could help them. I know several people who have had it with good results. Their injuries have been partial tears of acl's miniscus tears, medial colateral tears, back injuries, shoulders etc. I'm doing it at this time. And it seems to be working very well. Google Prolo therapy and check it out David Glynn

Have you ever heard of Prolo Therapy? It is an alternative to surgery. Though it is not main stream it has been around since the 50's. It has even been endorsed strongly by the former surgeon general C. Everet Koop. Some U.S. ski team members have had it and rumor has it that Boddie is one of them.It works on many soft tissue injuries ligaments tendons and cartilages. I don't know if you with your particular tear would be a candidate for prolo or not but I recomend that anyone considering knee surgery of any type look into prolo therapy befor going under the knife to see if this proceedure could help them.

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The advice on your right hand (regular stance) is good. The point of that is to square your stance up to the board. As an exercise at home support yourself on your left hand while leaning over in a carving stance as if you were laid out in a heelside carve. While doing this move your right hand back toward the tail of your imaginary board and then note the position of your hip it should be into and near the floor; now take your right hand and move it forward toward the front of the board and squaring your shoulders to the board and note the position of your hip. Your hip should now be squared up to the board and up away from the floor and over your board if not try it again with a little muscular tension through your mid section.The point is to get the hand to bring the shoulder to bring the hip. Those few inches of difference are crucial to holding a heelside edge. Also the advice of more weight on your front foot is good. I like to initiate my heelsides with more weight on my front foot and then finishing the turn with my weight centered over both feet. When you think about this it makes sense because the mid point between our heels is further back on the board than the mid point between our toes. So if we want our heelsides to feel like our toesides we have to be a little more forward weighted on our heelsides to make up for the difference . Between these two things your heelsides will become locked on but it will take a little practice. And it's like others have also said COMMIT to those heelsides. After a while you may like them better than your toesides.

I use the pro model with a thermo flex liner. I found the factory liner's tounge which has a hard plastic outer layer to be too tall and seemed to be blocking my rear leg. The thermo flex took care of that issue. I'm also using the soft tounge at the moment but was also ok with the stiffer one. I weigh 165 and the boot works well for me.

I use the dalebello krypton and have them pretty well dialed in, I was using the raichle flexon comp. They are both good cross over boots.

sorry about your injury. I've done it also but went the no surgery/ brace route. It's been 17 years. Don't forget your short game in golf. This could be an oportunity to work those partial swing chips and putting.Lots of strokes to be trimed there. If you have a well mannered horse your entire season won't be shot. Another oportunity is there for bare back riding and ground work. Got a round pen?

I do both also. As a matter of fact I rarely carve all day because of my fear factor when the hill crowds up ( been hit bad ), so I do my carving in the a.m. then switch to skies. I use a ski boot to carve in so the switch over is really fast and easy. I'm a bump skier and I love a ski that handles the bumps and still carves like crazy on the groomed. It's all good.

I have a 197 burner with the 19m sidecut, the thing rocks. You just have to be aggressive with it. Get it way out there and throw it over on edge. It holds like crazy. After a while I found that relaxed aggression mode which comes with timming and that is when that board really shines. It will actually turn pretty tight when riden like that and if you squeeze with your knees on it it just gets tighter. I also ride it with a pretty narrow stance. It seems to help me decamber it which also helps tighten up those turns ( I only weigh 165). It feels like sitting on the couch while driving a ferrari. Fast and stable.

My sims burner 197 has been my favorite.Sure wish I had a new own waiting in the wings when it's edges won't take another tune. It's just awesome. My second favorite is my coiler 181 pure race. Both boards however fall more into the Ferrari catagory especialy the burner. The coiler is a little more user friendly but they both like to be riden.

A flat base is faster than an edged board If you are going straight. But if you are turning, an edged board accelerates where as a flatened board, looking for its base, is just skidding. So if we are also talking about how fast you can go while turning and which type of board would win out: I'd say that if the riders had equal skills that a full on carve deck would win hands down. It just has too much energy to give back to a skilled rider for a soft set up to compete with.

Is it BROKE ??? or is the base just cracked? Does it feel broke? I've got a 197 that I rode so much that I wore the base and edges out with tunes ( it even saw some park time) but the tail is still good with a little crack in the base. And I have a 167 with a lot of riding time and the edges are getting pretty thin due to tuning and the tail feels fine but has significant cracking of the base in the tail split area but you can't tell when riding it. I only weigh 165 lbs. but ride aggresively.