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It's always hard snow here and the sound is really loud and actually distracting, I use etymotic research ER4 in ear headphones, wired. https://www.etymotic.com/consumer/earphones.html Pandora and my station is the notorious b i g. With the "in ear" the music doesn't have to be loud, hearing others turning nearby is easy, or conversation.

20 years ago a horse bucked my right hip out of joint, as I was flying through the air my first thought was, "I'm an alpine snowboarder now", the day before at Okemo against John Neal (a bonafide 5) I got a 4 nastar on skis. So for 20 years I rode alpine, unable to touch my right foot, I'm a nastar 7 on a snowboard. (totally questionable with the monkeying around going on at the Okemo nastar course these days) Last October I got a new hip, snowboarded last winter, it was much easier.. Now I plan to also ski, spent the summer bicycling the Mts of southern vermont, had been unable to for 20 years, I only rode on the flat seacoast of Maine. 200,000$ for the hip, yea medicare, 20 years wasted. If anyone got a hip 10-15 years ago it's being replaced today, new materials that don't rust. Waiting for a better mesh to fix my hernia;) Get the hip, don't take the narcotic and cut the other pills in half, definitely start eating oatmeal before the operation and definitely use a stool softener, "trust me", luckily, you'll be walking in two days, three without a cane.

The two choices of the plate go to the same set of holes on the board, so the closer one will keep the plate against the board, while the one further back will lift the plate that much off the board, the plate moves up and down not forward or backward, I'm assuming.

Sorry Pat, horse hockey. When you use a 40.99 handicap on a par 22.5 course and your handicapped time changes that 22.5 par course to a 17.32 par course.... You're adding 5.22 seconds onto the times of anyone that races that course. Which is around 25 ? nastar handicap points. Right, you no longer set a stubbies course because no Alpine Snowboarders want to deal with skewed times. it's a pity because there are lots of Alpine riders that love to get on a course.

You make a good point. Let me point out that the arena is small for one course and it's got two courses set. The average par times for the arena is 22.5 seconds(Okemo post's that number on the site), saturday when pat used a 41 handicap...he lowered the par for that course to 17.(if the course were being run by a pacesetter that was honestly handicapped, the average par time would have been involved, not a par time 5.5 seconds faster.)

Nastar. I'm near Okemo in Vt, after 20 years snowboarding because of a damaged hip (was a skier) got a new hip in October, and am looking at going to Okemo and getting a handicap, I'm a 7 on a snowboard, but, all my data was deleted from the Nastar site. (Thanks Pat) So, I'm looking at the results from yesterday, the pacesetter claimed a handicap of 40 and made the course a 17 second (par) course, problem is the pacesetter is actually a 18.5 handicap, which is also 5 or 6 points higher than his actual times, my point is, why go to okemo when the pacesetter is sandbagging 5 to 25 handicap points before you get on the course, well, There used to be lots or alpine snowboard racers going to Okemo, now there are none. So here I sit, deciding, do I go and take my chance that the pacesetter is going to claim a 40 handicap or an 18 handicap, on a super crowded Sunday, I want to go race but I don't want to waste my time being cheated out of anywhere from 5 to 25 handicap points. I assume the others that have raced at Okemo but no longer bother feel the same. 20 years ago the last day I skied, the handicapper was John Neal, an honest to god fast guy with a 5 handicap, I beat him, got a 4, it was fun and honest, now it's BS.

Opened a thread about forward stance and hoped to read about how madd and virus were the first manufacture's to move the inserts more forward on the board to make for very aggressive carving. And then a discussion about different reactions of boarfds with differnt placement of the front bindings. No, it's a thread about ducks.

Carving skis is a good way to learn how to carve an alpine board, and there is always a race coach for skis, learning how to carve a race course on skis may be easier now for your son, and he can transfer the course knowledge to his snowboard riding. The most important thing is to learn how to carve.

Vist began offering plates for skis in the 80's, for snowboards arounf 2005. It's my understanding that Karl's plate was the origional hindged plate, haven't laid hands on one, but, first vist then apex released sliding plates... then Karl made his own, be it hindged or sliding.

The way I recall. First Palmer released his riser plates made by Kessler, for softboots, (I used 'em to get higher off Virus 14.1 width boards) then Kessler released his riser plates, then Vist released their plate, one end fixed the other end slid, or the middle was fixed (requiring new mounting hole placement) and both ends slid, then Apex released the duckbill, one end fixed the other slid.(and another mounting hole placement design) Then Karl made his contraption, the first hindged plate, then allflex (yet another mounting hole change) Now the allflex clones.

The steel plate is hefty, it won't distort, the bolts are in solid tnuts, the risers are keyed, mine haven't moved, at all, there are no side forces, unless some solid object is hit or you windmill. Thousands or racers have raised F2 rear bindings. Intec or bail, not hearing of failures, windmilling will break anything. If your foot were twisting in the binding, (the binding was twisting), I could see your point, but it's not, the plastic risers aren't the problem, the ss bolts aren't the problem, the problem may exist, if you windmill. Using the thinny aluminum center plates from the titanal for titanflex won't end well, the aluminum will eventually give.

Gleamed from YYZCANUCK , info for the titanal bail and intec bindings, no info for the titanflex, the steel heel receiver must weigh 400g. I haven't weighed fintec heels, 400g sounds lite. daveo, when you converted did you use the heavy steel center disk, I hope? I had titanflex and converted back to titanal stepin, and happen to have a few sets of the steel centerdisks. • Direct power transmission • Stiff side flex • Anodized titanal base • EDS shock absorption system • Heightta adjustable 6mm toe bail • Teflon coated INTEC heel receptor • Approximate Weight = 1.55kg (1.95kg with INTEC™ heel)

Source some longer bolts, pick up a few riser kits amd a few shim kits and roll your own.

Still looking for the titanflex weight, but...the titanal f2 without the intec heel are 1.55kg The titanal with intec heel are 1.95kg, and the titanflex are very close to sidewinders with intec heels. Anyway, the titanflex offer the ability to minutely change lift and cant (lift= front and back, cant= side to side) so basically, they weigh the same, the f2 are much more adjustable.

I like the chemical packets, I put it under the shell above the liner over my toes, then a Boot Glove foam sucker, my feet are warm and so is my shell, so it flexes as it should. The battery is heavy, and if you make a mistake and it's ded... But if it must be a battery, under the orthotic footbed.

Ah, ha, now I know what gilmore bias is. Posted by Gilmore IMHO. And I like trails with flow where you do not have to wait to build speed for more than 8 seconds. These are just trails I have ridden. Some I could be happy if I only had that run all day. To me Colorado is mostly ASPEN (no wind and warm) and Beaver Creek because of warmer temps and grooming and lots of luxury near the carving trail. Colorado 1. Ruthies Run: Aspen Ajax ( fantastic wide fairly steep run very high speeds carving attainable on this one, harder to film, and slow double chair) No easy food access have to go to Bonnies or Sundeck to warm up. I run this all the time. It's good up top for late season as it won't get hit by rain like Centennial and get trashed. Longest FAST trail. 2. Centennial: Beaver Creek (Good vertical drop, killer Chondola with Combo big fast chairlifts and gondola when its cold. trail can get icy in some shaded spots early in the year. Everyone in the resort can see you rip so its easy to find the rest of your party. Chairlift runs right over trail. Park Hyatt Buffet breakfast is a AWESOME start to the day. Seriously treat yourself to this for $33 its better than any other $33 you can spend on food in Colorado. 3. Back of Bell Aspen Ajax (short and steep and a super wall for medium speed carving. Advanced- don't fall here as you will have trouble self arresting). No fun for non experts. 4. Aztec (groomed only) Aspen Ajax most people would not try to carve this in soft boots. Also hard to self arrest so be careful. Not an all day trail, just to say you can do it. Zero fun for non experts. 5. Copperbowl: Great LONG RUN when its later in the season and you have the legs for it, gondola spectators . Its relentless pitch and slightly narrow forcing you to stay on it. 6. Sneakys: Snowmass (easy long wide groomer steep in parts.) Probably the best carving run at Slowmass, Gets destroyed fast during busy season times. 7. Thunderbowl : Aspen Highlands (variable snow conditions could be chunky) Actually I prefer the narrower trails of Gun Barrel and Grand Prix just above the Merry Go round Restaurant. Also you can check the scene at Cloud 9 restaurant for champagne. 8. Spar: Aspen Ajax. It's like a giant carving halfpipe. New England. Gondolier Stowe. Long and fast but don't even think of going their in January as your wax won't run only your nose will. Stratton is a COMPLETE waste of time. Too crowded , ridiculously overpriced for what your get. ...cold and flat light. mixed clumpy grooming can hit you unexpected on Upper Standard and National . Seriously if you wanna do 4 days at Stratton ...instead buy a $117 R/T ticket on Frontier from the East coast and go to ANY resort in Colorado, you'll have better snow, nicer accommodations and everything will cost less. Forget Killington . expat Brits who can't ski ... slide turns and trash everything by 10:15 am. Their accents only work in the bars. Loon. Fun easy carving. Bretton Woods the ideal NE place to teach a girl to carve. Utah Brighton is fun and has night skiing. Park City wasn't very good, search and found no good carving on any trail. California: June is a cheaper version of Bretton Woods. Easy carving . Mammoth: too windy. like ridiculous 40+ mph wind.. Marketing tries to sell Wind buff as something desirable, like saying a car with 300K miles is well broken in. Stump Alley is good for about 40 minutes first thing. The hot spring is the best thing about Mammoth.

This thread is mislabeled, it's not knee proctection needed, it's setup advice. The knees are protesting because of the setup. But for knee protection think sixsixone 3do.

If you had the two plates in hand one is very heavy steel, one is very light aluminum. I remember posting the exact weights on bomber, is bomber searchable from this database?

Do you have them both in hand ? A few years ago I did and as I remember they were very close in weight, that center plate for the titanflex is a heavy sucker.

I just read the thread and didn't see anyone post.....you have to physically be able to get low, your setup has to allow you to physically get low, just as Mario said, think low, let me add.... be able to make your body, balanced, get low, if your Body can't because your setup won't allow your body to articulate. Personally, I think about getting my tailbone as close to the ground as possible on back-rear edge turns and my bellybutton on front edge turns. (Subconsciously I push my ankles to the ground) While not putting any weight on the snow.

Welcome, you don't mention how far your feet are apart, the amount of lift underfoot will be determined by the distance between feet, if you are 18" apart, not so much lift under the front toe or the rear heel, if you're 22" apart, more lift. Most riders ride with the front more upright than the rear, most riders find the front leg burns when it's leaned to far forward. Canting and lift are different for everyone. The boot cuffs can be "canted" slightly, if you are pronated or supinated, adjusting the cuffs to the natural angle of your shin to your foot is simple. Canting the bindings is different, canting the bindings moves your whole body in whichever direction you cant, I cant my forward foot outward so that I have to get my body slightly off the board before my rear edge engauges, for cat tracks and flats.(eliminates that headed for the woods feeling) All that matters is that you adjust your bindings to allow you to get the board as high on edge as possible, on skis it's simple, on a board you have physical limitations, and cants and lifts allow you to fold yourself into position. On soft snow you can cheat, on hard snow and ice, getting into a "balanced" position to get the board vertical is critical.

I like him on skates, I don't want to watch him on skis, it's like watching a snowboard slde not carve;) How many times is he going to rip his shoulders apart? Imagine the shock to the knees. Next version he'll be on skis with aids, I hope, rolling along a flat surface on your body is one thing, at speed hitting bumps and ice, not so much fun, the Legs are such divine shock absorbers.

I like where this is going. comparing data between riding with a plate vs just a board...check using cateck adjustable bindings for quick adjustments, find the setup position that has the highest torque measurements.....check eventually, getting someone to calibrate the device for alpine angles, and software to compare faster to slower....wish

Let's say it's 2001,(no MK) I had a blue factory prime and a Madd 158, took one run on the prime, laid into a front edge and it dug it's way to china, I landed 12' away, got to the bottom, sold that sucker....it tried to dig in all the way to the bottom... The tip dug in and it submerged, it noodled, what a pos. vs the madd 158, in it's day the best ice board available, excellent at carving on ice. Not a noodle.

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