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  2. Centering boots on bindings

    in Carving Central

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    3 hours ago, Jack M said:

    Centering the boot on the binding and centering the binding on the board is a good practice, but not the only way.  Then both your feet are aligned and levering the board on the same axis.  Due to the hourglass figure of the board, this usually results in your front foot toe and rear foot heel being inside the edge of the board - "underhang".  You can compensate for this by moving the front foot toe and heel blocks forward, and the rear foot toe and heel blocks rearward.  This way you can really geek out and zero in on a stance that minimizes both binding angle and underhang.

    John Gilmour of Madd Snowboards stamps his name on this as "Gilmour Bias" but he didn't invent it.  Maybe he was the first to describe it online.  You can search that term here and see his thread about it.  I've tried it (before reading about it) and I'm not sure it amounts to a hill of beans for my riding.  YMMV

    I think he actually tries to have front toe underhang and rear heel underhang, for what he describes as "G" bias. 

  4. Lower Mainland Carvers' Diaries, 2023/24

    in Canada - British Columbia

    Posted · Edited by BlueB

    And finally done... Staff only closing day was a success, few hours of riding and BBQ 🙂 Snow was getting progressively slower through the day, but fun never the less. Nidecker Spectre was the ride of the day... 

    Anyways, thanks everyone for the season, see you next year, if not for one last ride at Whistler, in May. 

  7. Lower Mainland Carvers' Diaries, 2023/24

    in Canada - British Columbia

    Posted

    My buddy Alex is officially a snowboarder now - can link the turns down the Easy Rider. Panorama was a bit more challenging, but he made it down in one piece 🙂

    Thanks to Patrick and Luka for taking turns in keeeping company to us. Thanks to Rod for donating a snowboard. 

    My teaching board today - Arbor koa Munoz. She's such a beauty! 

  14. Hard boots on a twin tip?

    in All Mountain Hardbooting

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    59 minutes ago, snowburn said:

    I wouldn't worry about softer bindings. Boots are flexy enough. At your height 20 1/2 inch stance 40 deg posi posi is a good start 

    I disagree. Hard boots have very little lateral flex. At low angles that needs to come from somewhere - the bindings. 

    Angles have very little to do with the rider's height, but with the board width and the boot size. Splay is the key to having some extra rotational mobility. How much, is the matter of the rider's anatomy. 

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  15. Hard boots on a twin tip?

    in All Mountain Hardbooting

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    Go softer with the bindings, like F2 Carve RS or Burton Race Plates/Ibex. Set your hard boots as soft as possible. Even walk mode on the rear... 

    158 sounds like good size. However, the length is not as crucial as the flex and the width appropriate for your boot size and the angles you want to run. 

    Set the rear boot to slight overhang, then front to the desired splay. With very low angles, you need less toe/heel lift than on race board, but you might want some inward canting on the rear. If duck, you can go flat, or just inward canting on both. 

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  17. Altering the turn radius of a carved turn on steep terrain

    in Racing

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    3 minutes ago, nicholaswmin said:

    The early edge-change that was recommended earlier, as I understand it, means changing your edge as you're travelling across the fall line instead of while you're going down the fall line. Unless I'm misunderstanding this.

    The person in the video doesn't look like he travels across the fall line at all.

    I didn't see a single turn where the edge was changed down the fall line. 

    With symetrical turns, it is impossible to not travel across the fall line, when making a turn. Of course, the board can come to perpendicular to fall line, or to stay short of that, or even travel a bit uphill, but it would always cross the fall line. For clarity, let's exclude the kind of line where your general direction of travel is diagonal to the slope. 

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  18. Altering the turn radius of a carved turn on steep terrain

    in Racing

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    4 hours ago, nicholaswmin said:

    I've been impressed and confused - these are cross-under turns. The unweighting is done using the rebound of the board?

    They aren't even S-turns. I change edge across the fall-line. This guy doesn't even go across the fall-line...

     

    Looks like cross-through to me. Some get closer to cross-over, some to cross-under, as the terrain and tempo dictates. And yes, board rebound should be used in high level riding. 

    Your last sentence, I don't quite understand... Actually more like, last paragraph. 

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  20. Hats on helmets.

    in The Lodge

    Posted · Edited by BlueB

    ^ Trenches have been taken already, so I have to settle for smoking the skiers in the mogul runs. 

    Other than that, I have large Cypress stickers on each side of my helmet. 

  21. Sun Peaks sighting

    in Canada - British Columbia

    Posted

    36 minutes ago, Sirui said:

    might be riding exhibition or OSV into 5 mile, if accompanying my girlfriend who is learning to carve. 

    Poor girl, you'll make her learn on those 2 runs 😁 Wonderful runs for an accomplished carver, though! Exhibition is probably my favorite. 

    I'd so much rather be at Peaks, or Cypress right now, than siting in Europe... 

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