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  1. BlueB
    Those are animations, right?
  2. BlueB
    For that to happen, the entire surface of Greenland would have to be covered by more than 1.2 km thick ice. It's hard to buy, no matter what Wiki says.
  3. BlueB
    Most of the high level instructors around here, who tried step-ons, hated them... Hard boots can be made to work almost like softies, with aftermarket springs, walk mode, or some mods if necessary. The said Deeluxe boot will work for narrow fore-foot and wide heel, the UPZ other way round. I'd use the F2 bindings, Race version for a bit firmer feel, Carve RS (or ProFlex) for flexier. They come with enough canting/lifting shims to accommodate those low angles. You'll probably be able to handle slightly longer board, with hard boots, than your old one. Good luck.
  4. BlueB
    Softies? Who mentioned softies?
  5. BlueB
    I'm not particularly worried about putting some battle scars on my boards - I mostly buy them used. If I know it's really rocky, probably one of my freeride bords. Spring slush calls for those anyhow, or for my old Tankers...
  6. BlueB
    Very beautiful to watch and extremely clean. The slope is phenomenal too!
  7. BlueB
    Much better cut from 2017!
  8. BlueB
    I love slush. Pure parfine (candle wax) rub on and cross structure with metal brush before every ride.
  9. BlueB
    I'd say it's the effect of the nose rise too steep and/or flex, sidecut and rise not being in tune, so the edge tracks well at some angulation, but not at another. With the softboots boards being shorter and having tighter SCRs, it is easier to go off. Purely from my eyeballing of several boards, the upturn is often too intense. I've seen it on some alpine boards too.
  10. BlueB
    If I go, I'd only do a week day. No point paying the overpriced ticket just to stand in the lift lines. I might do some staff skateboarding sessions (local h/boots crew is welcome too) on Saturdays, at Cypress. The far part part of the parking, towards Raven, has a good patch of paving.
  11. BlueB
    Yes, of course! I have purposely skipped it, to keep it simple / contrasted. But yes, I feel that when I'm on my best, I mostly ride cross-through, when in that happy medium, I conversely switch in "over" or "under", as required. You posted great video examples.
  12. BlueB
    I think there's lot of confusion, not only in this thread, when people talk about "EC technique" in context other than fully laid over turns. In general riding, it boils down to how you change the edge and apply the pressure. The normal technical terms: cross-under, down-unweighting, cross-over, up-unweighting. With EC the emphasis is on the former 2, call it push-pull, extention-retraction, applying pressure in the first half of the turn, or whatever... A good rider can use them all and apply for situation, or desired outcome. Rotation/counter-rotation has another function, that is often neglected in conversation, even by national teaching schools: When the board is on edge, it actually changes the pressure along the edge's length. It's just another tool to use... or not.
  13. BlueB
    Your hardboots?
  14. BlueB
    Ouch! Hit a tree today, or just material fatigue? I might have a spare buckle to give you, if you don't care about matching.
  15. BlueB
    Similar weather pattern as last Saturday and the same crew and toys. However, a lot less snow came down, so it just changed from semi-crappy to ok conditions. Lots of fog/cloud, the trees were the best bet. Nice surprise at the cafeteria- the ribs special. That's it for Cypress, for this season. We still might do a day or two at Grouse and maybe a Whistler outing in May... But I'm really in mood to switch to the summer mode.
  16. BlueB
    Around Vancouver, Cypress still open next weekend and we have tons of snow. Grouse will carry on a little longer. Whistler to the end of May. But, I'd imagine Tremblant would be way more convenient for you...
  17. BlueB
    Powowow all day! Miserable weather in the city and in the parking lot detracted most of the people - 0 lift lines. The tracks were filling in almost as one would do a lap, so conditions got progressively better through the day. Sky opened early in the am. We did all the glades and some bumps around the Sky and later in the day Top Gun, Slash and Moons. The last had the most consistent snow, actually. 2nd best, the trees to the skier's left of the Ripcord. Toys: B - BXFR, P - Spectre
  18. BlueB
    You can go now, they don't know what to do with all the snow.
  19. BlueB
    I had a ski carving session with Luka, yesterday. It was a hoot! The Virus skis are great performers on groomed runs. It rains today, hopefully turns into something resembling snow, tonight...
  20. BlueB
    My guess: World Cup Construction, 178 Free Carve, 22 wide, board No 0156 (or 56th board in 2001?), Flex 7.5
  21. BlueB
    I had a student, an aspiring back country rider, show up for a lesson with a Furberg split, Phantoms, AT boots... He barely could ride in resort conditions. After a while, I have switched him to my Nidecker Proto (black version) and he had a ball for the rest of the day. The said Nidecker is probably the best do-it-all board I ever had. Not quite to the original question, I know... Anyways, even for "just" pow, there is not "one best" board. Open alpine bowl - a swallowtail of some sort, tight trees - a short board with a fair bit of taper, heavy stuff that will turn into chop - a giant freeride board.
  22. BlueB
    Congrats, Ethan! We had a great L4 morni g session, good snow, good weather, finished off with staff BBQ.
  23. BlueB
    So, we had that "Cypress good snow", today. I'm done with my duties, so freerode with Patrick for most of the day and a bit with Luka in the pm. Toys: P - Kessler BX, B - Coiler BXFR I've somehow, literally bent my phone, without braking it
  24. BlueB
    https://forums.alpinesnowboarder.com/topic/20852-kildy-flex/?do=findComment&comment=525064
  25. BlueB
    Full on spring conditions! Mornimg: 1/4" hard pack, lunchtime: slush. I'm impressed with the big Nirvana's edge hold on near-frozen conditions. Its going to be a very versatile ride, for me. I had a scary moment - totally overshot the jump under the Lions, stomped pretty flat and my front bail popped open I managed to ride out of it without twisting the leg, but on the eventual crush-stop banged up the last year broken wrist Afterwards, I rode a new to me BXFR 161. Interestingly, it's less nimble than I was expecting. Rides almost the same as my super fat AMT 169. I started dialing the binding angles back and it's feeling better. Currently at 36 / 24, might still go down...
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