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looks llike we are on the same wave length. cool:)
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I am looking for a newer board. Let me know what you have. Could go longer SL if you have it. Must be in excellent shape.
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Looking for a 172 silberpfeil newer the better. Could go SL also.
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shave your legs. i have shaved my shins for years adn it nearly eliminates shin rub. the first days each year are always a little sensative but a week of rest after that first hard day on snow and shins are fine to ride every other day or so for the rest of the season. Keep boots snug with a booster strap. i am pretty skinny too 5'8 and 140 with very skinny legs.
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If you still have em with step in recievers I"ll take everything for $100
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let me know if you would cnsider selling the td1's i am looking for a pair to get my son started but don't want to invest much till I know if he likes it.
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do you still have the td1's?
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Joe Frost (fast ski guy) is awsome. He and I taught at Cascade for years he is one of the best skiers you will ever see anywhere and has great tech knowledge as a level III on ski's. He picked up plates on the snowboard and in one season was running circles around all of us. I spent a day riding with him last season and I was blown away by how good his riding is. Each time I run into him I try to convince him to come to SES. I think he and his dad are very close and it conflicts with a trip they do each year. His Dad is also a great skier and had taught at Cascade for years.
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If she is in southern WI come to Cascade. Runs are shorter than Granite Peaks but not as far to travel and GP has a lot of wasted terain the whole bottom 2/3 is very flat. They have a beautifull base facility and great highspeed chairs.
Cascade has a high speed quad, has the best snow making, and grooming by far. I like Cindy Pop the best. short but pretty steep and no or very short lift line. Sunday am I am usually doing laps bymyself till nearly 11.
Devils Head has very old snow making and faces south in spring it is pretty tough. No high speed chairs, great food, and party atmosphear.
Tyrol is more of a freestyle set up but they do have a cool alpine race program headed up by Brent Alderman and he is whicked fast. very short runs litterally 20-25 seconds. Some really good steeps on the west side but scary narrow for me.
lacross is the same deal as Granite Peaks the bottom can be painfully flat on a board. but if they have aux chairs running it helps out.
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Props on the camera angle i want to see one looking down the hill too just for fun. i think we all would be able to give better feed back if you have someone film more conventionally. My guess is that you have some skidding at the middle, end of your turns??
I like the way you are leveling your sholders durring the turns. This puts you in a great body position for angulating creating strong edge angles to the snow. It seems like you are throwing your outside hand up and accross your body to start the next turn, rotating upper body hard adn then countering back durring the controll phase of the turn. Weight seems on the back foot. Front leg is very straight and dose not flex much in general most of your dynamics are above the waist.
Go to a moderate slope where you are very comfortable. First things I would work on is balance and getting more wt over that front leg, and in general keeping both legs bent more. Standing stationary on your board visualize some turns and make the movements like you are riding only keep your hands on your hips focus on the bottom of your front foot, then ankle, knee, femur. Then do some runs with a focus on just your front foot and trying get you to feel an entire run with just the bottom of your front foot. Then do it again but focus on just your front ankle, again on your knee, again on your femur/hip socket. Feel the ankle and knee open to the heel side and close to the toe. Keep your upper body very very still hands could even be on your hips. Keep your eyes on a fixed point a long way off down the hill or on the horizion.
Do some drills keeping your hands more still or at least keep your right on the right and left on your left.
Think about dropping your hands to your boots or to the edges of the board right to the right side, left to the left side. Rather than accross your body. (EC is different adn your upper body rotation would be more appropriate but still need some adjustments.)
Then do some runs on more fun terrain where you just focus on leveling your sholders and hips like you already do like a hero but keep your hands where they belong and maintain a little focus on that front leg.
Too many words. FYI i typically take one element of my own riding that I feel like i am trying to improve upon each season and focus on just that one element for most of the season. I do get off one some of the tech talk so sorry if I got too long winded. Just remember that what ever your style it has to be fun for you.
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I would take a look a the G- Force. Alexis is your size and rides the hell out of it. duh.
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I have a speedster and a silberfiel. I can't comment on the binding as I ride TD's with 6deg on both and love it. My style of riding is more that of a free carve rather than racing. ie stronger controll phase as oposed to a fall line release.
The RS is stable at speed and very sure footed on firm groom and race conditions. It is my perfered board on harder days and if I have the more open runs. That being said, I ride it in the midwest and ride it all the time and can make it turn tighter when needed. All the F2's I have ridden are quick under foot and they have more life in the tail than most of the other boards I have rode. The metals are too damp under foot for me and feel sluggish. I like a board that you can load and unload into the next turn and feel like you are accelerating into the next turn. I do not care for it when things get too soft. The nose digs in and wants to keep digging, like it is hoping for firm underneath.
any specific q's let me know.
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awsome!!
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John Gilmore- If you catch this.. email me i want to order some gogles
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I have been corrected on the meter side cut of the 68. It has a 13m side cut.
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Hi,
i have a 168 speedster. I purchased new from Bomber 2 yr ago adn paid over $600. It is a gs board with a 15 m side cut. Would make a great race board. Very fast and very very good on ice. But does not like the soft snow does not like narrow trails as it wants to be on edge and carve big fast turns. I have about 30 days on it. It has a couple minor top sheet nicks. Bottom is in good shape but not perfict. No gouges and edges have never been nicked but has a couple minor abrasions you would expect from normal riding.
i tune or touch up edges about every other time i go out so it is well cared for and loved. I love the board and was not thinking of selling but when I saw your post thought i'd touch base. let me know if you think you are interested.
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Lookng for a TD1 step in binding. let me know what you have
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props Trent looking good!!
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I like the tips given here.
I like to quiet down my upper body rotation, unless you are trying to euro carve.
I like to try and think of rotation comming from my hips and knees.
On heel side i think about flattening my sholders so that they are paralell to the slope I am on. You can achieve this through driving your outside hand or back hand into your back knee/ boot top,/toe as already suggested.
Another way I like to think of it, but a little tough to picture is to think about closing the back of your front knee up hill, to the slope, or to the inside of the turn.
1. As you are riding a flat board in the fall line start to go heel side by thinking about the back side of your front knee getting closer and closer to the snow as the heel side turn progresses untill the board is all the way accross the fall line.
2. do the same thing but this time keep your shoulders level or paralell to the slope you are on by driving your hand as suggested earlier.
i like to keep my sholders in a natural position, rotated just slightly ahead of my hips looking in the direction i am going.
upper body positon varries depending on slope and turn shape.
theres a lot more to it but it is a good place to start.
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good to hear you're back. Mary and I will be up at cascade on Sunday for the final day. Give a shout if you both can make it:biggthump
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I am facinated by this kinda stuff. Great idea to start some open dialog about an interesting subject. It seems to me that a question that we might need to be asking/disscussing is how to improve on the occurance of upper body injuries in snowboarding? Are there a set of common forces that come into play in falls that result in wrist/sholder injuries, and can they be tied to the binding systems. The ussa (dose that still exist) used to have a guy who went around and gave a great presentation on ACL injuries and the common factors contributing to them. The upward adn diagonal releasable toe piece binding i think was developed as a result. The presentation to ski school directors was that if you ever found yourself in a backward twisting fall to stay down and not try to recover because the act of trying to recover back to the standing position was where the injury occured with the knee flexed and sightly twisted. See Donna Weinbrecks fall in training for Lillihammer games 9 mo prior to games. (I belive this is an acurate account and I think she became part of the study.)
If a releasable binding were developed for snowboards I think it could incorperate a brake system similar to the ski brake if the bindings were mounted on a plate type riser system and the break could fold up and under the toe/ heel of the boot like a modern ski brake.
If the forces that result in wrist injuries always happen when a particular set of forces occurs to the snowboard ie. the plate binding relative to the edges. Could that fraction of a second release action result in less impact on the wrist??
Could a din type system be incorperated with different plates for different levels of riders and different styles of riding. like a recreational, vs race.
The simplest and most common thing I can say is edges are not good at moving perpindicular to their longitudinal side. When a down hill edge bites in, they bite in and stop in a hurry. If that force could result in an outward fall instead of a downward one perhaps that would reduce the injuries.
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oh yea
keeping the wind out is big for me too i always wear a wind block fleece under a insulted winter shell adn windblock pants under my bib ski pants. keeping the core warmer by heating the kidny area well is a good idea too. The same is true in houses you gotta block the drafts.
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Two things- dry socks are a must I always take a couple pair to change if needed. i used to have to teach all day and my feet would sweat adn get cold. I would change socks at lunch and make it throughthe end of the day no prob. Additionally I always use a fleece gator over my chin and ears, pull my hat down over that and gogles. I have a fur lined bomber style hat i love for warmth on the really cold -40 wind chill days i stay pretty comfy at least till my feet get cold.
I try to avoid the -40 stuff now days my breaking pt is about -20 at that point I stay warm with a fleece snug sack, sofa, and about 100 lbs of my favorite hottie
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John
Check out MIT news letter. You can do searches on it to find articles by subject. Recently within the last month there was an article about research being done on new materials that mix nano carbon materials in a flexable polymer that is as strong as steel but has flexability and is moldable. They construct the material in a suspension, dip glass into it over and over building it up in layers like a candle but then peel the material off. The nano materials align themseves in overlapping layers with out directly ligning up keeping flexable My recolection was that they were looking to the auto industry to use the parts to make cars and frames lighter for fuel efficency with out giving up the impact safety. But it seems like there might be some application possibilities with your ideas. perhaps some engineering students would be willing to help you develop some prototypes.
keep us posted
Good combo : Nidecker and TD2
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thx for the link. i rode niedecker tornado for a couple seasons. loved it. I am looking for something a little newer.