kaz Posted July 6, 2015 Report Share Posted July 6, 2015 I'm gonna share a new video that I found on youtube. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slopestar Posted July 7, 2015 Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 That's some good stuff. Riding aggressively is always good. Much better than the slow traverse to body drag to traverse and repeat. Love watching the softbooters get after it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kipstar Posted January 15, 2016 Report Share Posted January 15, 2016 quite common to see softbooters in Japan who can actually carve properly....a lot of the guys riding powder boards seem to be able to make those boards carve very well too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExcelsiorTheFathead Posted January 15, 2016 Report Share Posted January 15, 2016 Thank goodness they ride way better than they spell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beckmann AG Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 (edited) ^Have to wonder if that might be an inside joke. Friend of mine had a manual for his old Kawasaki, and the wiring diagram described some of the wires as being 'brue' 'gleen' and 'brack'. Then again, he might have been fibbing. Youngsters on the crew were all abuzz today about the INFINITY footage. It seems that a whole generation has been exposed to nothing but skidding around on goose grease and duckbutter, not realizing that competent riders railed similar turns on softies in many years ago. Perhaps we go Edited January 17, 2016 by Beckmann AG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 Great stuff Kaz, thanks! How arw you doing, buddy? We are having a pretty good season at Cypress! Sent from my SM-G900W8 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz Posted January 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 Hi B, Same sh*t everyday but I'm fine. Winter came here finally. But warmer than usual. It was -16 degrees yesterday. Today, high of -6 degree. As I see the crazy carving with SB, I sometimes wonder if we should ride alpine snowboards :) Bruce shipped 5 skwals to Japan last year and is shipping 3 tomorrow including swallow tail. He shipped 4 alpine snowboards last week and I got a new order, so already 8 boards to Japan this season! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmatic Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 Carving style on softboots (but hardboots too) seems to be different, very different! The ones take it as a pure sport, the other ones make it to feel comfy on a wide runway-type slope. "INFINITY" means in my opinion infinity of carving, moves and airs. Watch on this video here what we think about carving in Continental Europe / Alps: playfull, radical and on any kind of slope. Carving Europe: (if country restriction use direct-link: vimeo.com/144523041) Crashes for shure. If you don't/never crash, your ride isn't that radical enough! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xy9ine Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 great vid kaz! pretty inspired to commit fully to softies now. still holding onto a kessler alpine for the moment, but might have to flip that to fund a ripper softboot deck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbaldwin Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 Wow... That video makes me want to go snowboarding. Right now. Then go out to some club and dance awkwardly by myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted January 27, 2016 Report Share Posted January 27, 2016 As I see the crazy carving with SB, I sometimes wonder if we should ride alpine snowboards :) Of course we should, for the sake of quality boots and bindings. Although, I must admit that last few years I enjoy the most my in-between boards and mix up my riding a bit. Sent from my SM-G900W8 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz Posted February 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 great vid kaz! pretty inspired to commit fully to softies now. still holding onto a kessler alpine for the moment, but might have to flip that to fund a ripper softboot deck... I don't want invest in softies again but I really wanna try if I can do same thing like them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz Posted February 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 Of course we should, for the sake of quality boots and bindings. Although, I must admit that last few years I enjoy the most my in-between boards and mix up my riding a bit. I wanna try SBX board with proper bindings and boots. I'm not gonna buy them but just so interesting how to carve like them. BTW, I met a Japanese carver here at Mount St, Louis Moonstone. (not a mountain tho) He is free-style carver but he carves good! I just got him a Coiler SBX demo board from Bruce. I wanna ride the board too but don't have good bindings and boots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted February 1, 2016 Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 Kaz, mount the board with your F2 bindings, set them a bit loose, like 1 finger effort to close the bail. Ride your UPZ boots in the walk mode and not too tight buckles and you have a "soft boot setup". You can ride any angles you want from duck to 45 ish forward on full width BX board. I recommend 45 font 30 back for free riding / free styling. Sent from my SM-G900W8 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz Posted February 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Kaz, mount the board with your F2 bindings, set them a bit loose, like 1 finger effort to close the bail. Ride your UPZ boots in the walk mode and not too tight buckles and you have a "soft boot setup". You can ride any angles you want from duck to 45 ish forward on full width BX board. I recommend 45 font 30 back for free riding / free styling. Sent from my SM-G900W8 using Tapatalk I didn't think that way! I have a pair of Deeluxe 325 in Japan. I was gonna use that for the pow-board you guys gave me I tried it some times but there is not such a thing as powder here. I put some stiff cuffs on my UPZ so I don't know if I can get that softness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icebiker Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Wow... That video makes me want to go snowboarding. Right now. Then go out to some club and dance awkwardly by myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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