Carving is making a comeback! I've seen and you have too the videos of soft booters carving on groomers and park features. It's not a trend but it's great to see. We all have heard it for years, "I can carve like that too!". Finally it's coming mainstream again? Circular motion of what is cool. Carving will never die!
I noticed Japan and Korea already have specific decks for softboot carving from alpine snowboard manufacturers like Moss, BC Extreme, Ogasaka, and etc.
They call it 'Hammer' deck, which we witness hammerhead shape of the nose to maximize the effective edge length. Rocker outside of feet and Camber underfeet. Although most of all mountain boards has that same configuration (rocker-camber-rocker), those decks have carbon, titanial, or/and kevlar on their woodcore to make them more carving sp