Anybody Riding Same Angles Front and Back?

[pow4ever]

Revelation or brain fart ? -
using lowest angle without overhang, some degree of splay help when i was engaged edge using boot/liner tongue/drive with knee.

now with busted/weak back knee - can't drive the board using old technique so i have to pivot.  Initiated turn from the feet/lower stack.  in this case degree/leverage is less of a concerns?  but it's like squeezing ballon; this seems to put more stress on my back.... that's a whole different problem....

[johnasmo]

It seems worth mentioning that both splay and canting change with stance width and binding angles.  At lowest angles and wide stance, it's common to have 20 or more degrees of splay.  The 5 degree rule of thumb seems a throwback to when 50 to 60 degree posi-posi angles where the alpine norm.  By the time you get to 70 and up on a Skwal, you may end up with negative splay.

It's simply biomechanics.  Here's an illustration.  Stand facing a wall with your feet 20 inches apart with whatever splay feels natural.  Note the splay.  Without repositioning your feet, rotate 60 degrees, feet included to a natural splay.  Now step your rear foot straight forward from where it is.  Your feet will be near shoulder width apart.  Again note the splay.  It will probably be more like 5 degrees.

The same plays out for canting to.  Low duck angles and it can be all inward canting.  Around 60 or 65 it can be all lift.  At 75 and up you could find you need some outward canting.

It makes no sense to stick with one number for either splay or canting (or angles) when changing the other variables in the physical equation.  Solve for each board width and stance.  IMO, under-hang blows unless you are in soft snow where you can get some support from the base somewhere under foot. 

[Odd Job]

I forced myself into a 5 degree splay. I stand like with a 30 or 60+ degree splay and my footprints in snow reflect it. Forced myself into a 9 degree splay on softboots.