@wild-cherry I wouln't say the video is a fail, put side to side with your regular carving style it's clearly different, maybe with a smaller sidecut radious would be easier to achieve.

This Triggerboy62 guy is awesome… how to handle steeps:

(I’m not sure if Austrians know what ice is though?)

On the ‘Asian style’ I’ve often heard that it’s surfy and off the back foot... It actually looks like some of them (maybe more Korean?) are doing that ‘toilet seat’ position with their back leg through the transition.

Next year I need to scrutinize my own techniques A LOT more in order to progress further.

@wild-cherry maybe this helps, its not 100% accurate but might highlight those differences

Wow @carverarcalis!  That's incredible.  How did you do that?

I presume the top is supposed to be up-unweighted and the bottom down-unweighted?  Can we work on these a bit and use them in a future YouTube video?

In the up-unweighted one, there could be more emphasis on leveling the shoulders through the oblique crunch, and in the down-unweighted there could be more extension in the knees through the apex to accentuate the motion. 

Brilliant stuff!  Thanks!

@wild-cherry Thanks! I'm a 3d animator hahahaha.

I will refine them no problem! And sure you can use it for a youtube vid 👍 

Cheers!

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I'm a 3d animator hahahaha.

Oh are you @carverarcalis???  Fantastic!  Can I interest you in another small job?

I want to make a 2 second video clip with a new "Carvers' Connection" logo to use as an into for all my future YT videos.  I had asked a friend who is a graphic designer but it's a little beyond her capacity.  Email me?  [email protected]

@carverarcalis Very cool!  Am I correct that these animations are following the two previous diagrams? Top = looking into the turn and crossing the fall line; bottom = looking more downhill and your momentum is basically down the fall line.

The top diagram was perhaps a bit exaggerated and looked more EC-like with the hips closed on the toe side, but now I think I see what you’re getting at here.

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Top = looking into the turn and crossing the fall line; bottom = looking more downhill and your momentum is basically down the fall line.

@board-doctor not really, I was trying to emulate the difference between Up-Unweighted and down-unweighted ("James pencil line style vs asian carving style") 

In the diagrams was more about the body position and sight depending on the turn shape, what asian carvers call short turn and normal turn.

@board-doctor Actually I got it completely wrong both the animations where Up-Unweighted 🤣 🤣 , I have created 3 animations that I believe picture it much better, the one I might need help adjusting is the Up-Unweighted I'm calling "NorthWest", trying to copy it from Jame's videos but it's the one I'm less familiar with. 

So first the Down-Unweighted Euro Style:

 Up-Unweighted North West:

 Up-Unweighted Asian:

 Any inputs to improve them let me know! 🙂 

These are really cool. 

I think (big disclaimer here!) that James has his hips a bit more forward, initiating the turn with more of a lateral-oblique crunch that shifts the hips (hard boot roots?).  He doesn't really bend and extend his knees much, but that flexion is more inline with the board.  Particularly on the toe side, where the rear knee goes forward rather than out.  He's very clearly up-unweighted and crossing over, with his centre of mass moving like a pendulum.

Sometimes Asian riders look like they're doing sort of a cross-through rather than such a tall cross-over.  Maybe that's more Korean than Japanese?  I don't know, it would be cool to see this all illustrated.

Here's a really good article that was recently reformatted...

@wild-cherry I emailed you yesterday, let me know you recieved it correctly 👍 👍 

@board-doctor I will adjust Jame's style thanks for the inputs!

I was recommended this video on YouTube and I think we can disregard the riders carving technique… but it’s interesting how he instantly notices that riding even fairly extreme positive angles on both bindings instantly helps with delivering power to the edges. Even with my untrained eyes I feel like his posture instantly improves by such a simple thing as just changing angles and not thinking about anything else, he goes from riding like a shrimp to something slightly less curved, like a banana or a cucumber… 

Kevin seems like a nice Canadian boy that’s living the life… but I had to stop following him because so much of what he says is just wrong.  His description of unweighted turns and pressuring the edge (UNweighted?) was mind boggling. Be cautious with what he says.  I presume he’s getting the newbie/beginner clicks?