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The alpine quiver last year.  Missing my soft boot boards.   Quite a few of these have since been sold.  I'll need to take a new pic soon. 

Some boards I don't really use much anymore, but still like to look at

Posted by: @rob

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Some boards I don't really use much anymore

Hey Rob!  I wonder which one you don't use much...

These are from the southern side of the Alps. Missing a couple of the older ones, including a Hot and a Trans.

@wild-cherry, ha ha , yep that Burton custom was a dog of board 🙂

Kinda stoked on my quiver at the moment 

The ones that might be of interest to this group...

In chronological order from left to right, everyone must go through the workshop...
I want to put a nice vinyl on the skate of the GNU board, it has yellowed 🤔 but it still has life left in it.
The lobster is the board that helped me in my progression and to which I owe my love of carving, it has just been retired and I am going to replace it with another triple base, it is very fun!! We should all have one at home... Give your life a triple!! 😀
Lastly Gerende Cutter from Kijima Snowboards, is a custom board for me, handmade in Japan, the next level in my progression.

Posted by: @elennajb

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Gerende Cutter from Kijima Snowboards

There it is!  I've been wondering about that board for a while.  215mm waist eh?  I have hard boot boards wider than that haha.

Looks like a tiny sidecut too.  7m?  That'll put some extra width under your feet vs a 10 or 12m for example.

Have you ridden it yet?  Did you boot it out?  Post a review in the soft boot gear review section?

And welcome to the forum @elennajb, so glad you made it!

@board-doctor is that a Jones freecarver I see on the left. Is it a 6000. I am seriously considering getting one next season. what are your thoughts?

@laurentlarocque the 6000 seems pretty unique.  It has a massive 27mm sidecut depth, so at higher edge angles it gets ridiculously tight.  I prefer to ride it in soft snow because it has a lot of leverage on my size 8 boots.  Having said that, the ash topsheet does make it really nice and damp. I'm on the high end of the weight range for the 154 so it is relatively playful.  It's a fun board, but you do A LOT of turning so it's a good work out! 

I probably should've captioned the photo with some descriptions...

The Soul Shift is very surfy off the back foot.  If I weight the front I really don't like how it engages.  The oscillate tech seems to work, but it's really a powder board.  It rips powder.

The Stranda Shorty is what really made me fall in love with carving.  I've been railing turns for over 30 years, but I feel like I started really carving (as in deliberately carving different shapes) when I got this.  The sidecut is a spline function with an average of 8.6, but it tightens up in the tail and the nose seems to go off to infinity.  With rocker in the tips it's fairly mellow (low camber too), but the ash and aluminum stringers make it very damp and it's surprisingly capable at speed.  Off piste the nose seems to ride over anything... It's a powder gun, but I think a swallow is more fun to turn in pow (I have a K2 Special Effects as well).

The Korua Trench Digger has an average 10m radius, but it opens up in the tail.  It's a different ride than the Shorty.  The full camber (1 cm) pops and it's like riding a big leaf spring, but it's just poplar so it starts to feel squirrely at higher speeds (>60kph). 

Still waiting for my new Thirst to show up at my front door! 

@board-doctor

Thanks for the reply. Just to give you some background, I was a carver in the early years like yourself. I was riding a Pure Carve Maverick 175 at the time and it worked well for me.

I thought my riding days were over but I did dream about it a lot, I have great memories.

I will be 70 this summer. Destiny would have us move to a cottage at the base of a small ski hill. Being from the east yourself you will probably remember Mt. Habitant just beside Mt. St-Sauveur.

Being a smaller hill I figure if I could find a board (like the freecarve 6000) that carves well without needing high speeds to get it turning. The hill is small and the short turn radius (only 6 meters) should keep my speed in check and I can work on your beautifull technique. As for the workout I don't have a 2 km run to contend with I will be at the bottom in 3 min. flat. When my legs scream at me to stop I will just walk back to our cottage and return the next day. (retirement is good for that)

I was going to match the board with some flow nx2 carbon bindings. I noticed you ride them yourself. Since the turn are so tight would the regular nx2's be sufficient or should I still go with the extra stiff carbon ones?

Love you input, love your details, I will be following your site with great interest. When I finally get back on the snow next season I will sent some pics and give you the stance I come up with on soft boots (I used to be a hardbooter).

Cheers!

Larry Larocque