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RE: Korean and Japanese styles of carving?

Yeah, he seems to be in more of zen state of flow than a lot of those in high adrenaline videos. Some of his fundamentals are indeed similar to Jam...

4 months ago
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RE: Korean and Japanese styles of carving?

Yeah I read somewhere else that they generally have the hips over the rear boot and their chest over the front boot, so that their centre-of-mass is s...

4 months ago
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RE: Intuition Liners

I’ve used the HV pro-tour, but they’re a softer foam with an articulation/flex point. I found these at Mountain Equipment Co-oo in town and had them ...

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RE: Korean and Japanese styles of carving?

Yeah, and I think I'm figuring this out. That counter-rotation of the shoulders going into the toeside (ep7) really helped me see it. In their crouc...

4 months ago
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RE: Korean and Japanese styles of carving?

I wondered if stance width might play into this, but in Class 1 he says that he goes by the height to the centre of his knee, which is a reasonable 54...

4 months ago
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RE: Korean and Japanese styles of carving?

I should add that I rode twins with camber for 20 years, so I learned to ride pretty nose heavy and then get my weight back. With modern directional ...

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RE: Korean and Japanese styles of carving?

I watched the whole series. The later ones don’t have translated subtitles, but using the translate caption function in YouTube works well enough (so...

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RE: The Perfect Surf Stance

How did I not know that Craig Kelly surfed?

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RE: Korean and Japanese styles of carving?

I've started watching these K-Carving lessons and they're interesting... I don't like reading subtitles though, and man is he a fast talker. I h...

4 months ago
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RE: Korean and Japanese styles of carving?

I watched it again, and I think they are actually pressuring the front more than I had initially thought. They’re just not shifting their hips forwar...

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RE: Korean and Japanese styles of carving?

On the YouTube vid someone commented that it includes Korean. JSBA, and SAJ styles… but I don’t know what’s what? Those were some great clips that y...

4 months ago
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RE: Korean and Japanese styles of carving?

Yeah, I try not to get my weight too far back on the board or it can seem to run away from me. This can happen on steeper, sketchier terrain… then I’...

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RE: Korean and Japanese styles of carving?

Both go against the conventional front-weighting... and you make some interesting points. Asian riding seems to have evolved from surfing, rather th...

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