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RE: UP unweighting vs DOWN unweighting / Switzerland vs US 🙂

The thing with CASI is they seemed to abandon a lot of the ski basics to build fundamentals for freestyle... ie. the duck-footed warrior stance. Big...

10 months ago
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RE: Jones Freecarver 9000 Discussion

This is turning into a Bullet Train discussion… but it’s definitely back for 2025: I don’t know what the shipping would cost, but if you get a Ra...

10 months ago
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RE: Jones Freecarver 9000 Discussion

I feel like the Freecarver (6000) is the top of the line in commercial mass production. The Stranda Shorty is in another league (and probably somewha...

10 months ago
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RE: Boot straps

Boa's are always a problem with straps. It'd be cool to have a strap that somehow had cutouts to go around the boa knobs.

10 months ago
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RE: Jones Freecarver 9000 Discussion

Someone did here: (funny, at the beginning of the season I thought the BT might be too much for me)

10 months ago
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RE: Jones Freecarver 9000 Discussion

I'm actually a little knock knee'd, but I've never thought about what that does to my stance? Note that 173cm is 5.67", which is actually about 5'8"....

10 months ago
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RE: Jones Freecarver 9000 Discussion

My mondo is only 255 (7.5), but I typically wear 260 due to my high arch and instep. What’s your weight? If you’re looking at Stranda definitely loo...

10 months ago
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RE: Options for the JJA C4 166

I think I'm leaning towards the soft flex with EGS. In the suboptimal conditions that I rode them, I didn't feel like I could turn the midflex as tig...

10 months ago
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RE: Jones Freecarver 9000 Discussion

Further thoughts (I’ve been drinking @riotsupercarver ’s Kool-aide)… when you start really laying over a board, the construction probably means a lot ...

10 months ago
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RE: Effects of a carver’s body mass?

Where are you from? I would not call that stocky. That’s probably a good BMI. My adult weight has fluctuated from 135-200… often with too much on t...

10 months ago
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RE: Jones Freecarver 9000 Discussion

The other thing I’ll note is the Feeecarver (at least the 6) REALLY breaks in. Initially it was stiffer than my ‘23 Rome Stalefish. They’re both mad...

10 months ago
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RE: Jones Freecarver 9000 Discussion

That video that Lars did was great. It seemed like a fair comparison, though he probably could have touched on the superior construction of the Stran...

10 months ago
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RE: Options for the JJA C4 166

@reximus It’s a 12m sidecut so the turns are naturally a bit bigger than your average board (that's almost 80’ in diameter). To tighten that up you n...

10 months ago
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RE: Options for the JJA C4 166

Yeah the level of dampening is unreal. The prototype wasn't completely isolated/dead though. I remarked that it felt 'crisp'... as there was some fe...

10 months ago
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RE: Options for the JJA C4 166

Given the other boards that you have, that’s probably a good way to lean. You’re about my size, but with bigger feet for leverage. I thought the tor...

10 months ago
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