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RE: Options for the JJA C4 166

Yeah I want the titanal dampening and more of a freecarver vs BX/race... and after riding it, I just want it. My Freecarver 6000 is 277mm underfoot ...

10 months ago
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RE: Options for the JJA C4 166

@iacopo If you narrow the width (using the same core construction), it’s going to increase the flex (longitudinal and torsional). Personally, I would...

10 months ago
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RE: Options for the JJA C4 166

@parkcityguy with the shovel limited to 34cm, I’m guessing you’d be looking at a custom build with a larger SCR (16m?) to get a 30 waist.

10 months ago
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RE: Options for the JJA C4 166

Or maybe I’d take the medium without EGS? 😂 (I probably wouldn’t muck with the width)

10 months ago
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RE: Options for the JJA C4 166

Just to give people another perspective... I’m 172cm, 165lbs, size 8 boot (though my mondo is actually only 255; outer boot length is 287). I’d say I...

10 months ago
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RE: Reflections on The Secrets of Snowboard Carving Part I

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

10 months ago
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RE: Reflections on The Secrets of Snowboard Carving Part I

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-obliqu...

10 months ago
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RE: Sidecut Radius

That sidecut radius calculator is great...

10 months ago
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RE: Reflections on The Secrets of Snowboard Carving Part I

@carverarcalis Very cool! Am I correct that these animations are following the two previous diagrams? Top = looking into the turn and crossing the fa...

10 months ago
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RE: Reflections on The Secrets of Snowboard Carving Part I

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...

10 months ago
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RE: Reflections on The Secrets of Snowboard Carving Part I

This Triggerboy62 guy is awesome… how to handle steeps: (I’m not sure if Austrians know what ice is though?)

10 months ago
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RE: Cool snowboard stuff from 淘宝 (Alibaba-Chinese Amazon)

I've used Rakuten Ichiba in Japan: I got bindings that weren't available in Canada and I didn't know how else to do it. Towards the end of seaso...

10 months ago
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RE: Reflections on The Secrets of Snowboard Carving Part I

I could wrong, but I think Asian boards are a bit different... Not as wide (allowing easier foot steering and requiring less hip movement) and often t...

10 months ago
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RE: Reflections on The Secrets of Snowboard Carving Part I

@carverarcalis My first point wasn’t really about chatter, but intentionally speed checking with each turn. I had always thought it was ‘proper’ to i...

10 months ago
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RE: Reflections on The Secrets of Snowboard Carving Part I

@riotsupercarver That’s a really great video. I wish all skiers would actually follow that logic. It’s so odd that when the skiers started teaching s...

11 months ago
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