Those look quite good to me… Doing a J turn isn’t as easy as it looks. I always feel like my 3rd turn is really my first turn (2 setups).

Here’s a paper with the forces that are at play: And freecarvers can start to experience some significant forces:SCR=12mVel...

@skoonk I’m giving you these other perspectives assuming you’ve watched the seminal Secrets vid:

Nicholas Wolken also has a good bit on the hips 3 min in here: There are lots of carvers on YouTube with their hips rotated. It’s easier in a p...

You want to rotate the hips more, especially heelside. Lars demonstrates this around 3min into this video: James has a a whole video on the hip...

Yes, exactly!

Don’t be a poo man!

Breaking at the waist is when you’re not bending toward the nose, but sticking your butt out heel side, folding/breaking at the waist, and sticking yo...

Jasey may not emphasize rotation like James, but he still uses a lot of separation. Watching him carve toe side, he’s usually doing the counter-rotat...

It seemed like that tight splay was very common for old-school racers. I never raced, but in the late 90’s I settled on +18/+15 and rode that for ...

I’ll probably give them a try at some point. I will note that I have way more ankle flexion with my rear foot when I’m riding. On my Rome bindings I...

it takes me like 10 days to get to about 80% of where I was the season before, but it definitely looks like you’re progressing. You’re getting your h...

What’s your boot size? And you want another twin?

So I gave up on the uncomfortable Insano for now and went back to my Vans Verse. I swapped the Flux CV LTD for Rome Cleavers (with Bataleon Infinity ...

I actually bought the Mercury for an all-mountain board, but with my 260's the medium had to be adjusted forward and it put the footbed over the edge ...