Been watching carving snowboard videos where the point of view allows me to see the track carved and/or the base of the board for much of the turn. ...

It's hard to get your head around. In essence the board creates 2 curves along its length, sidecut and flex. With the board at rest the SCR axis is in...

@cravingcarving You might want to check out the current Comments discussion going with that video. 😉

Minor thread jack: Bomber had new owners from within the hardboot community about 2016/17. The new owners made poor decisions and the business failed....

I have high arched feet, higher than any off the shelf orthotic I could find. Used a cheap but firm based insole, cellophane food wrap, and acrylic cu...

@Trapper effective edge is just one factor in the mix that determines board performance. As you point out you have 2 boards with the same effective ed...

It's not the length of the wand, it's the way that you wiggle it. Think what ice hockey players manage to do with the effective edge of their skates...

The rack Evidence for my obsession. (click the image to see it clearly for some reason?) L to R. Coiler AM 178 (retired), Oxygen GS 163, Burton ...

Lots of snowboarders and skiers use "carving" very loosely. On Alpinesnowboarder Forums there's a general aphorism "Tracks don't lie. Carvers make pen...

@board-doctor I would argue that fresh powder can be surfed but not carved. To carve you need snow that is strong enough, bound together enough, to pu...

radius = (SCR), chord = (straightline distance from tip/tail contact points), sagitta = (sidecut depth). If you increase the size of the sidecut dep...

@board-doctor These are a primer on snowboard turn shape. They were made 12 years ago and there are some factors that Sean ignores or skates o...

@board-doctor Hot Blast has a 19.9cm waist, 25.5cm tip & 25.0cm tail with a 140cm effective edge, 160cm overall length. So 26.5mm depth to the a...

@board-doctor My shortest SCR board is an 8.5m single radius Hot Blast slalom board. I once rode a Donek Madd Killer which is a similar radius. I ride...