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So, I inderstand that some people think we are skidding a little bit... :? Answer: no, we are not skidding at all. It happens some times, but it's not wanted. In contrary, we are driving the edge from the begining to the end of the turn. This is exacty what allows the technique we discribe in the we...

We used, few years ago, to ride in the powder with our E-carve boards and hard boots. It worked very well because with their width, our boards have a large surface. We didn't change any setup except that we tightened the boots buckles a bit less than on packed snow. The only thing with hardboots is ...

What do you mean with "shear" ?

The bindings themselves don't vibrate. They transmit the board vibrations to the rider's feet. So it is a problem of comfort and fatigue. Of course every piece of damper between the board and the bindings (as well as dampening boot sole) will reduce this vibration transmission. I personaly use Ptex-...

Hi Nate, You are a very clever or/and experienced guy because all your technical questions are very pertinent. This time you touch very subtles problems that have a lot of influence on the board behaviour. I noticed that most of the snowboard brands don't master this at all. Because of this and the ...

Hi Nate, No taper on our boards and no set back. If you put taper without setback, then the edge switching leads to edge skidding. So it's necessary to have some set back. But set back makes the tail edge shorter than the nose edge. This makes the tail edge too weak toward the nose one and so the bo...

Tes "héros" comme tu dis, sont des manches en kitesurf. On a commencé l'année dernière et on n'arrive pas encore a remonter au vent... Celà fait de nous d'excellents nageurs et marcheurs... :wink: On a tout les deux une Wipika freeair 8.9 et une 4.9 montées en 4 fils. Les planches sont toutes les de...

Du point de vue de la glisse pure, un talon carré ou spatulé c'est pareil. Le talon carré (court) réduit énormément l'inertie de la planche, parce que c'est le poids dans les bouts qui gêne le plus. Ainsi une planche qui possède une longueur de glisse importante peut être très maniable sans aucun co...

Hi, We are referring to the "forward lean" position (angle), stiffness (for those who have spring set up) and "side canting lean" (the one or two srews on the side of the boot). We put no "side canting lean" in our setup. The goal of having the same setup on each boot is to get an equal edge pressur...

Hi Dave,

Thanks for all your compliments.
With this website we just wanted to share our passion with other snowboarders.

I don't think the SSBS book and CD ROM does exist in English (only German and French).

Carve low

Jacques

What does "stance set back" mean?

Jacques

I never tried a borderX snowboard, but of course the first thing is the use of hardboots.

Carve low

Jacques

Hi Shred Guumer,
I've never been in Flims or Laax, so I don't know anything about this place.
But if you have any precise question, I can call the tourist office or look for their phone number for you.

I have a question. What does the word "grooming" mean?

Jacques

You are 100% right Nate.
Furthermore, a riser will probably introduce a rotative strength on the boots (as a lever).

Jacques

That's the main problem. Neither of the existing boots are especialy made for extreme carving. Their racing specification makes them too hard and they have to be modified. We had to modifie our Northwaves too, to make them softer and much more progressive. Furthermore this softness made them much mo...