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c'est genial ca :) ca me fait penser aux shapers de surfs qui m'accueillaient sur la cote basque quand j'avais 17-18 ans et qui me donnaient des petits trucs pour apprendre a shaper... Il m'arrive ausi de preter mes planches car je trouve ca genial de permettre a quelqu'un de rider quand il a pas le...

its exactly what we try to explain to the non hardbooters what is the % of times you ride groomed or flat slopes? 80% and what is the kind of board you ride? the board made for the small 20% of powder, or mixed snow... Meaning: why don't anyone get a board for those 80% times...? still a mistery ! y...

you're really in estonia?
met a nice chap from Latvia the other day too.. seems the baltic connection is up ! ( he wasn't a carver thu..)

not the one with the engines, but the one you turn the legs around an axis :) i'm going to work by bicycle, and its a short trip ( 4km ) but the way back home as a hill so huge that lasts 2 km, that it kills the speed down to 12 km/h during the climb. Needless to say, i'm improving the average speed...

et Welcome ici :).. Il y a quelques skwaleurs ici, qui te donneront des conseils.. celui que je peux te donner apres en avoir fait une fois, et etre parvenu a carver assez proprement la truffe dans la neige, c'est de bien te jeter dans les virages, hyper tonique etc... faut aller chercher le centre ...

Its more a weight thing than a lengh thing.. You're both light and not as tall as J or me... The problem is usually, smaller race boards are stiffer, and have shorter radius which makes EC turns very fast and hard to manage.... I ride the 172 oxygen proton, which needs juice to carve , even if its a...

tsu, the silberthing is ok, just try to get the widest race board you can.. the new blast from hot for example is cheap and 19.5 or .7..You'll be able to train EC then when you outrun your board, will be time for the EC board
Nils

as I already said, its possible to do EC turns with race boards, but the angles it asks on the shoes makes it less efficient than on a wider board.. not to mention the torsion control that is always dependent to the flex... I succeeded frontside on a 19cm blast, but the backside had my boots draggin...

pete, la alp est une board de freecarve, alors que la O'sin est plutot freeride/boarderX...je te conseilles la alp pour faire du carving, et EC...mais sachant que tu es a seattle, patrie de la poudre, tu aurais interet a prendre une board de poudre!! donc la plus longue... bref> tu es dans la merde ...

Le skwal j'en ai fait un week end en 94, sur un lacroix tres raide...J'ai adore..ca ne marche bien qu'en se jettant dans le virage, un peu a la maniere des virages EC. Ca demande des "couilles" pour se lacher au centre du virage avant meme que la planche aie tourne...Bref> j'adore ! C'est marrant j'...

I don't have the experience of J&P, but i can say that since I adopted this technique, it changed my way of riding in every situation. I tried it on different swallowtails i tried last winter, and it went perfectly.. I could even EC some of them ( my 196) when the grommed was good... Also when i wen...

il prefere utiliser un pied fixe et rider ( si son emploi du temps le permet !)

pic of the secret training tool :


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Excuse me for beeing in Verbier lol..
I think the same but have no choice (could be worse!)

Hopefully will have more facilities since i'm moving closer to all the region... (on the 1st of october !!) yepeee)..

I am number 3 !!!

(you are number 6..! I'm not a number i'm a free man...'quote from the prisoner', TV serie of the 60's..)