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Hello. After reading the technique section of this site I've ventured out onto the slopes to try out carving (I'm not up to even try EC yet). As much as I've tried to keep my position in line with my feet and not the board I've noticed that my body rotated frontwise (chest towards the front of the b...

Yep, that's the case. My skiboots are sort of training ones. Lange Banshee that use 4 clamps and two screw down settings. Extremely stiff - the good news is I can unsrew the microcanting that should give me some +-5 deg side flex. And I can unscrew the toe lean - another 5 deg of forward flex. I'll ...

This is usually a subject for a big fight but I really need to get it straight. I usually ski - not snowboard. I have a pair of funcarvers and can do a passable equivalent of EC on skiis. Now I want to learn to do that on a snowboard, but I still want to retain the possibility to switch between skii...

I don't do EC yet but I do carving on skiis a lot (including the really awkward body twist to get both hands on one side of the skiis onto the snow) and I did have minor damages. Two times I wrenched my arm backward and that can hurt like hell. It was due to overbalancing and literally supporting my...