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Hi boys and girls, On the french forum, there is a question about the board length ("planches et specs" thread). Peter Vu asks why our boards are shorter than the rider and not longer. A too long board is perfect to do E-carve turns but the rider looses a lot of manoeuvrability. In E-carve, the edge...

Hi phill, Few years ago, I made a board with 14 m radius. This one made longer turns, but the problem was that the speed was a bit too high. In E-carve, the body touches the snow. When the snow quality is perfect, no problem. But when it becomes irregular, the body hits little obstacles all along th...

Hi Phil, I agree with you. You are lucky with you 25.5 foot size (for those who don't know, this is the foot length in cm). With my 29.5 and your angulation, I would need 22.3 cm waist width to get the same specs as you. I have 23 cm with 54/46.5 angulation. So I see that with the same booting out, ...

salut Nils,

Si tu as l'occasion, compare les deux versions (même taille, compression optimale). Il y a une sacrée différence de qualité...

Jacques

Salut Peter, E-carver avec une planche longue va très bien, mais on perd de la maniabilité et de la polyvalence. En E-carve, le problème est qu'on a besoin de stabilité (pendant la courbe), mais aussi d'une grande maniabilité, car le changement de carre est très "acrobatique", le corps et la planche...

A propos de planches, comment s'annonce la production des votres? La difficulté pour fabriquer nos planches, réside dans la fameuse construction secrète dont on vous parle dans les pages "Techniques". Elle consiste à insérer des pièces en fibre de carbone dans le noyau bois. Ces pièces, de très gra...

So much LOVE!... Wow!

Thank you everybody, for your encouragements.

Jacques

Hi, The plastic pads are snowboard sole pads. They are only there for more comfort. They are on both boots. Spring system: There is two adjusting nuts: one for toe side (up) and one (down) for canting. You are right Rob, the little low yellow spring gives a few softness in back side turns (the boot ...

salut, La première fois que j'ai entendu parler du phi-turn, il y a 10 ans environ, cela consistait à faire un tour complet (360°) sur la carre. Avec la fameuse lette grec phi comme symbole... Depuis, silence radio. Je ne vois pas ce que le pauvre Jean-philippe Garcia a à voir dans tout ça... Pour l...

Hi, The push-pull turn is a technique that gives speed acceleration or deceleration depending on the rythme of the "push" and "pull" movement are done. You can see the skier Bode Miller doing it perfectly (note that this technique is new in the ski competition world because it needs the snowboard ra...

Sorry, but I have no idea about what is a Burton 163 E deck...

Jacques

You are asking here a difficult question, because as you said, nobody takes care of it... I never push enough sothat the shins stucks to the back side of the boot. I keep a balance between both of these strength application points. Another point in extreme carving: As the board is nearly vertical, b...

Yes and no...

If you don't want your edge skidding after edge shifting, you must have the two parts of the sidecut between your feets parallel (if you can consider that these circle arcs are like lines).
With taper, you need set back to find these two parallel sidcuts between your feet.

Jacques

This my personal point of view: In soft boots, it's only possible to push on the toes. As in my philosophy hard boots are only a help that gives more strength to our ankles, I push on my toes and on my shin together in a way to distibute the strength. Pushing on the toes allows a control on the boar...

Just another english question:
What does "IMHO" mean?

Jacques