Hi forum!
I'm a freestyler and a soft setup rider. My setup is a Salomon Fastback 163, Salomon SPX Carbon and Burton Ions, stance 51cm, angles 21/9. I´m 68kg and has a 26.5cm boot.
I like to put freestyle into my riding and want to carry on riding soft, but I see the carve as the basic for everything and I know you guys know your carve. Riding soft setups with overhang I place my disk so that I can slide them sideways and get more or less toe or heel overhang. I ride with the toes and the heels with the same overhang (very smal overhang, never catches). Working on my carve today I did not always get the heel edge to realy digg in and hold the edge when I was on hard pack and ice. This made it difficult to mantain good speed and I did at some stages slide a little before the heel edge did digg in. This made me do a longer carve than I wanted to. Toe edge was fine. My question: Is it an oportunity to move the bindings towards more heel overhang or should I stay with equal on both sides and work on my heel carve that way alone? My main empasis is to develop a good carving technique over time and not getting into bad habbits.
I try to ride without counter rotations and I´m working towards the "swiss" carve coming from a more "frenc" carve. Beeing a windsurfer I find the swiss carve very simular to my jibing on a windsurfer.
Regards Asle
Heel carve and sideways sliding of soft bindings.
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Dani
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Hi Asle
I ride Race Boards and Soft Boards.
If you like really to carve with a Soft Board, any overhang of your binding will be a problem. On one of my Soft Boards, it's a F2 Super Sonic (this board is similar to your Fastback) with a Intec Soft Stepin binding, I have an angle of 40/30 degrees. With this angle both of my bindings are completely inside the board and I can give an optimal pressure on the frontside or on the backside edge. This is one of the precondition for an optimal edge grip or edge control. So you can't improve your carving technique with shifting your bindings sideways.
And don't forget, carving with a Soft Board will never be the same as carving with a Extrem Carving or Race Board
. The Soft Board is too less stiff. If you like to carve with a Soft Board your carving technique must be excellent and the snow surface should not be icy or too hard. It's much easier to learn the perfect carving technique on a Race Board and after this change on a Soft Board.
cu Dani
I ride Race Boards and Soft Boards.
If you like really to carve with a Soft Board, any overhang of your binding will be a problem. On one of my Soft Boards, it's a F2 Super Sonic (this board is similar to your Fastback) with a Intec Soft Stepin binding, I have an angle of 40/30 degrees. With this angle both of my bindings are completely inside the board and I can give an optimal pressure on the frontside or on the backside edge. This is one of the precondition for an optimal edge grip or edge control. So you can't improve your carving technique with shifting your bindings sideways.
And don't forget, carving with a Soft Board will never be the same as carving with a Extrem Carving or Race Board
. The Soft Board is too less stiff. If you like to carve with a Soft Board your carving technique must be excellent and the snow surface should not be icy or too hard. It's much easier to learn the perfect carving technique on a Race Board and after this change on a Soft Board.cu Dani