F2 roadster - experience ? Me (!) or the board ?

[Omega]

As a newcomer to this part of the wintergames (30 years alpine and 5 years telemark in my legs from before...) , I last summer bought a F2 roadster from blue tomatoe.

After some 10 days I can do pretty well clean carving, tight turns and quite deep, but of course not EC style yet. Have great fun and read, analyze every days progress and work with the technique in my head in the evenings. And try to tune the setup - binding angles, boot angles and pretension etc. etc.

Last weekend I had perfect conditions, hard snow and perfect grip in the morning but as the snow got softer during the day, it felt like the bord lost its grip easily in the middle part of the turn, both on heel- and toe side. It felt as the board was to soft somehow (both longitudional and torsion) , the feeling do not fit with the "edge-feeling" from any of my skis.

I am pretty sure this is due to faulty rider technique , but it should still be cool to hear from you more experienced guys any comments to the F2 roadster.


- no pain - no gain -

[István]

The F2 Roadster is way too soft, thus as you'll advance you'll experience it more often that the board twists/overbends under you.

On the other hand twisting and overbending rather happens on hardpack, not in soft snow. What does happen in too soft snow, is that you just push away the snow and the edge cannot bite into anything. These 2 feelings are completely different.

When pushing strong on a soft board on hardpack, you feel that you catch an edge, but then you loose it because of the twisting. In too soft snow what you feel is that you cannot really catch an edge at all.

So I would say it is not neccesarily your techniqe, but the board and the too soft snow.

Just my 2 cents............

Kindest,

István

[Omega]

Thanks for your reply Istvan

You may be right, maybe just the fact that I'm driving harder as the old body warms up during the day... And nothing to do with the snow. Takes time to loosen the rusty feeling I have every day still. I always end the days with skiing/boarding like this is the last day I live - or what my daughters call Kamikaze style...

Have a nice weekend - I am leaving up in the mountains NOW !

Regards
J

- no pain - no gain -