Northwave and Heellift

Post by **ronola** » Saturday 3 February 2007, 6:56

Hi everybody,

please allow me to introduce myself in brief, because I've just now registered in this forum, even though I konw this forum since 2004. I'm 36 years old and start my interesting and practice in boarding 3 years ago by a friend (an alpineboarder) of mine. Shortly after I found the extremecarving page by google. So I've read in this forum from time to time.

My equipment is a Nitro blazer 159 board, F2 Race Titanium Bindings and Head Hardboots as well. But I intend to get a swoard

Now my first question concerns the recommendation to fix the bindings flat on the board without any heellift. If I compare the northwave .900 and other hardboots like mine it seems that the difference between the heel and toe are higher in the northwave. To illustrate what I mean here are two pictures.

Are the appearannces deceptive? Or is it true

Thx for your answers.

Ciao
Ronald

Post by **rilliet** » Tuesday 6 February 2007, 21:31

Hi Ronola,

You are right, the heel of the Northwave is quite high. But this is the same for the front and the rear foot, so it has no effect on the body position and balance. The problem with canting is that it is usually different on each foot.
Walking with a moderate heel height under your shoes has nearly no effect. But if you would have this on one foot only (the typical snowboard setting) I guess that walking and running becomes not so easy.

Jacques