Reinforcing Gloves - Clothing for EC

[jax]

Just one question, yesterday a friend of mine has fallen and he told me that he cannot stop also because the gloves are happly sliding on the snow because of the reinforcing thing on them...

[Rey]

I guess, the reason is not only in gloves- do not ride on black slopes if you have not enough experience

[nils]

It can be a problem.
After seeing Jacques's Ptex glove palms, I tried the same and it ended up to be a dangerous choice...even Jacques says it can be dangerous on very steep and icy slopes... Its better to keep some friction when you have fallen and need to anchor your hands in the snow as brakes
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[Matti]

For me these gloves were big step for better turns and definitely good safe for my shoulders .
My ass is tacky enough for stopping .

[Hans]

It will always be a compromise, I hurted both shoulders because my gloves with rubber palms were stuck in the snow by lay downs, still not 100% recovered from last season. Just ordered some new ones without the rubber palms and want to try REY ones, hope REY can send the new ones to me because I won't attend the ECS.

[Abrax]

My point of view is just same as Rey's. Don't go steep when you can't go with 100% controll over your edge.

I am trying to get as much slippery on my clothes as possible. It helps so much

BTW, if you enter the turn with a proper inclination or almost proper, there is always a chance of catching the edge again after losing it. If the technique is not good enough one will end on his/her stomach, laying down till the end of the slope ;( Again with a basic knowledge of how to catch the edge again -> almost 90% of bad situations ends with riding on edge few seconds later.

Remember: once you've lost your edge and you are sliding:
On frontside - straighten your legs to catch it once again, on backside bend your knees and you will catch it again!
While on stomach sliding down, try to press nose of the board or tail to rotate enough to be able to catch the edge again. You do this simply by pressing th part into snow.

But please - don't let you go into such situations. It's not safe.

[Rey]

Its better to keep some friction when you have fallen and need to anchor your hands in the snow as brakes
N

For steep and ice slope we can use this kind of snow brakes

[Hans]

I have pair of famous and good "Ray" gloves and 2 sets od done with that Bison Liquid Rubber mentioned above.
All works as great and all of them have survived last winter. I had one pair done with Sika but that was much poor than Bison.
Bison is guite economical and you can quite easily make nice looking pair of them. And it is very easy to get, Dutch product if i'm not wrong.
10 times better product that Sika for this purpose. I used it also to protect gloves of jacket and works there too perfectly.
I try to dig out pair of gloves done with it and used second part of this winter, and shoot picture how they look now.

Hi Pokkis

Just a few questions on the Bison Rubber Repair product:

- how many layers of Bison Rubber Repair did you put on the gloves?

- how many tubes of Bison did you use on one glove?

Thanks, Hans

[pokkis]

Same answer for both, one layer and slightly less than one tube per glove

[jax]

@ Ray and Abrax
Who doesn't take chances will not improve.
Just a point of view.

[Hans]

Same answer for both, one layer and slightly less than one tube per glove

Thanks for the fast reply! Just put almost one whole tube on one new Level Pipe Pro glove.

Have to buy more of that stuff, very easy to apply.

Hope you have had a good time in Italy.

[pokkis]

When glu is drying final surface comes very nice shiney one.

Yep had nice time, thanks.

As off-topic:


and some GoPro shots
http://pokkis.1g.fi/#/kuvat/HSI+2013/