Rob, you understood everythingrcrobar wrote:I agree with Nils, almost any board can be carved low, but the difference to me is how LONG can you stay low and keep going while still linking turns. This is what the Swiss connection is sharing / teaching / demonstrating on this site. This is why, I believe, they like and recommend the 13m radius; the speed and the time spent low.
I appreciate your posts because you write right things, with better words than ours (our "frenglish" is bad
). Other riders like NateW, Nils, etc... are clever too and contribute really positively to this site.Yes, it's possible to carve low with any board: short, long, narrow, wide, different radius, ...
But the equipment and settings that we recommend in this site can allow you to go further. The turns that we propose (for the first time) are:
completely laid- not simply inclined turns, like all what we see in the magazines and over the Internet
- extreme carving is the most appropriate term, in the sense that the turns can't be lower
- some (few) riders / readers of "Bomberonline.com", who were touched deeply in their pride, spent their time in making jokes about the adjective "extreme" instead of reading the site or showing their own videos / photos!
linked- not a single laid turn done in front of a photographer, as we did 15 years ago, like Serge Vitelli, Peter Bauer or Jean Nerva for example
- go arm pit to arm pit on each turn
longstaying laid as long as possible on each linked turn is particularly exhilarating
efficient in any snow condition- no need of "total hero snow"
- very hard snow is a perfect ground, but we recommend wide boards to avoid touching the slope with the boots when the body is completely laid on the piste
and done with a clean style- no parasite movements (as much as possible), sobriety and fluidity give the feeling to the spectators that it's all easy even on the worst piste
- one can count with 10 fingers the pro riders who don't move their hands above their head in the slaloms or the freeride contests!
My post is a bit provocative, but I would like to see a new energy in the alpine snowboarding. Race discipline is something else. Here we talk about a spectacular sport, which could have more attraction for the public than giant slalom (who watched the slalom at the Olympic Games?).
We spent 2 months (full time for Jacques) in making this site for free, in two languages, just to share our passion and promote our marginal sport. We have been carving low for many years, alone, and people pushed us to explain / teach our "secrets"...
I thank all of you (many many!) who wrote us enthusiastic messages!
If your season is over, you have time to prepare mentally your next "extreme" season
-Patrice Fivat
I am checking the site from the start. this is the best site on earth and I am MAD MAD on people who talk bad about this site. Its great keep the good work going. Now I do not feel alone any more. And now my girlfriend is also on hardboots!!!!!! yeah I found one.
