Riding stances ? Which angle ?

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Riding stances ? Which angle ?

Post by AB175591 » Sunday 13 February 2011, 23:07

Hi guys,

Just started carving with my Burton Precision M6 and was wondering which angle is the best for the stances ? Actually, I'm riding 30°-30° ..

It's such a nice feeling to cut the snow and enter in a carve. It's sad to see that many young riders don't know anything on the alpine snowboard. I'm 17 years old, and I'm probably the youngest and only «alpine» rider in my station.

Cheers from Canada,
Antoine

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Re: Riding stances ? Which angle ?

Post by Tomba » Monday 14 February 2011, 8:38

Simple.
In general angles for EC: Back foot as low angle as you can get with no overhang of a boot. Front foot a few degees more.

Latest tread about angles (there are tons of them here): viewtopic.php?t=7172&highlight=fluego+test

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Re: Riding stances ? Which angle ?

Post by starikashka » Monday 14 February 2011, 9:05

AB175591 wrote: I'm 17 years old, and I'm probably the youngest and only «alpine» rider in my station.

Cheers from Canada,
Antoine
Very good to hear :-) It is usual situation that you are like "white raven" :-)

Angles and stance has to be convenient for you and if you go such high inclination angles make sure there is no boot overhang.
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Post by nakaniko » Monday 14 February 2011, 11:08

And therefore the 90% of snowboarders don't care about style and precision in turning and carving, they only want to jump even if there's nothing to jump, dressed and standing like monkeys, not men.
So counter-rotation is what you almost always see from them.
Imho the wrong way for making the snowboard the most popular sport on the snow.
Burton Speed Wide 168 - Nitro Shogun 168, Torque 164, Slash 171, etc. - snowboarder and windsurfer

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