Open minded carvers

[fivat]

Some magazines (like dutch: Snowboarder magazine) and other snowboarders always have to nag about hardbooters and carvers. I read somewere on a site they even call viewers on this site G.A.Y.

must be teens talk.. we got nothing to do with teens sp we don't really care... I love to carve down just in front of them on a hard snow and see how they do their turns...

Age is an explanation. But alpine snowboarding is too much associated to race/slalom/ski... what doesn't seem cool to most people and is far from the "snowboard spirit" (freedom?).
But I can tell you (modestly! ) that Jacques and I have met more than one teen who were amazed by our extreme carving. Seeing it with one's own eyes is very different from looking at a photo... I remember a freestyler looking at us and saying: "That's snowboarding!"
Well, I prefer to say "That's also snowboarding!".

-Patrice

[McFussel]

Hey guy´s...not gay´s Forget about those softboot riding idiots!!!

As far as I can say, there are "some" of them that can ride extremelly good - but thats just a few.
My Experience is, that theese people respect hardboot riders as much as I respect their great jumps: RESPECT! But the rest of them is is just crap and they don´t know what they are talking about!!

So respect all the good riders and show the rest what it means to rock a board really hard

I hope snow is comming soon - the glaciers look really bad!!!

Hang loose
McFussel

[binaural]

Well, I was in Grossarl, Austria the whole last winter and I must say that I gues 90 percent of the locals rode alpine.
And they rode it HARD!
The pupils were all riding softboots but I had some that switched to alpine because they were highly impressed by their teachers´ riding...

I can foresee an alpine/carving comeback in the next few years. Though I hope not. I kinda like the underground flavor to extreme carving and having crashed with another highspeed carver once, I can tell you that that REALLY hurts...

Jasper