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What are the consequences of riding a wider board? Is it hard to turn?
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Hi!
Not at all. I'm 1,95m and my weight is 100kg. I ride a Nitro Atlas 164 and it's like flying. No signs of a hard turn. It's just a wonderful board. The main reason for riding those wideboards are my size 13 feet. Greets, Stelios |
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"jhb" wrote in message . net...
What are the consequences of riding a wider board? Is it hard to turn? No, it's not. You should choose a board wide enough to eliminate any overhang. Wiping out during a nice carved turn due to your boots touching the snow (and releasing the edge) takes the fun out quickly. Wider boards are somewhat slower though than more narrow ones. Hence the racing boards are so narrow. You can of course compensate this by proper base/edge maintenance and good technique. |
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Switters wrote:
A wide board itself isn't slower that a narrow one. In some cases they're faster. See: http://www.bomberonline.com/VBulleti...&threadid=1938 Look for Bruce Varsava's comments. Bruce makes Coiler boards, which is what Jasey-Jay rides for alpine. For BX he rides another manu, Bruce gives the reasons why. |
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Switters wrote in message . ..
Surely it's a consequence of the riders running hardboots and high stance angles, which narrows the lateral footprint. This requires a narrower board to ensure that the toe/heel are over the edge of the board, ensuring quick edge to edge transitions. I might be wrong on this, but I always thought the high angle stance was the result of narrow boards, and not vice-versa. If that's not the case then why are racing boards narrower from freecarve boards? |
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You've been looking at boards by their length. And then you find your feet
are too big. No way to change that. FACE IT: Big feet on a narrow board are a drag. Small feet on a wide board means you need herculean power to just get it on its edge. That's why our DIMENSIONAL CONCEPT works with different board widths. When you choose a HEAD board, you check the width FIRST - and THEN find your length. It really IS better that way. Head has a good width finder: http://www.ridehead.com/main?UID=tec...erview&lang=en |
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You've been looking at boards by their length. And then you find your feet are too big. No way to change that. FACE IT: Big feet on a narrow board are a drag. Small feet on a wide board means you need herculean power to just get it on its edge. That's why our DIMENSIONAL CONCEPT works with different board widths. When you choose a HEAD board, you check the width FIRST - and THEN find your length. It really IS better that way. Head has a good width finder: http://www.ridehead.com/main?UID=tec...erview&lang=en Just a word of caution before everyone goes and plugs in their stats and gets a "bad" result, panics, and goes out to buy new gear: That handy dandy little calculator greatly oversimplifies the issue. To sum up a discussion from last year that is now linked to from the FAQ (link at bottom of post), the calculator ignores the following: 1) As board width increases, edge-to-edge transitions get harder but the limit of how much inclination you can get without booting out decreases, and everyone's got a different happy medium. An aggressive rider with a solid carving technique needs more width than a casual rider who skids their turns, because they inclinate more. 2) Just because two boots have the same "inside" length (where your foot goes) doesn't mean they have the same "outside" length (which is where toe drag comes from). For example, when I compare a 2001/2002 Salomon Malamute versus a 2001/2002 Deeluxe Freak, both sized to fit me, the Freak was over an inch (2.54 cm) longer on the outside, meaning that it had the same footprint as a Salomon boot about two sizes bigger. 3) Some boots have ramped up toes and heels or rounded off corners on their heels which reduces footprint and some don't. Those that don't give you drag much sooner. 4) Some bindings have bulky heel cups that add un-needed drag So please, consider that before taking the results too literally! (Yes, I applaud Head for trying to focus on width first... We can put our heads together and be even smarter though!) -Mike T Link to previous discussion: http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&l...d4ab74&rnum=25 |
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I might be wrong on this, but I always thought the high angle stance
was the result of narrow boards, and not vice-versa. Actually, I believe it is vice-versa! Read the following - not explicitly about stance angles, but one can see how higher angles (higher than 45* that is) lend themselves to moving ones' center of gravity across the board as is described in this article. http://www.bomberonline.com//articles/asymetric.cfm (Switters - I bet you never thought you'd see this again when you pulled it from the FAQ :) ) If you want a more direct explanation, ask on Bomber. People who are more knowledgeable than me will have plenty of insightful things to say (including the author of the above article, Jack Michaud) If that's not the case then why are racing boards narrower from freecarve boards? The term "freecarve" is not used in a consistent manner. Some people use it to describe alpine boards that have a sidecut in between that of a Slalom board and that of a GS board. Some people use it to describe an all-mountain alpine board that is wider than a traditional alpine board, so that it can float through powder and power through crud better. Look at the specs for the "Freecarve" models on Donek and Coiler's sites... you'll see the same range of waist widths as the "Race" boards. The lines between Freecarve and Race can be quite blurry, I know people that use a Donek Freecarve for GS races and I and many others freecarve on "race" board. In both Donek and Coiler's case, the Freecarve label provides a great list of boards that a first-time alpine board buyer should look at though - a nice turny sidecut but not so big that it runs away with you. I'm so stoked that hard boots and alpine are getting some attention on this group! Gives me something to do while I heal my sprained ankle :-| BTW I'm planning a very informal carving event at Mount Hood May 13 - 16, open to anyone who wants to lay down some trenches, learn how to lay down trenches, or just watch! http://www.bomberonline.com/VBulleti...rveFes t+Hood Mike T |
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