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Bought my first board, a little help please
I've been skiing for about 15 years and first tried snowboarding back in
1999. I loved it for the week of vacation in 99 so again in 2000 I boarded the entire week at Tahoe. Its been since 2000 but I'm going again in a few weeks and just bought my own board. I just have a question about the stance/bindings. Mine is setup with my front foot pointed slightly toward the front of the board. The binding indicates about 4 degrees forward. My rear binding is set exactly perpendicular to the board. When I used rented boards I never really noticed the exact binding placement. What would the typical setup be as far as what direction the binding point from perpendicular to the board. I had assumed both would be a couple of degrees out from 0 like a natural stance. If it matters, I have strap bindings. Any advice where to start would be appreciated, thanks. John |
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Bought my first board, a little help please
Well I just stumbled onto a nice link that has some great information
regarding my question. I would still appreciate any helpful comments if anyone feels so inclined. http://www.cs.uu.nl/~daan/snow/stance.html John "John" wrote in message ... I've been skiing for about 15 years and first tried snowboarding back in 1999. I loved it for the week of vacation in 99 so again in 2000 I boarded the entire week at Tahoe. Its been since 2000 but I'm going again in a few weeks and just bought my own board. I just have a question about the stance/bindings. Mine is setup with my front foot pointed slightly toward the front of the board. The binding indicates about 4 degrees forward. My rear binding is set exactly perpendicular to the board. When I used rented boards I never really noticed the exact binding placement. What would the typical setup be as far as what direction the binding point from perpendicular to the board. I had assumed both would be a couple of degrees out from 0 like a natural stance. If it matters, I have strap bindings. Any advice where to start would be appreciated, thanks. John |
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Bought my first board, a little help please
"John" wrote:
What would the typical setup be as far as what direction the binding point from perpendicular to the board. I had assumed both would be a couple of degrees out from 0 like a natural stance. If it matters, I have strap bindings. Any advice where to start would be appreciated, thanks. John Well, i would recommend you 30° in front and 15° in back. With that it is easy to learn, and we always set bindings like that in courses. HanSolo |
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Bought my first board, a little help please
30/15 for Beginners - Agreed
"Han Solo (D)" schrieb im Newsbeitrag .8... "John" wrote: What would the typical setup be as far as what direction the binding point from perpendicular to the board. I had assumed both would be a couple of degrees out from 0 like a natural stance. If it matters, I have strap bindings. Any advice where to start would be appreciated, thanks. John Well, i would recommend you 30° in front and 15° in back. With that it is easy to learn, and we always set bindings like that in courses. HanSolo |
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Bought my first board, a little help please
This is a little extreme
Well, i would recommend you 30° in front and 15° in back. With that it is easy to learn, and we always set bindings like that in courses. I would go with 15 in the front and 0 in the back. The above is more of a hardboot set up. checkout http://www.hammersnowboards.com then go to Tips then click on Binding Mounting - read all of them! Watch the videos to! |
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Bought my first board, a little help please
i've definitely noticed a difference between the euro-centric stance
suggestions and the american more freestyle stance thinking. thats not a cut, just an observation. 30/15 is a good setup for speed and cruising, but i think its too aggressive for learning, when you're going to be doing the falling leaf, which by its very definition means you're going to be riding switch half the time.. riding switch (fakie) on a 30/15 setup is difficult. period. here in utah, all the shops use a 15/0 setup as the defacto stance, and thats how i've always setup my friends when they're learning. now that doesn't mean that they don't adjust that over time, but as a rule i think 15/0 to start is good. Snowboardripper wrote: This is a little extreme Well, i would recommend you 30° in front and 15° in back. With that it is easy to learn, and we always set bindings like that in courses. I would go with 15 in the front and 0 in the back. The above is more of a hardboot set up. checkout http://www.hammersnowboards.com then go to Tips then click on Binding Mounting - read all of them! Watch the videos to! |
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Bought my first board, a little help please
Typical is about 21 front, 6 back, for free riding. However, it all
depends on what you like and what kind of riding you do. |
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Bought my first board, a little help please
riding switch
(fakie) on a 30/15 setup is difficult. period. you can ride switch with a race board and 65/55, that's not much more difficult than 15/0. it's just a matter of the right technic. and 30/15 is definitly NOT aggressive...and it's well enough to do all of the tricks :-) Martin |
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Bought my first board, a little help please
Thanks for everyone's input. Right now I'm set at 18/3. I think I'll
give that a try and keep my tools handy for adjustments. John "John" wrote in message ... I've been skiing for about 15 years and first tried snowboarding back in 1999. I loved it for the week of vacation in 99 so again in 2000 I boarded the entire week at Tahoe. Its been since 2000 but I'm going again in a few weeks and just bought my own board. I just have a question about the stance/bindings. Mine is setup with my front foot pointed slightly toward the front of the board. The binding indicates about 4 degrees forward. My rear binding is set exactly perpendicular to the board. When I used rented boards I never really noticed the exact binding placement. What would the typical setup be as far as what direction the binding point from perpendicular to the board. I had assumed both would be a couple of degrees out from 0 like a natural stance. If it matters, I have strap bindings. Any advice where to start would be appreciated, thanks. John |
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Bought my first board, a little help please
Thanks for everyone's input. Right now I'm set at 18/3. I think I'll
give that a try and keep my tools handy for adjustments. I think that's a great place to start, and bringing the tools along is a good idea for several reasons. I recommend you give yourself a at least a few runs to try and get used to any stance changes you might make, unless something is so uncomfortable that you are sure it's wrong. Keep in mind you can change not only the angles, but the stance width as well... if you change angles and it doesn't improve your experience, you can always narrow or widen the stance too. Mike T |
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