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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 :-) hmmm, okay. but i politely disagree with you. i've ridden @ 25/10 or thereabouts for 3 years, and i'm pretty fast. especially on a short flexy freestyle oriented board (burton motion 156). i'm 5'10" 175pds. and everybody tells me that i'm too big for the 156, yada yada, but i ride it way more than my longboard. anyhow... my concentration for the last several years has been speed and steeps, both of which i now consider myself pretty capable at. this year i wanted to expand on my freestyle skills, ie jumping, rotations, grabs, etc. and so i have, but riding switch into jumps, and especially landing switch with both my feet that far forward was hindering me. i was having to scrub speed after the jump too soon, and it made a difference with combo-ing butters and presses into jumps or 180's or what-have-you. so i changed my stance. i'm now at 18/3 or thereabouts and its noticably helped especially when riding switch out of a jump. i don't have to make the immediate speed correction i used to, i can land, make some directionaly changes and then ollie back into regular. butters are waaaaaay easier, and i can pop from nose to tail a lot cleaner. i just feel more centered over the board and generally more symetrical. that make sense? my longboard, however, has stayed at 25/10 tho. might even turn it up a notch once it snows again here in utah take care, and good turns people... paul |
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Bought my first board, a little help please
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! 30/15 is to little for most hard boot riders. I've seen a lot of Euro's reccomend 30/15 as starting angles. No clue where that comes from, maybe it's reccomended by the swiss snowboard teaching institution. I like riding at 30/18, but I also never ride switch. Until someone knows what sort of riding they're going to do, I think starting with the back foot around 0-10 and front 15-20 makes more sense. |
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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 :-) hmmm, okay. but i politely disagree with you. -snip- Yeah, it doesn't make sense to make blanket statements about stances... it's a very personal thing. It not only depends on your riding style, but your equipment, your build, any injuries, etc. Switch riding comes much easier to some than to others. For me it's a matter of how much I practice, not which angles... 9/0 or 24/15, makes no difference - but if I don't practice, I am back to square one very quickly. I was *definitely* better at switch 3 years ago than I am now, because I don't practice it much these days. -Mike T |
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Bought my first board, a little help please
Usually the stance angles are personal preference. But, depending on the
width of the board and the sizes of your shoes, you may want to angle the bindings to minimize any overhang of the heel or toe so you dont leverage your board edge off the snow during deep carves. For park riding, where you need to go backwards and forwards equally well, people set the bindings up perpindicular to the board or slight splayed out in a duck stance. For general all mountain riding, angle them slightly forward. Once again, personal preference - try different settings and see what works best with you. "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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