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toes sticking out over board edge
Hi,
I'm learning to board this season (alread can ski). A friend of mine loaned me a very nice board with bindings to learn on. However, this friend of mine is slightly smaller then me. I noticed that the toes of my boots stick out over the edge of the board an inch or so. Is this normal? Will this make it harder to use my toe edge for linking turns etc...? TIA. Cheers, Rick |
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toes sticking out over board edge
If the bindings have toe ramps that usually isn't a problem. If your toe is
touching the snow when you carve on your toe edge, it will become a problem. If you don't have that problem, you shouldn't have to worry about it. "Rick Spencer" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm learning to board this season (alread can ski). A friend of mine loaned me a very nice board with bindings to learn on. However, this friend of mine is slightly smaller then me. I noticed that the toes of my boots stick out over the edge of the board an inch or so. Is this normal? Will this make it harder to use my toe edge for linking turns etc...? TIA. Cheers, Rick --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.536 / Virus Database: 331 - Release Date: 11/3/2003 |
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toes sticking out over board edge
An inch is quite a bit of overhang. A normal amount is about half
that. The amount of overhang is also dependent on the binding angle. You only indicated concern about the toe side. What about the heel? Are the bindings centered across the board? |
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toes sticking out over board edge
There are several ways to get rid of overhang (or at least equalize it from
heel to toe). #1, make sure you have the right size bindings for your boot size. #2, make sure the heel cup of the binding is adjusted to the correct boot size (or so that your overhang is equal on both heel/toe) #3, increasing your binding angles will decrease overhang #4, get boots that are shorter, in my boot shopping i've noticed that size 10 boots can vary in physical dimensions (most importanly the length from heel to toe) by up to an inch. Find several comfortable boots in your size, and then line them up with the heel against the wall, buy the shortest ones. #5, buy some palmer powerlink risers that will move your binding 1 centimer up off the board and thereby getting your toes (or heels) further away from the snow, http://www.palmerusa.com, these will also speed up your edge to edge transfers #6, some bindings have mounting discs that allow you to slide the binding in small increments from tip to tail, or from toe edge to heel edge, depending on how you have the mounting disc oriented. Moedown! -Tom "Rick Spencer" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm learning to board this season (alread can ski). A friend of mine loaned me a very nice board with bindings to learn on. However, this friend of mine is slightly smaller then me. I noticed that the toes of my boots stick out over the edge of the board an inch or so. Is this normal? Will this make it harder to use my toe edge for linking turns etc...? TIA. Cheers, Rick --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.555 / Virus Database: 347 - Release Date: 12/23/2003 |
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