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Haakon Riiser wrote:
As far as I could tell, the natural carving radius (if there is such a thing) was smaller on 21/6 than on 15/6, and this actually made carving more difficult for me. It was easier and more stable when the carving radius was large. The natural carving radius has to do with the sidecut and flex of the board, your stance angles don't affect it. Whatever you were feeling had more to do with your comfort with the stance than with the carving radius. I note that many people use the word "carving" to denote any sort of turn. Carving means that your tail edge follows the exact track of your nose edge, and you leave a thin track in the snow. Neil |
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Haakon Riiser wrote: Should you also adapt the stance angles for this? I'm currently using 21/9 on the front/back foot, but I haven't settled on anything yet. I started learning on 15/6 (the place I bought the board chose these angles for me), and then I tried 21/6. 21/9 is fine as is 15/6. It is a lot of personal preference. The more forward angles you get, the more your can quickly get your board on edge and carve into a turn - this is probably why the radius felt "tighter". (up to about 36/30, after that most regular snowboarding boots/bindings lack the proper lateral support to carve well). I've put a lot of time into reading about good stance angles, and while most agree that big positive angles are good for high speed carving, and small angles are good for freestyle, I've not found much information on how big the angle between the feet should be. All I've heard are some claims that it can be bad for your knees to have more than 15 or 20 degrees between the feet. A lot of professional snowboarders don't seem to care about that, however; I found listings that showed that several of them far exceed 20 degrees. Well once you go into higher angles (over 30) it start being very uncomfortable to have a wide splay (narrow 3-6 degree splay also makes it easier to have you hips lined up for quicker board movements). I would say stick with whatever is comfortable for you... I ride 21/9, 18/3, 15/-3 depending on the board (I spend nearly every day of my first 20+ day season fiddling with my angles and splay until I found something I liked). Wider splay is my easier to stay "neutral" on and also absorb the impact of jumps, but it also kind of locks your hips in a neutral position as well as on knee is going on way and the other knee is going the other. Btw, I've searched the web for animations or video clips showing proper snowboarding techniques, but I haven't found anything yet. Does anyone here know where I can find something like this? I haven't found any softboot videos that are great, but here's some good basic stuff to give you the idea (http://www.extremecarving.com/tech/tech.html). They are in hardboots, but they have relatively low angles (for hardbooters) and the motions they are doing in this intro are perfectly applicable to regular snowboarder and should give you an idea - especially the push-pull videos at the bottom. You can easily do that with any snowboard on a shallow slope. This is taken from their website ====== Basic position The chest is vertical (don't lean forward), the knees are flexed, the arms stay along the body and must never be opened, except during the lain turn (see forward). Whatever the board or feet position is, the chest is facing the same direction as the feet (so it is more pointed at the nose in hardboot, than in freestyle). Be aware of your gravity center in the region of your hips, because all your movements should start from here. .... Questions: 1. Why is it good to keep the arms along the body? Because in case of misbalance, the arms will oscillate and increase the loss of control. Try to recover your balance by replacing your board correctly instead in gesticulating. 2. Why is it important to keep the chest upright in all circumstances? Because if the chest is not over the center of gravity (the hips), The balance will be lost in case of shock caused by a bump on the piste. 3. Why is it necessary to keep the knees flexed? in order to absorb all shocks caused by bumps, like with a car suspension. ====== |
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