Powder board setup

You do however get more centripetal force when doing carving turns… not sure if this answers your question : just my 5c :. Hey bro, can you comment on the placement of bindings, with regards to the toe and heel edge. That is, the screws in my baseplates can be moved to move my bindings closer to either the toe or the heel edge. How do you know what you want? Hey, you want to stay centered over the middle of your stick, this is best for your balance. I would only move the bindings back if I would have toe overhang problem in which case that would again make me centered over the board.

I got a new board and new strap in bindings and boots and went on up the chairlift. Is there a better way to place my new bindings so I can actually turn my snowbard.

Please help. Your old binding placement should work, but there is no wrong or right angles, try experimenting a little. Bindings can give you different feel how your legs are attached to the board, but the snowboarding motion, snowboarding feeling stays the same. But another, new board can handle and ride quite different from your old stick. You can have different sidecut, different stiffness… that shows a lot when you first step on a new board. You just need to get used to it. Ive just been offered a good deal but its a W board but Im a size 9??

Only if you really need your board mostly for powder, then a wide board would be the way to go. Otherwise you will have problems turning your board from one edge to another. After a few hours on the slope my ankle is killing me, on the outside of the leg about 2 inches up from the ankle bone itself.

Has anyone else had a problem like this or does anyone have a suggestion for improving things? Thanks in advance. Id love to know if you ever find an answer! Steve: what are your stance angles? Try borrowing different board and bindings, maybe even shoes. If you can ride switch, try riding the whole day switch and see if the pain is still there and in the same ankle. If I want to make curving through pow easier, would you recommend making my rear stance positive and my front stance more aggressive?

Most of the time I use duckstance — even for powder because I am so used to it that anything else feels weird. But generally for all-mountain and freeriding you can use more aggressive stance with both angles positive. You can try it next time and see if it works for you. But my stance width is still only 17 inches. It feels fine on Dendex but will it be the same on snow?

Joe: 17 inches does sound a bit narrow. The best snowboard stance width is the width of your shoulders rotator cuff to rotator cuff, no muscles and the distance from the bottom of your heel to the top of your knee. Measure these two, and find your stance width somewhere in between. Was currently looking at the DC Judge. Can you toss out a few boots in particular that you would recommend me to research? Just a thought on this one. I had the exact same experience with a new board. Well, I bought a new Donek, took it to the top of the hill and could not turn it, plus I was catching my edges like crazy.

Turns out the edges had not been detuned beveled. Great article. Love the fact that you kept it simple. Hey guys, quick question.

So im freeriding with the purpose of also being able to hit the park so what would be a good level I have 2 now, 1 is perfectly vertical Any suggestions, any experience. RomeAgent I guess you are talking about highbacks?

Changing angle here will not incline your whole foot… if you have a bigger angle you can put more pressure on your backside turns. This is good for carving and freeriding. For freestyle..

You want your board to be a bit loose so it absorbs little mistakes you make while doing tricks. So what is the best angle for the combination of both :? Try different angles and choose the one you like. I ride all-mountain but have committed myself to spend more time in the park this season.

Is this approach incorrect? When regular, my back foot wants to push more than required on a healside turn. When sitting down to load for a big ollie, my body is not aligned properly and I end up spinning out of control when airborne. Any ideas whether I need to change the angle on my back foot forward or backward to get rid of this ackwardness?

I have no idea what it is either and ive been boarding for 14 years. I just got a burton custom x with C02 EST bindings and would really appreciate any advice on setting these two pieces of gear up with each other. Any help would be appreciated. Great details here. Lets hope I do better next time now. I agree, But in order to understand a bit more of windsurfing, you need to know that is like a surfboard but it is powered by the wind. The rig is connected to the board by a free rotating flexible joint or U joint, unlike a sailboat, a windsurfer is steered by the tilting and rotating of the mast and sail as well as tilting and carving the board.

Take note that while trying windsurfing the ideal planning conditions for most recreational sailors is knots, good luck! Brin secondhandwindsurfing. I have new boots and newer come across this pain before. My rock board has 4 X 2 holes in the front and 4 X 2 holes in the back. I began on this board and used the center holes. My question is with my new board. It has 6 X 2 holes front and back. Hopefully not confusing, thanks much. I wear a size Am I correct to assume I should adjust the stance angle so there is no overhang?

Unless your feet are literally impeding your ability to ride, you should be OK. You could widen the stance a tiny bit, or widen the angles a bit if it is a minor problem. At Any suggestions on angles weather it be something more of a forward stance or try switching to a duck stance?

Your stance is too wide. I don't put as much into my cuffs, and I am a wee bit more subtle with my inputs I know, hard to believe All bets are off then. Thanks all for the tips! I usually ride I feel like I am pedaling it hard LoL.

This year I am gonna try much lower angles and just the front toe lift and no rear heel lift. See where it goes. Hope to see you soon. I go both ways, pretty sure it was Woody Allen who said that going both ways doubles your chance for a date on Saturday night;.

I really have a lot of fun with both hard and soft boots in powder. I love the mobility of soft boots and the power of hard boots. Depending on the type of conditions, the terrain, etc. I have put a lot of time into figuring out what works for me personally in powder with regards to both hard and soft boots, so here is my 2 cents:.

When compared to my alpine set up, my hard boot powder stance set up is wider, flatter and uses cants on both feet. I've spent quite a bit of time doing a few Soft boot runs in a powder, then swithing up to a few powder runs in a Hard boot set up. I try to NOT look at the numbers when doing this as I can be a bit crazy with predetermined ideas about what my stance numbers should be. What I found is that the feeling of heel-toe and tip-tail balanced feeling of my soft boot set up in powder has 'influenced' over time my hard boot powder set up.

Hard Boots - 40ish Front bit under 4 degrees inward cant, 25ish Rear bit over 8 degrees inward cant, 23" wide. I have a 32" inseam. Northwave Point boots with aproximately 2cm of no spring; zero preload for 2cm. The first few degress of ankle bend on my hard and soft boots feels very similar.

An area that is not talked about a lot but could be interesting to hear the thoughts and ideas of others is do Hardboot powder riders use the same technique with your alpine and powder set ups pressure the nose, ride centered, static vs rotating upper body, etc, etc.

It would seem to me that this might change the feeling-movements you are trying to achieve and how a rider would adjust their set up accordingly. As you say, there lots of ways to do it. I agree that if you wish to use different styles, you would probably use different settings for each.

I'd started with the orthodoxy at the time, which was to use steeper angles for piste. I wondered if that was probably simply an effect of board width, so I decided to increase my powder angles, and reduce my piste angles until both were the same. I didn't notice much difference on piste or in powder, so I stuck with a simple "both the same".

That's perhaps a compromise, but it's one which I could easily overcome. As it happens I also use boards of the same length in powder and on piste.

I have some POV videos of powder and a few of piste I must be adjusting, but my action looks essentially the same.

Do other people ride with different styles? If you ride both hard and soft set ups, how does your upper body differ between the two? It's been a while since I rode soft, and I'm not equally competent, but the driving force is very different in soft, is it not?

For no boarding a hard boot stance would not work as you couldn't pressure the edge and stability would be a circus trick. I can't ride soft boots with alpine angles at all. Thank you for your very thoughtful reply, this is the type of conversation I hoped might get going and I appreciate hearing your thoughts! I don't have the answers to these questions, only highly biased opinions.

I am hopeful that the army of talented and experienced riders from this site will take the time to weigh in their thoughts. For me personally I think we are where we come from, back to the beginning as you mentioned. Does a rider live where they see a lot or little powder opportunity , are they more senior and started when boards were wide and Sorels were the norm, were you a life time skier, racer, surfer, skater before boarding, etc, etc.

I believe that this has more affect on what feels right in powder then any particular stance angle or board width; this influences a rider towards a particular technique and set up. This too may affect the advice that they will give new powder riders, which potentially could be positive or negative. For me personally I use the same technique with both hard and soft boots, piste or powder, regardless of the stance angles or board width. As I have aged I have tried soooo many stances and set ups that I now choose boards to match my preferred stance and set up.

I think your thoughts on no boarding stance and technique is really interesting as well and could lead to more questions and answers. Loved your video, what beautiful conditions and nice riding! That Burton DumpTruck looks like it would be a lot of fun as well. You are using the surf based rotation technique in the video you attached, check out the Plus and Minus pictures from the screen shots that I lifted from you video.

If I were you I would experiment with the back foot to see how this feels, particularly on the steeps when you have to make quick turns to miss a tree, etc. Nice first set up. I try not to give anyone I meet "on the hill" advice as I'm not an expert at their technique, although some defects are obvious. I reckon there's a range of gear I find acceptable, and I adapt pretty quickly to that, but then there's other gear which I "don't like" because I can't easily make it work without bigger changes.

I was thinking about the "is the technique the same or not" issue. I also asked a bunch of technically mined expert powder skiers competent snowboarders are harder to find over the last few days. I think that there are two approaches: some skiers use modified technique in powder they bounce , others don't.

I think I use the same technique, hence I don't change my set up. Turning too hard can create too much edge angle, which basically means your board digs into the snow and you end up under 30 cm of powder, instead of on top.

A common mistake made when riding in powder is to lean over your nose with your upper body to initiate a turn. This will dig your nose in and send you flying upside down. You want to always aim to keep your body weight centred or slightly back and to use your hips, knees and angles to do most of the turning. Deep powder is similar to surfing, you want to be riding on top of the snow and keeping your nose from digging in.

Speed is your friend.