J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by tino_11

Tony_H wrote:

tino_11 wrote:Looks like the future Mrs 11 isn't gonna make it down from Helsinki on Friday and my old friends from Glasgow look unlikely to make it from Glasgow either. So that means cancelling dinner reservations. Whilst doing this my fingers slipped and I accidentally typed in www.Zermatt.ch by accident and discovered that 90% of it's still open. With a big work committment cancelled due to those crazy Icelanders and their hot spa, I could concievably take Friday off and get 3 more days on the slopes. Hmmm?!?!

Anyone up for it?

I wish you hadnt asked.....no, I cant, I really cant. Can I?

Ask Obama!

If you can get to to Paris on Eurostar then it's a doddle.

Dave Mac wrote:

tino_11 wrote:

Anyway heres another snowboarding video for you Dave :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGM9-Rrt5ak

Thanks Tino, I managed 3 minutes, but I did like the couple of guys who appeared thro the tree branches. I did that a couple of times myself, I just didn't plan to! :wink:

3 mins? It's an improvement, good job!! I like the tree bit also and the general sync with the music. I am gutted it's spring already. Trying to persuade a colleague to sell me 280,000 BA air miles for €2500. This gets me 2 return business class flights to Santiago back, gives him a wedge of cash for his move to the states, and only costs me €450 more than 2 economy tickets.

Looks like the future Mrs 11 isn't gonna make it down from Helsinki on Friday and my old friends from Glasgow look unlikely to make it from Glasgow either. So that means cancelling dinner reservations. Whilst doing this my fingers slipped and I accidentally typed in www.Zermatt.ch by accident and discovered that 90% of it's still open. With a big work committment cancelled due to those crazy Icelanders and their hot spa, I could concievably take Friday off and get 3 more days on the slopes. Hmmm?!?!

Anyone up for it?

Dave Mac wrote:Sorry cannot watch a whole 7 min of snowboarding but he's a smart little fellah. If he is only 3 years old, he seems to be well muscled, and a keen balance.

Austrians teach their kids to ski from the age of 2, so I guess why not boarders?

I heard somewhere that snowboarding isn't routinely to kids of under 5, no idea why mind, guess it has something to do with the fact the legs are not independent and it's difficult to learn the wrong way round if you know what I mean (you need to know how to move before you can learn how to stop).

Anyway heres another snowboarding video for you Dave :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGM9-Rrt5ak

yeah, currently riding a 165cm and on powder days a wider 168cm, a full 20cm is a big jump, i'll keep my eyes peeled however )

Trencher wrote:Pre-cambered/decambered tip and tail is de rigueur for carving performance on snowboards these days (Ski manufacturers are only just figuring this out).
I have seen some good carving by guys on fully rockered boards, but I think the consensus is that for carving, you still need some regular camber under foot. From what I hear most of the manufacturers are moving towards all their boards having rocker, or decambered tips,and tails. Prior are a big name in carving/race boards, so expect good carving performance from their all mountain boards.

The board that everyone treats as the gold standard for boards that can rip powder, and groomers is the Rad Air Tanker. They made that with rocker only this season.
http://www.rad-air.com/09/en/tkr.php
I believe there is a waiting list

You are gonna get me into trouble, that is one sexy board, and I found one in Austria with 195 EURO off, last one in stock. Just been told off by my girlfriend for looking at boards too when I cant even get round to fixing the sink. Luckily its 187cm, which is too big. I want something about 170-173cm.

Trencher wrote:

rossyhead wrote:
i agree with the on piste comment-slalom skis obviously having the wider tail than a GS ski-my GS ones are practically straight! and skiing switch and jumping is better and easier with less sidecut

but in powder? i dont understand? why would more sidecut make it easier? you want the skis to work together in powder so surely you want a less violent turn and it be smoother with both feet?

Taper is how much narrower the tail is than the tip, regardless of the sidecut radius. A narrower tail sinks lower than a wider tip in powder. The Burton Fish snowboard was an extreme example of this. I don't know how a rockered profile has affected the need for taper.

Trencher, you messed around with rockered boards yet? I feel adulterous and have been eying up a Prior MFR Rockered Hybrid of late. They have the rockered section at the tip and tail whilst maintaining a traditional camber between. I still love speedy days on groomers, but find myself jumping more, off in the trees and generally messing about in powder 50% of the time. If I believe Priors own hype this sounds ideal, and my current Prior board is my darling. However never having used a rockered board I'm cautious. I also wonder about the width, I like a long board but not a wide board, I'm tall and trim with smaller feet, so don't need the width. Thought I'd ask you as it was you who put me onto them in the first place. Heard any noises?

Ta, tino

How on earth do you embed a youtube video :?: