all mountain board- stance angles

[ethanpt]

I am curious what sort of angles folks are using on their all mountain/axis board types when they are doing general all purpose riding ie crud, powder, choppy stuff. Also what are peoples thoughts on cants on these type of boards.

Thanks

[bobdea]

21 and 12 sometimes a little higher depends on board width

with plates I dont like my angles lower that 50

[Mike T]

I use a very similar stance on my Axis as I do on my true alpine boards. 5 degress less on each foot, same stance width, same can/lift.

[Neil Gendzwill]

45 front, 40 rear on a 21.5 cm waist (4X4)

[oldvolvosrule]

55 front, 50 rear, this is on a Prior 4X4 179

[NateW]

55/50,Coiler AM, 21cm waist

Also have a 23cm CustomCraft with 45/40 angles, but I like the higher angles and skinnier board better. YMMV

[skategoat]

54 front, 47 rear on a Prior 4x4 179

Gonna try shallower angles next year.

[Hugh]

55 front and 50 rear on my 4x4.

On all of my boards, I let the board width dicate the angles, so that the toe and heel of my boots align with both edges (with boots centered on the bindings).

I use a little bit of cant...maybe 0.5-1 degree

Toe lift in front - 2-3 degrees

Heel lift in rear - 2 degrees, hard to say for sure, gotta get my gear out of the closet and get it ready for the coming season.

----Hugh

[philw]

I use 50 parallel on fish these days. Kind of mellow compared to my piste settings, but you don't have the same dynamics and 50 seems like a good compromise to me.

I still ride with what was a once called new-race-method facing-forward stance, so I can see the trees on both sides.

I have ridden much wider boards (eg Supermodel, Canyon, the Solomon equivalents etc) with similar stance angles. The biggest problem was stance-width, as manufaturers increased the minimum width to meet the needs of phat kids' stances. Those can be bad with hard boots. Holding an edge on anything resembling hard-pack would be tricky with a wide-board and forward-stance. Not a problem for me as I'm not riding lift-serviced with these boards.

[ssj26]

52 front, 45 rear on a F2 4x4 158

[pcogan]

i ride 9/18 on all mountain boards

why?

at 9/18, my feet are forward enough to carve, but low angle enough to ride fakie -- actually, carve fakie.

fakie riding offers another huge learning curve, helps my regular riding, allows me to go air-to-fakie, and -- the main reason -- it's fun

on bombers, i ride 60/55

enjoy
pc

[joecarve]

Originally posted by NateW
55/50,Coiler AM, 21cm waist



Same deck, 28 Mondo Raichles, 58/53. I actually ride it with a little bit of underhang (55/50 is spot-on for me) simply because I like facing more forward. But I don't like putting sky under my board like Nate does... :D

joe...

[christoph]

55 front, 28 rear on a 23.5 cm waist PureBoarding #one.
Works perfect ... ;)

http://www.pureboarding.com/gallery/images/70/img/DSC00042.JPG

[Mike Tokar]

On Coiler AM177 21.5waist. Like the last guy said, I'd let the board dictate stance angles to get close to the edge without overhang. I'm more comfortable with both feet at the same angle. I think it's easier on the knees and hips.

Think SNOW!!!

MT

[ur13]

I don't have an "all mountain" axis like deck but I do have 3 alpine decks (donek 163, Madd BX 158 and a Madd 158 classic) and a all around deck (Donek Incline 164) with one set of binders (Bomber TD step-ins, the older model) and one set of boots (Head S-LTDs) and of all that stuff it covers 100% of my riding from groomers to trees and steeps.

Alpine i tend to ride 57*+ f/b sometimes a bit more depending on the waist width for for all mountain/trees/pow/steeps I'll ride 24-36* front and 12-24* back with my TD step-ins and Heads and that works just fine. If i want to hybrid my Incline for groomers in the AM and crud/trees/steeps in the PM without adjusting anything I'll run about 45*f/35-45*b (depending on how much of one thing or the other I am doing).

I use the same canting, 7* (or whatever the older TD max cant was) front and back (toe lift/front, heel lift back) with a stance width 21" for alpine and 20" for freeriding....

lots of number but hope it helps.