Favorite part of the carve?

[CarvCanada]

What's you're favorite part of the carve? Specify why, and what you are doing that makes it awesome! What is that little thing that you love to do to tweak carves?

My favorite is the transition from a deep heelside to toeside. Just as I'm across the fall line, at the exact same time as I start to release my angulation, I tuck my rear knee down hard, which tightens up the radius and tips the board on edge even more, making for a lightning quick and violent cross-through as the board rips to the other side, and my body sets into position on toeside. On toeside transitions I've tried to learn to get the same effect by driving both knees down while releasing angulation, but it's not as quick and violent as on heelside. On toesides I prefer to just load the tail and catch some air.

I also love, on a deep toeside, to grab the outside edge with the outside hand just in front of the front binding, and with the inside hand, reach up and out to the sky! Looks awesome!

[dzz]

I dotn know exactly how to describe it...but I think my favorite turn is when two trails come together, the one you are on is coming in at a 90 and the other is steeper, start a toeside to kinda direct you up the other a little bit and then just before teh transition go into a hard heelside arcing across and mabey even up the face of the other slope....so the board is uphill and your butt downhill

next favorite is when you are just setting an edge and setteling into the heelside, commiting to a long stable arc in that one moment when you know its locked and everything is smooth

[Jim Callen]

I love jump into dive turns. I get the best ones when I'm coming off my heel edge onto my toe edge. Especially off of rollers. I was doing them all day today.

[Jon Dahl]

when you are across the fall line and going over a roller, the feeling of being totally facing downhill, committed to the carve, trusting the edge to do its thing is the #1 coolist feeling ever. I especially loved doing it at Buttermilk at SES last year!

[ar(angel]

when I come around on a toe side carve entering a cambered turn in the bottom of a swell going to the left (I'm goofy footed). This is when I feel like I'm on rails ripping through a turn. We have a turn like this on my home mountain at the bottom of a steep run. You hit the bottom at full speed then it rises slightly upward and goes over the top of the next transition down the rest of the slope. Make's my stomach tingle :D I'm still having trouble on my heelsides getting symmetrical carves so I hope to experince the same thing someday on my heelside when I get my problem figured out,

Paul

[Jack Michaud]

you know, where you carve up on a bank and you feel like your head is below your feet.

[CarvCanada]

ah yes! that would have to be up there as one of the coolest sensations!

[Tommy D]

Because I like the sensation of loading the board while deep in a carve to launch (transition) into the next. Toe or heel, it is one of the best sensations of carving.