NE Critique Corner

[Hollywood 90210]

NE Critique Corner post your carving pics or videos and let the keyboard coaching begin. I will start with two of mine. Taken last year on a black diamond run with good snow quality (8 out of 10). I am riding a Madd 158-F3 with TD2 step ins. My angles are 65f, 56r with a 20.5 stance width. I am 6ft and about 205-210lbs.

[tex1230]

get your hand off the snow!

[polaris]

Glen: Good to ride with you yesterday.

Here are some shots:

Polaris: Heelside at Copper Feb 2007



John Deere at Copper Feb 2007:



Chippewa draggin his armpit:

[willywhit]

Polaris: Heelside at Copper Feb 2007
trim the beard....

[bschurman]

Something's just not right here.


But I do like the next one on the downhill edge.

[Jack Michaud]

Glenn - As far as I can tell from 2 pics..... heelside looks great. A lot of racers use your toeside technique, but I prefer a more "hips down" posture. If it's working for you, then great. It looks to me in both pictures that your hand is on the snow only as a feeler, not that you are reaching down for the snow, so no problem there. You must have small feet to pull off a 56 degree rear. 9 degrees is a ton of splay, have you ever tried closer to parallel?

Polaris - come on, one of BOL's top 5 asking for critique?

bs (from riding with you) - Heelside is textbook. Toeside, I'd like to see less shoulder dip on initiation. You usually save it and get the hips down as the turn comes around, but sometimes not. Keeping your eyes level should help with this. You tilt your head in to toeside. Much harder to balance like this.

[Hollywood 90210]

Jack, For the past few years I have been moving my back foot angle around and also adjusting my cant lift to try and find a spot that alows me to ride all day with as little rear knee discomfort as possible. My left knee has always given me a little pain. I agree with the hands on the snow. Sometimes I do it a little too much and it can cause me to drop my inside shoulder and spin out on harder snow days.
Polaris, I like the heelside shot. Way to reach for that up edge, good technique for keeping the shoulders in line.

[MR. JOHN DEERE !]

chappy,
great pics, your riding is great! i will make one recomendation though, grow a mf beard guy! i hope to see you on the grit one more time this year. dtmfh

[stevo]

many thanks to enzo for risking hip seizure by stopping to shoot pics.

I have been working on my toeside all year...looks like I got some more work to do:

1) right ankle way overflexed? maybe tighten the bts a few more turns

2) left arm could be reaching for the up edge to angulate the upper body more?

3) (strike three) dress code violation- face is smooth like a baby's ass

[Pow]

i used to have a picture last season that looked just like your toeside, stevo. I have no good pictures yet this season, but your shoulders are alligned with your board... youre standing on it sideways. I'm trying to fix this problem myself, it takes practice. Reach for the outside boot, or the outside edge like polaris is doing. It keeps your shoulders in line with the slope, not the board. Jack is the expert on this though, so if i messed anything up he might be correcting me soon

[Enzo]

stevo--i noticed the same overflexed rear ankle on my toesides as well. i backed off the lower nut on the bts a few turns and it seemed to help on sunday. i wasn't as sloppy and had better knee drive.

in the future we'll have to set up on the other side of the trail for some better heelside footage. also, hopefully next time we won't have stage fright and manage a complete run worthy of video footage.

heel & toe.
dth

[GeoffV]

Just stumbled on this, this is good stuff
Pics are from Bob Jenney, same day as Jacks were taken, conditions were below par. Riding a 158 F3, love the pop you can get out of a Madd











This is why we love Madds

[inkaholic]

psycho,
Was that your bum or were you wearing 2 sets of padded shots under your baud pants in the vid? And where was the sticka kit on that coiler? You're disappointing me.

Good riding brotha, you're still rippin' it up. Keep the feet moving forward on the toesides.

Why wasn't I called to meet up with you on that trip?

Ink

[inkaholic]

bs (from riding with you) - Heelside is textbook. Toeside, I'd like to see less shoulder dip on initiation. You usually save it and get the hips down as the turn comes around, but sometimes not. Keeping your eyes level should help with this. You tilt your head in to toeside. Much harder to balance like this.

From seeing the pic and reading the above quote from JM I suggest "early outside initiation" which basically means to over exaggerate the outside move of head, shoulders, and upper body toward the outside edge before initiating the toeside carve. JohnDeere may remember this one from his days of training in CO. He used to reach for the snow and ec race courses and now he rides like he is driving a stolen fod.

Ink

[MR. JOHN DEERE !]

yes that was my bum, looks good, eh! btw, the wif doesn't like when people call me pyscho anymore. she wants to put that time in our life behind us.

remember after that one run we took down super bee it was 10 below zero, you were like give me your gloves. nfw guy! what a gong show! i definatly will give you a call the next time out, remember i didn't have your email last year. tell kai, to drop the hip and keep his hands out of the snow!

big duke "pyscho" 6

psycho,
Was that your bum or were you wearing 2 sets of padded shots under your baud pants in the vid? And where was the sticka kit on that coiler? You're disappointing me.

Good riding brotha, you're still rippin' it up. Keep the feet moving forward on the toesides.

Why wasn't I called to meet up with you on that trip?

Ink

[willywhit]

get your hand off the snow!

Lotsa good pics in there
This IS the Jack Attack, even during a transition the guy has perfect form.
seriously, nice shot
http://2wheel.smugmug.com/gallery/42...61_e26c4-X2-LB
love this one, too
http://2wheel.smugmug.com/gallery/42...87_4ujeB-X2-LB

[GeoffV]

yeah WW there is critique all ova that pic. Conditions were tough that day, but of course there is no proof of that from Jack. Damn guy is a god on snow.....

It was one of those days were you had to push your edge into the snow and hope it holds all the way through the turn.

[Jack Michaud]

Lotsa good pics in there
This IS the Jack Attack, even during a transition the guy has perfect form.

Thanks man.

love this one, too
http://2wheel.smugmug.com/gallery/42...87_4ujeB-X2-LB

it's a good thing Geoff brought extra undies.

[GeoffV]

Thanks man.



it's a good thing Geoff brought extra undies.

Great the pic is out I am SO DEAD

[willywhit]

Great the pic is out I am SO DEAD

the "after" shot is even better....
http://2wheel.smugmug.com/gallery/42...48_jf8Mj-X2-LB
If you're not pushing it and crashing a bit, you're not riding hard enough
no guts, no glory smile for the camera

[justsliding]

second run with hard boots
i was mostly in control, a few turns i thought i was going over the tip
it's not the most extreme carving
bindings set to 56f/50r

[willywhit]

if that's only your 2nd run in HBs, you'll do just fine, lad.
Where were those shots taken ? VT ?

[justsliding]

the pics are storrs hill in lebanon nh
it's a very small hill but we're teaching our three and a half year old to ski, and $10 weekend days are great

[Enzo]

just got back from JH and I had a chance to fool around with some still shots from some video clips. here are few sequence shots from a heelside.
ya gotta love the Coiler AM in soft packed powder!!

dth

[MR. JOHN DEERE !]

petee,

nice turns brotha, ill be up there next year hopefully for the same week. im sure gretch will love that, lol

i still cant believe your even on a snowboard after the st. patricks day crash last year! imo, your riding better than ever, keep it up and keep pushing yourself. gutsy, i love that $hit !

stevo's in for stowe, i spoke to his boss today and let him know he wont be around at the end of the week for work. i told him that he had bigger and better things to do on thursday and friday, he was thrilled, it sounded like he was going to put stevo on waivers! no biggy, stevo knows that i have a f550 with a 75hp road saw in the back, waiting for him in my manch vegas yard with his name all ova it!

btw, when said fooling around you weren't having tent parties with a couple of cowboys up brokeback were you?


ill see you soon!


big duke 6

[inkaholic]

Deere,

You come out west next yeaa you betta let me know in advance so I can schedule time out of the work place! Jackson, CO, UT, we are talkin' bout goin' some wheres next yeaa and I would love to meet up whitcha and ride. I tried to get Reamus to join us in Monarch this past weekend but neva saw him. Check the vid, it was wicked pissa! Sunday had a bunch of new snow to test a Dupraz 6'. Fun board.

How's the offspring treatin' you, ya tired bro?

Ink

[MR. JOHN DEERE !]

inky,
the off spring is awsome, she looks just like me! and ill definatly let you know when i come back to visit shot gun willy's. i usually do a trip in early january at copper to run the super bee for 3 days straight. i almost went this year, but i cancelled last minute. an old buddy of mine drove out from beantown out to lodo, i was going to hitch a ride with him, but i had too much going on at work. but you can count me and reamus in for next year. polaris usually comes out also. the jackson hole trip is for the concrete cutting and drilling association, goons r us! but can those guys ski! there all over austria right now renting a mountain side chalet, i just spoke to papa duke 6 he lovin it. heading up to eces tommorow should be a good time hopefully the weather holds up!

take care bro! you look like your loving the sg. so what do you have for hand me downs?

big duke 6

Deere,

You come out west next yeaa you betta let me know in advance so I can schedule time out of the work place! Jackson, CO, UT, we are talkin' bout goin' some wheres next yeaa and I would love to meet up whitcha and ride. I tried to get Reamus to join us in Monarch this past weekend but neva saw him. Check the vid, it was wicked pissa! Sunday had a bunch of new snow to test a Dupraz 6'. Fun board.

How's the offspring treatin' you, ya tired bro?

Ink

[inkaholic]

inky,
the off spring is awsome, she looks just like me! big duke 6

Poor girl...I mean, she must be one good looking baby. Congrats bro!

take care bro! you look like your loving the sg. so what do you have for hand me downs?

big duke 6

SG good. It is a little tough in the AM getting used to the 18.5m scr but once I do it is all good.

I have nothing for hand me downs. The 159 rossi that Tony is on in the vid was mine, Concussed got my 158 Hot Blast, and Big Mario just kicked down his 179 Donek FCII to me since he picked up the Vampire Virus. The FCII is a fun board with the long effective edge and 11.2 scr. She'll swing around a pole in a heartbeat. I still have the last couple of BS boards that I was on when you were out, 184 and 178. The 178 is fun but the 184 is mega stiff. Rode it for 2 runs last year and decide it was now "art".

Have fun at ECES!

Aloha, Ink

[MR. JOHN DEERE !]

ink,
as you know ive got issue's but these are different than what you saw, these are board issues!
so im up at the eces and my fat-a$$ ends up braking a pair of td'2's, i end up getting dragged to the bottom by ski patrol. btw its a good thing that the sled had a jake brake too slow me down especially with my fat-a$$. so i get to the bottom, its gettin a little late, im tired and running out of gas so i wanted to demo a new board too kill some time. so bv pulls out this rhino hunter, its a 185nsrII with a 13/17m scr, i was almost positive i would hate it. but two turns down the hill, i was grinning ear to ear, my buddy had to pull me of the hill at the end of the day. it was f@ck1ng sick, bv ended up letting me bring it home too try her out on various conditions! especially on a typical ice coast day w/loose gran conditions! hopefully it really firm tonight so i can try it on the fast stuff tommorow.
so im drivin home from the eces ready too eat a bullet, for two reasons. the first is because i have to get my new board into my house and past the wif without her blowin a gasket! the second, is i love my 180pr custom, its awesome and theres nothin wrong with it and i love too ride her ! but this 185nsr performs so much better its almost like cheating, its a metal so its super grippy and twice as fast. it made me want to jump into a race coarse again. the only negative its a beast and i need some more room to bring her around on the toe sides. ill have to see how it handles in the meat gates tommorow! dont worry about me ill have my shoulder pads on so i dont have to use my mitts, and brake a nail !
big duke 6