 subflux
subflux
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Hi,
I keep seeing a Burton M series 6 Asymmetric board for sale, and I'm gagging to buy a decent second hand board and bindings - so a quick google about this board led be to believe that the board is stance specific - i.e. the one on the post below is for goofy stanced riders, as one of it's edges is longer than the other.
http://www.bomberonline.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=23540
Now - I have only been on a snowboard 3 times in my life, and don't Ski, but my thoughts were that if you are carving down a slope then _both_ edges would get used - one when going left to right and one when going right to left (looking down the slope) - so why should the board be stance specific? Presumably you can put the bindings on the board either way round?
Thanks!
Kenny
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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subflux, I have an asymetric board, and it is definitely stance-specific. Because the feet are not parallel to the edges, applying pressure to the toe-side applies to a diffent point than the heel side - so the asymetric board takes this into account. Effectively the side-cut shape is moved towards the nose on the front-side compared with the back-side
Hope that makes sense
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Hi Kenny,
I'm going to stick my neck out a bit here and tell you not to buy that board. It must be coming on for 20 years old. (The PJ stands for Peter / Jean - Peter Bauer and Jean Nerva were two of the original Burton pro-snowboarders, back in the day when slalom snowboarding was as big as freestyle).
If you've only ridden a snowboard 3 times, then this probably isn't the right kind of board either. The PJ series was a hard carving/race specific board - you'll see fewer than 1% of snowboarders on the mountain using this kind of setup these days (in fact, you'll be lucky to see any at all!). While I've got no objection to hard-boot snowboarding - I've dabbled in it myself - you can carve very, very well indeed on a good soft-boot setup and have much more versatility for other kinds of riding - off-piste/powder as much as park/tricks.
If you're a newbie looking for your first setup (on the basis of only having ridden a few times) then definitely don't get this board, go for a "normal" soft-boot setup. If you want to aim your riding at more of a hardpack/carving style, then just get board/boot/bindings which are towards the stiffer end of the spectrum. For learning on, you want a soft-medium flex setup.
Sorry if I'm teaching you to suck eggs here!
Cheers,
Stevo
PS. The asymetric boards were definitely stance specific. They were highly directional (i.e. you couldn't ride them backwards) so turning the bindings round would reverse the asymettry and cause all kinds of weirdness. They have largely been dismissed as a flawed experiment, with improvements in riding technique negating the need for the different geometry, although there do seem to be one or two of them making a come-back.
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stevomcd has it on the nose. Bizarre board to want for someone with 3 days experience unless you're some kind of Austrian eurocarver fetishist.
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