My none equipment related contribution.
http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=440200
I pretty much ride whatever is knocking around or i can borrow from friends. Like to keep my own binding and boot setup the same each time as I find that helps. Normally ride switzerland and sometimes austria. More into hiking, backcountry, and powder than piste and park riding.
teggers,
went to buy some wax and the guy in the shop reccomended a liquid treatment, with added teflon. you add a few drops to a sponge applicator and apply to the board, then buff it up. it coats on top of the wax thats there already. you have to apply it every 2 days or so.
have you heard of anything like this and is it any good mate.
cheers neil.
Originally Posted by eloise
Yeah, I use that stuff !!! ..... its great, makes the board as slippery as feck, dont really notice it on normal runs / off pieste stuff etc, but hit a flat spot on a run or gliding away from the top of the lift and you dont loose any speed ... its the difference between unclipping and walking or gliding past a few walkers
As you say though, it only lasts 2 days max
It doesnt protect the board in anyway ... it just makes it more slippery on the snow
cheers dude. its no substitute for a proper wax job, but sort of compliments it. im gonna give it a try anyways and see how i get on.
Not tried the liquid stuff but I have used rub-on. It was shite. From what you and Johnny say, the liquid stuff could be worth a shot. Have used back to black spray before too
TBH, for my weeks holiday in March I'll do a decent wax-job before we go (so I don't have to take all my stuff with me) and that should last a weeks hard boarding. Always did before when we lived thereUsed to wax once a fortnight...
Trying to find some Swix Cera Nova CF4 at the mo. Nowhere in the UK seems to have itTried the Data wax but it didn't last anywhere near as long as Swix.
they call it zardoz, not wax, base lubricant. thought i would give it a try next week.
Thats the stuff .... I have their sticker on my helmet !!!
As I said, dont expect to notice it doing anything on the steep stuff, it may or may not do anything, but at that sort of speed I cant tell.
Where it works great is flat areas where you are trying not to shed any speed, or in the park where you are trying to pick up speed getting to a jump and you started to close, or had to put a move in to avoid other people !
I think its great anyway
Hmm. Might get some for our trip to supplement the damn good waxing its going to get before we go. Although flat bits aren't usually much of an issue... We tend to cut the corners off on the pisted runs and just go straight through the trees
I discovered the stuff after a particulary bad waxing.Hmm. Might get some for our trip to supplement the damn good waxing its going to get before we go. Although flat bits aren't usually much of an issue... We tend to cut the corners off on the pisted runs and just go straight through the trees
Got me and the GFs boards serviced in a resort shop .. next day the fcukers just refused to slide. ... on a gentle slope you could stand on the board pointing down the fall line and the fcuker just sat there.
It was great for doing icy blacks tht day as it was like boarding on carpet. Anyway, I told a guy in a shop about it in the neighbouring resort at lunch, he said try this (not wax) so I did, and by jove the boards slid again.
I can only assume that the original guy that did the service didnt scrape enough wax off ???????
The boards got better over the week as the icy conditions just shredded the bottom of the boards ...... but to this day I dont get of a chairlift at a slow pace anymore ... the second the board hits snow its sliding, with or without me
Some resort shops are better than others. I first had mine done by a guy that my other half knew was good. He was kind enough to talk me through the process so I could do it myself.
Sounds like your guy may have take too much wax off! I was really lazy one time and melted the wax on, smoothed it out and then left it. I've never been so fast on my board!!! For a couple of runs anyway till the snow froze the wax and then icy bits stripped it off... Thinking about it, this may also be what happened to you - too much/too little one needs to get the balance right!
I love getting off chairlifts - pretend to be a beginner, wobble around flailing your arms and watch everyone panic and try to get out of your way
its also a great time to legitimately take out skiers, who decide to stop and chat 5m infront of a chair lift.I love getting off chairlifts - pretend to be a beginner, wobble around flailing your arms and watch everyone panic and try to get out of your way... nothing more fun than playing tenpin bowling with you as the ball and them the pins.
Legitimately? I just do it anyway
Although, I can't actually remember seeing a skier use the sticks for anything other than leaning on whilst chattering away in the middle of the pistes blocking it for everyone else... Or stabbing down on my board in the lift queueHe was hunted down and run over for that little incident. Then, as I got up, 'accidentally' stuffing a handful of snow down his back. All because he seemed to have this thing against snowboarders and I saw him deliberately stabbing his prick-sticks on other boarders boards wrecking the finish on theirs too.
edit: Actually - some are nice and use the sticks to give me a bit of a tow on a flat bit where I was running out of forwards.
I think one tried with this me: Dainese body armour 1 snowboarders face 0its also a great time to legitimately take out skiers, who decide to stop and chat 5m infront of a chair lift.
I do need to try snowboarding at some point though.
Bollocks that ever happened ...... I dont care what you claim, I have never ever seen a skiier think
No, the thinking happened after the dull thump against my back and seeing a snowboarder slide past in a heap. Almost makes me wish I'd tested it on the road.Bollocks that ever happened ...... I dont care what you claim, I have never ever seen a skiier think
Ah, maybe you are telling the truth then, the dull thump will have been your skiers brain engaging.
I am suprised though that you came up with the thought that the snowboarder hit you .... normally after the dull thump of brain activity skiers come to the conclusion that they need a new one piece suit or a babysham at the bar
gutted i can't go boarding this year due to lack of funds i've missed out 2 years in a row nowi've been boarding on and off for a few years now, i'm not into falling off jumps so i stick to cruising and try to get off piste when the snows good, been to serre chavalier, les 2 alpes, three valleys, chamonix, val d'isere and tignes, and any field with some snow in back home... off up to yad moss near penrith this weekend for a go on the tow, snow looks go on the web cam hope theres still some left by the time we get there
some pics from our last trip to val/tignes, snow was crap almost all the off piste was wind blown slab
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skier is just another term for brake tho, is it not. arrogant, selfish people. most dont even appear to have fun and just wanna be part of the in crowd.
anyways, enough of that. im just psyching myself up as i packed my board bag last night and cant wait to go now
Bex is refusing to let me go unless I get body armour this year. She says I'm too mad! So what? A mere few broken bones is nothing!!!I think one tried with this me: Dainese body armour 1 snowboarders face 0.
Do it... DO IT!! Come to the dark side! You'll never go back
When I learned to ski there were no snowboards at all (skiing in Ontario in the late 80s).skier is just another term for brake tho, is it not. arrogant, selfish people. most dont even appear to have fun and just wanna be part of the in crowd.
anyways, enough of that. im just psyching myself up as i packed my board bag last night and cant wait to go now
I've spent a few weeks in Europe skiing recently and most of the snowboarders I came across seemed to spend their time dragging snow down the slopes as they nervously side-slipped (?) down slopes that were too difficult for them. The few that were capable of going down the slopes looked liked they were having fun though.
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