Utah Windriders Association

I just had to post this here, as we have a lot of camber riders on Utah Pow. While kiters know the truth, poor H-man was only a down hiller and never saw the light of reverse camber technologies.

This video is intended for mature audiences who can handle foul language, Nazi Innuendos, and who do not like camber in their downhill boards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tut7p9rI ... r_embedded

Little did the banana crew know, but they were stepping into the future world of the ultimate snowkite board. Funny, they still don't know...

Funny stuff, I'm still laughing at that video.

Windzup,
Brian Schenck

http://www.TwistedKiteboards.com

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Thanks, Brian. This is f%@king funny!!!


Just so I understand this right. The rocker makes the effective contact area of the board and the snow surface smaller, right? How does a reverse camber improves the performance? Does it help only in tricks and jumps or in drag racing?

Leo,

For snowboard, Yea, the rocker makes the effective contact area of the board and the snow surface smaller. As for reverse camber improves the performance? Does it help only in tricks and jumps or in drag racing?

Here my experience with the different boards I played around with.

With a rocker and traditional side cut, less pressure on the tip/tail edges on the turns. Which is best for park riding and freeriding at the resort. It makes your jump take off and landing easier. It's ok for drag racing but not recommended for it.

With a camber and traditional side cut, more pressure on the tip/tail edges on the turns. Which is okay for park riding and freeriding. It best when you want to do some deep carving down the groom trails. You still feel your board catching your edges when riding it flat or taking off and landing from jump. it's good for drag racing when you have to go around gate or pole..

If you thinking of using it for snowkiting, then it's a different story.

Thanks, Jake. Yeah, I am more interested in the performance for snowkiting. Looks like I will stick with skis for drag racing.

I think I missed the question...
Now I'm confused on what does what? The only drag racing I know of requires men to wear dresses while crossing the finish line.

A Reverse Camber board combined with reverse side cut offers the rider a smaller effective edge. Thats why boards like the Twisted Velocity ride smaller (feels like a smaller board) despite its 164cm length. Due to that shape, you are riding on a shorter 'effective edge'

While reverse camber boards are being debated in the downhill world, I feel their dilemma is more a cultural debate... and indeed may be a mere marketing ploy to be 'different'. For the Snowkiting world, that design opens up the doors we have been looking at for nearly a decade. In essence, the posi side cut offers more comfortable and less fatiguing feel for the straight line riding that we do while kiting, yet it also allows the carvability that all board riders seek. Staright Edges were a great conversation over beers for day dreaming snowkiters back in the day, but we all realized their limitations for turning ability.

A Regular board with standard camber and normal side-cut (to a degree) has always worked fine for downhill and kiting, and offers the old skool feel... I suppose kiterboarders may call it the wake-style feel of loading the edge to pop...where as camber boards do the same thing but offer a different feel than traditional designs, without the tendency to continually want to carve when you want to go straight.

Within each design is a universe of shape and stiffness options...some work for a select few, and some work for the masses. Some are weird. We found with the Twisted Velocity that having less stiffness overall allowed the design to perform equally well in a wider variety of conditions...mainly it allowed the board to flex more and 'twist' to initiate a fun turn. Some stiffer versions like the 'powder only' T rice boards, are too stiff for most riders on the average off-piste snow conditions that most kiters ride in.

Damn, Now all I can think about is my new pink and yellow dress for the next Drag Race.

Windzup,
Brian Schenck

BTW - Now that I know how H-man feels about bananas, I'm glad I've gone Twisted!

windzup wrote:Damn, Now all I can think about is my new pink and yellow dress for the next Drag Race.

We should have a real Drag Racing in the next Snowkite Master!

Funny video. What creativity.

Duane Karren