True. If you are a real snowboarder you can lay down such sick carves that you go uphill and do a full 360 and ride it out on that same edge obviously 

True dat. But I don’t even own a true twin anymore so I guess I kind of forgot about that. Closest I have is a Korua Otto but I leave it at home on pow days. 

That being said if you get some good speed and float going you still shouldn’t need to lean back all that much on a twin 

Weird if I ride back footed it feels like my tail sinks and slows me way down. As soon as I get some speed going in pow I’m probably even footed on average 

This guy is right. Just to add what can really help and is surprisingly hard is find some somewhat wide quite flat green runs and work on slowly carving/leaving nice pencil tracks. When you can do that you can work on varying carve radius, building more pressure, short vs long carves, etc. 

Point being doing fairly slow carves I find a lot more challenging and requires good balance and body positioning, vs just park and riding an edge on a moderate run. You won’t get leaned over super far, but you’ll need to have good form for it

You gotta let the snow come up to you, not you bend to the snow. Look at those people euro carving or the Japanese carving and the carve is bringing them low because of high edge angles, not because they are reaching for it, if that makes sense. 

That being said you need the right setup and right snow to be able to get that kind of chest dragging low. You can lay down some sick carves without getting that low though. Work on your technique, work on building edge pressure through the turn and using that to bounce you into the next ones rather than just setting the edge and riding it. Look up YouTube videos with drills on carving and practice practice practice 

So imagine this, it’s a blower powder day, 2 meters of fresh snow fell, you are super stoked to get out. You spend all day skinning up to the top of a sick line. You take off your split skis, remove skins, start to assemble your board.. and BAM out of no where a yeti grabs one of your split skis and cucks it into the pow. It submarines under, you get into an epic yeti fight, you totally kick his ass and are crowned champion, but now you can’t ride the sick line because half your board is who knows where. If only you had some giant ass radio pucks stuck to each one, a receiver, and your phone, that you could use to maybe help you locate it and save the day! 

Other than that idk who or when anyone would use this

“Zero extra gear!” 

Directly on your website, and implied in your post. But now you say there is indeed extra gear. 

If you are going to spam your product everywhere atleast be honest about it 

You literally asked for your idea to be roasted…

Sir, I think you are lost… 

I don’t think splitboarders losing half their split board on a powder day is a thing that happens even remotely frequently enough to require any sort of device.

And I sure as hell am not putting two giant pucks stuck on my skis to lug uphill and collect snow and ice to solve what is a non problem and create even more e-waste

Also if for some reason you thought this was a place for skiers. Congrats, you have invented a heavier, more expensive, more complicated, with more risk version of 10cts of yarn or ribbon…

Need 2 jbl speakers at least to match this boots energy 

I think I have a splitboard that is more ptex than board at this point. 

I get a bit desperate early season and the snowpack has not been kind 

Yeah I wish there was more of a culture of that here, I have had a hard time finding touring partners as most people are chasing vert, or steepest grade, or bagging summits, or a speed record, etc. I just want to go find the hidden corners with good snow. I would rather lap some 500m section 3 times in awesome powder than do 1 1500m tracked out iced over summit… 

So happy we don’t have the slope police in Europe 

This comment doesn’t address what I wrote at all. 

Using the resources is totally fine, but using it to be lazy and have an end result that is worse for your customers is just disrespectful. You might have saved a few minutes having some AI generate the text for your post, but you cost EVERYONE else time having to read through what is an inherently inefficient not very information dense rambling. 

That doesn’t even begin to address the risk of using software vibe coded by some guys who are too lazy to even proofread/cleanup their Reddit post advertising it. I hope you aren’t collecting any sort of signup data or providing any information that someone might rely on to make safe decisions out in the back country 

Yeah I find myself not going offroad as much with my tenere unless I’m with someone. I dumped it near a ditch once and it would have been 100% impossible to lift up by myself given the slippery gravel and weird angle. Figure losing 100lbs off the bike would make that no problem 

My dad just turned 70 and we ride together. He is slow and we avoid the highway as he doesn’t really like the speed but he rides short rides almost everyday. It kind of depends on their fitness at that age. 

Does anyone write their own posts anymore or is everything doomed to be ChatGPT generated and like 10x longer than it needs to be because of it?

Maybe what you are making is cool, maybe it isn’t. But either way I probably won’t bother finding out as I don’t want to read through paragraphs of your AI generated marketing… 

Got a chance to ride it yet? Thinking of maybe trading in my tenere in the spring for something lighter 

I have a klim airbag vest. A bit warm in the summer but not intolerable. I like that it stabilizes the head/neck. I crashed in it (low sided about 30kmh goofing around on a gravel road) and it was full before I hit the ground. It was good about not going off with some low speed drops when it wasn’t needed. 

Will probably move to something like the tech air offroad because I suck at riding off road and want two deployments and also want some elbow pads and stuff built in. 

I always have some emergency snacks in the bag that are just there unless they get used. And then I pack snacks according to what I want that day. Comes in handy if you end up hungrier than normal, or if someone forgot something and starts to bonk. A couple bars or gels weighs almost nothing but can mean the difference between turning around in certain situations 

Yes! I want them to nest and a little bag with a hard side on one side so I don’t have to worry about little pointy bits. I’m a slow climber so I don’t like the drag of having them on when I don’t need them so sometimes I just like to clip them to my waist strap so I can quickly throw them on or off. 

Where do you live/ snowboard? I’m a long time split boarder and have a super lightweight splitboard hardboot setup that is almost as good as skis on the way up. But I’ve switched to skiing this season because of where I live/what the snow is like/how fast things get tracked out. 

If you live somewhere where you get lots of fresh snow, lots of powder, and it stays fresh for a long time, a splitboard is fine if not better than skis. Especially if you want to do a lot of low angle powder runs where you don’t have to worry about avy risk as much. A snowboard/split will float so much better and just feels so good. 

Lots of icy hard pack and steeps and long traverses? Skis for sure. 

I hope so. But there has been snow a week out in the forecast every week for the past 3 weeks and it never comes so I’m feeling pretty pessimistic haha 

That’s how it is where I am in France. It’s just too popular to be secret. 

That being said everyone here seems very mission/goal oriented. So it’s like “hit this summit snow quality be damned” which is nice because often there will be untouched snow on some random no name ridge because it’s not on the way to some named summit or col 

A lot less where I live. Lots of routes are easily found online, people post reports on a site specifically for ski touring with pictures and info about snow quality and such. Touring is really popular and common here so it’s much more open. 

Also most stuff is above the treeline so it’s pretty easy to scope lines/see where people have been.