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hey sorry took long to answer cos did not get an email saying i had answers Yes i'm making those boards, now in Germany with a German producer called Virus Snowboards. We are selling them online, or through selected shops worldwide we're introducing a simplified version called the 2D. We have only one japanese Swoard rider for now! But look forward to increase fleet there Glad you like the movie, and the style, we try to promote alpine snowboarding, since it is a way to have fun that is not that hard! Nils

Hi everyone, Long time haven't been checking this forum, but i'm pleased to announce our new video from the past season.... For those who wonder what carving is, how low you can carve on the snow? and what minimalist style can look like here it is 15 mb clip here! we hope you'll all like this Carving is easy, it just needs good technique and a good alpine board Merry xmas Nils www.swoard.com

Goods as board??? The retail price of the Swoard is 790 euros ( around 100.000. Assuming shipping is around 100 euros for japan, total cost would be in the 110.000 range for a Japanese customer (no idea what the japanese VAT is but you're likely to pay it in 80% of the cases (its charged by the shipping company usually). The price can be compared to what a custom board would cost in Japan for example.. More details on the board on the site > the topic was not about 'showing off' our board! (its the best carving board ever but shhhhhh). Nils

Learning curve If you are already an alpine rider with a average to good level: i'd say around 10 days, more if you don't have the right board which I assume most people don't have (got the list of those who have it ) If you never did alpine and are not use to carve, might take a bit longer but its good to understand that the EC technique is NOT a hard thing to learn or practice, it doesn't requires mach speeds or crazyness.. All you need is stamina, commitment to lay down and timing... To explain our site in two sentence: - Learn the rotation turns and use it - Lay down early a

spook, you might want to wait a bit until the first issue of snowboarder journal is issued in January. Of course its better to subscribe now if you want to really have the number one in your hand, otherwise its going to be good luck ( only the subscribers at the surfer's journal have the first year issue if i recall ( i got'em all all info here: http://www.snowboardjournal.com Addfree mag, soul minded publication supported by the readers... nils

Barok: I'm not sayingthat FS is wrong, am saying that 16 yold marketing targets should not be representatives of a sport /passion that has so many different ways of expressing itself. What i'm saying also by including ski companies in the story is that they have brought marketing as a science within their approach to the sport: marketers have seen that its cool to bet on the "attitude thing" aka youth and rebel attitude which after all is just about wearing brands, bying goggles that cost twice as the regular goggle and "look cool" thing. And no, i don't believe anymore that the new breed

hehe badmigraine you found the great PIF Pif, for those who might not know him ( he is famous in the cham valley) is a low profile madman, unsponsorred living the crazy spirit. He was the best friend of late marco siffredi and they are more vids on the site that show them riding together! What pif does on a Monoski (i think a Duret 183) many pro snowboarders wouldn't even think of doing at those speeds.. I just bought that DVD (popopow its called) and was mouth open for 30 minutes!!! I'm gonna meet him this winter hehe maybe ride (slowly) with him ! As for the www.tvmountain.com

Hi guys, Well hope this article doesn't turn into a boot discussion (kidding)! Thnx for your reactions! As for Dimitrije, He started making snowboards very similar to those Winterstick swallowtails that are still made today in 1972, almost 5 years before Jack Burton, Tom Sims made boards. Dimitrije's boards had edges even before he thought he wouldn't need them in Powder. He has sold his company in the 80's and after a long court trial lost the Winterstick name too. He now runs a successfull composite material company in Utah. He is a very nice guy actually, we've exchanged many emails wi

Hi all , Wondering how much do boards cost in Japan. Here in France average boards are around 400 euros, good boards around 500 and rip off aka burton T6 is close to 690 euros ( must cost less than 100 to produce)... What are prices like in Japan?? (please try converting to euros or USD am not familiar with Da yen Nils

Well definitely www.bomberonline.com fin is the official distributor for raichle deeluxe in north america, PLUS he makes the best alpine binding on the market so the choice is pretty simple to make Indeed raichles are the best boots one can find today.. so no hesitation. Btw i'd keep the Axis the way you showed it: clear top sheet is awsome.. We wanted to keep our Swoard clear like that but the resin sticks to the topsheet better when its painted so we had no real choice. As for the Gentem Swallowtail.. I think the board might suit a small mountain and a small rider, but it ca

Hey its a swellpanil magistral you have in your back there I'm the lucky owner of that one (185cm) and also of the big brother amok (196cm) which i consider the best ever powder board.. Funny cos I would not have thought possible to see kafi's jewels so far from La Grave ! For those who wonder what those boards are: http://www.swellpanik.com . For more general swallowtails question, i created long time ago the only website on them boards: its here http://www.swallowtails.org (sorry haven't had the time to update for long, but am rebuilding new php galleries for ease of use)

Hi guys, Thnx for the welcome donek axis> i've seen the board on donek's site and i can't wait to test it (we think of going to SES/bomberonline meeting in february). It seems the donek specs make it a great allround board. Its hard to say anything before testing it, but i'd say the main difference should be edgegrip. We make a special device in our board that forces the edge to grip and makes the edge arc regulary so both tips grip to their extremities. Its a real improvement to any other board construction which adds carbon ,kevlar or fiber in every direction whereas our system

Hey bout server stats here is a copy paste of what it looks like(small extract of the top ten referents for sept (btw if some of you speak corean i'm eager to see where those 393 visits from corea came from : help wanted!) # Hits Référent 1 393 0.16% http://cafe21.daum.net/_c21_/bbs_read 2 224 0.09% http://www.skipass.com/ubbvf/Forum6/HTML/001129.html 3 168 0.07% http://www.bomberonline.com/Forums/Thread.cfm 4 136 0.05% http://cafe14.daum.net/_c21_/bbs_read 5 68 0.03% http://snowboarding.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm 6 64 0.03% http://www.google.fr/searc

Hi fellow snow riders from Japan Its funny how looking at a server stats can take you to other website you would never have seen otherwise ! I have seen many connections on our website coming from this forum and just came to have a look I would like to give a few answers to the questions / suspicions etc that are posted above, since i am part of the EC story, and believe it is important to clarify a few things. First of all explain what is extremecarving, then the reason why we promote it, and finally to explain why it is fun. Extremecarving is a new way of riding