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The carving technique articles from defunct Bomber Online, rewritten to be mobile friendly.

Some of the articles can be found at: Alpine Snowboarder: Tech Articles

Written in the 90's, during the peak of Alpine Snowboarding1 and it's subtypes:
Freecarving2 & Alpine Snowboard Racing.3

The techniques transfer fully to Softboot Snowboarding.4

Posted with the written permission of Jack Michaud.


By Jack Michaud
December 1996

By Cordon Baesel
Date Unknown

By Cordon Baesel
Date Unknown

By Jack Michaud
Date Unknown

By Jack Michaud
Date Unknown

By Jack Michaud
Date Unknown

By Jack Michaud
Date Unknown

By Jack Michaud
Date Unknown

By Jack Michaud, with contributions from Jim Callen
March 1997

By Dan Bogardus
Date Unknown

By Dan Bogardus
Date Unknown

By Sean MacCaron
Date Unknown

By Sean MacCaron
Date Unknown

By Jack Michaud
March 2002

By Doug Taylor
Date Unknown

By Doug Taylor
Date Unknown

By Jack Michaud
Date Unknown

By Thomas Palka
April 2007

By Jack Michaud and Iain Duncumb
Date Unknown

By Jack Michaud
~1999

By Jack Michaud
December 1996

Additional Articles

The following articles primarily concern Alpine Snowboarding equipment rather than carving technique.

By Jack Michaud
Date Unknown

By Jack Michaud
Date Unknown

By Jack Michaud
Date Unknown

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Authors

The articles were posted with the written permission of Jack Michaud.

There is clear attribution to the authors - as much as humanly possible, since these articles were written in the 90s - in the articles themselves and under each title in the index.

Footnotes

Footnotes

  1. Alpine Snowboarding is a specific type of snowboarding performed in hardshell ski-like boots & plate bindings.
    It focuses on high-performance technical carving. ↩

  2. Freecarving is a carving style that converts potential energy to g-force.
    Race Carving converts energy to high downhill speed.
    Both started as disciplines of Alpine Snowboarding. ↩

  3. Alpine Snowboard Racing refers to the Olympic events of Parallel Slalom(PSL) and Parallel Giant Slalom(PGS).
    Still only performed on Alpine Snowboard gear & techniques. ↩

  4. Softboot Snowboarding, also known as just Snowboarding.
    It's the usual snowboarding everyone knows, using soft boots and strap bindings.
    Only called "Softboot Snowboarding" when comparing it to Alpine Snowboarding which uses hardboots and plate bindings. ↩

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