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Re: Nice Carving Pictures - post them!

Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 9:18 am
by MestreWorldCup
alexrider wrote:Perhaps we should have agreed on the definition of "carving" at the beginning of this thread.
Is turning in waves "carving"? Is throwing water about "carving"? Is an off-the-lip, however well executed "carving"?
IMHO, in waves, only bottom turns may perfectly qualify as "carving".
Yes, you are wright, please give your definition and exemples...
Whats is carving riding??

Re: Nice Carving Pictures - post them!

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:20 am
by Toby
carving is anything with a turn and spray!

Re: Nice Carving Pictures - post them!

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 1:20 pm
by Peter_Frank
alexrider wrote:Perhaps we should have agreed on the definition of "carving" at the beginning of this thread.
Is turning in waves "carving"? Is throwing water about "carving"? Is an off-the-lip, however well executed "carving"?
IMHO, in waves, only bottom turns may perfectly qualify as "carving".
Agree - bottom turns are definitely "carving", and doing wide S turns downwind (as this is kind of bottom turns frontside and backside with or without waves).

Whereas cutbacks is often not carving IMO, and aerials can not be carving :wink:

But seing the whole bottom turn to cutback "S" line(s) is kind of a carving picture one could say, right ?


If cutbacks were a carve - this thread could just be put under the "spray pictures" instead :naughty:

I dont see that a carve need to involve spray whatsoever though - it ususally does, but a clean fast carve on an efficient board, will make very little almost no spray :thumb:


Carving is IMO when using a major part of the board edge in a continuous curve, no matter if slow or fast or tight or wide :D

Where a cutback most often is a change from using a lot of the edge, to using ONLY the very tail at the impact/lip, and then sometimes going back to digging the full rail on the way down afterwards.
Thus NOT a continuous curve.

Again - I dont think there is an official defintion of what a "carve" is...
So just my personal feel.

What do others find is a "carve", talking kitesurfing ?

8) Peter

Re: Nice Carving Pictures - post them!

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:31 pm
by ced1
Does this Qualify? :naughty:

Re: Nice Carving Pictures - post them!

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 5:12 pm
by TuckerM
Laying into some in Tofino BC. I guess its a turn :naughty:

Re: Nice Carving Pictures - post them!

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 2:37 am
by Toby
Mitu MONTEIRO in Cabo Verde - Slash !

Picture : Gabriele RUMBOLO

Re: Nice Carving Pictures - post them!

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:32 pm
by alexrider
The last three pics by Ced1, TuckerM and Toby are slash and splash, but not carving, which doesn't require spray IMHO.
Ligety would carve on water pretty well if he switches sport.

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Re: Nice Carving Pictures - post them!

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 12:01 pm
by MestreWorldCup
Exactly... :thumb:

Re: Nice Carving Pictures - post them!

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 12:07 pm
by MestreWorldCup
Mira "MestreWorldCup® Grand Valira 12-01-2014 GoProHD Joan 2" a YouTube -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vg2N_W ... ata_player

Re: Nice Carving Pictures - post them!

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:18 am
by pākihiroa
ced1 wrote:Does this Qualify? :naughty:
Seems to me that if the board is tracking as if it is on rails, and the tail is not skidding or kicking out, then that is carving. For sure that is the definition of a carve in alpine skiing.

Look at the pure wake left by Ced1. If that doesn't qualify as a carve I don't know what does. But then what would I know. This is my first post. :bye: