Setting up a brand-new split board is a labour of love
and it's a bit like preparing for all your upcoming adventures.
It's a process that can't be done in five minutes and that requires a little bit of time and effort
and also a few adjustments, so that your setup can be dialled in every conditions and even in the wild.
First thing is the stance. You need to know what's your stance.
For your info mine is 59cm and my angles are three degrees on the back foot
and 18 degrees on the front foot.
So that mark, I'll be able to see it and use it when I set up the binding, very important.
Op, all right, so this is the trickiest part
because you basically need to adjusts these pieces to make them work together
so now we're gonna put the little adjustment plates, that go onto the binding.
So you see, now at that stage, I like to not tighten the pieces and put the binding in
so that it's gonna be matching perfectly.
Once the binding is in place, that's when I'm going to be tightening everything
in the right position.
I don't make it completely tight, I leave 2 - 3mm
so that there's a little bit of space for the ice.
The knives, they are quite important and basically I used to never use them
and once I started it kind of changed everything.
I'm adjusting now the heel risers
yeah to the ski lock, so this is gonna be the system which will hook on to the heel riser
and which will allow you to be in ski mode, whenever you are in a little descent.
Can be useful, I never use it but...
So the pieces that keep my board together are a bit too tight, because they're brand-new
so they don't glide, so I'm gonna add a bit of WD40.
So that I know next time, when I go into the mountains
it's not gonna make me that bad surprise and make me look like a fool!
When you put your board in riding mode it's important
that there would be no gap in between the edges.
First of all so that it's not gonna grab onto the snow
especially on the groomers.
And second of all also so that the board reacts as one
and that is really tight together, know what I mean .
So now let's test the boot
I usually like to have a bit more toe drag rather than heel drag
so I'm gonna move them a bit forward.
All I've done there is move the whole heel piece forward
to center the boot, yeah, and that's much better.
I like to have my high back parallel to the edge and not square with the binding
so I put it, a bit of an angle.
Ta da! Ready to go into the mountains but it's important on the first tour,
to take a few tools in case you need to adjust anything,
because that's gonna happen for sure,
and yeah, happy adventures, that's all I gotta say.