Ok was at the mountain this weekend and here's what I did.I rented a regular width board there in a 160 length. I really wanted to try it with my own bindings but they won't let you put them on their rentals so I had to use the nitro's they had on there. They were horrible! I can't say if a regular board as opposed to a wide helped with my foot pain because my feet were on fire in pain the whole run. The strap bindings were horrible over the front of my foot. I couldn't board more than 100yrds without having to stop because of the pain.One thing I did notice though is that the board was REALLY responsive…to the point of being squirrelly and almost out of control. I don't know if thats just because I have ridden a wide for so long now or what. I did go back to my wide board and boots and bindings later. Still had the foot pai
Ok was at the mountain this weekend and here's what I did.I rented a regular width board there in a 160 length. I really wanted to try it with my own bindings but they won't let you put them on their rentals so I had to use the nitro's they had on there. They were horrible! I can't say if a regular board as opposed to a wide helped with my foot pain because my feet were on fire in pain the whole run. The strap bindings were horrible over the front of my foot. I couldn't board more than 100yrds without having to stop because of the pain.One thing I did notice though is that the board was REALLY responsive…to the point of being squirrelly and almost out of control. I don't know if thats just because I have ridden a wide for so long now or what. I did go back to my wide board and boots and bindings later. Still had the foot pain in the lead foot obviously. I did notice though the huge difference in response though in the board. With the regular board just a bit of pressure and it would initiate a turn. The wide board definetely took alot more pressure to turn.So I really can't tell for sure. I am gonna try and borrow a regular 162 this weekend with my bindings and see what it feels like then.
