Turn thoughts with friends, and Donek Demo info

The demo at Copper mountain in Colorado is free of charge. I think you need an ID, and maybe credit card to register. Follow Donek Snowboards on Instagram for more info. You'll also need your own bindings that have standard 4x4 or 4x2 mounting options.
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[@andyscheen3928]

Super fun day! 🤘

[@irsever]

Sky is something else! Have a great feeling about the upcoming generation of Knaptonian riders

[@DaveHollanderEE]

Definitely! Chasing Sky is always such a pleasure 🤘

[@giriwatts3563]

Radical. Good to see everybody ripping. Andy and Sky are crushing it! Miss y’all!

[@TheSurfRyder]

49 and I’m still pushing myself as best I can. It’s all about the carve

[@ellstackeradventures]

Yeww

[@davebarber9201]

Getting pretty amped have placed my order with Donek and Sean who looked after me and my custom build!! Thanks to you Ryan I've really jumped into all your vids which was a big reason I approached Donek.

[@tj5514]

Nice seeing you upload, your videos are always a welcomed sight.

[@larzick314]

Ryan, love your vids!!! I was at Copper 22-24 MAR, just missed you. My son and I were looking for you, we might have been on the other side of the mountain. Had a great time out there, we're from Indiana, and the snow was basically non existent this year. 9 more months of watching your vids until we can hit the snow again.

[@shokojimhollingsworth3940]

Great to see Andy out there representing us “seasoned” riders!!! I’m hoping to make it out to Donek demo days at Copper (probably later in the week)!

[@ellstackeradventures]

Yooo

[@rusMusDie]

Thanks for support!!! From UA fans.

[@adpbobcat]

You caution about looking for up hill skiers/snowboarders more than anyone out there. Keep it up!!

[@Wait...whaaat]

End of season greetings from Estonia. Had my first season on Donek. Season itself was quite awesome, it's been several years since such a good winter weather, and the Donek's Knapton Twin is simply amazing. W 30.5cm, R 10.5m, L 154, flex 8 adjusted to ~75kg and boot size is 41.5 (EU), board turned out to be quite well balanced for our small local hills and how crowded (or sometimes not) the slopes are. At first the edge changes was a bit goofy as it takes a while compared to narrow boards (felt the same as going from W64mm R12 skis to W105mm R17 skis) but carving on low angles came really fast, which felt amazing and is extremely addictive. Could easily manage board with a bigger radius (if only local slopes would be wider), to enjoy even longer turns. Otherwise width and overall board stability was perfect, great board concept and design by Ryan Knapton and Donek. Whilst enjoying the board as much as I could, I handed it out to few friends and a "random person" as well. More capable, advanced and expert snowboarders, really liked the board (some of who is now quite interested in Knapton Twin now) whilst for intermediate riders it was a bit too much to handle. And one day at the end of the ski/snowboard day a "random person" approached me and asked "Is that a Donek!?".. Apparently he has been following your posts and videos to become a better snowboarder and he was quite sure (with minor doubts) what snowboard I was using and who's videos and posts I've been following. I ended up persuading him to try my board (as he was carving with his rather soft ~W27cm board very skilfully and I had no doubts that we could easily manage Knapton Twin as well) as it might be the only Knapton Twin in Estonia and probably would not get another chance to try one before a potential purchase. He only had time for two the descents but he pretty much nailed those as well. 🤙🤙🤙 Shout out to you, "random person", who's name I failed to ask.

[@Wait...whaaat]

Oh and taking those extremely low angle turns is a massive head turner here from visitors and staff. Even first timers are asking how to ride like that... 🤣🤣

[@daveg5857]

0:43. What a turn!

[@coleboychuck500]

I’ll be there for demos on the 1st! So stoked!

[@DaveHollanderEE]

Nice riding by all 🤘 I'll be helping out at the Donek tent all day Sun+Mon (4/2, 4/3) and maybe some other afternoons as needed. Stoked to see everyone there!

[@ShakeNBakeSportfishingIlwaco]

Excellent vid. I just ordered a 172 cm Donek Freecarve and can't wait to ride it. Please give us a little more heads up next year on the demo so I can put it on the calendar.

[@breker19er]

I’m totally going to order a donek!

[@Patrick.Sanchez]

It will unlock your carving skills and bring a constant smile to your face.

[@AlexanderGeorgiev-Marck]

Congrats to Andy from 48 years old from Bulgaria

[@haloking1988]

Been listening to you on my AirPods while flying down winter park. Thanks

[@daguaishouxd]

Sky's got great style!

[@snowdirt62]

Great vid 😀😀. Things tough weatherwise back east. U cheered us all up 👍. Great kudos for ukraine too 👍👍 🙏

[@matthewwynn161]

Shralptastic seeing Andy and Sky together again.

[@DaveHollanderEE]

Shralp on my friend 🤙 I've pretty much left NY/NJ for good, but give a shout on FB next time you're visiting CO

[@matthewwynn161]

@@DaveHollanderEE I'm avoiding Facebook at this point - it steals too much of my limited time.

[@finngraham3508]

Always wanted to get on a donek! Gonna be at copper this Friday

[@finngraham3508]

Oh shoot that’s the 8th lol I’ll have to try and get out there before then

[@backcountrygamer8171]

My buddy and I are looking to visit Copper and demo some Doneks! I can hardly wait to ride something wide enough for my feet :D

[@nightfightr1115]

Saw you guys that day hanging out on American. Cool vid and tips!

[@wrinkle66]

New board >>> Donek, Knapton, 159 length, 11m sidecut, 31.8 waist. YES!!! 31.8 WAIST... and the new Donek base grind is scary fast. 1st run was "Ooh... this is different." But after the second run - there's no turning back.

[@shofarsogood7504]

Man I’m so close it hurts to be able to demo. Just one day short of my vacation. Bummer been wanting to demo for a while. Have fun. See if I can manage just one more day in maybe.

[@fireblade1986]

in Steep its benefitial to go with high edgeangle right from the start (starting with real small turnradius), getting the G-Force right up to where your limit is, and gradually letting off the angle troughout the turn, as you pick up speed... resulting in kind of constant G-Force... this will stopp you from getting overwelmed later in the turn by the speed that you pick up, during wide radius while in the fall-line. (learning to set an edge "faster and faster" and more purposefully, will open up so much more terrain for carving ... think rock hard ice in professional skiing) Think of Car-Racing kind of hard on the Brakes and Cornering to start with, early apex and then carrying as much exit speed as possible... Think of fibonacci spirals (like Snailshells or a bass clef) ... this also makes perfect safe and easy flowing berms in Bikeparks even with next to no hight to the berm... been there shaping them then again in Carving its all about playing with different turn shapes ... you've got to master them all to really be free and creative ... constant radius, shortening radius, opening radius... it's the fun to play with them like different patterns of music rising up, falling down, beeing subtle, beeing powerfull ... its all about the variety and the composition... like Waves interfering, resonating, canceling each other, beeing in sync! Have a think, pause, and then let your emotions and mood paint right into the snow, while acknowlegeing the terrain and playing with it rather than against it! (sometimes it shure feels right to fight the elements and the odds, but if you continue on that pass you'll eventually wear yourself out... as it goes for all of life)

[@rollingedges9469]

O man i can't wait!🤙

[@daveg5857]

Awesome!

[@zacdarippa]

Love it dude

[@therotorooster]

I'm going to be there. I got my airBnB booked and my lift tickets. I'll be there on the 5th and 7th, maybe the 6th if I have the energy, but this old guy has a hard time doing back to back to back days. I'm going to want to try out Knapton twins with various side cut radii.

[@therotorooster]

Updated/Edited my initial post from a maybe to a definite. I'll be there!

[@jacobrbush]

Any chance of a Mt Hood camp this year?

[@livinroomlongshanks]

FUCK YES🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾

[@bfreeap]

Ryan, nice team riding man! Can you ask to bring skinny HB boards to demos on Sunday, longer the better. Thanks.

[@RyanKnapton]

Donek Snowboards specializes in those. So yup, they will be there.

[@therotorooster]

Oh, meant to ask, where will the Donek booth be? I've never been to Copper so all I know is the trail map :P

[@philjordan4543]

sick !

[@ruoyuchen7211]

SKY is the best

[@zw7453]

From a super far distance, when the video is super zoomed in and the quality is super potato, when there are only a few pixels of someone snowboarding, you know that's Ryan, at first glance.

[@T25de]

Looking to hit up the demo myself

[@TC-gz1ko]

Hey Ryan! I recently bought a Donek Twin, and obviously it feels very different from narrower board but I’m excited to learn how to ride it. I am wondering if you have any tip on stand width. I noticed your stand width seems to be quite a bit wider than your shoulder, is that something that you recommend? Also any tip on the position of the binding vertically on the board? Currently I think my binding is closer to my toe side, which makes toe to heel turn very difficult. Not sure if there’s something that you recommend or just entirely personal preferences. Thanks!

[@T25de]

🤙

[@ellstackeradventures]

I like to turn let's gooooo

[@LF-Productions]

yo sky rips i thought he was ryan in the beginning

[@KevinT3141]

I finally got my edge to really hook up and carve last week, and the board turned so sharply it scared me a little. I tried to duplicate it for the rest of the session, but it seems subconscious fear just wouldn't let me. I'll keep trying. (Doesn't help that my local hill is only 72 m / 230 ft tall. Runs are over way too fast.)

[@choyMM]

I hear ya. Where I usually go the main lift has mostly narrow runs and it only opens up in an area where the runs converge. There's a big wide blue run on another part of the resort that's would have been perfect for carving but it's short and you'd get 3-5 turns before you get to the next section with narrower and steeper runs. I wish I could go often to big mountain resorts where there's space to really practice carving.

[@PaulJurczak]

Wilmot Mountain? I've learned snowboarding there.

[@KevinT3141]

@@PaulJurczak For me it's Glen Eden in southwest Ontario, just 30 minutes from home. Blue Mountain (full disclosure: an escarpment on Georgian Bay, not an actual mountain) is two hours away and three times taller, but still nothing like a Breckenridge.

[@phicihch]

Hi, I am 34 and my 4th day on snowboarding. Started to turn (not carving of course) but being afraid of catching edge always. How can I deal with it?

[@RyanKnapton]

Spend time riding very mellow with staying on a low edge angle, traversing back and forth across the run. Hours and hours of gliding on the edges rather than constantly using the edge to 'brake'. Keep a very sharp awareness of those above you. The transitions between those edges can be the tricky part. Mellow runs. Glide not skid and make it feel good on the body. Hope that helps and happy shredding.

[@phicihch]

@@RyanKnapton thank u so much. I will try.

[@PaulJurczak]

As Ryan wrote: "gliding on the edges". Avoid riding "flat", always stay on the edge and keep turning.

[@phicihch]

@@PaulJurczak thnak u.

[@M.Marco69]

It looks so easy. My mistake is, that I don’t push so much to come down in a good carving-line. Maybe I have the wrong board 🤔 actually I ride the Nitro Pantera which runs very good. What do you think Ryan?

[@RyanKnapton]

I've never tried that board myself. Over this summer I might be starting a Patreon where I analyze others riding and provide whatever insight I have. If interested, get a couple riding clips when the conditions are right for it. ❄️🏂❄️✌️

[@M.Marco69]

@@RyanKnapton Hey Ryan, that sounds awesome. I'm going on another week-long ski vacation in April. There I will shoot a few videos of me. The idea with your analysis is great and gladly take part. You would have to tell us (the participants) where we should upload the videos. Surely you will take the vidoes and provide accordingly with tips and tricks. Hopefully I come sometime in the pleasure to drive together with you a few turns. Many greetings from Germany

[@jimsdrivingschool]

Awesome video, if you don’t mind me asking are you on a stiff board ? I’m on the general public, I bought it to learn in and it’s been ace. I’m able to carve on it and get my hands down but not near a euro carve. I’m convincing myself that it’s my board and not my technique lol. I appreciate someone decent would be able to do it on my board but would i be better getting a stiffer board or just getting my head down and working harder? I’ve been told the level I’m at is high end intermediate/advanced rider. Cheers

[@RyanKnapton]

I'm on a stiff board. Other factors are way wider than most boards so I don't have toe or heel overhang. And then for speeds, almost everyone rides faster than their sidecut radius wants to. I'm on very experimental specs with moving up and up with the radius, and whenever I go back down on previous boards, or try others, I just have to slow down to be in harmony with the turns it wants to make.

[@jimsdrivingschool]

@@RyanKnapton that’s great thanks Ryan. I’ll do some research over the summer, see if I can find something that fits

[@markharwood5320]

Anyone else find carving messes their lower back up? I skate bowl a lot and have no issues but recently it seems each time I go snowboarding I mess my back up. I love carving around with smooth lines but even then I think it maybe just involves more “judder” than skating. Is there just something about “getting low” that makes you more prone?

[@ClutchCrusader]

Can you still do to do nose roll 360s if your board doesn’t have and edge on the nose and tail?

[@RyanKnapton]

It's a nightmare to even think about! So if thats the characteristics of your board, just work on other stuff, or very low edge angle buttering stuff with it.

[@ClutchCrusader]

@@RyanKnapton dang that’s a shame just picked up this years skunk ape n after watching your videos was really excited to learn those didn’t realize the edges didn’t go all the way around until it got here a few days ago. Appreciate the feedback tho and love the videos so inspirational and informative!

[@victoralekseev7730]

That group is behind Rayn' level of carving by 20%. All they need is to get NEXT LEVEL sticker 😉