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xxxthebxxx · 11-15-2009, 03:54 PM

that was a good video!

snowpilou · 11-24-2009, 02:43 PM

hehe..and that's make 4 years and i didn't even tried to carve...but when i saw my friends doing some..that why i started to love snowmobile..and i getted my firecat sno pro..!this season will be a big one for me!

Huffman · 11-25-2009, 09:43 PM

love the second vid. i dont get that muuch snow where i live that often. but i swear someday imma do that. go out wes and rent a ridiculus sled and go up in the mountains. make my life!

big sledder · 11-27-2009, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Wisconsin sledr

I want to carve this winter too. What's the minimum amount of snow I should be trying it on? Should I even be trying with my 2000 polaris 700 xcsp? It's only a 121 trail sled so I'm not sure.

go to timber sled .com and look at the drop kits you can probebly make one they drop the track/ lift the rear of the sled like a mtn. sled it should make it enough. i would say antwere from 4 to 6 inches but idk were your sled sits now

MaineSled · 01-19-2010, 05:26 AM

I think that the country you get to ride in is just as much a blast as riding the sled itself. If I really search-key being search- here in the back country, I can find stuff like that-bummer is I'm getting old, my mind has a hard time accepting that my body cant handle what it used to-lol

xxxthebxxx · 01-20-2010, 02:09 PM

I tried to carve for my first time back 3 weeks ago. I just forgot to post it. And, I failed...well sorta. I was carving, somewhat, but not with the skis counter-steering. If I tried counter steering, I would go the actual direction the skis were pointing, even if I leaned all the way. I didn't give much throttle, partly because I was afriad of falling off, so that may be the one reason it didn't work. When I went up to Vermont last weekend the snow was packed so I won't be able to try again until we get a huge snowstorm.

**RJ Gleason** · 01-20-2010, 03:56 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMG3z...layer_embedded

xxxthebxxx · 01-20-2010, 04:47 PM

He has a 162" track though, right? I've only got a 136". but still, that was a great learning video! I guess I just gotta keep trying. But none of my carving is on a hill, its on a flat lake.

KoryM · 01-20-2010, 05:01 PM

i just started to learn to carve back in november when we had our first snowstorm, i learnt a little bit then, untill it all melted, when we got even more snow in 2010, i learnt more and more until i finally got the guts to allow my slef to fall off if i went too far, after you fall off the first time, i find it only gets easier and easier from then on. im a lefty, so i lean to my left and turn to the right and and give it to er'. im only 17 and i can and i can make perfect circles easily, and side hilling is even easier i find!!, and now i just learning how to carve the other way, what a difference, its like you have to train yourself to fall on the opposite side of the sled, hahah, but have fun, that the important part!!, oh, and i can carve better than all my friends, i think they're jealous, lol.

indyryder500 · 01-20-2010, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by olezy_xlt

Its called "boondocking" guys... And yea at first its a bit finicky to learn but once you get it down in the books you can turn on a dime in deep snow!

boondocking is riding off trails.