Outward Canting

I don’t think your ligaments would thank you very much on an outward cant. It shouldn’t matter much what your angle are, you’ll alway wan them canted inward. The wider your stance is the wider you’ll want them. Think of it this way, you want your pucks canted so that from your hip joint you could still lock into your stance if you didn’t have knees. For your knees to work the way they’re supposed to your knee, hip and ankle should make a straight line.
It could be that for a full duck stance you’d want a compound angle.?

Just my :twocents: and I’ve never hard-booted so this is all theoretical

Yep, inward cant.
If you feel like your knees are being forced together look at adding lift – lift the toe of your front foot and heel of your back foot.
Like Firstlight I’m speaking from hardboot experience, and know what you mean about how uncomfortable that locked in knee stance is..everyone is different so have a tinker!

Thousands od GS racers the world over can’t be wrong! The idea of inward canting is to actually provide a better allignment of your hip/knee/ankle joints resulting in less pressure and joint pain, and also increased stabilty and responsiveness. Even freestyle riders will often ride with inward canting as it can help with pop as it centers your weight over the center of the board.

In theory, and on flat ground it does seem a little counter intuitve, and can feel ‘knock-kneed’ – but remember that you are very very rarely riding your board on your lounge room floor! Heel and toe lift as mentioned in my post above can help give you more comfort too, as this is the natural positionin of your feet coming into a carve anyway – so its taking out some of the hard work!

Check out this article – http://www.alpinecarving.com/binding_setup.html

best of luck with the experimenting! Let us know how you get on 🙂

In the true, alpine carving, hardboot world there are a small number of riders who use a very small amount of outward cant. The angles are 50* plus though, so the effect on the leg joints is much different than at the much lower angles that splitboarders typically ride. Currently, many alpine carvers ride with some combination of heel and toe lift but no cant, either inward or outward. Others uses some amount of inward cant.

On the splitboard, at our lower angles, many AT boot riders choose to use inward cant because it brings our knees into better alignment and allows us to ride a wider, more stable, stance.

It would seem that at your wide stance, inward cant would be beneficial to your joints. That said, from watching the alpine carving world and all the lift / cant preferences, do what feels correct for your joints and your riding.