[Jonas_ba]

I found the community behind https://www.extremecarving.com/ to be the most "nerdiest" of them all. Small group of people working endlessly to craft the perfect carving board, perfect the technique and advance the sport of alpine snowboarding. You can often find nerdy talks about torsion control (someone built a snowboard that has a split front to counter the board torsion during carving), board flex, technique etc. You just have to love a good old forum. That being said, this looks like an awesome resource for anyone looking to understand snowboarding :)

[beezle]

Hard booters are a rare breed for sure, see them every now and then. I ride a pretty narrow board but with softboots. Serious carving boards meant for plates and hardboots are generally very stiff, not the best thing to start learning snowboarding on though might work if you are coming directly from skis?