[Rip154]

You could try the Nitro Team Pro 162 wide of stock boards, should be fairly easy to find.

Also take a trip to one of those racecrosscamps and talk to people/demo stuff, like Apex/SG/Swoard. Apex has some ExtraFuckingWide sizes at least. Most are directional with like 10 mm taper, but that won’t that much of a disadvantage.

I think 280ish waist width should be no overhang at all for you, and 270 might be enough.

 

[Rip154]

Most brands make the center of the board and the tips thinner now, so they flex with the surface when you lay it over. Variable sidecut in the tips on fx boardercross boards with rockered tips keep the effective edge with a smaller radius when you lay it over, sometimes different flex in the nose and tail so you have different radius. Mostly cambered boards like Nitro Team, can stop the board from lifting up from the snow at the middle or catching with contact points with a larger radius out at the tips. Of course weight and speed makes a difference.

Make a really wide board without adjusting flex and radius and you have something that you cant bend into a turn shape and the only effective edge you have is at the contact points, and then you lose grip, can feel like booting out. This is why some get a great benefit from extra contact points at the bindings. They get added training wheels, the bumps dig a little deeper when you dont flex the middle properly, plus it can make board a little stiffer under foot and so on, same as with the thickness.

Getting a board for carving based on just ww, one stiffness criteria and radial sidecut is a gamble. With length it gets hard to get the right flex too. Shorter boards can end up gripping better because you put more of the effective edge into the snow, while they are easier to twist torsionally and turn, but a properly made and ridden longer board should always win on edge hold (on a smooth surface).

 

[Rip154]

For carving with a duck stance, I’d def think asym makes sense, also for narrow boards with exaggerated directional stance (monoskiing)