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  • .... I learned nothing 

  • no instruction at all, just a guy saying be dynamic and watch me carve.

  • Maybe I missed the "How to" section in this...Re-name the video to "Watch me Carve"

  • This guy is a boss

  • He's carving way too big

  • You just demonstrated it. I need you to explain it. 

  • Ur videos don't explain anything  so DISLIKE!!!!

  • Omg this looks fun

  • Awesome Camera Work

  • this man is cool

  • Going for my first time next week.. any tips? And how do I know if im Regular or Goofey? I skateboard gooffy

  • @WillDrawenek I have one really important tip, don't be afraid to fall. if its your first time, you're gonna be spending alot of time on your butt and dont be discouraged cuz we all have to start somewhere. I skateboard regular but i snowboard goofy. have you ever tried running and sliding on ice? which ever foot you feel more comfortable sliding in front, will most likely be the way you snowboard. im an instructor and thats how all my students have learned. well have fun :)

  • @WillDrawenek if you skate goofy you'll probably snowboarding goofy as well. Learn to carve first. It's tough at first but if you practice you'll get used to it

  • Advanced ? its one of the basics

  • the camera man was probably skiing

  • alot of people are complaining about how his videos are not very inciteful.maybe if you'd stop objecting his explanation on how it should be done you'd learn something;i went snowboarding yesterday and i remembered what he said about basic manuvering when trying to turn and quote "a little weight on the back of the board nose in the air and a slight turn"it worked effectivly for my first try soooo.........yeah.....any questions???????

  • This shouldn't be on expert village. He doesn't teach us anything. Its just oOOooooo look at me im so good.

  • Its not realy cool

    

  • thx

  • Dude ur a BEAST!

  • @jeremysc00ts hey i just went my first time this last thursday one i could give u istake things slow learn to skate the bored and mainly do heelside practice that it took me 3 trys down the bunny hill before i wentup top

  • i dont really feel like i learned anything...

  • Great Video! i know that i was going to slow before!

  • Whenever I go fast and try to link the carves, my edge gets caught immediately and I eat it. Any tips?

  • @metalcore211 what kind of board are you using?

  • @MrTuber4000 Freestyle. It says you CAN use it in park but better for open riding. I just can't seem to get the link on it though.

  • @metalcore211 When you carve you need to bend your knees when you're leaning forward and squat when you are leaning back.

  • Great. Now that I watched you carve, how do you do it?

  • Ive watched a few of this guys other videos on carving . This is the first one where he is ACTUALLY carving . Not very dynamically but to be expected in an instructional video. I started searching through this guys segments B/C in one of the other vids he was saying you should ride the tail when carving which is wrong. Here in this vid though hes got better form. Ive been teaching snowboarding for 15 years and i couldnt imaging that the aspen snowsports school would want peeps Ruddering.

  • Been looking at alot of these but this guy ufp1701 seems to be a really good teacher. Ive just started snowboarding was looking for some tips. I just wish I had found this guy before my frist go a snowboarding. Thumbs it up if you watch his videos too :D

  • @apexiblaster I get you point :p

  • when i carve i have a tendency to give my weight to the tail of the board is that ok?

  • @alinazmi you should give it to the nose

  • @supermariom1998 OK thanks...

  • on the toe side turns, he looks like he's kneeling on the snow. its so cool.

  • @ManBearPigLOL sounds like u need a wider board

  • the only thing that i liked in this video that ther wasnt any ads

  • PRO camera work!!! That's the best snowboarding camera footage I've seen so far. Get a pro job.

  • I think I need to bring my board in for a sharpening. It's starting to slide out a bit more while I carve.

  • i hate stoping at this speed man i caught the snow one time and hurt my back i wemt flying

  • i think the technique is bending the knees some more and leaning to the side of the board? i couldve thought of that myself...

  • if carving is for advanced snowboarders than I am uber pro

  • pro snowboard tip : ollie

  • screw the guy boarding! that is one talented camera man!

  • @zsoccastar007 i would guess he was either filming from a little automated buggy thingy or on skis. most likely not on a snowboard.

  • @zsoccastar007 pretty dialled cam man lol anyway im going on a snow trip nxt month anyone got any tips 4 me lol never been but i feel i will take to it very easily as iused to skate a bit now i i scoot i also rode BMX for bout 1 1/2 years lol :P any tips and feedback would be much appriciated peace out :P

  • @jeremysc00ts also its gonna be so dif coz im a reg on BMX(good footback) but ima natural goofy on skateboard and scooter hahah peace out :P (again lol dub peace haha:)

  • @zsoccastar007 uhhh sorry but the cameraman is skiing :P not realy tho

  • i think the easiest way to explain carving is when you begin your turn, lets say toeside, face 45degrees diagonaly downhill, put your board on your toe edge, and try to keep going at the 45degree angle. you'll find your board naturally turns without skidding. Thats carvingXD

  • anyone got a link on a video on how to just carve with your tail end? you know to like maintain speed without going into a stop position?

  • @TheAmericanWhimp faster.

    it is skid that slows u down.

    afaik, linking turns without skid is called carving.

  • I def picked up some things. Mostly from just watching him carve at a high speed. But still i learned something. It's prlly not an advanced tip but still, instructional in some way.

  • thank you dude ;) :)

  • If that was me at 0:42 there would be an accident right there

  • This is how you carve!!!!! How to Snowboard: Extreme Carving Opus 3

  • If you like carving use alpine snowboard..... this snowboard is for other situations

  • i catch edge when i try to do that...

  • people are hating on him and i admit that this isnt the best video but i think it actually might be the best carving video on youtube right now. At least he explained the difference between what is considered "carving" and what is a regular turn persay.

  • I just started snowboarding a few weeks ago, I can carve just fine on greens where the snow is nice and smooth. However on blues/blacks I have problems trying to carve, my board skids alot more and I have problems keeping control with all of the bumps. sometimes when switching from heals to toes i bounce over a bump and end up catching an edge, any tips? -Also whenever I am carving or making a turn, i get crazy pain in my leading foot, this normal?

  • @Skratch3hot bend ur knee's as much as possible so that u can get over bumps whitout problems and from heel to toe just practice allot. and bend ur knees at a confortable angle not just as far as it goes :P

  • carvings easy

  • So, is carving really just moving your butt in and out?

  • @lexidexi2012 its switching your edge ups from heel to toe smoothly

  • is it just me or is it ALOT easier to heel carve rather than toe carve?

  • @XB0XFR34K nah mate, for me, its just easy both ways tbh

  • @JDShortFilms idk why but i just have trouble sometimes toe carving

  • @XB0XFR34K how long you been boarding for?

  • @JDShortFilms when i lived in germany i boarded in the mountains for 2 years (once a year) and im in virginia now and i boarded last winter ......so its on and off but i know the basics

  • @XB0XFR34K so you find it harder to toe edge, i can understand why, i suppose it feels much more natural leaning backwards up the mountain, rather than forwards down the mountain; maybe try the falling leaf on your toe edge, and then try riding switch, then it will be really easy when you swap back round

  • That's carving!! Hahaha he looked so happy at the end!

  • @zachspeakz I do tree runs carefully. I do a dry run first. This is where I do it mellow to plan an attack route and make sure it's free of wells. Next run through, I go at it. If you have a clear path, carving around them is fine. However, in tight situations, you are going to want to use skidded turns. This is sort of like a fish tail movement with the tail of your board. The purpose of this is to make quick and tight turns while scraping your speed so you don't go too fast right into a tree.

  • @iz2sicc Okay okay. Thanks man, i really need help in that.

  • @Zigz94 Ah.. I thought you were hating on Shaun White in general. I saw a lot of haters turn into supporters after his performance in the Olympics. He was very visibly head and shoulders above the rest.

  • @iz2sicc What this guy in the video is doing is allowing the sidecut of the board to dictate the turn radius. If you want deeper, tighter carves, upper body will come into play. There are situations where you are going to need to turn those shoulders. Especially in mogul fields. Try navigating a mogul field using just your lower body. Upper body and hip usage is also needed in steep runs. You are right about the arm thing though. Keep them tucked and steady.

  • i find it harder to carve on my heel edge.. any tips?

  • @ezekiel0920 seriously ? i found it like waaaay harder to carve on the toe edge. But what i did was that i started driving down the hill while braking in an toe edge position. And then i started to get a feeling of it

  • I have snowboarded a few times and go regularly every year, but I can still use some tips. Basically my question is when your snowboarding in powder, you keep the weight on the back and on groomed you use the front?

  • this guy is speeding along super fast, its obvious that hes skied

  • He makes it look so easy!

  • @d0pod Yeah, I'd say you are. I didn't learn this until last year, but I wish I had learned it first. Because when I was not able to go at a speed I could handle. I usually just tried to stop, but Id be going to fast and crash. If I knew how to carve I could more control my speed, but it doesnt matter now. Thats when I was little, and snowboarding. Now I can stop at any speed at any time. Like when I come flying up to a ski patrol, and hit the brakes so they dont pull me inside to lecture me.

  • @d0pod i guess your right.... i wouldn't say its advanced by any means but i would say its an intermediate technique.... im not saying im great at snowboarding but i have gotten to colorado multiple winters and still have trouble carving.... occasionally catch an edge whenever i lean forward that mite just be my fault though with the way i have my board set up :/

  • then early season in Colorado I tore something in my knee surgery and can't ride til 2011-2012.

  • I go snowboarding all year round chili for America summer Colorado for America winter.

  • carving is easy if your a skater or longboarder

  • man this looks fun, never went snowingboarding. going down some where this winter and trying this out

  • @colorcodememo i reckon its a skier....no boarder can matain speed nd keep up with a boarder turning....lol

  • Isn't this... beginner?

  • @SimplicityInItself yea it is

  • Learn to do frontside turn firts... your backside turn is accepted, but frontside turn it's not good.

  • carving isnt a advanced tip

  • @colorcodememo

    I think he's skiing , I can't really tell except for a few seconds of his shadow. he looks like he's standing straight. I film my friends while riding, it's so hard to keep your upper body still while riding...

  • @colorcodememo the filmer is skiing

  • haha i love carving :P its fun. i like how he almost hit the other boarder xD

  • I bet the person holding the camera is skiing.

  • Carving is an advanced snowboarding tip?

  • that was smooth

  • @ stevenb112

    LOL why would other skiers do that? Those stupid jerks need to look before they stop.

  • thumbs up for the videographer!

  • too easy

  • wow, that wasn't informative at all.

  • Actually, it is very informative for novice boarders. Most beginners think they carve when they're actually just dragging the sides of the board along the snow. This guy shows proper form by using the edges of his board.

  • i'm a snowboarder and i hate it when skiers just stop suddenly in front of ya. i ended up crashing into this one guy cos he just stopped and i couldn't get round him, he broke one of his poles and i had to pay for it! :(

  • i hate wen dey do that they never look before dey stop nd wen they dont stop dey go rite next to u nd slap nd pull u

  • @stevenb112 dude! i know i was going down hill, just cruising, and this skier flies past me as im carving left and hits the right side of my board. he just went flying and lost a ski when that happened i just went right past him down the hill and laughed as i was going by

  • I do both, skiing and boarding.. so I know as boarder the skiiers are annoying but it's the same when yoire a skiier!

    They always go in the way of eatch others that's just the way it goes

    but i think you have to watch anyway how close you go to the next person, specially to skiier.. they can't look what's coming behind befor they stoped!!

  • steven - that was your own fault for following too close. people below you ALWAYS have the right of way. That's like saying you rear ended a car and blaming on the person in front of you - you didn't give yourself enough space between you and the car.

  • @ltmaniac yeah, fair point!

  • sounds funny even though i'm sure it hurted rly bad ^^

  • i thought advanced would be jumps and stuff

  • proper carves cant be done with this kind of board...this is still slidin the board...and not carvin...

  • @Rjax842 Im down with that!!!

  • in the very middle of your turn do you put your board straight?

  • omg that looked like fun no wonder why shaun white became a pro snowboarder!

  • Also called S's and Those really fun

  • I board @ Copper Colorado

  • where do u snowboard or ski? i snowboard at camelback mountain and thunder ridge.

  • i snowboard at crystal mountain or big white in bc canada

  • o kool i live in NY USA thats cool ur neer the olymipics !

  • yeah its pretty awesome at this time by the olympics ^_^

  • i live on vancouver island and snowboard at Mt.Washington

    i never took lessons for snowboarding.

    i just strapped it on and away i went lol

  • Finally a carving how-to video that actually shows carving. Nice job! I wish there were more videos like this.

  • I love snowboarding :) nice vid

  • snowboarding is the best. ive decided to stop skiing for a while so i can snowboard more

  • thats the only thing i need to do

  • what is the easiest way to understand carving and how to carve? do you use your shoulders or your hips to carve? i've learned by trial and error how to steer and control speed... sort of.

  • the only way to learn how to snowboard is watch footage and try it again and again

  • speed guts and let the snowboard do its work. try to feel the edge of the snowboard when you lean then go for it.

  • thats awesome! he has the whole mountain to himself!

  • oh so thats how you do it...

  • hey Beanz you obviuosly are not stupid and understand reference alignments, fundamental movements and board performace concepts, and how they are inter-connected in our riding.

    i'm guessing you qare maybe Cert 1 or 2 somewhere?

  • His not that bad. Most people think a carve is the same as a normal skidded turn. Most have never even seen a proper carve in real life. First time i saw it properly done was i watched one of my instructor examiners when i first started out instructing, straight lined a mini cliff and pulled out into a massive toe turn into a beginner run, looked unreal. Can you explain to me what dynamic carving is in technical cause i will understand what you mean. i think im doing it now but feedback is good

  • well hes not a beginner definately. i get frustrated with the lack of good riders and good information on the net about snowboarding lol sorry maybe im just a nut. if you look at racers, there carving is kind of extreme. Firstly, it means a basic carve just means u tilt ur board in the as in enter your turn and then just chill and let the board carve. your letting your board do everything after u set it up in the first 1/4 of the turn. There are alot of ways of different dynamic carves

  • but i will just explain one right now called bending turns. This is used by racers to boost speed. During your turn, you keep maximizing the pressure u exert on your board and keep angulating more and more, the most you can. At the end of the turn, your going to release all that by pushing on your board one last time, but this time, by extending your knees. Basically your just standing up on your board again. By doing this, it releases all the pressure and flex on your board (your board

  • naturally bends as you carve because of the sidecut, il explain that if u dont understand later) and as the flex extends, it pops the board and you release all the pressure on your board latterally making your board catch speed. you can also use this effectively on powder. anyways, this is different from a basic carve turn because now ur 1)angulating more 2)exerting "dynamic" pressure on your board throughout ur turn 3) making the board perform more. if you ride like this, its more fun too:D

  • well i think hes probably been snowboarding an d skiing for a while if he works in Aspen so.. not a fool =]

  • Ive seen many instructors who didnt know the difference between inclination and angulation that were star members of the snowboard instructor team. anyways i dont think hes been snowboarding for too long. Just look at his toeside edge. he doesnt even rotate his upper body properly. his torso is always open on his toes.

  • i dont need to rotate my upper body any further as i can tilt the board on edge enough by angulating at my ankles and knees!

  • u dont rotate your upper body so that u can tilt ur board. Its so that your spine is not twisted the other way. so if ur a regular, a toeside turn means ur turning to ur right. If ur spine is twisted to the left that means that your body is unstable because the lowerbody will want to untwist and follow ur upper body. and yes lol i am level 3 casi certified.

  • I wish you would show more to using your knees while carving... Coz when I am trying to carve I am going for side to side... loose speed and braking

  • hey for those wondering this is definitely a green run, they wouldnt film this on a blue because theyd want the camera man to be able to keep his control and the camera steady as well as possible

  • no firtst you learn to do skid turns so you have high control..then u learn to carv

  • hes good

  • is this black diamond? (if you hadn't guessed yet, i'm new to snowboarding).

  • No, that is more than likely green. You can tell by the gentle slope of the run. Green runs are almost always groomed like this. Blues and Blacks are usually not groomed so there are more bumps, plus steeper inclines.

  • This is a green circle slope.

  • no its more like a red..maybe a blue....black iamond is almost twice as steep as this

  • @Rokingkid12 haha, thanks! But I'm going with my friend soon an she's really good.. So I'll wanna hang out with her too! I guess I'll practice for awhile and try to get the hang of it. Then go bigger.

  • wow i snowboarded for 7 hours yesterday and it was the first time i had ever done anything like it besides skateboarding and skim boarding and i learned all of this in like 5 tries down the kiddie slope and then took it to the big hill....how is this advanced?

  • i always get going tooo fast.. so how can i slow down without falling? I try to stop but i start to like flip over. Also, where i go to snowboard is really busy so if i fall it feels like im about to get hit.

  • Search for ''sideslipping''. It's a really simple way of riding and the best way of stopping... Good luck!

  • dude, i fell so mutch i think i messed my back up actualy... hopefully ill go again wednesday!

  • @GlowRaver800 the mountains here havent opened yet -.- so we haft to wait for 2010

  • i just went today, (heavenly nevada) and it was my first time so i tried some stuff like this with a make shift lesson from a friend i ate it baddd.

  • if it was your first time then you should have eaten it ALOT.

  • 2 days till i go snowboarding

  • Im going to be doing this for the first time in 3 weeks! I cant wait

  • same here next weekend!

  • ya i dont think he even knows the basic of snoboarding.....considering how he thinks carveing is advance......when its the first thing you learn

  • yeah i just started this season so far can do some carving but still not that good. but im going on new years eve and practicing till 12:00 it going to be awsome

  • wow i did that witout knowing it was carving i thought it was normal turning

  • it will definitely be easier, but the only way to get good is to fall. and fall again. and then fall again.... however many times it takes till you understand what your doing wrong.

  • i just started, and i love snowboarding, the speed is what i really like, but i dont go as fast as this guy :P cus u know, i just started. but its really fun.

  • im 15 and i started when i was 8. Iv been boarding for 7 years and well, this guy seems to be going an average speed, i go this fast ,or faster when i board. this is probably because i love the speed, so my carves are smaller and faster. I am surprised hes going that fast on a slope that doesn't look very steep. Anyway, to those of you that are nervous of speed, i just takes time, Suggestion: practice carving on a slope that is intermidate. Once your comfortable, take it gradually faster

  • same with me i dont like going really fast because i dont want to hit something or wippe out badly

  • @kayeatsbear dude im the same way I cant go really fast or im afraid ill wipe out

  • @kayeatsbear Keep practicing, and slowly go faster and faster. Soon you'll be going fast and you wont even know it.

  • @kayeatsbear well all you can do it i quess try to love speed and if u dont like speed carve sharoer so u dont go as fast

  • awesome

  • I got the same problem.. I've also been snowboarding for a couple of years but when I get something close to "high speed" I just break and turn around. Looks so easy to carve but it certainly ain't..

  • @JtDiabla @fallenskater2112 @eric11600 @simpsonscollectibles @MDskater97

    :) went snowboarding today and took some of the advices you guys gave me and it was good.

    I guess it was all in my mind. I was able to carve, bit rusty but i did it. And the speed, still freaking out about it but just by leaning on my FRONT foot i had more control of my board and it was awesome.

  • @kayeatsbear where you live?