you saved me a lot of time, money, and grief with these vids. learned to turn or carve or whatever its called my first time after watching your vids!! thanks dude
His right turns looked fairly good with his weight on his back foot during the latter part of the turn, but his left turns looked like he didn't even get to centered. Most of his weight was on his front foot the entire turn which is not correct at all. He demonstrates a hop in some of his edge transfers which is not correct either. He also seemed to fling his arms around a little too much.
I wanted to let you know, i took no lessons other than the lessons you provide on Youtube and i was linking turns on my first day. Now 5 trips later, i have fallen in love with the sport. Thank you very much. You made a snowboarder out of me. Best, Ben
Secondly the mention of bleeding out the speed by allowing your back foot to wash out but you mentioned you should allow some rotation in your hips, would this not affect balance if you were to hit an unforeseen bump? Please don't take this as criticism dude this is a seriously informative demo and just curious as to the difference in teaching methods over there!
Been on a few courses now and your method seems quite controversial to the european teaching methods. There were a couple of explanations that come to mind. Firstly when you explain how to get the board to cross under you tell the student to lean and your demo kinda showed a break at the hips to achieve this, would this not cause a breakdown in the stacking position?
whats a common degree for the bindings? i ride normal and the board i used have both feet set at 0 degrees and it was hard as fuck to control. i turned the front foot out to about 10 or 15 degrees and left the rear at 0. should the back be moved out a bit too? is there a common degree for each? i found 0 to be have very little control
Well it all depends on what terrain you ride in. Park riders always have there back binding on a negative (-15). But a backcountry rider usually has the back binding as a positive (+15)
If your an all mountain rider I would suggest experimenting with everything. I'm an all mountain rider and have my bindings at around +15 and -10. I have good control and it's good for riding switch. I would do those degrees to help you with control and get you more comfortable riding switch.
shouldnt you be carving just about every time you do a crossover like you explained. if theres really nothing going on except for leaning the board onto the edge there should be no sliding going on
I have been watching video clips to learn snowboarding and your video clips are the best! You explain "why" we have to do something with our body. Other video clips don't do that much. Thanks for this great clips!
Time to learn this technique!
normanem206 1 month ago
you saved me a lot of time, money, and grief with these vids. learned to turn or carve or whatever its called my first time after watching your vids!! thanks dude
MrJD1291 2 months ago
His right turns looked fairly good with his weight on his back foot during the latter part of the turn, but his left turns looked like he didn't even get to centered. Most of his weight was on his front foot the entire turn which is not correct at all. He demonstrates a hop in some of his edge transfers which is not correct either. He also seemed to fling his arms around a little too much.
SnowboardingMadeEasy 8 months ago
wow wish i had this before i went my frist go :(
Redsonjiamoo 11 months ago
I wanted to let you know, i took no lessons other than the lessons you provide on Youtube and i was linking turns on my first day. Now 5 trips later, i have fallen in love with the sport. Thank you very much. You made a snowboarder out of me. Best, Ben
hellerbenjamin 1 year ago
These videos are great. Your descriptions are so concise.
chiefmungomartin 1 year ago
ive been watching lots of these videos im probably a really good rider now
Juajiin 1 year ago
Secondly the mention of bleeding out the speed by allowing your back foot to wash out but you mentioned you should allow some rotation in your hips, would this not affect balance if you were to hit an unforeseen bump? Please don't take this as criticism dude this is a seriously informative demo and just curious as to the difference in teaching methods over there!
jonnyalive 1 year ago
Hey,
Been on a few courses now and your method seems quite controversial to the european teaching methods. There were a couple of explanations that come to mind. Firstly when you explain how to get the board to cross under you tell the student to lean and your demo kinda showed a break at the hips to achieve this, would this not cause a breakdown in the stacking position?
jonnyalive 1 year ago
Great flexion and extension explanation.
AmyGesler 1 year ago
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weestitch 1 year ago
whats a common degree for the bindings? i ride normal and the board i used have both feet set at 0 degrees and it was hard as fuck to control. i turned the front foot out to about 10 or 15 degrees and left the rear at 0. should the back be moved out a bit too? is there a common degree for each? i found 0 to be have very little control
zinotakesnotes 2 years ago
Well it all depends on what terrain you ride in. Park riders always have there back binding on a negative (-15). But a backcountry rider usually has the back binding as a positive (+15)
If your an all mountain rider I would suggest experimenting with everything. I'm an all mountain rider and have my bindings at around +15 and -10. I have good control and it's good for riding switch. I would do those degrees to help you with control and get you more comfortable riding switch.
Hope this helps.
1aaskater1 1 year ago
@zinotakesnotes
With the binding settings there is basically no right or wrong. It has to feel good for yourself.
But I agree that 0° - 0° isn't the best.
I pesonally ride +18° and -12° for freeriding and park.
Stance angle should not be bigger than 30° for most people.
Freeride : front between +12 and +21 back beetween 0 and - 12
Freestyle: +6 to -6 to +15 to -15 should be all good. Same angle on front and back for better switch riding or may be 3° less angle than fron.
bjoernaeschlimann82 1 year ago
this is far better than the expervillage vids, much more in depth and better explained.
liutenghou 2 years ago 10
Good videos, but I fucking hate that wolf howling, it's so damn loud!
hellomynameisty 2 years ago 113
totally agree with that!!
pwe1982 1 year ago
shouldnt you be carving just about every time you do a crossover like you explained. if theres really nothing going on except for leaning the board onto the edge there should be no sliding going on
sk8endorphin 2 years ago
Thanks for all you videos. Your explinations are the easyest to understand and explain exactly what I need to know. Thanks again!!
harvey785 2 years ago 8
I have been watching video clips to learn snowboarding and your video clips are the best! You explain "why" we have to do something with our body. Other video clips don't do that much. Thanks for this great clips!
1962jerome 2 years ago 5
Thanks for recording and posting these videos. You have a great way of explaining things.
blackflag62 2 years ago 34