Snowboarding Tips

Are you snowboarding for a year or more?
Is it true that you sometimes feel that it "does not work" exactly as you want?
You have trouble controlling your speed?
Sometimes you can not execute a turn without knowing why?
You want to push your ride to the next level and show off perfectly drawn large fast curves but you have trouble doing so because there is almost always "something wrong" ?

Today I'd like to help you killing off a bad habit, and it may certainly help you accomplish all this.

This bad habit is that constant use of your rear foot to move the back of your board, acting like a rudder ... Maybe you do not know but it is a very bad habit, it simply prevent you to progress and move up a gear.
More : this habit keeps closed the doors to incomparable carving pleasure, and the longer you will ride this way, the most it will be hard to ride another way !
What you must understand is that there is no need to turn the "rudder way". A snowboard's shape naturally turns, use this potential and you will discover another world ...
A world of effortless turns with 10 times higher sensations !

To kill this bad habit I propose you to go back riding an hour or two on a very low slope and to try what could be named 3 stages turns :

Stage 1 :

Let it be ! allow your board to go downhill , not very hard, only watch downhill. Your board is only waiting for that = going down! (Remember Newton ...) These three snowboarding tips could help you:

* Keep early dominant support on your front leg, there must be more weight on the front foot, it's simple, if you weigh 100 kg there must be more than 50 kg on the front foot. If there is less, it just don't work! Just slightly move up your hips above the front foot to get there.51 kg is enough, 70 will be perfect, so don't be "too much" !
* Keep flexible legs and upper body erect, be proud ...
* Do not turn upper body forward (another bad habit) but keep your shoulders and your hips turned in the same direction as your feet are.

So you start off and you are now almost in the fall line, I mean you're almost going straight down. This is where you usually move on the back of your board to finish the turn, if you have not already done so even sooner ! Am I wrong? Guess not, then forget it this time, it's useless + it deprive you of the best part of the turn, that gives the sensation, the orgasmic part !
Ok, ok, so you're almost in the fall line. Do not pull like a bull on your rear foot but just leave the board continue its path until it is completely flat on the snow. Then you're on the line, you really go right down and just almost nothing to end your turn.

But don't do it ! Relax...

Stage 2 :

Keep a few meters in this way. You must do this without effort, your board must go right down without you having to direct it.
It is not so easy when you're used to forget this phase of the turn.
These three snowboardingtips will help you again :

* Keep early dominant support on your forward leg, there must be more weight on the forward foot, it's simple, if you weigh 100 kg there must be more than 50 kg on the forward foot. If there is less, it does not work! Just slightly move up your hips above the forward foot to get there.
* Keep flexible legs and upper body erected, be proud ...
* Do not turn upper body forward (another bad habit) but keep your shoulders and your hips turned in the same direction as your feet are

Stage 3 :

Here you are! Kindly lean on the frontside or backside edge, regarding on the turn you are running, and you're done ! You're completing the turn without effort ! You just have to start over stage 1 to continue on.

Well. You've noticed it takes a little time ... That's why I advise you to do it on a low slope, and do not hesitate to slow down skidding before starting again stage 1.
Do it for an hour or two and stage 2 increasingly become short and ultimately nonexistent. You're riding an edge to another without trouble. You start feeling your board quietly carving. Carving doors are wide opened !
Try it this winter, bookmark this article, print this page and keep it in your pocket this winter on the slopes.

Now I will tell you that the "rudder way" is not completely useless, in fact it's very useful in some cases for example if you want to stop abruptly, or if you are on a huge slope with bumps and / or very little space.
But that's another story ....

I wish you a great winter season.