Hey, just joined this forum, found it when I was searching for tips on doing spins.
Anyway, just how bad is it if you tend to ride a lot twisting your upper body down hill. I notice that when I'm doing heel side turns its not really an issue, nor too much when I'm just riding strait but once I'm doing a toe side turn since I'm facing up hill I tend to twist around in order to see down hill.
Another thing I've become more aware of is skidding, what exactly qualifies as skidding. Is it any carve that you make where your edge begins to slide toward the outside of the turn, like instead of holding your edge into the snow it sort of slides?
Another thing is just how much do you steer with the front. When I carve (lets justr say toe side) I find the entire process starts with putting weight onto the nose toe side edge which makes that edge catch the snow thus making me start to turn toe side. The only way I can describe the rest of it is sort of a twisting motion is what occurs in the entire board which begun with the front toe edge.
The problem I find is that no matter what I always feel like I'm skidding when I'm on hard pack or groomers. The only time I ever felt like I was truly carving was when I went up to Vermont and they had like a foot of powder.
I guess I just want to know what it is that separates skidding from true carving.
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