Penguin lancer

I can ride fakie as well as do toeside turns perfectly, but I can't for the life of me do heelside. Any tips besides practice? Also, if you can't tell, I am a beginner and was wondering what I should do next after learning Heelside.

Penguin lancer

Oy, just searched through...which I should have done first. ignore the heelside unless you wanna help. But any help on what to do after would be cool beans.

Mr. Right

I'm not an instructor so I'm sure there are better ideas people could give you but one thing that helped me when learning heelside was to lean the high backs on my bindings forward a little bit, it kept me from letting the board get flat and catching an edge. I still ride my bindings to this day with an 8 degree forward lean.

Penguin lancer

Help from anyone is great, since it's easy to say nothing. I'll try that next time I go. Also, killer pain in my right foot only. I'm thinking it's cause of the angle on my board, 15/-2, but I have no idea.

Snowolf

A common problem people have when turning heelside, is they lean their entire body heelside and loose thier balance (they just fall over backwards on the heel edge). To weight the heel edge in the turn, sit down in the turn and bend a little at the waist to keep the upper body over the board while weighting the heel edge with by shifting the hips over the heel edge as if you were about to sit in a chair. Also, remember to look over your front shoulder to where you want to go, this rotates the upper body properly to initiate the turn.

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