trickten

Hi Folks,

I'm a newbie and I had a question about going strait. When Im going strait down the hill the board has a tendency to catch the sides. My questions is: when your going strait, are you going flat on the board or are you on an edge? Thanks

Alex

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Alex

"The best snowboarder on the hill is the one having the most fun."

xevi89

Should only be flat right before hitting a jump, ollieing, (and possibly buttering, I'm not sure). Other than that you should always try to keep some type of edge.

Grimdog

I don't seem to have a problem riding a flat base on straight flat sections.

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Snowolf

You should try to ride on the edge as much as possible. When riding flat based, you board is very susceptible to an edge catch. The reason for this is you board is traveling with both edges on the snow and any pivot puts, you inot some degree of sideslip and you can really slam. Low edge angle is key and pointing your leading shoulder in the direction you want to go keeps you headed where you want to be. Riding a bit counter rotated also helps as it allows you to ride on edge and overide the turning tendencies this creates.

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Grimdog

Maybe I think I'm riding a flat base when I'm really riding on an extremely low edge angle?

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Snowolf

That is likely. A rider can go across the flats totally flat based, but the conditions must be very smooth and they have to really be on top of their shoulder rotation to make sure the board stays travelling straight, tip to tail. Watch the people zipping across the flats and look at their boards; you will see that one edge is completely up off the snow.

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DuncanShea

This thread have saved me ALOT of pain. The low edge angle was great info, as was the shoulder orientation. Just keeping my shoulders parallel with the board made a ton of difference! Thanks for the excellent tips.

I also detuned my tips which seemed to give me a tiny bit more leeway before a hard catch.

Snowolf

Glad it helped you out..

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trickten

Thanks for your input! I'm going to work on that.

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Alex

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