Snowolf

It can help quite a bit since a big part od AASI training is movement analysis. If you take an advanced lesson for this, you will get a lot more from a private lesson so the instructor can focus on your riding 100%.

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Andrew

I agree with them all except for #5.
This is not entirely true.
I pretty much started on terrain parks.
I mean besides the dozen or so greens.

it just depends on where your at and what kind of natural ability you have,

sedition

Walk before you run.

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rewind

That's a good tip about putting your back hand somewhere in front of and close to your body. I tend to let my back hand flap around as well, and a few weeks ago I hit an unexpected patch of ice on some pretty steep terrain. My legs flew out from under me, and I fell backwards. My hand ended up getting crunched between my tailbone and the hard ice. I thought it was broken as I sat on the side of the trail looking at the big red bulge that grew from my hand. Luckily it wasn't. But I think I finally learned my lesson in regards to my back hand.

Snowolf

It is amazing how a very minor thing like this can hinder your riding. I have always had a little tougher time making positive, powerfull toeside turns on the steeps. I was clinicing with a higher level instructor a few weeks agao and he spotten me doing this very thing. It is a habit that comes from your first days of learning to ride. You tend to put the back out in front of you to catch yourself if you fall toeside. Well, I was doing this and when I would turn toeside, that back hand would shoot out it front of me and was not even aware I was doing it. When that happens, it causes your shoulders to rotate COUNTER to a toeside turn. This counter rotation works against you when trying to turn toeside. To break myself of this habit, I now, deliberately "throw" my back hand behind me at the start of a toesdie turn, which causes my shoulders to pivot toeside much the way someone pre winding for a 180. Instantly I felt the toeside turning problem go away!

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gravityhomer

Just wanted to say that I joined this forum because of this thread. Thanks for all of the great tips. I've only snowboarded 4 times, and the last time I felt I really got the hang of it, and didn't fall once. But now from reading this I think that I just mastered a lot of bad habits. Using my back foot and upper body to turn. Doing nothing but skidding turns, and turning my upper body down the hill. I can't wait to get back out and try to do some of things talked about here.
Thanks for the great site.

sedition

Welcome aboard. And once you START falling, then you'll know your also really starting to PROGRESS.

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BC-Rider

I don't think I have any bad habits that I know of.

Bobafett

Guys, is 'pedaling' what is meant by pressuring the front foot either heel/toe to initiate the turn, followed by pressuring the rear foot the same way? I found my turns worked so much slicker by pressuring the front and creating a torsion on the board by initially keeping the pressure on the rear foot on the opposite edge, then changing the rear foot to the new edge after the turn had been initiated. Nobody's really taught me this per se, but it felt very natural and just kinda happened.

Snowolf

Yep, that is the correct and ideal way to initiate turns. By keeping the rear foot locked in with the uphill edge, it allows the nose of the board to in essence pivot around the rear foot.

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