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04-24-2008, 09:18 PM
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a good excercise to advoid starting a turn with your upper body is to hole tightly on your pockets. If you keep your hands at your side, It's a lot harder to turn incorrectly.
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04-27-2008, 01:16 AM
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Practice makes perfect!
Last edited by Metalhead505 : 04-27-2008 at 01:27 AM.
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04-27-2008, 01:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Snowolf
Rocking back and forth is just fine....it is a way to keep the board pointed down the fall line and control speed without making large radius turns. This technique is quite effective for going down cat tracks. Tilt is one of three fundamental movements to turn your board and is very appropriate..... 
As for riding flat, try to stay on edge, but at a low edge angle. I find that being slightly on toe edge is the easiest and then counter rotaing my shoulders to cancel out the toeside turning tendency. |
as i've gotten better. I've found that doing a shallow carve on flats reduces muscle fatigue ALOT. if you keep it real clean you don't loose much speed. |
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04-28-2008, 11:00 PM
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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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I have been working on eliminating that very problem since you gave me the advice and I have seen improvement in certain situations of my riding since then. It is a hard habit to break! I got very good at riding like that and although it helps to do it the right way, old bad habits are hard to break when you have succeeded and grown better at riding with them.
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05-31-2008, 06:03 PM
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Wait, is this right?
When I ride downhill and try to get more speed I usually lean my front leg a little forward to straighten out the board and bend my knees. I initiate my turns by leaning a little and bending my board with the front foot first and then follow-up with the back.
One of the worst habits I see in new riders is when they decide to go on a blue when they can barely make toe-side and heel-side turns and end up ruining your ride because they get out of control and cut you off.
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06-01-2008, 05:06 AM
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What you describe sounds right, just watch out for overdoing that leaning thing. Ideally, in most riding situations, you want to stay pretty much centered between the bindings and not radically shifting your weigh forward. As for the leaning, try to do the weighting of your edges with the lower body. Instead of leaning your upper body forward to initiate a toeside turn, shift your hips forward and gently arch your back to keep the upper body erect and over your board at all times. For good heelside edging, squat a little more while keeping the back straight and upright. As you do this, you will either flex or extend your ankle joint to pressure the corresponding edge with the front foot. Following through with the back foot is the way to go once the turn is fully established; this allows you to tilt the entire board onto it`s edge and let the sidecut complete your turn.
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06-11-2008, 01:42 PM
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Well I also skateboard along with snowboarding but what still gets me is i skate goofy but snow regular. Anyone have an idea of why this is?
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06-11-2008, 01:47 PM
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Well I also skateboard along with snowboarding but what still gets me is i skate goofy but snow regular. Anyone have an idea of why this is?
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06-11-2008, 02:07 PM
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Well I also skateboard along with snowboarding but what still gets me is i skate goofy but snow regular. Anyone have an idea of why this is?
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That's uhm....really fuckin' weird. |
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06-13-2008, 01:13 PM
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Great thread.
I didn't know using the back foot as a rudder was bad form. Like others here, nobody taught me. It was pretty much "find your own way down the hill." So when I started doing toeside, I'd swing my back foot out to turn.
I'm gonna have to work on that next time I go, but winter is so far away. 
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What would be considered bad habits?
