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Snowboard Addiction Discount for Board Members

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
The Team at Snowboard Addiction is stoked to announce a running 10% discount for Snowboarding Forum members. The 10% discount applies to all products (except subscriptions), has no end date and is exclusively for all board members.

When checking out, enter the discount code Contact an admin for code to receive your 10% discount instantly.

Please do not give this code to anyone outside the forum as we are offering this to board members only and sharing of this code will hurt business (we're a small business, so every dollar counts).

If you guys have any questions, feel free to email me at info@snowboardaddiction.com

Thanks and enjoy!

-David
 
#4 ·
I've been fighting with my tail butter for a year now. I'd get 90 degrees then poof no motion. It's been driving me insane.

Picked up the freesyle set and the butter vid had the ONE detail I had been missing. Nailed it on my first try. I damn near messed my pants I was so happy.
 
#9 ·
Your lessons are good, but your automatic charging of credit cards for subscription sucks. To top it all off, if I want it to not charge next year, and I stop the subscription, I lose access to my current subscription that I've already been charged for. How does this make sense?

So guys, if you buy this, DO NOT GET THE FREE 6 MONTH SUBSCRIPTION unless you want your card charged every year.
 
#10 ·
I had the same thing happen to be but they were cool about it and offered a discount on a 12 month subscription. The videos have got me stoked to ride again. I have been in a rut for along time not learning anything new, at the end of last season the videos gave me inspiration to try some new stuff. Most of the people I ride with are about the same level of riding so nothing to learn from them. Ride with people better than you and you will improve alot.
 
#11 ·
For those that have ordered the videos, have you done the online/download version, or ordered the DVD's? Do they run smooth in "full screen mode", or do you have to watch them at a reduced size on your computer monitor? I also presume the download version is an actual download that saves on your computer, not just a streaming video... correct? I'm just trying to decide if I want to spend the extra money for the DVD's or not.

Thanks for your help.
Tip It and Rip It.
Chad
 
#12 ·
For those that have ordered the videos, have you done the online/download version, or ordered the DVD's? Do they run smooth in "full screen mode", or do you have to watch them at a reduced size on your computer monitor? I also presume the download version is an actual download that saves on your computer, not just a streaming video... correct? I'm just trying to decide if I want to spend the extra money for the DVD's or not.
I bought the downloads. They're actual vid files, which you can play on your pc or put on your ipod/iphone to review on the mountain. They run fine, good production quality. Absolutely recommend the downloads.
 
#13 ·
Thanks much Donutz. I have a conference I am attending this week which means a couple hours travel in a car (I'm not driving), and time to kill in a hotel room. Planning on getting the downloads now to help prep for the season... and kill some time :)

I hope to get the discount code sometime today so I can get the downloads tonight.

Tip It and Rip It
Chad
 
#14 ·
I second the quality (on all aspects) of their downloadable video files. Instruction is great, videos well put together, and VERY well explained. I downloaded the files and watch them all the ime on my phone.

HOWEVER, this auto billing of my credit card is something I dont like. Thanks for the heads up on that one guys..... gotta look into that
 
#21 ·
HOWEVER, this auto billing of my credit card is something I dont like. Thanks for the heads up on that one guys..... gotta look into that
Sorry about that, we know there is a bug in that system and we are working with our web developers to try to get it to send notification emails out, hopefully soon. If you ever have any problems please contact us and we'll be stoked to help out! Glad you're enjoying the videos!
 
#22 ·
SA it's very early in the season here. One of our hills is blowing a lot of snow for a hike rail session. I hope to put some of the off-season practice to good use tomorrow with my kids. I hope to have some pics and video of this dad doing some jibbing.
Thinking of the trick I want to try. Visualize them and they will happen !!!
 
#30 · (Edited)
So I purchased the "learn to ride" beginner set as well as the intermediate set. Overall I think it's a good purchase but it seems to be missing some really important things.

Early on, the video starts out with some inside warm-up practice movements. Among these I recognized the down-unweight and the up-unweight, as well as the fore-aft movement that I'm only aware of from all of Snowolf's posts. They didn't actually use those terms to identify them, but I was glad to see that because I expected that the following videos would show how to apply those to riding. They never did! :icon_scratch: The fore-aft was later applied during the presses and ollie tutorials, but when they start to cover carving, it only really talks about how to create edge angle. There is no mention of dynamic turns at all in the beginner series.

The Beginner set has a fair bit of content, totaling about 25 minutes of board setup/equipment explanation and about 45 minutes of riding instruction. The intermediate set is a bit lacking in comparison. It has a 13 minute video of instruction and another 15 minute "challenge" video. The topics covered have good breadth and are things I wanted to learn about, as well as topics I hadn't thought of and was glad to learn. But the depth is not really there. It goes into bumps/moguls/steeps, but doesn't cover dynamic riding first. If you've already read Snowolf's detailed posts, you will be able to recognize that their riders demonstrating the steeps are using the fore-aft and dynamic techniques. I was looking for the unweight motions as well, but these must be too subtle to spot because I couldn't tell how/if they were being applied. As someone struggling to really nail dynamic riding in trickier terrain, it feels like this is probably the single most important skill at this stage, and I don't feel like this series got me closer to that particular goal. I don't have any real basis for that statement other than recognizing it as a barrier in my current progression and seeing it emphasized by coaches on here.

Anyway, they are a great visual aid, and they cover a lot of things that I didn't know, even in the beginner series. I don't regret the purchase but I still kind of feel like the Intermediate series missed the mark and doesn't have enough info on it's own to let you master the early-intermediate fundamentals.

And I do dislike the negative option billing. Of course, it's used because it makes more money, but it's kind of a shady business practice and is probably gonna piss me off in 6 months when it auto-renews and I've forgotten about it.

For context, I consider myself an intermediate rider who was self taught and learned some bad habits. Actually after watching the videos, I'd almost want to call myself an advanced beginner. I don't have trouble on blue groomers but I'm weak in a lot of other areas that these vids highlighted. I've been reading a lot of the coaching threads on the forum to improve my riding but find it difficult to visualize certain techniques and hoped that this would help with that.

Short version: Really good videos, learned a lot, but really wish that there was more depth on the intermediate series. I'll probably buy the freestyle series once I feel like I've nailed everything here. If they release an update to the intermediate vids that cover the areas that I mentioned, I would have no real complaints.
 
#32 ·
SA responding to jtg



Hey jtg
It's Nev Lapwood here, the owner of Snowboard Addiction.
Thanks for your feedback. I take all feedback from customers very seriously and try my best to improve SA where ever possible.
Regarding the "Intermediate Riding Program" that we made, I am not at all happy with it. Which is why it's right at the bottom of our shopping cart and we haven't dont much promotion of it.
The good news is that we are now creating some more intermediate riding videos to add to it. These new intermediate riding videos will be given for free to all previous customers of the intermediate riding program including yourself. 2 of the new videos are: common problems that intermediate riders experience and a carving video. I'm not sure exactly when they'll be released but hopefully soon.
Some of the techniques you are talking about in your post are quite complex and time consuming to create a video on. I'll add them to the long list of tutorials that we should make and will try get them to everyone in the future.

Regarding the subscription billing. It is not at all compulsory. If you think it's "shady business" then please don't join. We sell all the videos through the shopping cart when they are ready. The subscription was something that was asked for by our customers so that they didn't have to pay full price for each new video we create. I know it's not perfect, but always a work in progress.
We also warn people via email before any charge is coming up.

PS: Our freestyle series if our most popular stuff and is what we originally started doing. It's our strong point. I would highly recommend getting your hands on it and would love to get your feedback any time to info@SnowbaordAddiction.com

Thanks for your support.
Cheers
Nev
 
#34 ·
Snowboard Addiction subscription and tutorials

Hi Guys,

We do want any feedback on any of our products. Our company is built upon customer feedback because without you guys we wouldn't exist! If you have ideas about further tutorials you would like to see or methods to improve our systems as we say just email us at info@snowboardaddiction.com

On our website you can even leave feedback on any products that you have purchased as these will help others to see if this product is for them.
 
#35 ·
Went to download the new "shifties" vid and I happened to see their list of upcoming topics. For anyone who's interested,


Building A Backcountry Jump
1st May, 2013.

Buttering - Tail Butter 180s
1st June, 2013.

Common problems of intermediate riders
1st July, 2013.

Carving
1st August, 2013.

Buttering - 180 Tail Butter 180 Out
1st September, 2013.

Grabs
1st October, 2013.

Methods
1st November, 2013.

Spinning Backside
1st December, 2013.

Spinning Frontside
1st January, 2014.

Buttering - 180 Butter 360 Out
1st February, 2014.

Buttering - MFM Butter
1st March, 2014.
 
#36 ·
Thanks for the comment dude. We are changing things here so we our hoping to release a video a month for all subscribers. We will be looking at changing our business model on subscription soon but for now it is only $27 a year to get all these new tutorials. Once they go into our shop they will be back to $24.50 so get in with the subscription plan today
 
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