[BRsnow]

You will catch an edge when you are just starting to learn and then every once in a while as you get better, usually when you are not paying attention. However I do think a lot of people are starting off on advanced boards that are harder to ride. This will just extend the learning curve and increase how often you catch an edge...High-end boards are harder to ride at first...

 

[Guest]

yeah i was thinking that perhaps upgrading from rental to ns sl all-mountain type board was a big jump and i had to fine-tune some skills before adapting to the responsiveness, i had the board detuned nose/tail before my runs, then i went back after the first day to have my effective edges detuned, the shop person laughed at me and called me stupid, well not really but he said that i would want to keep the edges very sharp for carving and the reason i was catching was cuz i wasnt paying attention or im not keeping an edge pressed most of the time..

i've been browsing the other thread: www.snowboardingforum.com/tips-tricks-instructors/3575-edge-not-edge.html

im gonna try keeping toe-edge and counter-rotate my shoulders a bit to off-set going to the right (regular) on flat tracks..

but the positive note is that on steep hills u kinda have to keep on ur edges most of the time so catching is less frequent, but when it does occur, its gonna hurt! i hit my head on the ice!

 

[Guest]

Last season, my second time out, I caught a toe edge on the flats of a green run and proceeded to do my imitation of Superman. I did not land well. I researched on here what I did wrong and on my third time out I kept remembering all the good advice offered to others and had the best time. Everytime I got "too" copmfortable I remembered the tips offered here. Heed the advice offered here and enjoy your time on the mountain.

 

[Mr. Right]

Here is a great depiction of the thread title.

YouTube - My famous snowboard crash

Looks like it was a pretty decent hit too.

 

[Guest]

My favorite is when your riding and you feel that something is about to go wrong,but instead you brain fart and then...SMACK!!Ragdoll..Starfish..Scorpion.And then the stares of people laughing at you.

exactly...

my lsat run this past saturday was so painful...bad bad...

i went stright down a blue area with very little toe slid.... looked left, saw a guy catching an edge and though "fcuk, that sucks..."

then next thign you know, "SMACK!!Ragdoll..Starfish..Scorpion"

i was on the ground for half an hr trying to catch my breath =[

 

[Guest]

ive done the same thing snowolf. i heard someone fall about 10 feet behind me, so i turned around to check it out, and sure enough i joined that nice young man with my own faceplant in the snow.

 

[Guest]

im glad to hear these stories, it gives me reassurance that even experienced riders slip up sometimes..

 

[Mr. Right]

im glad to hear these stories, it gives me reassurance that even experienced riders slip up sometimes..

When you are experienced it happens less frequently but is usually much more painful. I haven't been riding that long but I pretty much smoke almost everyone on the mountain where I ride when it comes to going fast. When I catch an edge it lays me out for a few really hard . It will probably always happen to me as I progress and even as I get better and better. I just hope nobody is looking and I don't land on ice

 

[Guest]

don't think. feel!

LOL I can totally picture Bruce Lee on a snowboard slappin' wrists!

 

[Guest]

An excercise in training yourself to really feel what the board is doing and learning very precise edge control is the 360 flat spin or "helicopter" this is where you ride down a gentle slope doing 360 spins and constantly making edge changes through the spin. Get to where you can do these well in both directions, and you will really develope a good feel for your board.

Does this exercise somewhat resemble "butters" or "Buttercups"?

 

[Phenom]

Does this exercise somewhat resemble "butters" or "Buttercups"?

Butters are when you apply a majority of your weight to one foot or the other while lifting the unweighted foot. This causes one end of your board to come off the ground while you ride on the other end.

When I fall I usually just laugh it off, it helps if you have friends with you to joke around with. I've recently been working on buttering on my nose. The most difficult part is knowing how high your tail is off the snow. When I do it, I'm looking forward to see where I'm going, so I really can't see if my tail is high off the ground, so I always think I can make it look better by leaning farther forward to bring the tail up higher. Needless to say, there was a bunch of times last night when I just tumbled over the tip of my board into a painless (fortunately), hands first slide.

 

[Guest]

Butters are when you apply a majority of your weight to one foot or the other while lifting the unweighted foot. This causes one end of your board to come off the ground while you ride on the other end.

Oooohhh! I thought those were like presses or something.

 

[Phenom]

Oooohhh! I thought those were like presses or something.

Tail press or nose press = butters. Depends on what you wanna call it.

 

[sedition]

If you are pushing yourself you will fall.

If you don't fall, on a regular basis, your staying way too far inside your comfort zone. Fredrick Douglas said it best, "No stuggle, no progress." If short, if you don't fall, your doing something wrong.

 

[sedition]

I pretty much smoke almost everyone on the mountain where I ride when it comes to going fast. When I catch an edge...

Heard that. I'd rather fall off a rail in the park than catch an edge at doom-speed any day of the week.

 

[sedition]

And then there is this kind of catching an edge (of a rail).

 

[Guest]

And then there is this kind of catching an edge (of a rail).

ouch, i feel his pain just watching that video

 

[olas38]

Im happy to be a live ! all SB seasson was fine till last week, exact like you just said ! i was doing rails and boxes ! and catch the edge and crack several ribs and wipeplash neck so (everything go and circles around me )i know now at we can do the edges little more rounded ... my question is from where to where so I can be able to ride all over the resort and rails and boxes too...??? becouse if i rounded the all board edges i can not turn ... thanks .

 

[tboooe]

When you are experienced it happens less frequently but is usually much more painful. I haven't been riding that long but I pretty much smoke almost everyone on the mountain where I ride when it comes to going fast. When I catch an edge it lays me out for a few really hard . It will probably always happen to me as I progress and even as I get better and better. I just hope nobody is looking and I don't land on ice

I am the same way. A few weeks ago I was really going fast through a flat portion of the hill, caught an end and promptly flace planted on the ice. My goggles flew off and I ended up skidding on my face. End result, a nice raspberry on my check, concussion, slight whiplash, monster headache, and a wife that would not stop laughing her ass off! She still wont stop talking about the time I decided to try and snowboard on my face.

Now I make sure I only ride on a slight edge, or if I am on the flat part of my board I either only travel at a small angle across the hill or I am super diligent and make quick adjustments when I feel the board begin to yaw.

 

[Zee]

Detuning the tip and tail and proper edge beveling will reduce your chances of catching an edge. Way too many people with their default factory tune.