Duck stance certainly is an automatic hip alignment cure, I teach noobs with FF stance to put their rear hand in their rear pocket and that keeps them aligned as they unload from lifts and ride one footed.
Most people don't hold them long enough so don't hate on yourself for doing that. It's a stepping stone to heel turn proficiency. Sometimes when I am lazy I get stuck on a locked heel edge and have to ride up hill to a stop.
It's a teenage girl lol.
Focus on creating your toe turn by pushing your front hip toe side the relaxing for heel side.
Ha! Wish I had teenage girl size feet sometimes.
i had my heelside carve pretty good and i do hold them longer, but i lost my edge when i tried to transition to my toe side by lifting my front heel up to early before my body was positioned to transition to toe side and down i go sliding on my butt and laughing my ass off!
That’s the ticket! The teenage girl rips too! Spent another day on the diamond blade Sunday slaying groomers. Today was a low angle day railing the Niche Pyre 155. Headed out tomorrow again on the Fullbag-day 4 of 7. Both rail really well but I have the pyre set up at 18/0, the fullbag 24/6. Different boards with the pyre being more of an S camber, but boy that 18/0 stance lets me rail it.
YES! Stoked to see Gelanding ripping the sides. That’s my style.
Too much squat in toe turns too
That is what i normally do but for some reason i my brain says"ok you need to go toe side now"but my body just delayed the action and my front foot release the edge. It was late on the day so i guess i was tired already though i was trying for another nice carve to finish the day.
I totally agree.when I first started this I was bearing too much weight but now I try to estimate the forces of the turn based on speed and pitch and then try to match that with how much weight I throw inside the arc. When I get it wrong I touch my bum on the snow and the nose of the board skips around, when I get it right I hover 1cm off the surface of the snow without touching and that puts a big smile on my face
You will never make amazing progress late in the day, I would even say the first 2 hours of the day are your window for experimental riding, while conditions are best and the crowds are still making their way to the mountain, you get your work done then dial it back a bit and enjoy the rest of the day.
Haha, rode with them a ittle bit last season. Their motto translates loosely, "May you find your enligh-turn-ment." They mostly ride Pheonix Pyonchang, site of the last winter Olympics. The thing with that crew/ resort is, the same style of riding is f'ing everywhere, like Agent Smith in The Matrix. Some super-Knapton level skills here and there, too.
