[neni]

You have GOT to post a picture of you brushing teeth/drying hair while squatting on that!:surprise:

One in pyjamas, wearing snoopy socks

 

[snowangel99]

Poor mans SA setup.

Yes like on the pipes but strapped in. Works best on the lawn away from concrete and furniture.
Couldn't find a good video of it so this instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W89xaI5UyxY

Is that you in the video @double?

 

[chomps1211]

One in pyjamas, wearing snoopy socks

OK,… Now I REALLY wanna see a pic in the Snoopy socks! >

(…Been a "Peanuts" fan since I was 5!) :grin:

 

[chomps1211]

I like the Balancefit (ours from Sissel) a lot. I like the thingy cos it's small n easy to move around in the appartment and lets me do a little leg exercise while doing other things. It's like a flat ball, air filled. If you stand on it, you stand on the air cushion, no solid ground under your foot; wiggle alla time.

I have two of those also! :grin: What I did was take a piece of scrap plywood, cut and sand it into roughly 6"x10" rectangle that I place on top of the stability disk while balancing on one foot. (I also have a couple of small half round balls, about the size of 1/2 a softball! I put that single rectangle on those to balance on one foot as well! (…I'll post a pic or two when I drag them out next!)

I feel that balancing on the hard, flat surface of the plywood on top of the disk, more accurately trains & builds the balance movements associated with snowboarding/skateboarding, etc. Pretty sure it helps train & strengthen the ankles for various buttering maneuvers as well!

 

[mojo maestro]

I have two of those also! :grin: What I did was take a piece of scrap plywood, cut and sand it into roughly 6"x10" rectangle that I place on top of the stability disk while balancing on one foot. (I also have a couple of small half round balls, about the size of 1/2 a softball! I put that single rectangle on those to balance on one foot as well! (…I'll post a pic or two when I drag them out next!)

I feel that balancing on the hard, flat surface of the plywood on top of the disk, more accurately trains & builds the balance movements associated with snowboarding/skateboarding, etc. Pretty sure it helps train & strengthen the ankles for various buttering maneuvers as well!

Can somebody forward this pic to Wiredsport.......? It's like a french tickler for feet...........

 

[DoubleA]

@snowangel no it's some random dude
@everyone else, just a random example jeesh

 

[neni]

I have two of those also! :grin: What I did was take a piece of scrap plywood, cut and sand it into roughly 6"x10" rectangle that I place on top of the stability disk while balancing on one foot. (I also have a couple of small half round balls, about the size of 1/2 a softball! I put that single rectangle on those to balance on one foot as well! (…I'll post a pic or two when I drag them out next!)

I feel that balancing on the hard, flat surface of the plywood on top of the disk, more accurately trains & builds the balance movements associated with snowboarding/skateboarding, etc. Pretty sure it helps train & strengthen the ankles for various buttering maneuvers as well!

That's cheating :grin:

 

[snowangel99]

@snowangel no it's some random dude
@everyone else, just a random example jeesh

(I knew that but you make it so easy lol). Now where is the video of you in your backyard? Come on already!!!!! I want to learn from you. I need the visual.

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[chomps1211]

That's cheating :grin:

:laugh: ...mabey so, but I can spin in a circle on one foot doing it that way! Can you?

Now if I could only manage that on an actual snowboard,...!! > :laugh:



-edit-
Here's the pics of those stabilty disks and my little foot board. :grin:

 

[DoubleA]

Now where is the video of you in your backyard? Come on already!!!!! I want to learn from you. I need the visual.

Practice. Preparation. End-less repetition. Until your mind is weary, and your bones ache. Until you're too tired to sweat. Too wasted to breathe.
That is the way, the only way one acquires Kung Fu.

 

[Thijs Schipper]

Two things, mainly.

First, I get better at riding boards by ... riding boards. Skateboard for rail and flip tricks (which I suck at), small longboard as a means of city transport, big longboard for longboard dancing (watch?v=5V7aoqC_Ct4). Especially the last one has helped tons in improving my balance, riding switch, landing blind, etc. They're all great for keeping your conditioning on point, too.

Second, I've been practicing with some parallettes that I had left from when I did gymnastics (photo not mine). Just simple stuff like hopping on/off in various slides and presses. They're super easy to make and easy on your board's base (because wood).

I'm far from an advanced snowboarder and my park experience pretty much ends at 3's and 50-50's, but I noticed a huge difference when I started doing other board sports over summers again. Simply felt much more in shape, much less need for pre-season exercise and I found I actually got better at snowboarding without touching one, if that makes sense.

 

[griffin1324]

I bought a Spri Wobble Board off of Amazon at the beginning of the year and have liked it so far. One foot, two feet, squatting, going heel to toe and vice versa.

I'm eventually going to start practicing crane kicks on it haha

Amazon Linke:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VHSBDU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1