Improve your writing hi this is nev lapwood snowboardaddiction.com we're writing a whistle blackcomb and this tutorial is on how to improve your writing we cover a few issues that happen to intermediate writers how to spot them and what you can do to fix it this tutorial is mostly related to body .
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Position if you can get your body position correct you'll snowboard a hell of a lot better and you're going to feel more comfortable jumping right in the park and hitting all types of features film your writing nearly all riders encounter the same problems with snowboard technique the problem is that most people do not know they have any of these issues going on until you've seen it on video .
I'd highly recommend for you to get out there and film your writing everyone has access to a video camera these days whether it's a gopro or just the camera on your smartphone go up with a buddy take a lap out of each day and film each other so you can go home and see what you look like this is going to do wonders for your writing you'll pick up so much stuff that you did not realize was happening and you can compare your writing to mine .
Or other pros that you want to ride like ideal turns ideal intermediate turns on a snowboard should look like this each turn has a smooth consistent radius with your speed being controlled throughout the turn your knees should be bent with your hips pushed forward and a straight upright back your whole body should be making each turn together in unison with your upper .
Body and lower body aligned through your turns and your hips located central between your feet it should look and feel effortless straight legs the first problem that many people have is riding with their legs too straight with snowboarding you need to bend your knees so you can ride smoothly through all the little bumps and inconsistencies in the snow riding with straight legs creates a .
Bunch of other problems when you try to make a heel edge turn with straight legs it looks like this you get this really awkward position where your bum sticks out and your upper body bends over i often see people riding in this bent over position it's not stable and it's not going to help your writing in a straight leg turn you often have a lot of weight out towards your heel edge .
You may find yourself chattering through the turns it's like cha cha cha cha as you're making that turn and you're probably going to fall over like this what you want to do is be in this position pushing the shins into the front of your boots while bending your knees and pushing your hips forward which allows you to keep your back up straight running this position is going to give .
You a lot of advantages it puts the weight of your body over top of your board increasing your stability and control the flex position will help to absorb bumps you'll be able to pop better from jumps and absorb your landings this posture keeps you upright and it'll help your riding a lot one of the strategies you can do to improve this is get strapped into your .
Board and feel this position of pushing your shins into the front of your boots and your hips forward hold onto something for balance and feel what it's like to use the toe and heel edge to pressure your toe edge push your shins into the front of your boots then push your hips forward like this for your heel edge try to keep your shins pushed into the front of your boots and sink your hips .
Down towards your high back and lift your toes to create edge while riding traverse across a quiet run on your toe edge push your shins into your boots and push your hips forward it's much easier to feel this position on the toe edge on your heel edge see if you can still push your shins forward into the front of your boots and stick your hips down slightly lifting your toes to create .
Edge adding forward lengthier bindings is a simple way to achieve this body position the high backs of all good snowboard bindings can be set into a more forward position like this i personally ride with a lot of forward lean as i like the extra response it gives your riding and i recommend it to most riders if you ever see a gap between the back of your boot and your high back while .
Riding on the toe edge then i recommend adjusting your bindings so they have more forward length to avoid your turns chattering you need to improve your ability to apply pressure on your edges right straight downhill gaining a little speed then come to a stop on your heel edge as quickly as you can once stopped take three hops uphill on your heel edge .
This is tricky but it'll help to develop your skills if your legs are too straight then you'll probably fall this exercise helps you to build and release pressure quickly over the edge of your board ride downhill again this time come to a stop as quickly as you can on your toe edge jump three small hops downhill on your toe edge .
This exercise forces you into flexing with your knees and ankles which will translate into your riding improving your ability to control pressure through your turns counter rotation for smooth controlled writing you want your upper body and your lower body to be in line with each other because it gives you better balance and stability in your writing one of the most common problems for .
Intermediate riders is running with a body position that is not aligned you'll see riders cruising with the upper body turned this way facing forwards it's not very stable if you hit a bump it's likely you'll get thrown off balance and may crash instead you want to be like this with your upper body and lower body in line with your board you'll see a lot of people going down .
The mountain doing something like this with awkward turns constantly out of alignment that's called counter rotation where your upper and lower body become disjointed not working in harmony and twisting against each other to make the turn happen this especially happens when doing turns on your toe edge on this freeze frame you can see how this guy's upper body is completely out .
Of alignment with his lower body if you compare this with my writing you'll see that every time i make a turn my upper body and my lower body are almost always heading in the same direction it looks smooth balanced and effortless as i flow through each turn if you can get your writing like this you'll be more comfortable with everything else you want to learn on a snowball on flat ground this is what good .
Alignment looks like when i do a toe edge turn you'll see my upper body helps to initiate the turn my shoulders my hip my knee and everything goes in the same direction on a heel edge turn my upper body turns my hips turn my knees turn all in the same direction you probably don't know whether you can rotate your turns or not until you get to see your own writing and video if you do you're going to want to try to .
Break this habit to increase the stability of your writing one tactic you can do is try to grab your pants while running this will aid as a subtle reminder to keep your upper body and lower body moving together in the same direction through each turn imagine you have a pole that goes through your body and you're holding onto each end of the pole to turn your snowboard you turn the pole .
Through your hips turn the pole this way and you'll initiate a tow edge turn turn this way for a heel edge turn after you've got the idea relax try to make it look natural again writing with your upper and lower body in alignment unscented hips many riders get into the habit of sliding their back foot around on each tune going from side slip to side slip .
Rather than having nice round turns this is usually the result of having your hips slightly too far forward and a little too much weight over your front foot if your direction of snowboarding is more downhill rather than nice round turns you're not using a lot of space on a run or you see a lot of snow being washed downhill after each turn and you are probably sliding your back foot out if you look closely at my riding you'll .
See that my hips are in the center of my board as i go through each turn if your hips aren't in the center then your body position is not as stable as it could be on a mellow slope try hopping while you traverse on your toes the point is to get a flexing motion going especially with your back knee now during a turn see if you can do four hops through the turn .
This tactic brings your weight back to be more central over both feet it also makes your turns a lot wider and rounder so you'll take up more terrain through each turn which helps to fix this issue after several turns with hops continue to ride the slope doing big wide turns taking up lots of terrain another tactic to get the weight off your front foot is to try to do turns up the slope need to transfer some of your weight slightly more to your back foot if you stay off your front foot you'll feel that it's much more difficult getting your board to ride uphill at the end of your turns summary this tutorial outlined a few of the common problems that occur with intermediate writers as they are progressing .
You want to make sure you remove any of these issues that may be in your writing and try to copy the technique and body position of experts make sure to get out there and film a few laps with your buddies analyze your own writing from the video and compare it to mine to see where you can improve this is neve lapwood snowboard addiction.com our goal is to improve your writing .
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