Tips for toeside hips

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@carverarcalis great riding! Your video renders on Instagram are epic, I love them! I'm not @wild-cherry and it'd be great to know his view, but I can see, only in the first clip, that you are gaining a lot of speed at the beginning of the toeside turn. That board needs a lot of pressure to decamber (stiff flex) so it gains a lot of speed turning that wide. I also think you need more pressure toward the nose of the board in the first phase of the turn. More edge pressure, its timing and positioning is needed to bend the board more and tighten the turn to control the speed.

This not-so-efficient circumstances make it hard to maintain your body in a more relaxed position.

Second clip is EPIC! Terrain is less steep and you handled it much better.

@carverarcalis I'll do a more thorough analysis in a video later this summer but I was watching this just now one big tip comes to mind.

Rule number one of snowboard carving is "Keep Your Shoulders Level!".   Your heelside is great, you're crunching in the rear obliques and 'sitting up'; this is crucial to keeping your edge in the snow.  On the toeside, however, your body is parallel to the snow surface and your shoulders are stacked one on top of the other.  Practice the tray drill, crunch in the front obliques to keep your shoulders level and feel how that board digs in deep. 

Focus on that crunch and feel how much control you have in that one body part, the front obliques.  You can tighten up your turn for example by exaggerating that motion.  Play with it, that's definently the most important mistake you're making on toeside.  I might point out some other areas for improvement too when I get around to analyzing all these videos later in the summer.  (This week I'm chopping firewood and pulling weeds, also very important!)

@wild-cherry thanks! you are right, with the toesides it feels more "unnatural" or insecure to crunch the obliques in, I've been practicing it in mellow runs and I can feel it, but when I get to steeper terrain or if I'm riding faster my brain doesn't accept the movement yet 😆 

Next season I will practice it every day until it feels comfortable and secure.

@iacopo appreciate your kind words! 😍 I Hope this animations will help a lot of people analizing the body mechanics. An animation of Jame's Pencil line will be comming really soon!  You are right as well, on the kessler that I'm riding in the videos has a side cut radious of 15m so it wants to go big and fast 😛 

Thank you!!

This one is done and done!

Six more to go! I will get to all of them as promised, in time.  (Well, the other six that were posted in the spring anyway, that offer for free technical analysis has expired now.)