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17/12/2024 5:26 am
@7b808 Where have you been riding? Schweitzer Mountain? They have a great bunny chair!
Keep working on those transitions and on "steering with your dick"! Send more video.
Yes sir! Schweitzer. The newly named "Creekside Express" has a perfect learning angle for the last 3/4 of the run. Great for warming up and/or tuning up! You just have to find a "peace bubble" front and back and not scare any beginners. The last hour of the day is usually great for lapping it as the crowd dies down.
Will steer w/ leg #3 and will post another video when I can find someone to film me 🙂
13/01/2025 8:44 pm
Hi carvers. I’ve been snowboarding for a while now but never been any good at carving. I’ve watched a lot of James and Lars’ (Just a Ride) videos on carving before travelling to the mountains this winter. Here are some clips of me on my first day trying to implement techniques from those videos. This is also my first day on a snowboard that is specifically made for carving. I used to ride park twins and pow boards beforehand. I would love if someone with more experience could point out some of my mistakes I should work on.
Cheers
This post was modified 4 days ago by AluinKali
14/01/2025 12:18 am
There is definitely a bunch of carving going on there- great job! The two things I would work on is keeping your upper body more plumb when making turns (less folding over at the waist) and rotating your upper body a bit more forward as well. This will force you to use your hips laterally to make your turns as opposed to using your upper body mass inside the turn.
Try standing in your snowboard stance two foot away from a wall- you can try it in each direction. Pretend you are a gunslinger with a six-shooter on each hip. When you lean into the wall to initiate your turn (either toe or heel) the point of your hip where your six-shooter is should touch the wall first, not your head/shoulder on your toe side or your tailbone on your heel side.
A word of caution- getting your hands down on the snow looks super-cool, but it only works well if you have everything else done right. Reaching for the snow first is counterproductive.
Keep at it! Work, work, work.....
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14/01/2025 1:29 am
@deuxdiesel thanks a bunch for your tipps. I’ll definitely try the thing with the wall. I’m not really trying to reach for the snow I think it’s more of a byproduct of my bad posture. I’ll try to be a bit more conscious about my body position. Trying what you described off the piste probably helps to teach my body how it should feel like.
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