Knee steering

Stacked position over the board. Face facing the direction of travel. Use the front knee to steer and put about 60% of your weight on lead foot.

• Toe turn: Squish the bug (move knee towards toes)
• Heel turn: Open the door (move knee towards front of the board, in a quarter circle)

Carving

• Means having one edge in the snow and leaving a pencil thin line behind you, no breaking
• “Even weight” 60 / 40 on the front and the back foot
• This is the opposite of skidded turns
• Stay low with bend knees in the carves

Learn to carve

1. make sure you can flat base for a couple of seconds, because it means the center of mass is perfect over the board. If an edge engages your body position is not centered.
2. Toe turn from flatbase: Bend knees to press chins into front of boots
   • Complete one turn so that you are cutting a cross the slope and come to a stop
3. Heel turn from flatbase: Bend knees like sitting down, feel weight pushing down through heels
4. Practice both turns with increasing speed
5. Add early edge change
   • Go into toe turn
   • Once you go across slope (90deg to fall line)
   • Get up into tall position and sink down into back position for a heel turn
6. Keep linking turns by moving center of mass up and over the board

   Speed control using closed turns

   • Engage edge
   • Go down in your knees to press the edge into the snow, this creates friction, which makes you slow down - Large turns up the run
     • Making larger turns that go across or even partly up the run can help slow down again
       • Speed checks
     • quick, short breaking in between == board 90deg towards direction of travel
       • Edge pressure for speed
     • Go down by bending your knees and extend them to push pressure into your edge to pick up some speed

Strap in while standing

• Dig a platform with your snowboard so that you can safely stand on just the front foot
• Better: Push with your snowboard “heel” forward to create the platform
  • Now clean back foot, place in binding and strap in

Skating / Snowboarding with one foot

Speed up

• To speed up, put back foot behind snowboard and push

  Ride

• Press back foot against binding from the inside
• Make sure back foot is completely on the board
• Put most weight on front foot

  Break

• Put back foot toe off board into snow to break

  Refresher

Good position

• keep upper and lower body aligned
• to practice hold on to your pants while riding
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Riding flats / catwalks

• Keep edge engaged, but only a little bit.
  • Rock from heel to toe edge and back
• Stand with your **knees bent, back straight and hands over the snowboard but your weight centred **both horizontally and vertically on the board
• If you catch an edge, this means the body position is not perfect
• Use need knee steering to make turns == 60% of your weight on the front foot
• To slow down turn (best onto heel edge) and break a bit

  T-Lift

  

• front foot strapped in, back foot loose
• hold on the stick going into the rope (NOT T-part) with front hand (left hand) to keep your body aligned with direction of travel
• t between legs
• apply pressure to both toes to go into toe direction
• apply pressure to both heels to go into heel direction
• most of the time let your board guide you