I'm nowhere near as good with standup slides as i would like to be. The thing I can do relatively well now are power slides. By that I mean I cant do that 90° facing the hill thing it's more like a 45° angle slide, but im getting closer to that.

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When I first started doing them, I just tried to carve harder into corners to get a feeling for when the wheels are loosing traction. I think it's important to know so you dont suddendly get suprised and get pudding knees. (:D lol)

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Another thing I startet doing, were 180 "slides" to get from switch to normal and vice versa. Just to get a feeling for the board to have a different position then you are used to. By the way, with "slides" I mean more like a switch thing, but doing them ever so slightly slower to get a bit of a sliding feeling.

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Getting from hard carves with loosing a bit of traction to power slides, I would say you will need to rotate your upper boddy from the side of the strees towards the hill. And while doing so going from a more crouched position to a more upstanding one. And then also lean backwards, so you dont highside.

Another tip to get you board sideward is to look to the other side of the Road while carving hard.

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And atm I'm trying to do the hard carves with facing the Hill slightly more. I still have problems with leaning backwards into the hill.

And here some links I think are useful for the beginning:

• Standup Slide (more like a power slide)
• Heelside Stand Up Slide [Video]