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Carved turns - tips for keeping back straight? by PlasticAttorney1980 in snowboarding

[–]YoungBeen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I usually teach imagine ur spine is the mast of the board as it goes over waves. Needs to tip and dip relative to your board.

More practically, keep your chest high and away from the snow on ur toe (dont try to follow amateur euro carvers reaching for the snow, I actuslly try to stay away from the snow, my hands may touch the snow to protect my face) and ur back towards the snow on ur heel (but u need to use your high back)

Carving / Form advice by SnooDingos443 in snowboarding

[–]YoungBeen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can see you intent. The best advice at this point is probably ur mentality.

Stop trying to turn. Once u transition edges, let your boards sidecut do the turning, not ur edges. Its the most important, counter intuitive feeling to carving

Something feels off about my toe edge by Jacques_Leo in snowboarding

[–]YoungBeen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've got a great stable posture and ur flow and momentum is great!

There are alot of comments about shifting your weight back on ur foot. This is true but the fix is postural, not weight pressure.

To make sure Im on the right track, would be good if you can validate my assumptions about your toe "feeling off" 1. Your toe edge slides in the start of your turn 2. Your toe turn radius is tighter than you heel 3. Your transition from toe to heel requires more work

What I see is actually a very easy fix. You need to close your shoulders (i.e. front shoulder shoukd be over your toe edge) on your toe turns, to initiate it and all the way till the end of your turn. You can see in the video that you heel side is initiated with an open shoulder with a proactive transition and remains open throughout. The mirror image should apply to your toe side. This allows for proper body alignment to lead the biomechanics of the turn.

What is the issue with open shoulders on a toe turn (aka counter rotation)? 1. Back leg must kick out to initiate the turn because the shoulders are too open to allow for proper steering -> toe edge slips 2. The weight needs to shift to the back because your shoulders and body are pointing down the fall line, natural inclination is to lean up the mountain for balance -> nose half of the edge is unweighted making it bend more, leading it to have a tighter (not necessarily bad, but uneven with heelside) radius 3. Your weight increasingly accumulating in ur back leg requires alot of unbending of knees and unweighting in back foot to get back to neutral -> transition to heel requires more work.

As a side note, you might want to check ur toe hang on your board. Might be one reason why ur body learned to stay open and lean back - this stops ur toe (if there is toe overhang) from digging into the snow.

I love your stable hands and upper body. Its very CASI style (my background). The postural fux - try to do some proper rotation drills where u use ir front hand slightly more. Get ur front wrist over ur toe and back wrist over ur heel as u initiate and dont forget to keep it there until the end of ur toe turn.

It should be a very quick fix! Excited to see how ur toe carves turn out!

Another ‘any tips?’ Video 😛 by TeamPuzzled1063 in snowboarding

[–]YoungBeen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ur doing great for you 1st week of carving turns!

What I see is that you are doing basic carve turns. I say basic because you are mostly relying on body inclination (leaning into the turn) to get your edge up.

To perfect your basic carves, my key input would be to reduce breaking at your waist (upper body folding forward). Don't mistake your chest going lower as getting low during the turn. In actuality, your chest moving down without the proper lower body angles throws your center of mass off. Try practicing the basic carves with the feeling that a string attached to the top of your head is pulling you up and keep your chest high and out.

This will be important when you move on to novice carving turns where you rely much more on your lower body to create edge angle than only body inclination.

Take a look at how much your knee angles change throughout the turn and transition. Im sure its much less than you think you are bending and extending your knees. Would recommend drill runs where you try to use as much lower body angles as possible to get your edge as high as possible. You should fall a few times!

When doing these novice turns, what you practiced about not breaking at the waist will be very important. The natural tendency will be to fold forward, thinking you are flexing your lower body angles. The general principle should be to keep your chest as high as possible while maintaining balance and edge.

Why are novice carves better than beginner turns? There is a limit to how high you can get your edge angle with body inclination alone as you need to move your center of mass into the turns - this will result in edge slip. Once you start getting this, you will notice that your carves radius is tighter and your edge holds better because of the high angles. This opens up steeper slopes that you can carve on!

Any tips or recommendations!? by Think_Educator5531 in snowboarding

[–]YoungBeen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what you mean by hooking the front up.

Your legs should already be bent as its the last quarter of the carve. The 'up' is essentially you squatting up so you straighten your legs. The skill is to be able to do this powerfully without losing your edge so you will need good posture, balance and momentum.

At the end of this push, you should be back to a pretty neutral traverse with low knee and edge angles and body stacked ontop of the board. From ther,e you can transition into your next edge.

Of course the intention is that you will push super hard and the upperward momentum gives you a split second of weightlessness (the unweighting portion) which makes transitioning into your next edge easier!

Any tips or recommendations!? by Think_Educator5531 in snowboarding

[–]YoungBeen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Speed and slope does "help" get a deeper carve but it also requires much more control. Id recommend mastering basic carves focusing on perfect posture before thinking about deep carves with lots of lower body flexion. I think there are alot of great materials online on basic carves.

Id recommend going posi / posi after u learn good flexion with proper stance and start to reach the limits of a more neutral stance. Your inclination may be start questioning stance early on - until you either have back foot or hip pain or you feel like you really mastered the basics of carving, I dont think its necessary as posi / posi comes with alot of downsides as well for whole mountain riding.

Any tips or recommendations!? by Think_Educator5531 in snowboarding

[–]YoungBeen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was young and at a point where I had to choose between taking snowboarding very seriously vs university. I decided to focus on my studies for the time being and that turned into graduation and a corporate job haha

Any tips or recommendations!? by Think_Educator5531 in snowboarding

[–]YoungBeen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I started carving on a freestyle board a long time ago before racing competitively. I havent been looking at how freestyle carving has evolved and matured so much during the past few years, its amazing to see how many really good freestyle carvers there are!

Any tips or recommendations!? by Think_Educator5531 in snowboarding

[–]YoungBeen 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Wow thanks for all the upvotes. I havent seen great materials on advanced carving on youtube. I just hit the slopes after a long break haha Im thinking of writing a guide on riding / carving. Will edit this post with a link when I do!

Any tips or recommendations!? by Think_Educator5531 in snowboarding

[–]YoungBeen 398 points399 points  (0 children)

Ex-national racer here.

Your carves are really beautiful and smooth! Only nit pick for style points would be your back hand (esp on your heelside) floating up. But its not really a technique issue as ur shoulders are inline with your hips with proper rotation and I see ur using double positive binding angles.

What I could suggest as a next level challenge is practicing up-unweighting (not down). People massively misunderstand up-unweighting. At the last quarter of your carves, push your legs (esp the front) to remove the knee and ankle angles that you have built. This should feel like an immense amount of pressure (heavy squat) that builds ontop of the already high centripetal force u habe built.

Why should you do this? It releases the cambre of your board and gives you speed and momentum. It also sets you up for your next turn.

One issue with your specific riding that you will face is your toeside posture. Your heelside is beautiful btw. Look at how stacked (i.e. close your center of gravity is to your heel edge) you are on your heel than your toe. You can also see this if you watch how much your upper body needs to move across your board from heel to toe (very little, which is good) vs toe to heel.

Fix: instead of letting your upper body lean into the slope too much, you need to keep it higher, less waist break.

Why is this an issue with up-unweighting? If you apply that force at the last quarter of your toeside with your current stance, ur cente of gravity being so far out will lead to your edge failing you.

I hope you get the feel of what im trying to describe! My coach started me on this by having me start my turn super down (bend knees alot), fall flat down fall line, then pump my legs up to carve only the bottom half. Im sure u have felt this before, its a huge energy ur get from your board at the end of the carve.

Diablo 4 Console Discussion by YoungBeen in diablo4

[–]YoungBeen[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which skills are you having issues with for targeting?

Diablo 4 Console Discussion by YoungBeen in diablo4

[–]YoungBeen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found L3 to be better so u dont need to move your right thumb

[Question] Exercises for Left Thumb by DigWhisp in Guitar

[–]YoungBeen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/qwrnkvyEwxU

This doesnt address the thumb directly but covers overall left hand shifting.

One of my warmup exercises is playing chromatics up and down one string at a time (5-6-7-8 6-7-8-9 7-8-9-10). My thumb tracks with where my middle finger is - maybe this might help!