These videos are extremely helpful with my own progress, your attention to detail regarding your technique is great which made me realize a lot about my own riding

The only thing that really sticks out to me ( as an advanced rider) is the shoulders . Naturally, we want our eyes downhill so a common habit is pointing the chest downhill as well. This means we counter-rotate on the toe edge, and it slips out . Try taking that lead hand ( when you aren't filming) and keep it on the inner thigh. This will force your head to look over the shoulder heel side and into the toe side turns.

A little late to the party. I Like your videos. There’s a genuine and unpretentious vibe to them. As an advanced boarder of 20 years, learning how to properly carve is about first feeling when you are actually carving vs skidding. Once you understand that feeling it’s about proper body alignment, proper weight distribution to maintain and dig into the carve and lastly proper knee steering for control. I would say the progression is usually in that order. The better you are with each component the better you become with carving. And as far as learning switch, I wouldn’t worry about that unless you plan on hitting the terrain park and start doing spins, etc. and probably only learning switch after you’re able to carve properly in your normal stance. Good luck! Have fun.

I’m always watching expert content and it’s really nice to see someone who is around my level because it’s more relatable to me. Glad to have stumbled upon you!

Very underrated! I had the same issues with carving for a while. keep practicing and having fun!

Awesome snowboarding! Was at belleayre that same day grinding out the blues and blacks!

Keep Pumping more. I feel like I am at the same level. But I can also grow. Been doing for 2nd season now.... learning at age 28..not bad...

Great explanation! It’s very helpful 👍

love your videos man i recently subbed and cant stop watching, keep it up

So unbelievably underrated! Keep pushing and you'll become famous!

Nice video my man keep it up!

Keep it up!

Great shots, love the editing, as an intermediate myself I haven't tried a black diamond yet but hopefully within the next few days so this was some good hype lol

Great video so far! I am buying an insta360 so I can also record my riding. Normally when I do snowboard (and that speaks for myself) it's all me, the board and the mountain. I fell countless times in many different sectors of a ski center and also just under the chairlift. The fact that I do this only for my self joy allows me to kind of forget that it might be people watching and laughing or whatever. Just make it naturally to fall and rise up again so you don't have to feel embarrased when you do so. Keep up the good content!

great vid

Ok I gotchu. This is the best advice ever check it out. To carve the way you want, what’s holding you back is that right now you’re so focused on being on an edge you are forgetting to “RIDE” the edge. Try on a blue run to point your board down hill and lean like if you were on your toes or your heels. Try to do that the whole,e way down and watch how something in your brain connects. Once you are riding the edge and not forcing to speed check. You will get the carves you want

carving is different than the skidded turns that everyone starts out with... it's good to learn the difference as you progress and learn to lock those edges in 💪🤙

Keep practicing sir. I am learning the same time and hope to reach your level in the future.

If your having fun snowboarding, your doing it right! Just sub'd to see that shoulder game improve!

Love it! i think I'm a similar level (or getting there hopefully!) and this is very encouraging. Dot Nebel looks really steep though, well done! Interesting point you made about not really needing to carve when going faster on green/blues, I will think about that. I agree the grooming on this hill looks great!

Dude keep rocking on, get most edge feeling as possible and you will revert to switchcarve 180 out asap!

hype video bro. I appreciate the realistic views/commentary. just your ability to self analyze will take you crazy far with learning. If you think of carving as using your own momentum to make your edges work for you, then you absolutely have that ish!

You’re crushing it bro!! I’m a beginner myself, only been up to the mountain once & have been doing a lot of studying from riders like Malcolm Moore, that like to educate here on KZfaq & you are definitely on your way man!! Can’t wait to see your riding a year from now! Great stuff & love the self analyzation aspect to this video! Also I could see your technique & turns getting better & better throughout the video as you got thru multiple different runs! Keep going!! Great content!

Good stuff, cool to see someone who's not super advanced posting vids anyway. Try not to be embarrassed about wiping out- it happens to experts, just means you're pushing yourself to get better. Or that something funky in the terrain just got ya 😅 Ride on!

You're getting better each time, I can see it. Keep it up. Maybe practice hopping a bit when going slower as it can make you more comfortable bending your knees a lot more and feeling comfortable getting lower to the snow, leaning into that forward foot, especially on the blue runes. Fun watching your progress!

u got it bro just keep practicing

Nice video man!

dude that "heelside carver, toeside skidder" felt personal haha thats def something I need to work on as well

Goat Path is the top curvy run, which then leads into Lower Algonquin. This is wide and when it's groomed out it's my favorite run there. You can get some serious speed going on top of some big smooth rollers.

Nice

Nice video, looking good out there! What do you think caused your first fall? It was hard to tell without rewinding a couple times. To me it looked like leaning back too far from the board and knees not bent, during your speed check. Im on my 10th session and I try to critique and learn why I fell, out loud lol.

Hey dude, I really like your video. Excellent editing and as well as the music is just cool. Also, thanks for being a normie like the rest of us haha

I am also a beginner and find out that digging your sheens on your back foot will weep you into the turn and for the heel I try twist the front of the board by lifting my front toe while the back foot is still on the ball of my foot then dig my back foot calf into the high back. Always works for my toe side carves but my heel side carves are sometimes skidded

chill vid

As an expert snowboarder it WAS actually refreshing to re-learn some tips that I forgot

one thing that i learned, you have to put yourself in faster speed situations to jump to the next level. Your muscles will adapt and will react faster to faster speeds which gives you much easier control later. Love your journey

On my 2nd or 3rd time snowboarding, I was sticking with some friends. I had no clue that the lift was going up to a black diamond (Wisconsin so not really a black diamond) and it was definitely a very slow trip down the "mountain"

Bring your head and left shoulder forward when going on toe side. Your shoulder and head are pointing down the mountain while your nose is pointed against the fault line. A good way to practice this is put your arms and hands against your body and hips. That way you’re not using your arms to initiate turns.

You do look like exactly like I do runs. more bend on the rear knee then the front one and that its the point of my recent improvement. Also use to have a more fast slide like you are doing all the time, now Im kinda enjoy more the mountain just by doing a large "S" on the snow. If you still up there try at least once and tell us here. Nice Vid dude. Thanks for sharing.

How do you have less than 1k subscribers?? This video was awesome!

Lots of good tips in the comments so I’ll just give you my two cents and my own feels for carving. When doing skidded turns I feel like my legs are doing a lot of work with my upper body doing counter rotation, overall a lot of energy is being used. When I’m carving, no matter how wide the turn or how steep the run, it feels like I’m using very little energy and the boards edge and edge radius is doing the actual turning. I’ve never surfed before but when I am carving on the snowboard it feels like what I imagine surfing feels like; knees slightly bent, and my shoulders (it looks as if my hands are pointing where I want to go) are just barely opening and closing but really it’s probably just a matter of transferring my weight from toe to heel and the pressure in my feet is equal whereas on skidded turns I feel more weight on my back foot. A good way to see what a proper carve feels like is to ride down a nice open green run and turning up hill by going from one side of the run to the other. If you do a skidded turn you won’t be able to go up hill at all but if you carve you will feel your board control where it’s headed and you’ll actually be able to go up hill. Once you experience that feeling you can then do more narrow turns (varying your turn width while carving is a skill in of itself). It’s also much easier to practice carving on a green run because you can be focused on technique without having to worry about your speed. But when you carve on steeper runs you can control your speed by doing wider turns. Good luck!

on m first day sowboarding i had no idea where me and m friends were going and kinda went on a similar course like pikamoose with just giant downhill slopes. Never fell so many times in my life

Just got back from steamboat resort and my homies took me down black diamond as my first time snowboarding

i think you can simply carce your frontside better with knees forward so you get better ankle rotation and therefore are more on the edge! :)

defiantly keep focus on carving

Great video! May I ask what are the recording and holding devices used to make this video happen? I am a beginner snowboarder and I want to track my progress, and this video's angle looks exactly like what I would want.

this helps with my techneque thanks! i am gonna have to wait cause i got into a bad accident and broke my wrist lol

Let’s gooo

Your heel side is fine my guy. And never fight the fall glide with it.

YT recommended me a true gem today. As a fellow intermediate who just learned to carve without skidding, try to block your edge catches (3:05) with your arm. I broke my wrist last year which brought my season to an early end. Very good progress indeed and I hope you have a great time brother. Stay safe.

hey i'm a beginner snowboarder and one thing that really clicked for me was bending my knees more. made me feel the carves much better since your body position is more aggressive, maybe you could try that out for yourself :D

Just subscribed. More weight on toe-side by leaning into boots more should relieve that skidding. Obviously skidding occurs when you do not have an edge well and truly in the snow! Skied last season after a break of over 20 years. At 50 had a dabble last season with snowboarding for the first time and picked it up in a couple of days. Surfing for years and skateboarding as a kid helped a lot. Those hits though if you go down! Stoked. About to head off for three weeks of skiing. Can bet the lure of snowboarding will suck me in again this year!!!! Life's short and goes by way too quickly. Enjoy it.

If you will “close” your leading shoulder on toe side you won’t skid as much (eventually you will start carving) You leave your shoulder wide open instead of leaning it towards the turn

Just be aware diamond at one mountain can be considered blue at another. I know the camera makes it look less steep but the fact he could smooth carve shows that’s considered easiest of the blue in the cascades. Our blue is steep as well but you can’t go fast because you carving through hard mounds and powder with dips mixed in just for blue, the second you carve you are slowing and even while slowing you are doing jumps you didn’t want to.

Awesome video! What camera and stick were you using?

Belleayre?? That’s where I started snowboarding. Just focus on getting your runs in. I went down a black diamond my 3rd time board and there was bumps on that course. I survived lol

These black runs look like European reds!

I was scared of black diamonds until someone taught me proper technique and kept telling me it's just a steeper blue.

subscribed. im a new rider.

Crazy how your black diamonds are closer to green runs in California. How long have you been boarding? You seem to have the basics in sight. Squared shoulders, centered balance, and bent knees are the building blocks to all of it. What type of board do you ride? The shape and flex can have very different riding styles, whether you are a rocker, camber, flying V, early rise, etc... they all require you to engage your edges a little differently. Do you adjust your high back angle at all? Many park riders prefer zero high back angle, but if you are trying to progress all mountain, look into testing different angles. I use a slight angle on the front foot only, which helps with edge control. Everyone is different and relies on these aides more or less depending on riding style and discipline. All this and time, you need as much time on the mountain as possible.

Do you know what your avg speed was? I'm always curious b/c "fast" and "slow" are relative. I'm an East coast beginner and I like watching other beginners/intermediates. Bonus is I'm on the EC so I like seeing mtns close to home.

Casually cruising down a dynamic blue is way more fun to me than trying not to d*e on a black 😂 I’m still beginner though, only on my 2nd season

Any tips on getting more comfortable on the toe edge? I’m working on getting it instead of riding the heel side and flipping for turns

if you want to carve you have to get a bit lower. bend those knees. but its just a matter of time on/in the snow. i learned to snowboard and carve by myself 22 years ago. no YT tutorials, tiktok explainers. just having fun in the snow and learning by doing.

Just curious what board you're on. If it's a rental, and you told them you were a beginner, they probably put you on a board that isn't really good on harder runs. I've been snowboarding twice after skiing for years, so I caught on pretty quickly. I am linking turns like you and running blues confidently with ease. I quickly realized the rental board I was on was making it hard for me to progress. It was a Burton Radius which is more flat to rocker. No camber. It sucks at higher speed runs. I felt very squirly at higher speeds, and had trouble making hard carves because the board would lose the edge and I would slide.

Key is to pivet your hip front to back, when trying to edge change

In Europe, we call these runs blues...

How do you keep your snowboard from turning to the goofy stance also I subbed before 750 just for future purposes

My snowboard skills are pretty much identical to yours with the exception that I carve on toes and skid on heels. My goal now is to learn gripped turns, I don't really see Carving as a good skill in my local mountain resort cause they almost never flatten the surface and it's mostly little moguls, which sucks big.

im looking to buy a board and urs is dope wwhat type of board do u have, im ttrying to find a board thats good on the park and for carving

you're an intermediate on balance and the basics of snowboarding but a beginner at carving. Best advice I can give you is to check out Malcolm Moore's vids..he is a great teacher and will give better advice than anyone can give in a yt comment.

Youre doing great but one thing I wanted to point out is try to keep square when youre carving because naturally when youre a beginner you want to skid so just try to practice your carving down some smooth slopes and remember to keep your shoulders stacked and belly button in the middle of the board. Goodluck youre doing great❤️

How long have you been riding? This is my second year and i just finally got comfortable on greens and heading onto blues now

tbh as long as you know how to carve you can honestly hit any black. it’s best to just send a run because you never know your limits until you push them 🤷‍♀️

We need more videos

What are your binding angles at? Once I changed my angles to be more directional my turns improved. It helps open your hips and body downhill. Also just a preference thing and something to play with once you get more experience.

Hey man, just curious what board you have?

one thing I could recommend is to care less about the difficulty because some blues are harder then some blacks. also some areas on the sides are easier/harder than the run. your doing great and remember falling is good.

what board do you ride or is it a rental?

KEEP THAT WEIGHT BACK WHEN GOING FAST...I'm big believer in it. gives you a bail out plan too....better to slide out if shit goes south

instead of forcing your heel or toe side gradually lean into that edge and use the bite of the edge to turn instead of the base of your board

good ass video good ass fit

where is this ?

This is not to put you down, but I think an intermediate snowboarder is someone who knows how to really set an edge and carve hard. I would say you're on the more experienced side of beginner. I think you're on the cusp of intermediate though, keep it up!

I feel like in snowboarding injury is feared way too much. My first slope EVER was a black diamond in Breckenridge about 7 years ago. You are sure as hell I crashed and slid half way down the run, but genuinely throwing yourself into the mix and getting used to the higher slope stuff is the best way to learn. Having a hockey background helped me but in my experience if your athletic and have good edge control/balance.....skip the greens and blues. Low speeds are almost always the worst place to learn board control.

im an intermediate and im going snowboarding tomorrow, should i try a black diamond like this video

set the max front lean angles on your bindings for easier carving. Watch Ryan Knapton vids to learn carves

Bro sounds exactly like that one dude from Hodinkee. If you know you know.

Fix your shoulder position on your toe side. You are to open, keep your shoulders parallel with the board and you’ll be in a good body position for a strong carve and be in more control

To Carve. Work on leaning forward more to initiate turns. find your edge and then lean into your back leg to initiate the carve, the power comes throw the back foot. It will feel like surfing when you have the carve going. pop up stay centered lean over front foot and repeat to the other side. You do not need to go very fast to carve, but you need to put power in your back leg to hold it. your roaring brook run almost looks like your carving when your on your heal side, your toe side your kicking the leg out to much and letting it wash.

My advice would be to try to keep your posture straight and keep your shoulders always parallel to your board. Try not to initiate your turns with your shoulders, rather wait for the board to turn at the same time as your body. Don’t force your turns. You can achieve that by just shifting your body weight either to the frontside or backside and just waiting until your board starts turning. Also rather than checking your speed at almost every turn try making a few turns without slowing down to feel getting the curve of your snowboard slicing almost through the snow and as soon as you feel that you’ve got too much speed you can stop completely and start again.

I recommend not twisting your upper body as much on your toe side edge, twisting will create and weird angle where you're more prone to catching an edge and falling backwards. Try to focus on keeping your shoulder and board aligned to create a more smooth ride and less risk of falling.

What helped me the most when I was struggling to keep up with friends and control speed was to just get low and SEND IT!! Literally took a single run of me straight lining down the mountain and the next run was great. After that I haven’t fell since hitting up to 52mph once

im like new to snowboarding and i can do a black diamond so im sure ur fine. I've basically only learned for 5 days and im comfortable with blue. Maybe my mountain is easier than this one tho so idk.

Should come try a black diamond on my local mountains, that’s more like a blue run. Good content though, keep it up man🤙

What hill was this at

That’s a black diamond? I guess it depends where you live. Where I live that would be considered a blue run.

Just focus on lifting your toes but not bending at the waist; that'll lead to better heel side carving Good luck

i always considered myself intermediate but i guess im advance

go to a resort west of denver and you'll see you're better than you think. the east coast ice makes it feel much more challenging.