I was just working on my carving the other day and only now realise that I do exactly that same mistake as you point out in the beginning trying to touch the snow and often lose balance on heel side carves. Loving the grab cues that will guide me to stack the weight on the right place next time. Can't wait to try it out! Brilliant as always Malcolm.

Hey Malcolm, The graphic that you've added in your videos showing where and when to apply pressure to the board is super helpful. That's why I recommend new riders to watch your videos. 👍🏽

Just tried this and it is a game changer!!! I was always bringing my front arm across onto the toeside, and leaning for angle. That works but this angulation technique is so much more direct, just ‘bites’ in. Thank you Malcolm

Saw you riding last Saturday when I was on a lift. I've been working on some of the techniques you explain since last winter. Made lots of improvements on driving the board and not skidding. Great vids Malcolm.

Nice video! It’s exactly what I need right now. It’s easy to ride for years without realizing the power of these tips. Thank you so much!

The most clear, useful and detailed video about carving, thank you!❤

I love how you’re sharing other KZfaqrs. I love his channel. Between your channel and his my knowledge gap is closing faster than I ever expected.

Good to hear you talk of posi angles, I ride Posi / Posi due to leg injuries and no desire to ride park particularly, and I love the control

Love the shout out and acknowledgment to Lars! Great to see community thriving! Keep it up! Can’t wait to see your take and evolution into posi-posi! 😜

Malcolm, you have no idea how much this video helps me. I recall doing fore-aft movements across the turns because I felt much more in control of my edges while shifting the weight back during the turns, because I mimick a slight popat the end of a curve to unload the board just before the edge change because I try to avoid making the board stay flat as much as possible. I do that mostly because I'm afraid of how the board might behave when catching more speed so I end up doing something that resembles dolphin turns except I never leave the ground because my fat ass keeps me grounded lmao. Also my board is rather wide and doing so gives me room to shift my weight inside the new curve during the edge change. Perhaps I should find a stiffer board but I'm not sure if it's wise to ride something different while still learning. I would have loved something like the Dada you had, but I ended up picking a twinpig because, beside being cheaper at the time, I thought it was punishing enough to make me pick good habits from the get go and work on technique and posture. Speaking of which, I probably should have somebody film me but I might be bending forward a lot while trying to touch the snow, and I might have realized that when I lost control of my board it was because my center of mass, while being bent instead of laying low, was much more eccentric than it should have for the speed I was going at. I'm looking forward to my next trip to try and correct my mistakes, thanks as always for your videos, they are always tremendously helpful.

Really love these advanced videos Malcolm!!

Your videos have helped my snowboarding immensely, thank you!

I had some Ryan Knapton vibes watching these images! Awesome. The graphic that you've added is also very helpful as usual.

I just wanted to say thank you for your videos! I started snowboarding three years ago and find your videos very informative and helpful. I also like the mix of carving input and beginner freestyle input on your channel. The linked video at the end is also awesome - thanks for the channel recommendation! Greetings from Germany :)

Hi Malcom, those our beautiful carves~ especially given +15 / -12 I also started fiddling with my stance and moved to +21 / -6 and found carving and speed more natural, as I was able to bend and manage my front to aft weight more nimbly. Love your vids Cheers

Malcom, your videos are the best. The way you break these concepts down is outstanding.

Best carving tutorial ever. Thx Malcom.

I just watched Lars video yesterday and now you post this. Can't wait to hit the slopes during Christmas!

I noticed I had quite a hard time not starting to bend over on the frontside and started to really push my knees towards the snow. Seems to also work to get the same posture you mention with your front arm. Love blue and mellow red pistes, because it gives you the right speed and when really pushing the board, you get a great rebound and go faster still!

At 6:55, love that you left that slide in there, haha. Happens to everyone. I've only managed to "bounce" out of a carve a few times in my life so far, where I actually popped off the ground at the end of a turn, but it's such a fun feeling, I'm gonna keep trying to make it work reliably for me. Personally, I ride with positive angles because I find it a lot more comfortable; and I think I'm so used to it that even riding in my normal goofy stance, but with a negative angle on the back foot, makes my foot hurt after a few runs. Probably gonna have to correct that, if I want more practice in riding switch 😆

The indy-melon tip was a game changer for me. Tried it today and it made a clear difference for getting the board on the edge. Great video!

Awesome tips!! I've always wanted to be able to ride like this and now I have no excuse.

Nice one, Malcolm!! I love how you explained de-cambering the board as you tilt it higher on edge!! And I love the animation that shows the pressure moving along the edge!! This is good stuff! Looking more dynamic there in your posi posi carving setup! So cool that you're trying it out. Thank you for mentioning my video. That's very kind of you!! I might be in Europe late January! We'll do a clip together, that'll be great! :-)

Malcolm, love your breakdown as many others here have commented. Only new to your channel, but I'm on now, given your thorough explanations, & showing the physics etc behind what's happening. I'm glad I stayed to the end as I was wondering your stance angles. I'm an Aussie, living in Park City & just started playing around with these last season. Whilst only intermediate, I've found the +21, +6-9, allows me more control & comfort at speed (on a new camber board). Would love to hear your board info, as you look like a bigger guy. My US13 have limited me in the past, but just purchased a triple camber Never Summer, which is a 'DF', drag free, so a wude/wide! Feels good & will take me to the next level of attempting to touch snow (6'4). Cheers

Malcolm is the best snowboard instructor on KZfaq. Bar none!

Thank you thank you thank you for not editing out that bit where you sat down. Love the videos, but was feeling very inadequate watching your seemingly endless perfection haha

Great video! Would love to see you riding more posi posi in future videos.

Amazing video, Malcolm! Very good tips in one video. Using your back foot in the middle to the end of the turn is crucial because otherwise you overload the front foot, which results in a skidded turn. Other tips are very good too. Like that you need to direct your hips towards the slope in the toe-side turn, not your arms. Thanks a lot!

Love it!! Thanks Malcolm

Another great Vid 🙌🙌 Taken on all of your advise over the last couple of years and all has worked out well except i have been experiencing lots of back leg knee pain and swelling. I,m hoping this is just down to me trying to still ride with a duck stance set up in this more open carving body position. Im hoping to experiment with a more posi posi stance at my next opportunity to see if this remedys the issue. Cant wait to see a Mal and Lars Colab 😂

Rode posi-posi for first time ever today. Im hooked! Crazy how comfortable it was from turn 1

Thanks for the link to posi posi video at the end. That really helped me understand it.

Something a clinician showed me over 20 years ago has helped my heelside carving over the years with a weak duck stance (I ride a lot of switch while teaching to give students a correct visual in demos). If you stay more aligned to the board (shoulders over the feet) on heelside carves, and put your back hand near/behind your butt as if you were about to put it in your back pocket, this keeps your arm's weight over(inside relative to the turn) the back foot, leading to less of a tendency to wash out the back end. Compared to opening your shoulders, which brings your back shoulder more toward the toe edge and must be counteracted by bringing your front shoulder closer to the snow on the inside of the turn, this allows a more aligned stance so maintains easier flexion and extension to deal with surface irregularities, key on heelside due to the lack of significant ankle joint use. The only downside of this is that you have to be sure of what's around you, as you don't have as much view to the heelside, unless your neck has the flexibility of an owl's.

U taught me the indy grab trick couple of years ago, now working on my toe side one using this front arm trick (i only SB a few days a year... 😢). Helped a great deal as it helped me to understand how upper body movement could help to increase or decrease the edge angle. (Cos i was like, stacked position, dont twist upper body, but then in this situation in order to press my back shin down harder, my hip and by extension upper body will twist a bit). Great tips, as always, v useful and effective, thanks 👍🏼

Excellent content as usual!!

all I needed!! thank you a LOT!

You always time the videos perfectly for when they're needed! I quick question about posture/body position. Should this more open approach be ones standard on the slopes, or should the "shoulders stacked over board" kind of position be preffered in most situations still? What about in icy / steep terrain, where it is difficult to achieve grip? And thank you so much for all of the free resources you put out! I am contribute a lot of my progress last year to your teaching, and I can't wait to get going this year :) Best regards

Another great vid on my favourite subject,and referencing open and posi/posi stances. Kudos for linking to @Justaride too. 👍

Thank you. Now I understand the issue; Someone told me that I need to put pressure to back feet as I were leaning forward.

Like your videos Malcolm! Could you make a video to explain the 'the board performance' and how to maximize it in complex terrain, like free runs?

Excellent video, once more, and just what I have been waiting for 😃 as I do the 6:57 move too often 🙄 did you get caught with your heelcup? Happens to me a lot (with size12 boots, usually in softer snow). Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise and spreading the joy & stoke! Merry Christmas and have a great season!! 🤙

Great video and nice to see you link to Lars at the end. He has the best english language videos on posi/posi carving on YT imo

The rebound on my new board is fun, but also tricky. Tossed me off balance today and I slammed pretty good. Spicy 🎉

Carving is fun!

thank you Malcom :)

looking good on those posi/posi angles!🔥

Excellent video! Thank you so much. Can you share your setting and equipment information? I would appreciate it.

Great Bro …!Merry Christmas everybody 🎉

Off to Zermatt myself next week, so will deffo give these a go, cheers

Very good explanation of changing the balance from front to back foot! Could you tell what was the piste you were filming at Zermatt?

Dang bro! No offense but your riding looks so much better! Really impressed. Thank you for sharing this knowledge!

Grat video thank you Malcolm!!!!

Double posy changed my snowboarding life, please try it out, go +9 +24 or even more exaggerated especially in the beginning to see how your whole body adapts, then you can tweak everything to however you like it, but simply going super posy posy will teach you a new style

Big fan and supporter since

You are either carving hard or hardly carving. Keep up the great videos!

When I really started to explore full power squating on edge to dig the deepest trench I could, I would try to power out. Thinking at extension I would get more power. Now with a few seasons on.. I find i get way more power and control progressively squatting deeper through turn initiation and peak arc, at that point you then have a mariad of options to flow into.

Hi Malcom, great content! Why did you washed out on min 6:57, it happens to me often (I don’t think it’s from booting out ).

I watched Lars' video a few weeks ago before finding this one and yours covers the subject of carving better in my opinion. I've been riding posiposi for years now and switched to hard boots last season. I still need to work on my heel side carves and will use some of your strategy to see if it clicks. One thing not covered is the Sidecut radius of the snowboard, most boards are between 6 and 8m and I would venture to guess the one in your video is between 8 and 10m. A bigger radius facilitates those longer drawn out carves. Good stuff, thanks

Hi Malcom, I‘ve been watching your videos on and off for years now. They really helped me to improve my snowboarding technique a lot. Thank you for your work so much. Also I do find that only quite few „youtube instructors“ are able to explain the techniques so precisely and simply as you do! Anyways, I am still struggling to carve at higher speeds on my toe edge. I do wash out, even while applying pressure on my back foot. At the same speed I don’t have these problems on my heel edge. I’am pretty helpless and don’t know how to solve that problem. I also seeked help from an instructor which told me to apply more pressure on my front foot. That helped a little but I still wash out… Maybe you have an idea? Appreciate you time and work, keep up the good work!!! Regards Pete

Awesome 🙌🏼

What are your thoughts on opening the body position for heel side, but closing for toe side? I feel like gradually closing my lead shoulder throughout the toe turn gives the same type of power that opening it does for the heel turn. Amazing video, I just discovered opening the body position on heelside carves last year, and it 100% changed my riding.

Well done Malcolm 🫡

2:21 😂wtf Malcolm

Great explanation as always!!! Learned down unweighted turns last year, thanks to you!!!! If it's not too much trouble, can you make a video explaining the snowboard levels and how to understand in which level we are? 1000 Thanks again!!!! You are awesome!!

Great video ❤

The link you provided on posi-posi stance was excellent/

Love your videos! What size of the Biru do you ride?

How do you find the balance between staying in a “stacked” position vs open body position. Is there a time for both or do you advocate for the open position all the time?

Very nice. As a surfer I really like to push my carving you have here some really nice tip. You should consider an on-line course to practice some of the turns at home ;)

@7:07 i'd suggest adding the importance of the 'building of torsional-flex-preload' ( torsionally twist, as you call it )that stores energy from the tip of the (rear) edges while weighted to the rear in the end of a turn, as a process to setup an edge change and a weight shifting forward, to help 'flip' you to the transition to the opposite (nose) edge it is to say the harder you load up the back foot while on edge, the more pop comes from the tail releasing its edge during an edge change and you can use that Fyi, if boot drag is an issue then you are limited, period.

Re @9:35, would love a video of your positive stance experiments and experiences. I tried last season with +/+ and keen for intel!

Hey Malcolm, what binding stance do you use? :)

RE angles, I started with mild positive on the rear foot, and if I could guarantee I'd only ever be carving I'd stick with that. But in the real world, on a day out you hit all sorts of conditions, so I generally settled on running the back foot square!

How much difference does it make in an all mountain board vs a flexible park board? I've always rode a rigid all mountain board, but have wanted to get a freestyle board for more flex.

Hi, malcom! What stance do you have there?

Will the pressure you put on your front foot control the arc of the turn? Like if I wanted a a big wide turn, I'd put less pressue there, and more pressure if I wanted a very short turn?

Posi posi for life! Come join us Malcolm. We're a nice bunch.

Whats up with that UFO at 2:29 ??

6:55 any tips for avoiding this slide out? Toe side carving for me is great but I often slip out on heel side.

At last someone that actually knows how to turn a snowboard. Ever tried a hard boat alpine board? Takes carving to a new level.

I was going to comment about the stance angles at the end but it looks like you read our minds. Did you switch from a -6 to a -9, or were you always -9 for the back leg? Nowhere close to being able to carve like this but hoping to one day. I imagine carving hard like this is more difficult on a flat top board than a camber board, given that we can build less energy?

Class video, Malcolm, thanks! Really nicely explained and some great stuff to work on. And my Biru is arriving tomorrow 🏂

Hi Malcolm, I've been practicing curving for the last three days. The problem I'm facing is that I start from the Green route, but most of the paths are flat. I've tried to pick up speed as you suggested, but when I try to go to the edge, I encounter difficulty. Placing the center of mass on the edge of the board, especially on hills, causes my back foot to push the board back, hindering my ability to curve. I suspect I'm not distributing my weight evenly on both feet. Any recommendations?

Very nice tutorials Malcolm. In Tyrol, this has been a season with lots of heavy, slushy snow. Any thoughts on boarding those conditions ? Thanks & keep it up !

Awesome video Malcom, I was struggling to understand what people mean when they say camber profile allows you to load the board through the turn, and you have just explained it clearly. Another thing I am struggling to understand, and you touched on it a little bit in this video, is the role of the front and back foot which ultimately influence if you ride regular or goofy. I am a right footed person and usually it should mean I should ride regular, but when I tried both styles I found riding goofy was much more comfortable for me. The issue is I feel that I am missing out on something when I have my dominant foot on the front of the board, unlike most people where they have it at the back (i think). Should I force myself to ride regular as it might enhance my riding on the long run?

Hey Malcolm, love your videos. I'm looking to get the Biru for a fun carver for myself. For someone 6'2 210lbs (~1.8 meters, 100 kg) would you recommend the 157 or 154? Cheers

I have a size 12 boot and am really struggling with booting out, any advice? Or do I just buy a donek or warpig

Hey can you do a video on going fast, when I go fast it feels like I never carve

is it any harder to do this with flat rental boards?

I was worried you weren’t going to shout out the justaride video, but you never disappoint.

Malcom thanks for a great video. I use the same binding angles to you for all mountain and park. I’m not real familiar with the nidecker supermatics but do you have forward lean adjustment on those? And what forward lean do you use? Thanks

The best skiing series tutorial on the internet♥Can you explain the reason why the blade is lost after 6:56 seconds, because I often do this too

Becouse of this awesome video I ordered a Biru 😅

heya, could you give some reference binding angles and stance guides in order to learn to carve easier?

Is that possible to achieve the aggressive heel side crave on a park stance, such as +6-6?

I loved this video. Do you ever ride switch? So much fun snowboarding.

interesting video as always ! With the help of your free videos on youtube i managed to ride the snowboard pretty good 1 1/2 years. Thats absolutly awesome. You mentioned that you do private lessons which you advertise on a platform/app. Which platform/app is it ?

Nice video! BTW what's the brand of the orange color suite at the end of the video! love the color! any link for it?

That should say as you put more pressure against the board

So in each turn (heel or toe) your back knee needs to look the direction you are riding towards. Especially when turning heel side, I feel like my back foot points the oposite direction, sort of a duck stance. Can anybody enlighten me on this? I feel like this might be solution of me turning too much on my heel side.