Is the flat base section a trick question ? 'Do you even know which edge I started on?' 🤔😃😃 or maybe that's point, it doesn't matter 🙂 Love the content, actually figured out something I'm not doing properly on my diagonal side slip. Keep the vids coming !! 🏂🏂

Rewinding but still keeping the story going at 5:28, amazing touch!

No matter how skilled and full of experience man is, people should start the first run with the beginners exercises.

It just looks so easy when you do it, when I do it, I'm scared I'm going to catch an edge and go flying down the hill. Thanks Malcolm, you're the Yoda of snowboarding!

Learning how to instruct. This has been the best turn progression video I have found on KZfaq so far and I feel like I’ve watched most of them already.

I'm doing my first year as a ride instructor, and going back to basics was a real trip to see just how far away I got from being able to handle those fundamentals at demo speed. Nothing a little coaching from the experienced instructors couldn't fix, which just made me want to be an instructor even more. These videos are great, keep em coming, it's not just going to help first time riders, but first time instructors too!

Many people have already said this on your other video's Malcom. But as an ex UK ski instructor your manner and method of teaching is second to none.. I've learnt a lot even being a competent snowboarder and appreciate great instruction... Looking forward to new video''s

Thank you for posting these videos! Best snowboard instructor ever. Calm and confident tone, logical analogies, straight to the point. I love all your videos, especially the one about the levers and torsional twist, really helped me have more control over my board as a beginner. Can't wait to apply this video's 4-step basic turn tomorrow!😊

Malcolm, your videos are just the best, I keep on returning to them as I am learning snowboarding. Thank you for the clean explanations, analytical method mixed with a very practical approach. I understood so much and could isolate the things I need to practice based on your videos.

Seriously, this might be one of the best videos I’ve seen on turning. As always, clear and super informative for new riders like myself. Thank you!

I'm a first year instructor and that clock diagram was a great visual. I'm definitely using that from now on. I appreciate this video, and I mean all of your other videos as well. The things you've explained help me out, and in turn will help the little goobers out too

Great Videos. Your explanations helped a lot - I went from nothing to more or less enjoying riding in 2 days. There is one thing that I would add that I as a beginner struggle with. Its a speed - it's hard to understand when I'm going too fast and lose control and what should be normal speed? As soon as I go flat or point down the fall line it feels that the velocity is too high and it can cause panic. Maybe one day you can make a video that explains what to expect and how to handle it.

I love your videos!! They’re extremely helpful and by far the best instructor on the internet! Other tutorials have trouble getting the details across but you absolutely smash it! Loving these types of videos to help me improve! Keep em coming! ❤

The king of snowboarding tutorials 😤 thanks Malcom!! 🙏🏻

Honestly I have watched much more videos in youtube before , but your teaching method just like a friend talking in front of me . I will try to remember your 4 steps and make more hard training in this ski season.

You have helped me massively. With your lessons here in YT, I was able to progress out of the bunny hill, and at the very least do edge changes at a beginner level in the green slopes. My wife and I will practice through this season and the next, and we will enroll in your course come 2026 for a week as part of our holiday trip to Alpe D'Huez!!! Massive thank you!!!!

I’ve been riding on and off for years and have been getting pretty decent (so I thought). I started watching some instructional videos like this channel and Tommie Bennett only to find out that I’m still not turning correctly. Rather than carving I’m still doing the sloppy tail slide type turn. I usually ride by myself so I haven’t had anyone to compare to until I stared watching some videos lol. Sucks I have to go back to the basics but glad I decided to start watching some videos to see what I’m doing wrong. Good video thanks

There are alot of Snowboard teaching channels but this one is the best, at least for me! Thanks!

I've not snowboard for 5 years. I m going to Japan in Feb and thanks for the refreshing my memory. I hope to put it in practice. Thankyou.

This channel is pure gold. This is my new warm up routine

5:21 was really creative!

Hello Malcolm Moore, I don't know what to say to you besides an amazing thank you. I started snowboarding this december and i struggled a lot. After watching this video, i can do the S turn in the Green line and Graduate line in Ontario. Please keep up your videos. I have subscribed your channel and introduce it to my fellow beginner snowboarders too. Amazing. Cheers from Toronto.

Really don’t know what to say to thank you for all those valuable instructions. Simple, clear, concise explanation, even know it’s not easy at all to combine those skills together physically. However good enough for me trying to catch up little by little.

Love the videos, very helpful and insightful! We are heading out to Les Menuires in March, I will be going back to basics to iron out counter rotation!

This video is the best…made my day on the slope as a beginner….still trying to practice the first two steps, haven’t mastered the complete turns but man that clock analogy is amazing…it really works….thanks a lot and keep making such helpful content!!!!

Really great video editing on this one!

This is the best beginner turn explanation video I've come across!

Ahh this is a perfect quick breakdown 🤙🏽

I first saw your videos in February and I was enchanted by your retraction turn. I'm not close to doing it but the same flow seen in that retraction turn is seen here too. I am going back to basics, again... 👍 great video

Great exercise, I will improve my own technique whilst teaching my kids how to turn on their bords. Love it!

Best snowboard video ever! I love how it breaks it all down to the basic movements 👌

No matter how many times I do did this, I still felt like I was making progress and now I can down a diamond after so many falls and failed attempts! Thanks man!!!!!

I was having a rough time my first few days, then I spent a weekend coaching my boyfriend and sister as beginners. The next day I went out my riding was so much better. It was an incredible change.

My friends did not understand why I told them to go have fun without me(1st timer). I got the basics down and one friend is really having trouble with his turns and carving. Thank you. I learn by seeing and mimicking

Absolute gold. Since i am trying to get the movements in my muscle memory, I notice that bad habits are creeping in. Good to be mindful of the basics 👍

Beautiful view.and informative!!!

I love these videos because i always start with the basics when I get back to the slopes, this was great to watch!

You are the best snowboarding instructor. Period.

Always good to check that you have the basics covered, thanks for the video.

That was an awesome detailed and simple and yet important video, this really worked for me.. Explaining the basic theory very simply helped a lot for me to understand actually because i think %50 of snowboarding is to “get the theory” mentally.. Other than that just trying to do what your coach is telling you while boarding can be confusing.. I regret so much that i didnt watch your videos before i went to the mouintains last week, i could have done it better.. Because i always felt like ok i am doing not bad but i just dont “understand” the logic…. Great channel keep up the videos many thanks!! ❤️

seriously THE BEST instructor here on KZfaq!

Man, if only I had seen this before giving it a go last week! Genius editing with the edge you started on rewind :)

What the duck!? 🦆Once again superb explained, mate!

The snow conditions looks great.

Thank you for always being informative and creating concise videos! Can always learn or refresh a skill from them

Ohh boy chat here goes Malcolm trying to teach us those fancy tricks like turning I just go straight then fall because my rudder broke off my board 🤣

I’m a beginner snowboarder. I can do greens without fear but blues still have me shaking in my boots 🤦🏻‍♀️ On a side note Any advice on setting up my bindings and stance to help me succeed? Really what is the best set up for beginners? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Wow, very good! :) I am a beginner, also having some videos of snowboarding in the alps out, but nowhere as good as this :)

"Stand up to make the board flat." Are there times when i might not wanna do this? Are there other ways to make the board flat? Thanks for the video!

Your tutorials are on point as usual. Will you be reviewing your NOW Pilots in the future?

Hay Malcolm, loved our lesson at Alp Huez a couple of years back, and loving your channel. Hope your well. I’ve been struggling on step runs when turning onto my heels that I just go straight into a slide going straight down the hill, it’s especially the case on hard compact runs, any chance you could do a video on this please. Hope you have a good season.

Thanks for posting. You're a really good instructor.

This is all good and I already know I'm gonna use it on my next visit to the mountain. Unfortunately keeping the weight on the front foot is my main difficulty.

Ugh. I'm going to die on my next snowboarding trip in 3 weeks. My first was last year in Colorado. I found a KZfaq video where he showed how he pulled his toes up to twist the board. That worked for heel side. I basically spent those few days falling leaf down the mountain LOL. I think I was afraid to fall again because day 1 I broke my ass on ice and I was in pretty bad pain. But sucked it up and kept riding. On the last day I ended up on my toe edge (by accident) in a very flat area. Went to get on my heel side and immediately caught a edge. I'll be in bigsky Montana in a few weeks. Hopefully this video makes it click and I can figure out toe side. This way I can actually say I'm snowboarding once I can link turns. I love your one video about imagining shins as levers. But I think this one might work better. Oh yeah I had a question. I knew I was leaving a comment for a reason. I notice your board goes flat. I thought we always need to stay on a edge? If it's flat the board will do whatever it wants and that's how you catch a edge. I guess we need to go flat for a split second to get from heel to toe. But I feel like you're casually cruising flat like eh, no worries. Fingers crossed for nothing broken this trip. I couldn't sit for a month after my first one.

Hey Malcom I absolutely love your channel and it has help me progress beyond words. You have helped me to make sure I didn’t develop bad habits when I was going from beginner to an intermediate stage. Now that I have some good riding and black diamonds under my belt I’m purchasing my own snowboard for this season and beyond. Now, I’m sure you get this question a lot, but what exactly does binding angle do? I’m not entirely sure what to do for it and I’m sure it’s mostly preference but what does it really change in your riding.

That rewind part was very nice cutted haha

Where do you ride at? This place is beautiful and the terrain is incredible. As always, thank you so much for everything you teach and post.

This one was awesome!!

Thank you 🙏 ❤

Hi Malcom, do you have a video on how to quickly change edges? I’m struggling to control my speed on steep blues and blacks, because I end up spending too much time pointing downhill. I also don’t want to rely on too much counter rotation and spraying

Thanks Malcolm ......well done !!

Can you do a video focussed on teaching children how to snowboard? I would be interested in learning about children’s gear and how to keep them engaged in the sport. I have a newborn that I would like to teach how to snowboard eventually.

Great video again ! Are you going to be back at Alpe d’huez this season ?

Hello Malcolm, I’ve been following your videos over the last few months. I really like those videos providing details for making turns for beginner’s level and steps to learn carving turns. I would like to ask if you can make a video on how to overcome the fear of acceleration (when your board started to face the fall line and gain speed while your board travelling along the fall line) when you change your edge from one side to the other. Because the fear of acceleration makes me scare and I always lean back (bad posture) towards the tail of my board which makes it more difficult to make my turn or fall down sometimes (especially on more steeper slope). Thank you.

:O omg! this looked so helpful! I'm totally going to try it! The issue I have is with riding toe edge, and this looks like a good exercise! Once i figure out, i can totally see myself changing edges

Lower means slower, stand up straight means accelerate...there, now it rhymes :)

Great video! Do you have problems with the camera battery in cold weather?

Thank you for your videos, Malcolm! Progressed a lot from it since I started last year. I wonder if you can make a video on how to do speed checks and still continue the S turns we're trying to make on a run.

Excellent video !! 👍🏼👍🏼

thank you

Brilliant video again. Thank you.

Lol I thought it was different exercises. Now I understand this is all part of a big one edge change 😂

For those who want to be instructors, you better take notes because Malcolm's videos are useful for beginners yeah, but they are also FREE technique classes for those of you who want to be teachers some day.

Notice you aren’t using the nidecker supermatic bindings any more. What made you change?

Really helpful thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Thank you. It is good instruction.

Another great lesson! Say, any recommendations for a good mountain to check out in Italy

Thanks!🏂

Hey Malcolm, what binding angles are you riding this year? Looks like your turns are continuously getting smoother over the years 🤯 so wondering what adjustments/practices did you make?

So I only can really do diagonal side slip on my toe edge. the full toe edge side slip is quite painful for me as it puts a lot of stress on my ankles. On heel side I can easily do the diagonal or full side slip. The result is my turns are really heel edge heavy, i cant slow my speed too much on my toes and my heels take more impact as a result which is very tiring. In rutted out snow my toe edge puts even more stress on my ankles and its excruciating. I do think my technique is ok for toeside i keep my torso upright and drive my knees into the snow but my ankles bend so much. I think the issue is due to boot fit or board width. I am a heavy guy (180lbs) with size 6 feet. I wear women's boots and they are quite soft and my bard has a 255mm waist width. if yoyu have anything i can try to see if its an equipment or technique issue id love to hear it. Thanks for the awesome video!

Excellent Vid as usual only have MK Zone zone to practice in here, But back to ADH 4 week in March 23 :)

When I try and stop toe side I just carve sharper and fall. What do I do?

What is the key in not catching the edge when shifting heel to toe and vice versa?

Hi Malcolm, please can I request a short vid tutorial? It's about how to turn almost "on the spot", but from a stationary start. The scenario is you rejoin your group of mates who are sitting waiting for your ass, and you arrive toe side. You want to sit and join them but you're already at their level on the slope, you've stopped on your toes and you don't want to do a big turn and end up yards below them, and you don't want to jump the board round 180, just swivel on the spot almost. I see guys doing this all the time and it's driving me nuts. Is it just a strong differential on the feet like front foot toes up and the other toes down? I always feel I'm gonna catch an edge trying it (and have done so plenty, of course right in front of the mates!). Thanks. Same would apply for wanting to swivel round from heel onto toes without losing any height, e.g. to help a kid from below them. Thanks!

For carving which bindings angles? +12 - 12 or + 15 -15 ?

Hey Malcolm! I know I keep posting questions and whatnot, but I love your videos and cannot stop watching them haha. Regarding the transition from the toe edge diagonal side slip to straightening the board down the fall-line...that was a major issue I had last season. Whenever I would try to do that transition I would catch my heel edge and break my ass lol. After watching a bunch of your videos I think my issue was the fact that I was attempting an edge change too early; the nose of my board was not aligned with the imaginary direction arrow you have made a video about. Does this sound plausible to you? Does my assumption make sense? Or maybe I just suck haha...

Hi Malcolm, thanks so much for your videos. Once I’ve got this down, what’s the progression from here? Any videos about that? Thanks :)

I’m struggling to do this quickly on steep slopes

Hi Malcolm, I always turn into a side slip after a turn, both toe side and heel side turn. May i know how i can avoid that and travel transverse directly after a turn?

What is with the rubber duck in the background ?

Which board and bindings are you using in this video? @Malcolm Moore

Hello it was my first powder day with 40cm of deep snow! I was riding the burton name dropper and I was stucking all day long in the deep pow.. it was my fault that the board was stucking or it’s the board that I choose? Thank you keep the hard work man!🤟

Smooth editing. You started on your toes then switched angles. 😉. How do you cope with different learning styles? Your explanations are great, but how do you adjust your teaching for those who don’t hear instructions as well as they experience them? The visual learners usually get it from the demo but I’ve taught a lot of kids who just need to feel and or experience the instructions. For those people I find games work well. What kinda games you got?

Thank you so much for these awesome, and well thought out videos!! however I do hava a question about binding angles. Are there any particular angles that are a good starting point for all mountain riding??

Hiya, what piste are you on here? We're in Alpe d'huez at the moment and struggling a bit to find a decent piste to practice these drills on each morning... 😊 I'm enjoying the final 3rd of Chez Roger from Rifnel Express, but finding it a bit tough to run these drills as need the momentum to get up and over the humped sections...

Hi Malcolm, at my snowboarding lessons, they talked about using the feet to turn. Lift lead foot up or down to turn and get on the toe/heel edge. But you mentioned turning with your knee. Obviously being new to the sport and it can be expensive to do lessons, hence why I am self teaching myself. Is there much difference with using the feet to steer and turning our/bringing knee in to turn? Hope that makes sense

I am considering buying the Amplid Dada but im wondering if its not too short for me. Right now im riding the Jones MTN Twin 164W. Im 190cm and weight about 80kg. Do you think its still capable of a good edgehold for higher speeds? Thank you very much and have a nice day! Keep it up.

THAT'S THE VERY FUNDEMENTAL MECHANISM OF SNOWBOARD RIDING IN THE FIRST PLACE!

What settings do you use on your x3?

Hi Malcolm, I’m preparing for the season and have a question for you. How sharp do you make the board edges? How do you check it’s sharp enough? Also, what base/side edge bevels do you set? Thank you!