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I need to experiment with posi angles more! This video is fantastic.

Holy mother of turns! No body...and I mean - NO BODY...talks about this, and I was at the point when I thought I've hit a wall with my snowboard carvs. I was even trying get back to the basics and still, I've felt LOCKED with my position, boots and bidings. I was wandering what is wrong? Is that it for me? This video is a holy grail for me. Thank You so much for bringing back FUN to my snowboard turns. I'm so incredibly thankful! Please, keep on doing this, You are a true Master Shifu of snowboarding 🙏🙏

This Masterpiece + The Secrets of Snowboard Carving by James Cherry is a gamechanger for me

I've ridden hard boots and alpine boards for more than 30 years now. When I started there were no instructors, no youtube, nothing, just friends. The concept that I needed to turn my upper body AWAY from the slope to actually engage more my edge, and thus turn more, and how much counter-intuitive that is, was the one that took me more years to understand properly. So kudos for explaining that slowly and properly!

Damn dude, can’t believe I just found your channel today. Been watching your videos for like 2 hours now. You are so dialed into every aspect of snowboarding and are very good at explaining and breaking things down.

I started learning in my 30s. I was on duck stance for 2 years and had hard time committing to toe side turn. A carving snowboarder suggested me double positive and my turns connected much more smoothly. I recommend for intermediate who want to improve turns and connect them well.

Absolutely killing it with these tech videos. Nerd love from me! ❤

Thank you! After watching over 100 videos with snowboarders from Japan who master carving very well, but who don't speak English and it was super hard to understand what they were saying and I was just watching the video, finally someone came who explained perfectly. Even if Ryan Knapton controls the board very well in the duck stance, I think that Kento (ToyFilms) does it more efficiently and dynamically, which is what I saw you do too, which is why I thank you for explaining everything so well . Keep it like this!

As a snowboard instructor that has become a ski instructor too, I find it fascinating how this change in posture is morphing us into the dynamics/physics of a skier - for example the lateral separation at the hip has such crossover with skiing technique! Makes so much sense. Thanks for the detailed breakdown, so helpful in the quest for high performance carving.

This is the best video I've ever seen about body balance and body positioning for carving posi/posi! Tomorrow is my last day on the slopes and I'm ready to move from 15/-6 to 24/3 🤘🏼

This is awesome and explains a lot! Even after riding 35+ years, I'm still learning. I've gone to posi posi the past few years and everything you talk about makes sense. Thanks for the great vids!

Fantastic videos. Completely agree about having 2 pathways. The first step is having the various associations recognise there are 2 different styles for different purposes.

your accent makes me trust you even more. you sound like you know what you're talking about and you do.keep up the good work :D

When I learned snowboarding at like 13-ish(?) I actually experimented A LOT with angles and found that posi-posi was definitely the easiest way to generate power through my board. Especially as I came from being a fairly competent carver on skis already. I remember feeling so limited by having my back foot pointing the "wrong way" up the slope... Super interesting video that I will take with me next winter as I take up snoboarding again some 20 years later... :)

This is the best video I've ever seen on snowboard turning technique! I've been snowboarding for 30 years, originally being taught +/+ (but that soon changed in the UK BASI system to +/- in the 90s). Been playing with +/+ again for the last few years, mostly inspired by Japanese riders (and latterly Korua & Swoard) and I'm certainly guilty of the "eurocarving" hand dragging errors ;) This video makes it very clear - can't wait to try these ideas on the snow! Many thanks to @malcolmmoore for giving a pointer to your channel (and for all the great videos he puts out !)

As someone that feels/felt like they were an advanced boarder, this video is enlightening. I have been riding less park as Im in my early 40s. Im interested in dialing in my carving and the bit about the euro carving and the smile you had on your face laughing at all of us boarders that think we can carve was priceless. Truly amazing content that I will certainly rewatch.

This year is 40 years of turning for me. You are correct- the first thing you learn and the last thing you master is the turn. I spent all day last Sunday adjusting angles and experimenting with a new board. For me +27 +9 allows for the most flexibility. It balances your ability to open your shoulders to the fall line while keeping enough cross-board flexibility to switch to slashy pow swivels. My daughter has been involved with the Park City Ride program for four years now and is focusing on body positioning and angulation with her coach. But this is a season long program. Most riders will never get that level of attention sadly. Second only to bottomless pow, making pencil lines is what I chase. I wish more people knew what they were missing.

Great content, I appreciate listening to someone else geek out about this stuff besides just me!

My brother, this video was brilliant and so are you. I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said in this video including most of all the quote “turning, the first thing you learn, the last thing you master”. I’ve been riding for over 30 years and the journey continues. Thank you so much for this, it’s invaluable and I’ve learned and reconfirmed so many things. You’ve given me a me fo be confidence. ✌🏾&💜 -Seal.

Loved it! I wish Ryan Knapton chipped in on this with his comments/ opinions/ ideas/ challenges! This could be a start of an awesome conversation. Duck stance boi all the way here, btw.

I’m so pleased to see videos like this coming out. When I started out back in the early 90’s posi/posi is how we rode. I had one VHS tape that talked about ‘sitting’ turns with a more side-on stance, and ‘steering’ turns with a forward open stance. I used to practice these with a ski pole held level in front, ‘steering’ like a bike and getting my hips into it. My mates called me ‘bird man’ for swooping around with my arms either side. Then I spent a day with a French guide who insisted I rode duck and deconstructed everything. I wasted a couple of years trying to make that work but half the time I just twisted my back knee up trying to go forward and tuck it in behind my front knee. I went back mild posi and have gone more so over time. Various boot / boardwidth and kit issues have made me look further into overhang and stance angles along the way. I started watching @malcommoore vids 👍👍 eagerly as he also explains technique so well, and tried to apply some principles to my own stance, as well as learning those techniques, so now I tend to mix up some sideways stance for slower turns and lumpy terrain, and forward for carving. I’ve recently watched some Korua vids which have reaffirmed my inclination to re-learn and commit more to forward stance, but this here is even more detailed and really inspires me and vindicates that further still. It won’t be for everyone but this is exactly what I needed to see to help build my knowledge and hopefully improve. Such clear explanations and demonstrations. Thank you!!!!

I learned a lot from your series!! please keep uploading these tech videos!!🔥🔥

I started snowboarding with posi posi 30 years ago. Ten years ago, after a long break, I moved to duck angles due to pressure from the crowd (no one rode my old way). I managed, but there was no fun, and the angles became more and more positive every year. Thanks for this video; I will return to my youth as an old guy.

I’m right now watching loads of KZfaq vids to get the most info possible prior to start snowboarding next season. Being on the very “science” side of things in life, you are the best that I’ve come across to explain the “art” of snowboarding. Very technical but very well explained at the same time. Loving it! Thanks.

Lars, good to connect with you over the past few days. Ive been on this journey for a few seasons now, and it's completely changed the way i look at the mointain. Im going to go out on a limb here and say that this is THE best english language carving video on the internet right now and will greatly benefit many people on the same "path to enlightenment." You're much farther along the path than I am, but the one comment i can make is the lack of mention of stance width. I've found that the more positive I go, the more i appreciate narrowing my stance a bit. What are your thoughts? Thanks again. You're really hitting on something here.

Absolutely love ( and totally agree ) with this series of videos 👍👏👏👏 considering the vast majority of people spend the vast majority of their riding time facing dominant foot forward why have your back foot facing in a direction that effectively locks your hips and shoulders in a closed position. Jeremy Jones says a good carve is controlled with open shoulders facing the direction of travel ( along the board ) NOT across the board. Please keep up the brilliant work 🙏👍👍

The best explanation i ever heard!

The science behind stance setup. 👏🤯

This is the best explanation of posi stance I've seen, well done.

Finally someone made correct video about carving technic.😉 But all people should know one think if they want carving is you must do mobility trening for carving it's so important to not look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame on the snowboard 😆

Been snowboarding duck stance for as long as I've been on a board (about 7 ish years), this week I went +24/+4 and had THE best riding experience to date, carves felt locked! Will never go back :)

Wow… this is the most comprehensive snowboard carving technique video out there! Thanks so much for sharing your expertise. So many click bait snowboard videos out there not showing techniques in depth or teach carving based on freestyle rather than free ride perspective. How is riding through the trees w/ posi posi angles?? Also have you seen Ryan Knapton carve like a ninja with a duck stance?? It defies all logic.

I think this is the only (I mean it , Only) video out of around more than 100 snowboard videos i have watched, that explains the body position clearly and in a way that human can understand. The chest position explaination really spark me and make me clear for a lot of questions that why my board skidded even when it was inclined a lot. Keep going, i will definately watch as much as i can!

Yeah mon! Ive ridden since ‘88 and even had a recreational hard boot set up for a few years in the early 90’s. THIS content was helpful, especially as I’ve started playing more with making rounder, carved turns like this . I live in Steamboat so it’s easy to get playful/lazy and not pay attention to the full edge groove

Excellent explanation of ++ angles!

I just tested positive/posi and it has been working so well, thank you:)

Finally someone explaining in details this style of riding! Now I don't have to rely on japanese and koreans tutorials, while I don't understand nothing in those langauges :D

The best instructions ever seen. Thank you!

This is the most information I’ve picked up in my 7 years of snowboarding… thank you so much for making this video!

My favorite posi posi carver is Kazunori Hirama. And my favorite duck stance carver is Ryan Knapton. Both are so good at their style. I can't pick which one to go for. At first I was like ok I will go for duck, so I can also ride switch and do some spin and butter. Then I look at Kazunori Hirama who has F36° B27°, and he is able to carve switch so well with posi posi. He butter so well while carving too, and he spins like a tornado lol.

Great advice! Going to have to rewatch this 15 times.

Absolutely enlighting! thanks for theese videos!

Great video! Very detailed analysis and description of turn body dynamics. A+

Wow. Great communication. Excellent examples of proper position and body mechanics. Will be studying the entire series.

I completely agree with you, that's why I bought a new board and follow your advice, but it's not easy.

🤯 Whhhaaaattt!! I had no idea. I've been riding 12/12 wide forever thinking it was the way and at the same time wondering why I can't heelside carve as slick as those Japanese crews. Thanks heaps for the great info.

I learned and started snowboarding 35 years ago. It was in that time only double positive. I have never changed that although I brought the angles back from 36 front and 30 back to now 27 front and 21 back. I have a Kessler all mountain board which you need to drive without hesitation and with dedication. I still board + 80km a day on my age of 61. Carving all day.

Rider in his early 50s here with an engineering career and a hard plateau on my turns. This video is exactly what the doctor ordered on improving turns and getting the most out of the posi/posi stance. Thanks and keep the videos coming.

Hola Lars, you are the best. Your description of the differences in technique between duckstance and forward posi is an enlightenment for me. I've been on the board for over 20 years but have only been trying to improve my carving technique in the last two seasons. And I still find it difficult to get really deep. I know most of what you say, but you manage to tie the loose threads together into a bigger picture. Awesome! I've searched the whole internet up and down for that. But all I can find in English is Duckstance Carving or Eurocarve Laydown Madness. If you're looking for elegant surfy carving, you'll only find it in the Asian channels. But unfortunately I don't understand a word there :). Your channel is amazing. Can't wait to hear more carving nerdism from you. So long

I've been riding since 2002, like to think I'm pretty advanced, but I've been riding duck the whole time! Trying out double posi this season, +20 and +5 since I do still want small movements with the rear foot to easily translate energy

This was such a great video. My knee hates a positive angle in the rear. Also with the terrain i ride and the fact I never have a day when im not in the air i stay 21, -6. I still find I can ‘mostly’ get into these carving positions.

Thank you for taking the time to discuss the topic so thoroughly. You did an incredible job. Please keep on nerding our for the benefit of the rest of us. You address all points in perfect detail. Thank you, again.

A perfect articulation of the riding technique in posi posi. Everything you said aligns with my learnings over the last 20+ years. I found it super easy to transition from posi posi to duck. Others that went the other way struggled. In the last few years I've seen soft boot riders laying down carves that rival hard boot riders. The new boards, bindings and boots are a huge improvement. More reason to teach both styles of riding.

This is so good! Thank you!

Just awesome Lars. Thank you so much! Actually bought the cheater 170w because of you.. Hope to learn more from you with these videos

This is my second season on a snowboard, I knew from the first day that I wanted to learn carving. Started with +18 -6 just changed it to +27+6 and it was a game changer for me. my heelside turn improved drastically. posi posi seems a much more natural stance for me, I feel much more comfortable. thanks you for this video!

Wonderful, thank you. Double front for 32 years and I'm still learning, need to back off my angels a bit next. Appreciate you.

Thanks for this great video with that amount of technical tips. I've found myself standing in my room checking for my position mistakes, and just thinking about next time on the slopes getting your advices to improve my carving (the hand one just made me :o ).

After an approx. 15 year brake, I will Go snowboarding again. I wonder what I missed in these years. It is strange to see this discussion about stance and people promoting positive stance for carving. 15 years ago it was clear for me, that there are generally two kinds of snowboarder, the ones who carve and the ones having fun with tricks. And both need to use different stance.I was interested in "clean snowboarding", so the teacher showed me to control the edges and slowly improve carving. I really liked the carving feeling and tried to paint thin lines in the snow. Speed control by closing the curves. I will ride my hard boots with step in binding again and have something one would call nowadays a race board. Looks like I'm pretty old school. When I talked to younger snowboarders these days, I had the feeling that they didn't understand, what I meant when I spoke about carving. It seems, that this has been lost due to fun riding. And now it's being found again.

This is a terrific breakdown and it totally makes sense! It’s the same way in surfing to stack weight more front footed in a more open stance for better turning 🤙🏼

Thank you, that was extremely helpful - I've never come across this information before.

Awesome Video! In surfing they call the duck stance the poo man. Posi Posi is the norm for experienced surfers it opens up the hips and lets them see where they are going.

Thank you Lars. I started later in life in learning to board and have been aspiring to carve better. I’ve watched many videos but your instructions on debunking the hands on ground technique has really changed my shredding life. It’s been day2 of learning your technique and I’m already seeing vast improvements in my carving. Thank you for sharing that “unfortunate truth”😊.

As an older rider I’ve been experimenting with positive angles, as my freestyle days are behind me. This has been really helpful insight on how I need to adapt my riding style

I’ve been watching a lot of videos and trying to lay down my first carve.. your channel and the amazing content you are producing helped me learn how to put the board on its edge and use it as it was designed to be used ! Very thankful and please keep making this videos for us !! ✌️✌️

Thank you for the video! Have been carving super deep for the last two seasons with heavy double positive angles on a softboard 27 back 45 front and it was great but not so great for my back hip! This season started to reduce angles again and am now riding 0° and 27° and feel very comfortable. A stance i can also comfortably ride on kickers and in powder and less internal rotation on my back hip --> no pain 🤙 enjoy your turns!

Really enjoy your videos. Very well done, easy to understand and helpful. I like how you describe the advantages/disadvantages of different set-ups and encourage trying out what works for individuals and styles of riding. I'm an all mountain rider but I have two boards ... a directional board which I normally have set at +21/+6 and a twin which I ride at +15/-15. I ride both all over the mountain but, depending on the terain and conditions, I choose to ride the twin when focusing more on switch, butters and park and my directional board the rest of the time (focusing on carving, powder and trees, which is my real passion 🌲 🏂🌲). Thought your comment about snowboard lessons being split into riding styles (after beginner stage) was really good. Thanks for the videos. 👍

A well spoken dude.. thanks for sharing. I will be trying this setup this year. Exited to up my carving game.

Old schooler myself, been riding a posi stance since the early 1990's. Try it on very deep and steep powder with your stance all the way back. I am only 5'10" and 170lbs but for two decades rode a wide 168, back country on steep and deep. Super stable, super fast in deep deep powder, floats easily in 4ft of fluff. People used to say who rode a different stance and or shorter board how they have to put all their weight on the back foot and pull up on the front for the deepest powder. I never do that with my stance and even on a smaller 160 board.

Hi Lars! I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for sharing your incredible knowledge! The clarity and depth of your explanations on snowboard carving with a ++ stance are unparalleled! I haven't found anything else like it on the internet in the English language. There are many snowboarders in Japan & Korea using a similar style (calling it Asian technical riding), but it is very hard to really learn something from it... You are on the right path with this channel! I personally have been riding with a 36/24 angle setup for the past few years, and it is the only way I could get my hips into the snow. Knapton has a great channel explaining snowboard carving in-depth, but with a duck stance, which is completely different... Please consider creating a series of videos focusing on ++ snowboard carving. Your expertise could benefit so many riders out there looking to enhance their ++ carving technique. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and passion with us! You've got a new fan and subscriber!

Wow! Amazing detail and knowledge. Such a good breakdown of body mechanics!

Great video... I've been easing my way towards posi-posi, I'm at +24/-6 and I feel the desire to go further. You've inspired me, I'm gonna start with +24/0 tomorrow maybe notch my way up after a few runs.

I've been thinking of doing some snowboarding again and these new boards and stances are why. The double positive stance changes the motion to a more skiing like turn motion and reduces the pressure on the front foot. Very interesting thing I am 100% going to try. 😊

I just discovered your video through a random link. Wow, this is by far the most complete and easy to understand explanation of how body positioning affects your edgework in the two different orientations. I haven't seen another video that brings the concept of the "freestyle" stance vs the "posi-posi" stance together so well. I've watched countless hours of Japanese carving tutorials which explain the benefits of positive stances as well as our Western counterparts which arent as consistent in explanation, but your video really brings the two worlds together. Kudos and definitely subscribing. edit: Just one suggestion--if you had filmed this video while you were standing on the board behind you that might help a bit visually! Im sure the more advanced riders have no issue understanding this but maybe it would help the more novices watchers. Cheers!

I love posi posi and I'd say 99% of my riding is in that stance. I learned to ride in the early 90s and really it seemed like everyone was riding posi posi back then. I ride +27 +12 most of the time but will drop to -6 if going to be spending a lot of time dodging trees. It just feels more agile somehow. I'm 52yrs now with a few decades of sporting injuries that have added up and really any kind of negative rear angle just makes my knee sore so it's a very rare park session, perhaps on bad weather day, when I'll go negative.

shortly after starting i personally use double positive (+21/+3) because they're more gently with my knees, and i've more feeling with my board.

Great fckn video man !!! Nobody talks about this, every time I asked about it I get a weird look at me. Thanks a lot for sharing !

Really good stuff thank you for sharing. Coming from mainly a surf and ski/snowboard (instructor) background it's great to have someone explain more of the techniques that you just don't see being taught on the mountain - at least here in Switzerland.

Enjoyed the video in lots of ways. Thanks for posting it. Really inspirational.

I was traveling for work recently, in California, and Tahoe received 98" of snow. I took advantage of the conditions and rented a board. I requested +21, +6. One of the techs at the rental shop yelled "Wow! Double posi! that's crazy". When I was younger I would ride +36 +18. It amazes me that double posi has become something that is a bit of a rarity.

Thanks for the video i’ve been looking to test different stances, and as a medecine student i love your explainations of biomecanic of snowboarding, it makes more sens for me now

I started learning how to carve a year ago on duck stance and struggled to understand what I needed to do to carve with higher angles. Appreciated the depth and detail you went into the mechanics of every movement. I haven't been able to find much information about the differences between duck stance and double positive stance until this video! Thank you again, and I think I'm now armed with enough knowledge to try double positive stance. Hopefully the adjustment won't be too difficult 😅

Brilliant , thanks a lot for doing this. Your explanations are so clear.

Super useful information!!!! I ve been a long time looking for this kind of explanations! Thank you

This is a great video and as an advanced intermediate rider I’m going to take this advice and try posi posi and see the difference. It is interesting though how extreme and clean of carves someone like Rayan Knapton gets from a very wide board with a +15 -15 (I think) stance. But he is one incredible rider that focuses on riding switch as well. Thanks for this vid!

You taught this so beautifully. Thank you.

Best Video I've seen on this topic so far. Maybe coming from a European view on this topic out of the end 90s. I'm softboot riding on smaller boards +42\+18 on the wide boards +33\+15. One remark to the slight uneven weight distribution on front or heelside turns you mentioned around minute 20:00, resulting of the two different positions you hip bends (Der Hüftknick findet an 2 leicht unterschiedlichen Stellen statt). For race training, I learned to follow the outside of your front leg with your front hand down to the boot on toeside turns. And now to follow the outside of your rear leg with your back hand down to the rear boot on heelside turns. In your heelside carve picture your backhand is a bit to far forward. A right bend of your hips at 0 degree foot would go down the right outside leg with your hands. A left bend of your hips at a 0 degree foot would go down the outside of your left leg. Nothing changes if both feet angle at positive 45 degrees. Your pelvis now angles 45 (but for good bending your right hand still moves down your right leg... Or your left hand down your left leg.) A big difference makes your personal preference of mounting you bindings. (centered vs at reference stance vs slightly setback)

that carve photo is killer

Great explanation. Thanks a lot. I will start with carving next. Very curious about, how it work out 😊

Such a good video! Really interesting to see the parallels between this explanation of +/+ riding technique and skiing - some of the big skiing pointers (so I'm told) are having weight in yhe front of the skis, keeping the chest facing down the hills, and moving the hips over your edges. My brother is learning to ski and one of the pointers he's been given is to try to feel like he's cracking a walnut between his hip and his lower rib to get the hips over the edges! Love the channel.

This is a really informative video. I now understand it more. THANK YOU!!!

Such a great informative presentation. I play with my stance angles each year. Over time my back foot has gradually come forwards. I am at 0 or +3 at the moment.

Brillant analysis ! I think you are right on concerning the proper technique to ride posi-posi . I totally agree that CASI should review their philosophy concerning stance and carving and should offer an alternative. Kudo mate !

LARS!!! I crossed the line this weekend with 5cm of fresh snow on the groomers. YEEWWW! I went +18 +3 Felt good on side hits, carving, and moguls on our black hill. ( a Blue in most places), but its the best we have.LOL. I usually ride 21 0 so not much change but definalty noticable. Going to open front to 21 to get more forward pressure on the nose of my @Wiredsnowboards Recon with Jones Mercury bindings in surf mode.

thank you men!!! so so helpfulll!!!!! I be been trying to carve in wrong stances for waaaaayyy to long!!

Love your videos! I used to do a lot of downhill skate boarding and the double posi stance is very similar to a race tuck and the grabs for turns are very similar too. With downhill skating you typically put your hands on the ground to get some weight off the wheels to initiate a slide, seems like you might lose some edge pressure trying that on a snowboard

Incredible analysis, loved it! When I randomly tested positive angles I was not happy because I kept on trying to use the same old movements and the back knee hurt, haha! I'll give it another try now!

Thanks for such valuable inf🤙🏻

I learned and trained in the 'snow school' way where duck stance was believed to provide the stability to ride our local terrains (tight trees, moguls, etc). I have always find it challenging to stack my body over the heel edge when I carve - perhaps the double posi stance + the right technique could change things? :) This video is super informative and inspiring. Thanks for the video and for bringing diversity to the community!