That's pretty much true. The more advanced the terrain, the more important the fundamentals become.

“Not gonna lie” …that right there shows me you’re definitely from Northeast lol. Yea man same for me. I’ve never done powder before 🤦🏻‍♂️

Me too Adam….me too

Try living in London. 1 week of snow every 3 years if we're lucky 😫

it's easy to go get some pow brother, take 1000$ and drive to the west sleep in your car for a week man sometimes u just gotta sacrifice 😂

I make it a priority to go out west every year with friends. It’s definitely amazing out there.

Also agree, I spent years trying not to use shoulder rotation and bring the steering down to my feet ankles and knees.

The feet are super important at high speeds for stability

What you say is fair for successive sharp fast turns. But turning in with your shoulders is good as you still have torsion potential in your lower body to apply more force in your turn. If you engage your turns from the lower body and your upper body drags behind you won't have that torsion capacity.

There's an exercise I've seen people do where you hold a ski pole parallel to the board and maintain that. That way you isolate the movement to just your legs like you're saying. Dictating movement from the upper body looks sloppy and is inefficient.

Squaw!

Yup

@@energetic479no

I appreciate that!

Wearing a hip protector shorts increases my confidence and pushes me out of my comfort zone to be more aggressive.

Thanks, will do!

Yeww

Yeah i have been trying to focus on knee steering as the means of initiating the turn and keeping the waist up relatively neutral. But his no 4 or so is talking about knee steering and his upper body is still. Kind of counter to no2

it depends on the situation and both have their place

It's always good to see what different experts say. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJZ4iLh8kuDaXZc.html at about 2:40, there is some commentary about leading with the front arm. There is likely some nuance I'm missing. But I'm on here to learn. Would like to hear other responses both disagreeing and agreeing, and why.

@@joshuawoodruff1052 if you initiate with your shoulders, you can create a more powerful turn (more torque) at the expense of reactivity. If you initiate with you hips (CoM), you can have a more balanced turn in term of power/ reactivity. If you initiate with your ankles, you can have a very reactive turn at the expense of power and range of movement. They are right ways to turn, none are wrong, all options are a tool you can use or mix in order to ride and do the turn needed at the moment.

@@joshuawoodruff1052 i am learning as well. Right or wrong i find when going faster or on steeper terrain i lead with my upper body a bit. Ive watched so many videos on the topic :) its hard to remember

When you initiate a turn, have your weight forward. This helps your edge engage and start to pull you through the turn. As a test, really lean into that turn and make it as hard as you can. If you keep your weight forward, your back is going to slip. The next time you try that hard turn, start putting more weight on the back foot, and you will see your edge stays engaged, which is what Kevin was mentioning.

Yeeesss 😊

I totally agree, I am there right now. I can finally do everything with confident and sometimes here and there i will mess up something but I just need to put in more time until things are alot more clean, but when it comes to switch my progression lacking. Every now and then I go on switch and try to slowly challenge myself to push the limits until I can connect the loops and feel good on both sides. That's when I can call myself a good snowboarder when I can snowboard on both sides confidently

If you’ve been skateboarding and surfing then snowboarding will be the easiest of the three!

just my opinion in passing but reading the write up on the sticks the superpig is a specialty board which is snappier where as the warpig should be more playful and buttery

yup!

It’s at Palisades resort by Lake Tahoe California

Wondering the same thing

Malcolm moore has and excellent video on this

@@jooa1 Was just going to mention him. Prob the best instructor for good technique.

It’s at Palisades, Tahoe

Try it out and see if it works

Snowboard instructor here and I agree. Turning with your upper body decreases the overall efficiency of your riding, but it's also true that it's a useful skill to have in some situations where you're pushing your level i.e. powerful and sharp turns in trees, bumps or powder.. but definitely your front leg always should initiate your turns

Confidence for sure!

I’m not the guy but I have been boarding for 25 years , there’s many ways to turn the snowboard for knee steering to go in your heel edge open your knee towards the front of your board , close your knee to go to toe … but this is just initiating the turn you still using your body. I think the best thing to do is to balance yourself over your board and not think too much about it. As long as you’re balanced your body will do the work I’ll lean back on my heels and slowly transition to my toe. I think the most important thing to remember, is your hands over your board .. straight back Bent knees … if you snowboard like you were initiating a squat, you’ll improved greatly , personally I think if you focus much more on balance and stance, that’s the most important thing that will get you to the next level … think about showing your base of your snowboard as you take a turn, you’ll start edge riding like a galactic snow surfer … lessons, and video lessons are great, but mind and body synergy is key , these are amazing tips he’s giving take them into consideration, but don’t think about it to mechanically become one with your board

@@MotoGia yeah bro. Makes sense! It is a matter of developing the feeling based on your own body, board and area. I think youtube videos are great as a source of reflection and inspiration.

My favorite video for this is Torsional Twist by Malcolm Moore. He's got a whole video focused on the topic.

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Guessing either a mic hooked up to him, or a direction microphone on the camera itself.

But he also get a some nice snow crunch in there too

Forward lean helps to initiate heel side turns quicker i.e. more responsive heel turns. Try moving them forward and see how you like it.

@@Seanpaulnz01 oooh awesome I've been feeling like my heelside turns are just way harder to get to the same angle as my toeside ones. I was wondering if the forward lean could help but wasn't sure. I'm gonna give it a try next time.

kevin is wearing quicksilver pants

I don't think Google snowboards.

@@wooltron1 I don't think KZfaq snowboard either but here we are

Do whatever feels snd works for you its a sport with no real rules so have fun and don’t put yourself in danger

The problem is when you lean on your back foot too much. It will generally cause you to pick up more speed, while having less edge control. Can be fun to do, but it's generally not wise for beginners or on steeper slopes. In this particular video, they are talking about equally dividing your weight between your front and back foot, which will actually increase control.