Get In Your Flow Zone Like Basketball & Baseball Athletes

The snowboard season is a few months of the year but you can develop athletic skills by playing other sports. You can learn to be efficient in your movements and Get Into A Flow Zone Like Basketball & Baseball Players. Follow us by subscribing on YouTube to get all our new videos & tips. Flowing Freeride will teach how to pick the right snowboard gear best for you and drills to improve your skills. You’ll have access to all our snowboard tutorials when you sign up that cover every step and feedback from your coach. We also have some free snowboard videos to prepare for snowboard safety on our YouTube Page. I recommend watching these snowboard videos; Building Rhythm, Advanced Snowboarding Getting Air, Snowboard Bumpy Terrain, Snake Course, Snowboard Dynamic Flex & Extend, Advance Snowboard Lesson: Dropping Cliffs, Snowboarding Off Piste, Snowboarding Chutes, Snowboard Lesson Navigating Trees & Obstacles, Active Passive Absorption, Funnel Turns For Navigating Obstacles & Snowboarding Moguls.

I love sports. I was hired at PCTV as a TV Sports Producer because of my knowledge and passion for sport.  I grew up playing baseball, basketball, soccer, boxing, wrestling, football, track, wakeboarding, skateboarding, skiing and of course snowboarding. If I had the knowledge that I have now I would have been a better athlete. When I was taking my AASI Snowboard Level 3 exam I was told that I was too strong and they failed me. I didn’t understand what that meant. I had to pull teeth from examiners to get the information I needed to snowboard with flow. I powered through terrain and wasn’t using efficient movements. Now that I’m a full certified level 3 snowboard coach, I teach that same philosophy. When pivot or rotate the board the upper and lower bodies are out of alignment. If you’re out of alignment you can’t absorb as well and it will affect your balance. After a lot of training and study I understood good Timing, Intensity and Duration or TID. My snowboarding improved so much and I was able to ride all day without the aches and pains I used to get. By taking professional snowboard lessons or using Flowing Freeride’s techniques you’ll improve much quicker than riding alone or getting wrong advice from someone else. 

The state of Flow is something folks should research. My good mate Greg Gibb (Develop Our Snowboarding By Mountain Biking) told me about the state of Flow when we were hiking/snowboarding up at Alta a few years back. I was telling him about FFR and how I came up with the name. I liked Bruce Lee and how he would say “be like water.” As I snowboard I flow down the mountain efficiently with the least amount of resistance. I like to use gravity to slow me down by turning up the slope instead of muscling and skidding to stop. I love carving and carving is using your sidecut and not skidding. I explain Basic Carving in this video if you’d like to go down that rabbit hole. There are videos on the internet that explain The State Of Flow with Steven Kotler. You are much more efficient and fluid when you’re in the Flow State. I know I can get a full week of work done in just a day if I’m Flowing. It would be great if companies would know about this but unfortunately most of us have to be in the office from 9 to 5 because that’s how the system is set up or even worse punching the time clock. I would like to have a four hour work week instead of 40 hours. You can read The Four Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferriss if you want to get deeper into that subject.

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfection. When I see snowboarders with bad technique they aren’t getting better by doing the same inefficient movements and unlearning is harder than learning it right the first time. Basketball athletes have said in interviews how when they were playing that things slowed down, that their rhythm was on. When they’re playing that well “they’re on fire” and any shot they take goes in. They can’t be stopped. Baseball players say the ball gets bigger or that it slows down. It’s like they see the future. Baseballers have just a fraction of a second to decide whether the pitch is going to be a strike or a ball. They are able to do this because they’ve had many lessons, they’ve watched video of themselves, they have good coaching and they had perfect practice. 

With Covid destroying lives our world has changed and we’ve had a shift. People have realized that they can be just as productive by working from home. If they can stay focused for a few hours they get all their work done instead of being in the office all day. A lot of us lost jobs and companies only kept workers that were vital to surviving. Park City Resort merged with Canyons a few years ago. They kept all the management on the PC side and got rid of almost all on the Canyons. This season they made sure almost all the runs and parks were open on the PC side. They didn’t even build a park on Canyons side. It takes about an hour to snowboard from 

Canyons to PC. One hour to get there and one hour to get back gave us about three runs in the park, not enough practice. Our group lessons were shortened to just 3 hours instead of 6. This made it very difficult to get into the park. I only rode the park this last season for a few hours. My park skills deteriorated. I had to be at work for almost 2 hours more this season and didn’t get compensated for it. I didn’t get to freeride as much either. This season was the 4th worst snowpack on record. We really didn’t have much off-piste terrain open until the end of January. The slopes were super crowded and it was dangerous. These factors made it difficult to get into the state of Flow and I hope next season is much better.

I heard other peeps express their opinion of this season. When I did have good private lessons they were all day. We got to eat lunch together and instead of two three hour lessons we got 7 straight hours together. The results were a huge difference when we were able to get our Flow Zone on! You can sign up for the full course to gain access to all of our snowboard lessons, study guides, textbooks, glossary, tests and direct feedback from your coach. Learn to snowboard online with flowingfreeride.com and take a look at our YouTube Page for more free content and learn to snowboard right! Online snowboard resources like videos on our YouTube Channel and articles like these can help you a ton. Professional snowboard lessons help even more. My name is Blake Tholen Clark Contact Me if you want to book a lesson or have any questions about Snowboarding.