Snowboard Tuning Tips With Australian Snowboard Legend Grant Elliot

It’s snowboard season for those of you lucky enough to be down in the Southern Hemisphere. My good mate Grant Elliot gives us some Great Tips To Tune Your Snowboard. Covid has changed a lot of peeps lives. I was supposed to be down in New Zealand but hope things get back to normal soon. 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; How To Repair Snowboard Part 2, How To Repair Core Shots, Snowboard Binding Types, Binding Angles, Picking The Right Size of Snowboard, Demo Snowboards, Snowboard Camber Technology, & Sizing Boots & Bindings.

As you ride your snowboard it gets wear and tear. If you ride a bike or drive a car you have to do maintenance on your tires. It’s good to do the same for your snowboard. If you like to ride powder you will sometimes hit obstacles under the snow. Rocks, trees and dirt damage your base and edges. I like to use a stone to get the burrs off of my edges. This will let your board flow smoothly through the snow. It will help you go off jumps better and ride with less friction. There are other files that can sharpen your edges and let you cut into stiff hard snow conditions. Keeping your edges tuned are little things that can make a huge improvement to you snowboarding.

I have videos that teach you How To Wax Your Board, but we go into more depth with @Instagrunta. I prefer not to use base cleaners because they can dry out and damage your base. Instead you can do a hot wax and scrape. Most folks will wax their snowboard and let it sit but if your board is dirty then do a hot scrape as soon as you wax it. This will suck all of the dirt and unwanted materials out of your base without drying it out. I would do another wax and let it sit for a while before you scrape it. This is a great way to keep your snowboard flowing at it’s best capability. 

I like to keep my edges sharp but my style of riding is Freeride. If you’re a park Freestyle rider you may want to detune your snowboard. That means instead of making the edges sharper we round them. This will help you from grabbing your edge on rails and boxes. A lot of Rippers will just make park laps all day. When I was living in Australia there wasn’t much snow or vertical. Me and a couple others set up boxes and just hit those all day practicing our board slides. I’ve done this in the postseason up at Alta, Utah. We’ve been able to snowboard there in the preseason and postseason. Watch Free Alta and join us to start allowing snowboarding there.

Grant talked about tuning tips and you can go to CustomCult.com/GrantElliot to get his design or choose from other riders’ designs. You can also design your own with different lengths, widths, sidecuts, camber shape and flex patterns. 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.