Snowboarding Euro Surfer Carves

This online snowboard lesson will go over Snowboarding Euro Surfer Carves. Welcome to the 2018 AASI Rider Rally. We ripped at A-Basin, CO for a week. The snow was great considering in was May. There was a huge turn out with certified riders from all over the world! I was one of the many L3 Full Certified Riders including the AASI Team Riders. The Team Riders gave a good show sharing knowledge that we’ll bring back to our divisions and local resorts. If you’re an AASI certified snowboard instructor you should attend training events like this that combines all the divisions together in one event. Being a L3 Cert I train in events like DCL/Beyond L3 pushing our snowboarding to higher levels and I’ve been a snowboard trainer at resorts helping instructors pass their exams and certifications. Other Snowboard Videos on YouTube & Flowing Freeride go over carving tips and techniques. You’ll have access to all our snowboard tutorials when you signup that cover every step and feedback from your coach. We also have some free snowboard videos to prepare for Advance Carving on our YouTube Page. I recommend watching these snowboard videos; Building Rhythm, Advanced Snowboarding Getting Air, Snowboard Dynamic Flex & Extend, Advance Snowboard Lesson: Dropping Cliffs, Snowboarding Off Piste, Snowboarding Chutes, Snowboard Lesson Navigating Trees & Obstacles, Active Passive Absorption, Upper/Lower Body Separation, Basic Carving: Circle Drills, Basics For Freestyle Features, Advance Snowboard Carving: Surfer Turns & Grab Carves, Funnel Turns For Navigating Obstacles, Snowboard Jibbing & Snowboarding Moguls Learn to snowboard online with flowingfreeride.com, Take Our Placement Quiz, take a look at Our Blog for more free content, and Learn To Snowboard Right!

Snowboarding has many styles and you can adapt to the snow conditions. Our rhythm started flowing towards Surfer Turns and Euro Carves. Here we we’re doing some Euro Carves laying our bodies in the snow and getting our back arm to drag. We really talked a lot about practicing and focusing on one thing that you’re about 75% efficient on that movement, trick or skill. For this style of carving you want to get low at the very beginning of your turn and start dragging your back arm in the snow. Get your board to change edges across the fall line. Refer back to my Dynamic Flex & Extension Video to get you flowing in rhythm. Put a lot of your weight on your back leg, then extend through your turn and lay your body in the snow. Put pressure towards the nose of your snowboard to pop you back up. If you put a grab in you’re making Surfer Turns.

Carving is riding and balancing on the snowboard edge and sidecut. Your back foot follows your front foots direct path and you’re not skidding. Keep your core over the width of your snowboard and pressure down on the edge. If you’ve done snowboard training you can see there are many different styles, alignments and movements in these carves. Some carving styles here were to separate your upper body from your lower locking you into your carves but it causes alignment issues and can tweak muscles or joints. Carving like this is for higher level riders so build up to carving by trying Circle Turns. I’ve seen the sport of snowboarding go back to carving because it when you’re carving you’re flowing and using the snowboard the way it’s meant to be used. You use the side cut and move fore and aft of your board also using the camber to create pop. That pop can be used to start jumping and spinning. Carving can set you up for good flow in your freestyle. Putting your hand in the snow and grabbing your snowboard while ripping boosts your style and efficiency. If you’re training for your snowboard exams and certifications manipulating your snowboard to perform efficiently is what will get you to pass your L3, Freestyle Cert or High Level Exams. You need to have a good understanding of the biomechanics of the human body. It will help you to perform better in other sports also.

Snowboarding is a very active sport. Stay fit to be able to bend, absorb, flex and extend with little effort. When riding with a huge group of high level snowboarders you see cool style and tricks that you might want to be able to do. Build up to that skill by perfect practice. Do the same trick over and over again until you’ve got muscle memory and as you’re flowing down the mountain you can bust that trick out anytime no problem. You can practice efficiently with Snowboardclass/FlowingFreeride’s techniques so go back to earlier snowboard videos that teach you about kids and beginner movements. You can signup to get 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! My name is Blake Tholen Clark contact me if you want to book a lesson or have any questions about Snowboarding.