This online snowboard lesson will go over Beginner Snowboarding Stance Tips. You’ll want to have a stance that isn’t too wide or too narrow. Put your stance at about your shoulder width. This will help you to be balanced and able to use your maximum range of movement. It will also allow you to use the whole board. You bought a whole board so use it. Other Snowboard Videos on YouTube & Flowing Freeride go over proper backcountry, off piste conditions and efficient snowboard 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 snowboard safety on our YouTube Page. I recommend watching these snowboard videos; Beginner Snowboard Lesson on Steering, Toeside Heelside Stance, Learn How To Ride The Lifts Safely, How To Twist & Flex Your Snowboard, Snowboard Pads, Snowboard Training Hill, What To Wear Snowboarding, & How To Size Your Snowboard.

A good stance is to be balanced nice bent knees. Spread your legs out so you’re you’re width of your stance should be about about the the width of your shoulders. Then if you keep both your feet pointed forward 0º, 0º is a neutral stance and for a beginner we want to be going front foot positive like 6º, back foot -6º or 9º, -9º or 12º, -12º. This is called a duck stance. If you kind of exaggerate the stance you point your feet out like 30º, -30º super duck that’s not what we want. Try bending like that and see if you like it. Some folks might like this but it will lead to sore joints. It’s too far and will stress your knees and hips. You don’t want you angles to be more than 30 degrees of separation. The most would be 15º, -15º or another example would be 18º, -12º. Now bring it back into where you’re at 0º, 0º. If you like those stances then try riding like that.

It will be better for your body to be at the front foot 6º back foot -6º or 9º, -9º. Have knees slightly bent if you’re left foot forward or regular stance turn your neck and not your whole body towards your left shoulder and if you’re goofy turn your neck to your right shoulder. Don’t open up your hips so you keep good alignment. Your knees, hips and shoulders are parallel to the board. If you were to start going down the mountain and the slope gets steeper you would bend your front knee more to have your board, knees, hips and shoulders parallel to the slope. That’s a  good stance.

Everybody’s body structure is different. Most people tend to have their feet bowed out or ducked out a little bit that way you can bend my knees out and squat down so there’s a maximum range of movement. If I put my knees in I can’t bend very much really because my body’s not built to bend like that or to Flex and Extend like that. I put my knees out a wee bit, put my feet out a little bit and this allows you to really get down low. You can get down all the way. You will gain these snowboard talents by training with Flowing Freeride. You can learn more about Snowboard Dynamic Flex & Extend in this video and get Hooked On Snowboarding with Snowboardclass/Flowing Freeride’s techniques so go back to other snowboard videos that teach you about hiking the backcountry. 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.