Top 10 Tips To Learn As A Beginner Snowboarder
The first few times you learn to snowboard can be challenging. Here are the Top 10 Tips For A Beginner Rider. The learning curve is more difficult to snowboard over skiing. If you get these 10 tips your skills will be much better and avoid injuries. 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;Beginner Snowboard Lesson on Steering, Learn How To Ride The Lifts Safely, How to Snowboard: Balance Twist, Beginner Snowboard Stance, Snowboard Pads, Snowboard Training Hill, Demo Boards, Snowboard Camber, Building Rhythm, Snowboard Freestyle Boards, Snowboard Dynamic Flex & Extend, How To Size Your Snowboard.Responsibility Code #1, Snowboard Responsibility Code #2, Snowboard Responsibility Code #3, Responsibility Code #4 Look Uphill, Snowboard Responsibility Code # 5, #6 Obey All Signs & Snowboard Responsibility Code #7.
One, two, three, boots, bindings, board your snowboard deck. You need to be able to Put Your Boots On Right! Your bindings should allow your boot to fit in Learn To Size Boots & Bindings. Your snowboard should be sized to you and a beginner board has a softer flex pattern How To Size Your Board. I like boots that are a laceless system, bindings that are a ratchet system and a snowboard that is stiffer with regular camber shape. A beginner board is usually flat or reversed camber to help prevent catching an edge. Catching an edge is when your downhill edge digs in or “catches” the snow and that causes a whiplash. These can be very hard falls and should be avoided. The top 3 things are your equipment. Once you’ve got this sorted we can start snowboarding.
The fourth thing is strapping on the binding and to start skating around one foot in pushing with the back foot. Learn How To Skate On Your Snowboard. This is very similar to skateboarding and we put our back foot on the board right next to the binding. I suggest you push your back foot next to the binding to help keep your foot from sliding around. Number 5 is keeping your eyes up. You will go where you look and that’s why when you look down you fall. Number 6 is keeping your balance. Big huge movements will lose your balance so be subtle and finesse your movements. Skate keeping your eyes up and you will keep your balance. Once you’re comfortable moving around we need to start turning and steering the board.
There are two edges and number 7 & 8 are Heelside & Toeside Stances. You ride the edge and the board will turn. Tilt the board up on edge creating an edge angle. Snowboards have a sidecut on the edges. A sidecut is a circle or arc cut into the edge, the edge is not straight. The heelside edge is a position where you are sitting down or squatting. You balance on the balls of your heels bedding at your ankles, knees and hips. You face down the slope and heelside is usually the edge that peeps prefer at first. Toeside is standing up tall extending your hips towards the edge. You will face up the hill and it might feel awkward since most folks haven’t put their bodies in this position. There might not be any muscle memory but you need to learn both edges or you’ll be a heelside hero. Once you’re able to stop on both heelside and toeside whilst skating then you’re ready to put the back foot in.
Two feet in is number 9. Skating is great but snowboarding is done with both feet in and it makes it much easier to ride. Think of riding a bike, with more speed it’s easier to steer and to keep balance. Once we put our second foot in we need steeper terrain. You might not agree with me at first but once you are able to get some speed in control you will understand. It’s like taking the training wheels off. You won’t be able to drag your back foot to help you stop so it’s important to be able to stop with your back foot on the snowboard. Ride your edges steering across the slope.
After all that the last thing is transitioning edges making “S” shaped turns. Give yourself enough room to turn. Let the board go diagonal then straight. Once you’re parallel to the fall line you can go to either edge but we want to transition edges going from toeside to heelside to toeside to heelside. It might not happen quickly for you but these tips will help you to learn to Ride Right!™ 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.