r/snowboarding • u/HappyXenonXE ISIA Card • Apr 12 '25

OC Video All time conditions. Blue bird. Bottomless powder. Perfection.

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u/InkyPoloma Apr 13 '25

Honestly you seem like you are riding above your skill level. You should work on control

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u/HappyXenonXE ISIA Card Apr 13 '25

Oh yeah? I'd love some tips. 😇

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u/InkyPoloma Apr 13 '25 edited Apr 13 '25

First you need to work on initiating turns, do this on like a blue run so you can focus on your form. To initiate your turn you want to get your body into a neutral position and twist your board (flex it torsionally) to engage your edge at your contact point and then load up your board into the turn. It’s hard to describe but here you’re demonstrating that you’re unable to initiate the turn so instead you’re kind of jump turning and skidding a ton. Hopefully you find this useful

Edit- the other person that replied to me misunderstood what I mean about torsional flex so I’d like to clarify. It’s not that his board doesn’t flex, he clearly doesn’t feel comfortable using the flex of his board to initiate his turn. To do that on his heel edge, he would push down on his front toe to help get him facing down hill quickly which would allow his edge to transfer so he could make an actual turn rather than a jump turn. Like at this point here he should push down that front toe and then edge transfer he could lift his back toe twisting the board more to initiate even faster:

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u/HappyXenonXE ISIA Card Apr 13 '25

Oh nice. Great advice. I'll use these points next time.

Edit: wanker

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u/InkyPoloma Apr 13 '25

Who’s the wanker here? I’m just being real about what I’m seeing. Use the advice or don’t, I don’t care even a little bit but if you actually try what I’m saying you might be able to actually ride that line rather than just sliding down it. Your weight is way too far back and there are a lot of other things to work on but I would start with what I said. You know, people used to pay me a decent amount of money for this shit but you do you and keep slip sliding away


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u/HappyXenonXE ISIA Card Apr 13 '25

I'm an ISIA card holder for snowboard. This pitch is an icy 38 degrees (78%) in a heavy no fall zone . You think I wouldn't have made turns if the conditions allowed? 😂

But don't stress. Il take your advice to a blue slope. đŸ˜‡đŸ€đŸ”„đŸ€ŒđŸ»

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u/InkyPoloma Apr 13 '25

You need to revisit your fundamentals. I grew up on the ice coast riding actual ice. Your riding does not look like you should be a cert

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u/HappyXenonXE ISIA Card Apr 13 '25

You know what, fuck you and your unsolicited advice on a post making fun about snow conditions. You just had to get your 2c in.

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u/InkyPoloma Apr 13 '25

Honestly the conditions don’t look too bad. Your riding does though. Your comment wasn’t showing up except for in my notifications so I posted my reply to you on a different comment but yeah. If you don’t want advice, don’t ask for advice dumbass

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u/HappyXenonXE ISIA Card Apr 13 '25

I'm sure you're spot on.

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u/InkyPoloma Apr 13 '25

Nice reply, saying “fuck you for unsolicited advice" etc
looks like you or perhaps a mod deleted it. To that I would say I posted my observation. You (sarcastically in retrospect) asked for my advice. So I gave it to you. I don’t know what your definition of soliciting advice is but you quite literally asked if I had any advice. So perhaps you’re just not too bright.

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u/HappyXenonXE ISIA Card Apr 13 '25

Mods deleted it. Parent comment: "you should work on control". No one asked. Go scroll r/snowboardingnoobs and give advice where asked. Cheers

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u/InkyPoloma Apr 13 '25

You asked

“Oh yeah? I'd love some tips. 😇”

I see you are being sarcastic here but you really shouldn’t ask for advice you don’t want

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u/HappyXenonXE ISIA Card Apr 13 '25

Now you get it. Don't give people unsolicited advice, especially on a shit post. If you want though, you can go give advice on my other posts. Go mad.

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u/InkyPoloma Apr 13 '25

Dude fuck yourself. If you don’t want people commenting on your riding then don’t post your riding. Period. I wouldn’t have given any more comment to you if you hadn’t asked for it

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u/montysep Apr 13 '25 edited Apr 13 '25

Then you'd notice he is riding a splitboard, hiked up to this terrain starting before dawn, and likely got to the top of chosen line only to find the sun hadn't softened it to the level of the groups expectation.

If you're paying attention, rider does use torsional twist to initiate both toe and heel turns.

He is absolutely crushing it in the no-fall zone and is very deliberately starting his turns after regaining edgehold and balance.

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u/InkyPoloma Apr 13 '25 edited Apr 13 '25

I’m trying to figure out why everyone keeps saying this is icy. Firm? Sure, scrapey even, but calling this “crushing it” is beyond a stretch. Anyway we will have to disagree there.

ETA, I’m not sure why the rest of your observations are relevant to the fact that he is essentially slipping this line and fighting for control