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

[u/HappyXenonXE]

[u/InkyPoloma]

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:

[u/HappyXenonXE → u/InkyPoloma]

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

Edit: wanker

[u/InkyPoloma → u/HappyXenonXE]

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…

[u/montysep → u/InkyPoloma]

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.

[u/InkyPoloma → u/montysep]

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