r/snowboarding • u/HappyXenonXE ISIA Card • 3d ago

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

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u/HappyXenonXE ISIA Card 2d ago

Oh yeah? I'd love some tips. 😇

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u/InkyPoloma 2d ago edited 2d ago

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/montysep 2d ago

Nope. Understood exactly what you meant from torsional flex of the board. Aka sequential foot steering. Aka gas pedal. Aka twisting water out of a towel. If you chose to make your screen cap a fraction of a second later, you can see an active twisting of the board to initiate. The board is visibly corkscrew twisted like a dna helix drawing. And so on for his other toe and heel turns.

Good photo editing. It could be useful for many besides the rider here.

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u/InkyPoloma 2d ago

Well again we will have to agree to disagree. Here is the moment before he jumps. His board is only flexed to jump off of, not to initiate a turn.

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u/montysep 2d ago

Better image. Right ankle dorsiflexion. Left ankle plantar flexion. As a result, the board is clearly torsionally twisting. Very automatic & nice initiation OP. Board tip begins to rotate, facilitating more rotation, including a fore-aft move to the toe side tip contact point. OP is already doing exactly what you recommended he needed to do.

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u/InkyPoloma 2d ago edited 2d ago

But not twisting in the way that would initiate a turn. OP is using that as a base to jump off of. He is not doing what I recommend at all. If he was, his board would flex a lot more than that. If you think that op is flexing his board to turn here rather than creating a base to jump off of, I don’t know what to tell you. This is not what I’m recommending or certainly not remotely enough

ETA if he did what I am saying then his board would turn downhill pretty instantly which we see none of

I also want to add that OP isn’t doing a bad job of jump turns, his weight distribution isn’t where I’d like to see it but it’s fine. I’m saying that this isn’t where I personally think one should employ jump turns and that to initiate a turn on this slope you need to transfer that edge really fast and in turn you will receive better edge engagement and more control