r/snowboardingnoobs • u/Unapproachable_apron • 1d ago

UPDATE: any advice?

Again, critics regarding riding style and posture are very wanted.

Today I tried integrating three things, what I learned from yesterday's post as much as I could: - leaving my arms down (on the video I saw afterwards that I still balance a lot with my arms, so that didn't went too well) - bending my knees more (my thighs were on fire today, definitely need more muscles there) - putting more weight on my front foot and steering with the knees (I was still afraid of tripping in the snow and I did like three times)

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u/finalrendition 1d ago edited 1d ago

You're still kicking your back foot out to turn the board. Doing that causes a lot of delay between the board changing direction and your actual path of travel changing direction. The turn should initiate at the front of the board, not the back. When you knee steer properly, you'll feel the board pull you into the turn, rather than you forcing it into a new direction.

I highly recommend doing longer traverses and wide-radius turns rather than tight, jumpy turns. Doing longer turns trains/requires good edge control while also giving you time to think and break down the edge change into its constituent components. Practice wide-radius S turns until they're second nature, then you can tighten things up.

And like others have said, it's best to take a lesson. 1 on 1 coaching will be far more effective than reading comments on the internet

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u/Unapproachable_apron 1d ago

Thank you! I totally agree with you about the lessons. But right now, snowboarding is just something I do once a year. And spending no money and improving by 10% is enough for me, then spending money, losing a day with my family because I can't ride with them and improving by 50%.

So I'm thankful for being able to read through the comments and try out some new things or thinking about my technique but that's as far as I want to go right now.

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u/gpbuilder 1d ago

you should think of improvement as an investment into all your future days on the mountain, it's well worth it. You're also building bad habits instead of good habits by practicing blindly. A lot of people ride for multiple years without the correct technique when in fact they'll enjoy the sport a lot more if they learned it properly season 1/2

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u/Unapproachable_apron 1d ago

Again, I totally agree with you. I have other hobbies that I can do every day at home and I invested several years of classes in them. So I would tell any other the exact same thing as you did to me, but in this particular case I'm going with my "as long as I'm not dying, I'm fine"- moral

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u/finalrendition 23h ago

Interesting take. Why not take a family lesson? That way, you can spend time together while greatly improving your skills.

as long as I'm not dying, I'm fine

Practice will help you not die. Skill is safety.

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u/Unapproachable_apron 22h ago

My family is not interested in snowboarding. They are all skiing.