Switters wrote:
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 03:02:33 GMT, "Bob F" allegedly
wrote:


To anyone wanting to try this - Just start a traverse on your heel
edge. As you traverse, push down (towards the snow) with your
front foot toes while holding up your rear foot toes so the rear edge
stays up, and see what happens. Don't move your body or arms
at all - just stay aligned with your board as it turns. Then do the
opposite for a heel turn. (front toes up) As the board crosses the
fall line, the rear foot follows the front so the board goes fully onto
the new edge.


Yup, I've been doing this for years. Legendary (to us) freerider Neil
McNab has been teaching this for a long time and gets people going quicker
than the old twist your body technique.

I just found that I had progressed into doing that over the years having
taken a carving lesson from a dude in Red Mountain back in '99. He
advocated pushing the knee towards the toe or heel edge which initiated
the turn, which amounts to the same thing.

I just roll the thing over on its edge and let the sidecut do the work.
You feed the turn front to back, so I suppose the "twist" is a way of
making you do that, even if there is no actual twist. Or maybe there is
a twist, but after so long, it's something I do without thinking about
it. Next time I'm on the snow I'll try to think about it. I don't know
how much actual twist there would be, I suspect for my boards very
little if any.

Neil