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Old September 3rd 03, 02:54 AM
Jason Watkins
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http://www.theboarder.co.uk/features/howtos/stance.html

I agree with Neil. 30 degrees of splay is a lot to swallow. My guess
is the original instructor was talking from the perspective of indoor
snow/dry slope. Those stance suggestions should work great for
stomping big jumps on smooth surfaces.

But, freeriding through the choppy stuff, you've gotta resist
everything kicking you around side to side. Big splay or duckfoot
prevents you from using knee steering, which I rather like. I've found
a forward stance with mellow splay works great for me for freeriding.
I'd suggest pointing both feet forward, front foot somewhere imbetween
15 to 30 degrees, and with the rear food some 10-15 degrees behind.

For freestyle, I don't really know, but my guess would be as parallel
a stance as you can manage with as much splay as needed to feel
balanced.

The ultimate tip for stances is to bring tools to the hill and be
willing to try out different ideas. Eventually you'll find what works
for your body, your gear, and your style.
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Old September 3rd 03, 01:52 PM
Mike T
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When you squat down towards the floor with your feet at similar angles,
you push your knees out, which is uncomfortable. Open the angles
between the feet such that the squats are not a strain on your knees.
This is the angle difference that you want to be aiming for. There are
probably a range of angles that this works at.


I've done a great deal of experimentation with stances and found that the
wider my stance, the more splay I like and also the higher the angle on the
front foot, the less splay I like. For example if I'm going to hang out in
the park or humiliate myself in the halfpipe all day I might widen my stance
to 21", and use angles of 18/0. For normal freeriding in soft boots I
narrow the stance to 19.5" and set the angles at 24/15. When I go to hard
boots the the stance width stays at 19.5" but the angles generally go to
57/54. All three of these stances give me the same *comfort* level. The
wider, less angled, more splayed stance doesn't allow me to carve anywhere
near as powerfully... but it is nice and stable for landing.

(Of course, hard boots are also nice and stable for landing! Not very good
for switch riding, unless you're a couple of the guys I ride with from time
to time who are from another planet...)

Mike T



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Old September 4th 03, 07:45 AM
Switters
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On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 09:37:33 GMT, "Playdreamer"
allegedly wrote:

BTW he also has a pet theory: "Snowboarding's dead easy but 95% of
snowboarders don't know how to do it properly. The other 5% are all
sponsored pro riders."


And whilst I could hear McNab saying that, I suspect that he didn't mean
it literally, before anyone jumps in saying it's a bunch of crap :-)

McNab's a super smooth rider and tackles all terrain seemingly
effortlessly. If he says something about technique or settings, I'd
listen. If it doens't work out, one can go back to the old technique.

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Old September 4th 03, 11:53 AM
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Many thanks to everyone who replied, including Sean from Donek. I've
definitely got enough to go on for the minute.

Thanks again

Dan
 




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