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Too much board for me?
"Serena" wrote in message news:heVYg.149430 I was getting more and more frustrated with how hard the board was to flex. Originally I just assumed that this was due to my now knowing how a board should be flexing in a turn, and I just hadn't yet mastered the skills to do it. If, by flex, you mean twisting the board to steer into the turn, you might look at your boot position. I've had a number of students that had their feet too close together on the board. They thus could not twist the leading edge into the turn relative to the tail edge to initiate turns. Moving their feet apart on the board made a huge difference in their riding. Bob |
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Bob F wrote:
If, by flex, you mean twisting the board to steer into the turn, you might look at your boot position. I've had a number of students that had their feet too close together on the board. They thus could not twist the leading edge into the turn relative to the tail edge to initiate turns. Moving their feet apart on the board made a huge difference in their riding. Que? Twist the board to start a turn? Why would you want to even try such a thing? Neil |
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"Neil Gendzwill" wrote in message ... Bob F wrote: If, by flex, you mean twisting the board to steer into the turn, you might look at your boot position. I've had a number of students that had their feet too close together on the board. They thus could not twist the leading edge into the turn relative to the tail edge to initiate turns. Moving their feet apart on the board made a huge difference in their riding. Que? Twist the board to start a turn? Why would you want to even try such a thing? That's where we start. First day on the board. Because it works better that anything else we've encountered. Kids that learn this have a lot less falls than older methods, in my experience. Bob |
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Bob F wrote:
"Neil Gendzwill" wrote in message ... Bob F wrote: If, by flex, you mean twisting the board to steer into the turn, you might look at your boot position. I've had a number of students that had their feet too close together on the board. They thus could not twist the leading edge into the turn relative to the tail edge to initiate turns. Que? Twist the board to start a turn? Why would you want to even try such a thing? That's where we start. First day on the board. Because it works better that anything else we've encountered. Kids that learn this have a lot less falls than older methods, in my experience. I think it's safe to say you have some skeptics. Do you know of any videos or photo sequences demonstrating this technique? The AASI/PSIA page offered to sell me a copy of their manual, but the form didn't work. |
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Neil Gendzwill wrote:
Bob F wrote: If, by flex, you mean twisting the board to steer into the turn, you might look at your boot position. I've had a number of students that had their feet too close together on the board. They thus could not twist the leading edge into the turn relative to the tail edge to initiate turns. Moving their feet apart on the board made a huge difference in their riding. Que? Twist the board to start a turn? Why would you want to even try such a thing? Neil Here's a post discussing it on BOL. http://tinyurl.com/ybgc6q |
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lonerider wrote:
Neil Gendzwill wrote: Bob F wrote: If, by flex, you mean twisting the board to steer into the turn, you might look at your boot position. I've had a number of students that had their feet too close together on the board. They thus could not twist the leading edge into the turn relative to the tail edge to initiate turns. Moving their feet apart on the board made a huge difference in their riding. Que? Twist the board to start a turn? Why would you want to even try such a thing? Neil Here's a post discussing it on BOL. http://tinyurl.com/ybgc6q Thanks. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to make a convincing argument one way or the other. If it ever snows here, I plan to give the technique a try. |
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On 2006-11-22, Jeremy wrote:
Bob F wrote: "Neil Gendzwill" wrote in message ... Bob F wrote: If, by flex, you mean twisting the board to steer into the turn, you might look at your boot position. I've had a number of students that had their feet too close together on the board. They thus could not twist the leading edge into the turn relative to the tail edge to initiate turns. Que? Twist the board to start a turn? Why would you want to even try such a thing? That's where we start. First day on the board. Because it works better that anything else we've encountered. Kids that learn this have a lot less falls than older methods, in my experience. I think it's safe to say you have some skeptics. Do you know of any videos or photo sequences demonstrating this technique? The AASI/PSIA page offered to sell me a copy of their manual, but the form didn't work. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That happens alot to people not using Microcrap. |
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"lonerider" wrote in message ups.com... Neil Gendzwill wrote: Bob F wrote: If, by flex, you mean twisting the board to steer into the turn, you might look at your boot position. I've had a number of students that had their feet too close together on the board. They thus could not twist the leading edge into the turn relative to the tail edge to initiate turns. Moving their feet apart on the board made a huge difference in their riding. Que? Twist the board to start a turn? Why would you want to even try such a thing? Neil Here's a post discussing it on BOL. http://tinyurl.com/ybgc6q That reminded me of the 360 thing. That is one clear example of twisting the board. It would be pretty hard to do them smoothly without the twist. Whenever I find myself having problems initiating a turn, I just remember to throw in the twist and everything gets better. I get it right earlier each season the last few years. It is a technique that has drastically improved my riding. My turns are just easier and more reliable. I can't imagine a better way to initiate a turn. If skiers had this kind of control...... Bob |
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Bob F wrote:
"lonerider" wrote in message ups.com... Neil Gendzwill wrote: Bob F wrote: If, by flex, you mean twisting the board to steer into the turn, you might look at your boot position. I've had a number of students that had their feet too close together on the board. They thus could not twist the leading edge into the turn relative to the tail edge to initiate turns. Moving their feet apart on the board made a huge difference in their riding. Que? Twist the board to start a turn? Why would you want to even try such a thing? Neil Here's a post discussing it on BOL. http://tinyurl.com/ybgc6q That reminded me of the 360 thing. That is one clear example of twisting the board. It would be pretty hard to do them smoothly without the twist. Whenever I find myself having problems initiating a turn, I just remember to throw in the twist and everything gets better. I get it right earlier each season the last few years. It is a technique that has drastically improved my riding. My turns are just easier and more reliable. I can't imagine a better way to initiate a turn. If skiers had this kind of control...... Bob I think for me I just don't visualize it as twisting the board, to me it just a much more subtle motion where the turn is initiated by the weighting leading edge of the board and finished by the trailing edge... but thinking about that, that is it is essentially a "twist." It sounds like a good way to help people initiate their turns better. |
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"lonerider" wrote in message oups.com... Bob F wrote: "lonerider" wrote in message ups.com... Neil Gendzwill wrote: Bob F wrote: If, by flex, you mean twisting the board to steer into the turn, you might look at your boot position. I've had a number of students that had their feet too close together on the board. They thus could not twist the leading edge into the turn relative to the tail edge to initiate turns. Moving their feet apart on the board made a huge difference in their riding. Que? Twist the board to start a turn? Why would you want to even try such a thing? Neil Here's a post discussing it on BOL. http://tinyurl.com/ybgc6q That reminded me of the 360 thing. That is one clear example of twisting the board. It would be pretty hard to do them smoothly without the twist. Whenever I find myself having problems initiating a turn, I just remember to throw in the twist and everything gets better. I get it right earlier each season the last few years. It is a technique that has drastically improved my riding. My turns are just easier and more reliable. I can't imagine a better way to initiate a turn. If skiers had this kind of control...... Bob I think for me I just don't visualize it as twisting the board, to me it just a much more subtle motion where the turn is initiated by the weighting leading edge of the board and finished by the trailing edge... but thinking about that, that is it is essentially a "twist." It sounds like a good way to help people initiate their turns better. Next time you are out, just try consciensly doing that to initiate turns. I am getting to where I do it without thinking about it some of the time, but I have to do it on-purpose at the beginning of the season. 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. After getting that working - The other part of this I haven't mentioned yet is to twist the front foot in the direction of the turn as you change the front foot edgeing. This doesn't mean pushing the board around. It just means to apply pressure to to try to rotate the foot - for a right turn, pressure clockwise - for a left turn pressure counter-clockwise. This is just applying rotational force against the binding. Then, as the rear foot changes it's edge pressure, do the same with it. It has a subtle effect, tightening the radius of the turn. Apply as needed. Bob |
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