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Too much board for me?
Bob F wrote:
"lonerider" wrote in message 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. Cool... will do. I think I'm already doing this unconsciously (although not as much since the board I ride are rather stiff torsionally) as I do a lot of "front foot edging" while leaving the backfoot in it's "previously" position (which could be on the opposite edge). I read that double tracks in the snow is a sign of board twist. I have seen that in my tracks, but didn't really think much of it at the time (I was more focusing on making my carved tracks pencil thin and deep). 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. I definitely do a lot of "front foot" steering as you mentioned. I don't have any recent video of me. Here's some stuff from 4 years ago (I'm a little stiff and not as dynamic I like to be, as I was recovering from a torn ACL). One thing that I see that I do wrong is that I pop up as the start of each carve. Recently I have been doing better on keeping my head and shoulder level and executing the "cross-under" or "cross-through" manuevers more cleanly. http://tinyurl.com/snfbr --Arvin |
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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. - Dave. -- The only powder to get high on, falls from the sky. http://www.vpas.org/ - Snowboarding the worlds pow pow. Donek Sasquatch 162, Prior Pow 181, Burton Canyon 162 The Snowboard FAQ lives here - http://www.vpas.fsnet.co.uk/rssFAQ/ |
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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 |
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On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:59:37 GMT, Neil Gendzwill
allegedly wrote: Or maybe there is a twist, but after so long, it's something I do without thinking about it. Exactly. Same as anything that we do long enough really. Next time I'm on the snow I'll try to think about it. No don't do that. It'll all go pear shaped :-) - Dave. -- The only powder to get high on, falls from the sky. http://www.vpas.org/ - Snowboarding the worlds pow pow. Donek Sasquatch 162, Prior Pow 181, Burton Canyon 162 The Snowboard FAQ lives here - http://www.vpas.fsnet.co.uk/rssFAQ/ |
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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 Twisting or peddling the board is a common practice although most riders are not aware they do it. In teaching beginners it can be a very effective way of ending a turn or getting the board to point back down the hill. As most of us know the more we angulate the board to the snow in a slide, the more drag or breaking force we generate. By twisting the board it is possible to alter the amount of drag at the tip or tail of the board. This results in rotation. When teaching people I often use this technique to help them get the board pointed back down the hill before initiating another turn. -- Sean Martin Donek Snowboards Inc. http://www.donek.com/ phone:877-53-DONEK |
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"Sean Martin" wrote in message ... 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 Twisting or peddling the board is a common practice although most riders are not aware they do it. In teaching beginners it can be a very effective way of ending a turn or getting the board to point back down the hill. As most of us know the more we angulate the board to the snow in a slide, the more drag or breaking force we generate. By twisting the board it is possible to alter the amount of drag at the tip or tail of the board. This results in rotation. When teaching people I often use this technique to help them get the board pointed back down the hill before initiating another turn. I describe it as "initiating the turn" since it starts the turning process. Bob |
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