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Please help me analyze my technique (vids + pictures)
Hi there,
If somebody would take a minute and see my videos and pics I'd really appreciate. Basically I'm self-learner who want to freeride faster but also safe and in full control. Riding for about 6-7 seasons, I have 167cm board (I am 186), Voelkl Coal which is pretty stiff and I like it a lot. I know I should take some lessons, but perhaps you can spot some mistakes I make right away from the videos/pictures below. Here are the links: http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=zgwoLMTHpJ4 http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=BWMyj7ZenyA (riding from the right side) http://picasaweb.google.com/mzawadzk/MarekSnowboard# (quickly click over the pics, they are sequential) Thanks, -marek |
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wrote:
Hi there, If somebody would take a minute and see my videos and pics I'd really appreciate. Basically I'm self-learner who want to freeride faster but also safe and in full control. Riding for about 6-7 seasons, I have 167cm board (I am 186), Voelkl Coal which is pretty stiff and I like it a lot. I know I should take some lessons, but perhaps you can spot some mistakes I make right away from the videos/pictures below. Here are the links: http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=zgwoLMTHpJ4 http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=BWMyj7ZenyA (riding from the right side) http://picasaweb.google.com/mzawadzk/MarekSnowboard# (quickly click over the pics, they are sequential) I can't tell your boot angle from the pics. Your body should generally remain lined up with your feet. You seem to open up to the front on your toes turns, a frequent problem. Turn your head to see, not your shoulder. Your arms are all over the place. Try to steady them, generally aligned with the average angle of your feet. Then keep your torso and hips aligned aligned the same. The center of your chest should point the same direction relative to the feet at all parts of the turn. From the pictures, it looks like your weight may be a little too far back on your back foot. Your back leg seems to be flexed more than the front leg. The reverse should be the norm, expecially at turn initiation. Straighten your back leg some and bend the front leg more. Try to flex for edging more from the knees and less from the waist, which will keep your body more upright. On toe turns, arch your back (backwards) for more solid edgeing. You might want to experiment with boot lean angle. Adding more forward lean to your highbacks allows more angle to be applied to your heel edge without sitting back so far and allows keeping your legs more bent, so they can absorb bumps and chatter better. This really helps on toe turns. Your knee flex should vary during the turn. You can either drop very gradually during the turn, then rise up and forward as you begin the front edge change for the turn, or rise up gradually during the turn, pushing the board away from you to the side, then retract your legs quickly and allow the board to carve underneath you to cross under to the new edge on the other side of your body(This is a more advanced turn). In either case, you want your weight more forward (Over your front foot) as you initiate the turn, then shift weight back to a more centered position as the turn progresses. Practice exagerating the knee flex. Really exagerate it. Get a rythem going. "Up and forward - doooooooooowwwwwwnnnn. Up and forward - doooooooooowwwwwwnnnn." (Or vice-versa for the down-unweighted turns. (Down and forward - uuuuuuuppppp) develop into a sequence of linked turns, with no delays between turns. The up down motion really helps link the turns cleanly and smoothly. A lot of self learners don't know to twist the board to initiate turns. Turns are best started by pushing down lightly on the toe or heel of the front foot, while "resisting" with the back foot, to initiate the turn. This releases the front edge, while the back edge is still engaged. The front of the board then begins to slip down the hill into the turn. As the turn progresses, the back foot then follows the pressure change of the front foot to put you on the new edge. For tighter turns, you can add twisting each foot in the direction of the turn as you change the edge pressure of each foot. This will produce tighter, but still rounded turns. This twist is just a smooth application of pressure - as if you are just trying to point the toe toward or away from the other foot, even though the board resists the force. This is great for bumps. Play with this stuff, then go take a lesson to find out what you are doing right and wrong. It still helps me, after years of teaching. It'll help you too. |
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Please help me analyze my technique (vids + pictures)
Neil Gendzwill wrote:
wrote: Hi there, If somebody would take a minute and see my videos and pics I'd really appreciate. Basically I'm self-learner who want to freeride faster but also safe and in full control. Riding for about 6-7 seasons, I have 167cm board (I am 186), Voelkl Coal which is pretty stiff and I like it a lot. I know I should take some lessons, but perhaps you can spot some mistakes I make right away from the videos/pictures below. Here are the links: http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=zgwoLMTHpJ4 http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=BWMyj7ZenyA (riding from the right side) http://picasaweb.google.com/mzawadzk/MarekSnowboard# (quickly click over the pics, they are sequential) Sorry, can't see the videos at work. Here's an example of your heelside turn: http://picasaweb.google.com/mzawadzk...80676073280738 Your legs are much too straight here. You probably find that on harder snow or higher speeds that you are chattering on your edge there. Good image. This shows the forward lean issue for the highbacks. Lean them way forward, and he'll be able to get the same edge angle with some bend still in his knees. |
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Guys, really thanks a lot.
-marek |
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On 3 Lut, 18:41, "Bob F" wrote:
[...] Practice exagerating the knee flex. Really exagerate it. Get a rythem going. "Up and forward - doooooooooowwwwwwnnnn. Up and forward - doooooooooowwwwwwnnnn." (Or vice-versa for the down-unweighted turns. (Down and forward - uuuuuuuppppp) develop into a sequence of linked turns, with no delays between turns. The up down motion really helps link the turns cleanly and smoothly. Hi again. Just wanted to mention my bindings angles a 45 front, 24 back. I found out over the years this setup gives me the best speed/control combination, probably not the best for jumping/tricks (which I don't care that much). What do you think about my setup? And (even though I know this is probably a common question) - Bob, would you please try to describe these 2 types of turns (always forget their technical names) in more detail - i.e. what do I do exactly from start (facing down the slope)? And what are the advantages/physics behind each of them (I love to know physics behind such things - help me to memorize them better). Thanks! -marek |
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Wow, these are great instructions - thank you! Need to read them for
few days and think about the whole thing, but perhaps you guys have some pictures or better, videos that show the difference between crossover and crossunder turns? -marek |
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