snowboarding question?

Question

can someone show me how to do a turn on a snowboard.... the way i do it is... i kept my bottom feet the same and only use my front feet to either lift my heel or lift my toe for the turn... is what i will do right or wrong... and do i need to lift my bottom toe or heel at all?

Answer 1

It sounds like you are very close to getting it, but don't think about "lifting" a toe or a heel - think about it as additional pressure on the toe or heel.

Turning a snowboard is all about edge control. When you have the board across the hill and stand up on the heel edge, you can tilt your feet forward to slide down the hill, tilt back to get more edge bite and stop - the basic side slip.

To turn, you bite the edge into the snow and then put pressure on the downhill egde of your front foot. This will release the edge in the front only and the nose of the board will start to swing down the hill. This will also put your weight forward which is correct. Then, put equal pressure back on the uphill edge with both feet and you will turn back across the hill and stop. Practice this a lot until you can get the board almost straight down the hill before returning to a stop.

A complete turn is just a continuation of this exercise. Use more pressure on the downhill side of the front foot to release the front of the edge and the board will swing faster toward the fall line. You MUST wait for the board to cross the fall line (straight down the hill) before you transition your weight to the other edge (or you will catch the downhill edge - ouch). Then use equal pressure on both feet on the new uphill edge to get the board to move back across the hill - this is a complete turn.

Once you are doing these in both directions, you can start linking the turns.

Good Luck

Answer 2

alright, what you want to do is keep a lot of your weight fowards. You dont want to be leaning, just try to keep your back foot loose. when you initiate the turn (ill just pretend its a left hand turn, if you're regular footed, aka. heelside),, you want to keep your weight foward, centered on your board, and pretend to kick whatever is in front of you, keeping your toes up. you can turn your shoulders a little bit to the way you are turning. for toeside, you do the same thing, but pretend you are trying to kick yourself in the butt.

Answer 3

lift ur toes and slid on ur heel so half the board is on the snow