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your legs hard to push your torso into the center of the turn. It should almost feel like you are intentionally doing a penguin slide, but never leaving your feet.
Problem 3: You’re sliding down the hill sideways at a high velocity, and you fear that if hit a tree you’ll break your ribs. Cause 3: Tis is great! You did the move early enough, and powerfully enough, now you just need to get up. So as you slide and accelerate, try to remember to bring the board back to your body through a slight knee and ankle flex. Te board should engage with the snow, and come back under you, and when it does, just a flick of the wrists should bring you back to your feet. Smile and take a bow. Great job!
TACTIC 3: THE HEELSIDE CARVE
Tis is a much more nuanced move. Te general public will not appreciate the style and skill required as much as your peers will. Tere are no death-defying sliding moves like the belly carve, or the smooth, soul-style look of dropping the knee for the non-initiated to notice, but you will feel and appreciate the change of form. Te common move I see when people
are trying to carve on heelside is to turn the hips and shoulders into the turn. Tis, as we know, does not work well. Te next most common move I see is people pushing out their knees cowboy style, which centers the stance and prevents rotation; this works pretty well. What I find works best is to turn my hips away from the turn to create a twist in the board so that the tail has a higher edge angle than the nose and shifts my weight toward the tail. It ruins my line of sight and feels a bit weird at first, but it sure does help the edge stick. Try this: Ride at relatively high speed
into your best heelside carve. Now start to turn your hips toward the tail of the board and try to drop them into the backseat
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(photos 12-17). If it goes well you will feel that the turn tightens up quite a bit and you will find yourself struggling to see where you are going. Here are a few things that may help you find the sweet spot:
Option 1: If you have a fear of commitment, try reaching with the back hand toward the snow as though you are sitting in your dining room and are picking up a napkin you dropped just behind your chair (photo 13). If this goes well you may feel the snow tickle your fingertips, and the edge bite a bit deeper. Option 2: If you prefer to over-commit, try this. Before the belly of the turn, attempt to sit on the snow, but lead with your rear butt cheek. If you find that you are skidding to a stop and are sensing a slight spreading of your cheeks, then you are in the right position. Keep backing off of the intensity until you are not falling to the inside of the turn anymore. Option 3: If you like doing an old-school turn, try grabbing mute instead of indy (photo 18). Tis will set your body up in
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more or less the position described above. One trick of the trade is to crank up the forward lean on your rear foot for this move. Te goal is just twisting the board so that the tail has a higher edge angle than the nose. So try pointing the toe of your front foot. Tis will increase the twist, and has the added benefit of helping you get in the backseat. Remember, although all of these carving
moves are fun, they should certainly not be your go-to move. When employed well they give a great rush. When employed poorly, you get the same rush, but it ends with a bit more turbulence. Encourage your students to have fun and play around with carving and always remind them that at the end of the day snowboarding is all about fun. As I always tell my students and friends, “If you get to the bottom of the run, and you want to go back up, you are doing something right.”
Former AASI Snowboard Team member Dave Lynch has a Children's Specialist 2 credential and served as an examiner in Eastern Division.
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