Name: WHAT TURN TYPE FOR WHAT CONDITIONS??? (snowboarding tips)
Uploaded: 2024-08-30T16:39:47.000Z
Duration: 16 min 37 s
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Malcolm Moore here and in today's video we're going to be talking about what kind of turn you should be doing on what terrain.

Now I've made videos about up-arm weighted turns, down-arm weighted turns, torsional twist.

These are all techniques you can use when you're snowboarding but sometimes it can be a little bit overwhelming about what you should be doing and when.

So to start off we're going to take a run and we're going to start with turn size.

So this one is the simplest thing to get right.

The mellower the slope you're on the bigger your turns are but as it starts to get steeper you need to bring them in a little bit smaller because the goal we're trying to get to in snowboarding is to control our speed with our turn shape.

We don't want to be controlling our speed just by doing this, by skidding.

While you can kind of get away with it on the piste here, say I was to hop over here, just come off the side.

If I try and skid here it's really, really nasty.

It's just bad technique and you don't want to do it.

You really want to be controlling your speed as much as possible by your turn shape.

So yeah, like I said, big wide open turns when it's mellow and as it gets steeper you want to make those turns a little bit tighter, a little bit smaller.

The edge change is essentially when you're going from heels to toes or toes back to heels.

It's the movements we're doing to go between those two positions.

What are we doing to get from our heel edge position, which is like this, into our toe edge position like this?

Two different positions, how do we go between them?

So I made a video recently on up unweighted turns.

The up unweighted movement basically goes as this.

You're coming across the slope, you stand up and then you sink back down.

As you stand up the board flattens and it's easy to cross your hips, your center of mass over the board.

Now this type of turn, get out of my way Indy, get out of my way.

This type of turn I would say is the best one for people to learn first.

It's a movement that you can do really slowly to get it right.

You can do it if you're a complete beginner, you'll feel that board flatten.

It's really easy to change edge and it's easy to get this movement right.

Not only that, when you do it properly it's good for like 99% of your situations.

Those are a bit basic, the ones I was doing.

What we've got here, we've got a red slope.

I'm going to show you how those up unweighted turns are going to help me change an edge here.

You can see that kind of turn is really working.

I'm not on a very good piece here either.

It's pretty slushy, there's lots of old tracks in it.

I'm still able to ride pretty well using that type of turn.

The one thing about these types of turns is it puts you in a slightly weak position at the beginning of the turn.

When you stand up, when you're in this tall position, it's not the strongest position.

If you're riding really fast or you're riding something really bumpy, you want to be low down in a strong position to absorb all those bumps.

Most of the time, it doesn't actually matter because we're only in this weak position at the start of the turn, that top part of the turn, which is what I call the lazy part of the turn.

All you're doing there is simply going down the hill, going with gravity.

There's no external forces acting against you.

By the time the board is pointing back down the slope, it's in the full line, you then sunk back down.

As soon as you turn past the full line, as soon as you start to go across the slope, that's when this force is acting against you.

Gravity, your momentum, everything, it wants to keep pulling you down and you're fighting against that.

In this up and weighted movement, by that point of the turn, you're already down, nice and low, ready to absorb those forces.

You come back across the slope, you slow yourself down, got your control back, and then you stand up again.

It's about getting this movement in the right place.

Watch me do a few more and you'll see the edge change always happens as I'm traversing across the slope.

You can use that for all kinds of turns, whether you're on the steeps, whether you're carving, but there's something else actually going on there.

I mentioned it at the top, torsional twist.

This is when you use your legs independently as levers.

When you start incorporating that into your riding, that's going to enable you to make shorter, tighter turns.

Because up there behind me was a little bit steeper, I was doing the up and weighted movement, but then as I sank back down, as my knees begin to bend, I was letting my front knee, my left knee bend into the turn first, and then following with my right knee.

Now, I'll just demonstrate some turns using much more of that torsional twist.

You'll see that by doing that, I'm able to stay within a real narrow corridor.

In fact, that's the only movement I'm going to do here.

Watch my left knee is going to go first, right knee follows.

Left leg, left knee, can't speak, right knee.

You see, if you look at the track behind me, I stayed in that real narrow, narrow corridor.

By incorporating those two movements, a bit of the up and weighted movement and a bit of that torsional twist movement using your legs as levers, you can blend them together to create the ideal turn shape for whatever terrain you're on.

There, something quite steep, up and weighted movement to initiate the edge change, and then a light bit of torsional twist to pull the board around in a reasonably tight arc.

If I was on something much steeper, I'd be using much more torsional twist to really bring that board around.

Those two techniques will be able to get you most places on the mountain really comfortably.

You can ride off-piste in the slush and stuff using those techniques, but this is where other types of techniques like down unweighted turns can start to have a bit of an edge.

I mentioned the up unweighted turn puts you in a weak position at the start of the turn, but normally that doesn't matter, and it won't matter when you're on the piste.

Imagine you're in some real bumpy, horrible terrain, and even at the start of the turn, even though you're going with gravity, you don't want to be in this tall, easy-to-get-knocked-off position.

You might want to stay down a little bit lower.

That is where the down unweighted turn can be really helpful.

This one, rather than coming up high at the edge change, you essentially drop down low.

What that does, it allows you to be in this strong position right at the beginning of the turn.

You're down low, and you can really manipulate the arc of your board.

We're actually going to go into some horrible terrain over here, and we'll give that a bit of a go.

Because you're in this low-down strong position as well, the other thing you can do is throughout the turn, if you push against the board, imagine you're stood on a pair of scales.

When you stand up, you put more weight through the scales.

As we push against it, we put more pressure through the board.

That actually bends it into reverse camber, and it allows you to tighten up your arc.

That's what I meant about a minute ago when I said you can manipulate the arc of your board.