i guess im asking the wrong place but does anybody know a way to get back into an Instagram account? I somehow forgot the password. I love any assistance you can offer me!
Mileage, mileage, mileage. For me at this stage it was about building up the muscle memory of turning, and getting over the initial fear of going too fast straight downhill before the turn. He's doing Fab. Looking forward to the next lesson
Sharing timestamped notes so Ican try this real time in the range: 0:26 intro to run 1 0:44 run 1 1:15 what is cat track? flat base without using edges 2:38 run 2: cat track with assist 3:43 run 3: toe-side turn, heel-side turn, toe-side turn, flat 4:51 how to make turns wider/tighter: 2 factors: body rotation + edge usage 6:19 run 4 1: heel turn with body, toe turn, heel again, toe again that's quicker, heel again, 7:10 run 4 2: showcase sharp tow/heel turns 7:37 run 4 3: mellow toe/heel turns 8:01 run 4 4: quicker toeside turns 9:09 run 5 edge engaged before board's downhill, because he has momentum 9:33 run 5 above starts, with more tight turns 12:11 a little catch on tight turn -> edge earlier to avoid that catch 12:48 outro: achievement unlocked: first green lap 13:32 next in pt 5...
this guy is quick, he didn't have a common beginner issue, weight too much on the back leg... a lot beginners are afraid of the acceleration when the board is point straight, their weight is all on the back leg and can't initiate the turn. he's weight is even on both legs since day 1. amazing.
Fantastic coaching series, thanks Nev! I've just started working towards the Level 1 Instructor Certification (I'm giving first-time/second-time lessons at our local mtn), and this series exemplifies a 'real life' progression (of course, Tim has experience with related sports and is picking things up quickly). Nice work Nev and Tim!
Second day of snowboarding for me, I watched the whole series. First day was miserable, I fell down milions of times, however after few hours of practise I managed to do first heel edge stop, than falling leaf, second day I practiced falling leaf for the entire day as I wanted to be sure I can turn, I tried also toe edge stop however everytime ended with a fail, just feels unnatural for me to be faced uphill while going down. Looking forward for my third day hopefully there will be some tor edge action going on. By the way I have never done anything with my legs (no skating, surfing, nothing), I was profesional swimmer for 8 years and that is it, and that is the only sport I have done besides fitness. If I could do some progress anyobody can. Thank you for the series
Congrats to both, the student and the teacher. This guy, on his second day, is already doing what it took me years to accomplish. I guess my problem was that I wasn't following an specific plan and I kept repeating the same mistakes over and over. How important it is to have someone that can be your coach.
Love this series ! So helpful . Helps the kid is picking it up fast but helps to see him catch edge and fall also . I’ve done a ton of that last season and wish I had these videos.
As someone who learned how to skateboard before snowboarding, i can confirm that skateboarding skills helped with learning ollies and turning. i recall it taking me 1-2 hours to learn how to go down the hill without falling.
I was LITERALLY typing “Can you please give me a tip for helping with Toe side turns that look like 7:56!” And then I heard you say 8:19 “let’s talk about that right now”. GREAT VIDEOS! Love that you aren’t giving us instructions from YOUR perspective, we’re learning while watching what is being done wrong from a new rider and relating to the improper riding. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I used to skateboard when I was younger and I just snowboarded for the first time a week ago. Because of these videos, I was able to get the basics in just 3 hours and already snowboarding. Thanks guys!! Really great stuff.
Okay...I'm sure producing this series was a big endeavor. I watched one of your Wax related videos last month but THIS..dude this is so confidence building that I'm subscribing. Big props to everyone involved in these and even the music selection is not too distracting but fills the silence...dude...you guys got it sorted very well. I'm moving on to pt 5. Thanks for putting in the time.
I'm on my way to watching this whole series of videos. My question is this: what do I need to do to get an instructor to provide this kind of instruction for me on my first days snowboarding?!
Cat tracks are tough the first couple of weeks, so best for beginners to avoid them whenever possible until they have a couple of weeks of riding experience. I feel like some of the most salient coaching was done in this lesson, especially at the end talking about distributing weight.
This episode is so helpful~! I definitely use my up body too little and mostly rely on my lower body to turn, which is inefficient and makes me feel unbalanced… Consequently I catch my edge and fall over a lot! Gonna try to adjust my motion next time~
Around 7:00 he is so focused on board curving and not biting an edge and mises the point of focus that should be slight transitions in upper body of instructor that he should mimic by extending his hand, trowing his upper dholder and weight over the hips.
Excellent tutorial. Might be the boots making his arches cramp. I rented some boots, and before I was in them 20 minutes, I had the same pain. Felt like I was riding on the middle of my arch. Switched to a pair of Solomon boots, 1/2 size larger, and I had no problem for the rest of the day, and my arches never cramped again. I think inserts with arches too high for my feet is what causes it. Just saying this for the benefit of others who have faced this issue.
Hi Sir, I’m a beginner. I’ve watched some videos of your channel. It’s incredible and fantastic! You’re a nice teacher. In fact, I’m living in a small space like a cubicle in Hong Kong. May I know how to practice at home? Also, do you have a class/ teaching school in Japan? Thanks in advance! 🙇🏻♀️
Glad you are enjoying our content! We actually have an online snowboard coaching platform called ADDICTION+ just head to www.addictionplus.tv to find out more :)
I can’t tell from the video but what makes cat tracks so different? Is it just that it’s a flat area? Gunna be hitting the slopes in two weeks first time snowboarding so these videos are perfect
It is because they are so flat and usually narrow. While snowboarding most like 95% of the time you want to be on your edge for better control etc. So on cat track it feels so weird to go flat base also on camber boards it is super easy too loose focus and randomly catch an edge because of being on flat base.
You’ll notice it’s not easy at first just going straight on flat areas and you’ll tend to want to lean on an edge, as he mentioned very well in the video it slows you down to the point where you don’t make it to the end of the cat track forcing you to un strap and do the walk of shame haha
Basically, riding a board on a slope can be described as a dance between two following things: -having your board glide on one edge, which gives you more controll, but you lose speed -having your board be flat on the track, which gives you speed but you have verry little control. On CAT tracks, as a snowboarder, you are in an extreme dissadvantage becouse you can not ride the edges becouse you will lose speed very quickly. And if you stop, it is gg, game over, so you are forced to ride your board flat, which is really unstable and hard to controll, especially for beginners. My advice would be to try and get as much speed as possible before these sections of the track, and traverse them by doing really elongated "S" turns. Of course this is not always possible, but it beats gliding with the flat board in my oppinion. Interestingly, flat sections like cat tracks are where you can clearly see how good of a snoboarder someone actually is, becouse it takes much more skill to controll the board while flat than when doing slalom on a slope
Something I like to do on cat tracks to gain more control when riding flat is to learn harder on the front foot. Not only do I think it helps with momentum...I feel like it keeps me more stable and I can quickly grab a toe or heel edge if I get squirrel-y.
Which countries still teach this old 'top down' turn initiation? Is it just Canada? I thought everywhere taught the foot pressure/pedalling method these days.
I've noticed recently (both in these types of videos, as well as in snowboarding schools), that most people learn with their left leg on the front. I learned with my right foot front becouse I was explained that it has to do with being right/left handed, and I am right handed. And even though I am capable of riding my board both ways right now, I still preffer right foot on the front, so I find this new "trend" a bit interesting. Can someone explain if it actually has to do with being right/left handed, or is there some other logic in work
I've heard that aswell. I Great tip for know wich side you ride is to run and glide in "snowboard" stance, you automaticly find yourself in The stance you find most natural, or close your eyes and fall forward. Your front leg is moved forward to catch your fall
There's a reason left foot forward is called "regular" and right foot is "goofy". Most people are right handed and ride regular, left handers often ride goofy but it's not as simple as that, as the ratios don't totally add up. It's simply about where you feel comfortable.
Right handed/right footed people tend to do things in a way that lends more control to the right side of their body, so the person that explained to you that the direction you ride has to do with right/left handedness was correct. However, you probably interpreted that to mean, "put my right foot forward." (Which is a very reasonable way to interpret that if you haven't snowboarded before). What the person probably didn't explain was that in snowboarding, your back foot is the one with more control over the board. Especially when you're learning, it's generally advised to put your weight slightly over the front foot, which frees up the back foot to control how you maneuver the boarding. As people advance into more technically correct carving, your weight tends to become more neutral, but I digress. The point is, the reason righties usually ride with their left foot forward is that the back foot has more control over the board. So there is a chance that you may have had an easier time learning at first if you rode with your left foot forward. That said, there are plenty of righties who ride with their right foot forward, so maybe not. Regardless, now that you learned with your right foot forward first, that will likely always be the more comfortable way for you to ride because you built up so much muscle memory riding in that direction that at this point, righty/lefty kind of goes out the window. Also an interesting tidbit. When trying to determine if someone is going to be a regular or goofy rider, I'll have them do a test where they put on socks and get a running start and slide sideways on a hardwood floor. Generally whichever foot they put forward when they slide is the foot that they will put backwards when they snowboard. This seems counterintuitive, but it works because when sliding on a floor, the front foot has more control over how you stop, and in snowboarding the back foot has more control. So it really is all about which foot has control more so than which foot is in front.
@@steelorange8275 the way my tutor determined my front foot is by pushing me from the back all of a sudden and than asking me which leg I used to stop the fall. Tbh, I do not really have a preffered leg, so maybe that had an effect as well. I trained karate for 8 years before starting to snowboard, and in karate you really do have to train both righ and left sided punches/kicks so that probabbly contributed to me not really having a prefered leg. Not to mention that in karate fights it is extremely common to switch stands in order to keep moving and adapting, so it forces you to have a good coordination with both sides of your body. It even extended to my arms, I can write pretty good actually with my left arm, I have no problem using knife and fork or a computer mouse with a "wrong" hand, and my left arm is as strong as my right arm when it comes to weights and lifting things. So if you needed a cool reason to train karate, this might be one :)
I dont know man, I learned to snowboard by bracking my ass so much, to the point I could not sit on the chair. But at least now I know perfectly how much it will hurt if I try to play it risky. And how to "control" those moments when I start losing control a bit and not just face-plant every time
Should of kept pushing him to push his hips foward on his toe edge. If he keeps bending over it'll jus be that much harder to break that habit in the long run.. better to have correct posture n feel weird; at least u no your doing it right rather then having incorrect posture and having to change it later.. overall I think though I think your a great instructor
Can I just give props to the camera man. He is smooth
He probably has a bipod. Lol
Yes. The cameraman is crushing it
Yep. The camera man is awesome 👋
i guess im asking the wrong place but does anybody know a way to get back into an Instagram account?
I somehow forgot the password. I love any assistance you can offer me!
@@marcokashton8279 press forgot password and then do the option to send it to your email and from there you can confirm it
best advice ive ever heard and changed my whole snowboarding experience: you cant catch an edge if youre already on one
especially great advice for solid hard pack / icy slow sections
Expert skier here, that just started snowboarding, this series is VERY helpful... not progressing as fast as Tim, but falling on my ass much less!
Same :D
me too - snwoboarding is so much fun but so different
Mileage, mileage, mileage. For me at this stage it was about building up the muscle memory of turning, and getting over the initial fear of going too fast straight downhill before the turn. He's doing Fab. Looking forward to the next lesson
that gives me hope for next year to also drive like him on my second day
I love the live coaching. I'm understanding better and better with every video
Great to hear!
This guy is a natural, his progress is impressive.
Sharing timestamped notes so Ican try this real time in the range:
0:26 intro to run 1
0:44 run 1
1:15 what is cat track? flat base without using edges
2:38 run 2: cat track with assist
3:43 run 3: toe-side turn, heel-side turn, toe-side turn, flat
4:51 how to make turns wider/tighter: 2 factors: body rotation + edge usage
6:19 run 4 1: heel turn with body, toe turn, heel again, toe again that's quicker, heel again,
7:10 run 4 2: showcase sharp tow/heel turns
7:37 run 4 3: mellow toe/heel turns
8:01 run 4 4: quicker toeside turns
9:09 run 5 edge engaged before board's downhill, because he has momentum
9:33 run 5 above starts, with more tight turns
12:11 a little catch on tight turn -> edge earlier to avoid that catch
12:48 outro: achievement unlocked: first green lap
13:32 next in pt 5...
Thanks I will use these for shure
Omg, I should have watched it before my snowboard classes! Love all the tips!❤🎉
Cant tell if he’s an awesome student or if you’re an amazing teacher. Match made in heaven. Great series
this guy is quick, he didn't have a common beginner issue, weight too much on the back leg... a lot beginners are afraid of the acceleration when the board is point straight, their weight is all on the back leg and can't initiate the turn. he's weight is even on both legs since day 1. amazing.
Thank you, I think you've just explained why I can't get it to point downhill sometimes.
Fantastic coaching series, thanks Nev! I've just started working towards the Level 1 Instructor Certification (I'm giving first-time/second-time lessons at our local mtn), and this series exemplifies a 'real life' progression (of course, Tim has experience with related sports and is picking things up quickly). Nice work Nev and Tim!
Second day of snowboarding for me, I watched the whole series. First day was miserable, I fell down milions of times, however after few hours of practise I managed to do first heel edge stop, than falling leaf, second day I practiced falling leaf for the entire day as I wanted to be sure I can turn, I tried also toe edge stop however everytime ended with a fail, just feels unnatural for me to be faced uphill while going down. Looking forward for my third day hopefully there will be some tor edge action going on. By the way I have never done anything with my legs (no skating, surfing, nothing), I was profesional swimmer for 8 years and that is it, and that is the only sport I have done besides fitness. If I could do some progress anyobody can. Thank you for the series
did you learn how to snowboard?
This series is the best learning series that I have seen. Got to the point and practical riding, instead of babying the whole process.
I'm really enjoying this series that on the end of every episode I'm hoping it's not the last one 😅
Great work buddy
I had to skip through the videos to this one. 🙈 I watched the first two properly though.
Congrats to both, the student and the teacher. This guy, on his second day, is already doing what it took me years to accomplish. I guess my problem was that I wasn't following an specific plan and I kept repeating the same mistakes over and over. How important it is to have someone that can be your coach.
I’ve been thinking this every video, but this one especially. This camera operator is amazing.
I can't believe Tim has been snowboarding TWO DAYS!!! What a champ! Must be the teacher =P
Love this series ! So helpful . Helps the kid is picking it up fast but helps to see him catch edge and fall also . I’ve done a ton of that last season and wish I had these videos.
As someone who learned how to skateboard before snowboarding, i can confirm that skateboarding skills helped with learning ollies and turning. i recall it taking me 1-2 hours to learn how to go down the hill without falling.
He is really good as beginner. This is me on my day 5.
You have to be really, really lucky to get 1:1 lessons with Nev.
I was LITERALLY typing “Can you please give me a tip for helping with Toe side turns that look like 7:56!” And then I heard you say 8:19 “let’s talk about that right now”. GREAT VIDEOS! Love that you aren’t giving us instructions from YOUR perspective, we’re learning while watching what is being done wrong from a new rider and relating to the improper riding. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Great instructor but tbh haven't heard you once tell him to "bend his knees", definitely helps with those smoother turns he was asking about.
I used to skateboard when I was younger and I just snowboarded for the first time a week ago. Because of these videos, I was able to get the basics in just 3 hours and already snowboarding. Thanks guys!! Really great stuff.
I love this live coaching series. Thank you so much
Okay...I'm sure producing this series was a big endeavor. I watched one of your Wax related videos last month but THIS..dude this is so confidence building that I'm subscribing. Big props to everyone involved in these and even the music selection is not too distracting but fills the silence...dude...you guys got it sorted very well. I'm moving on to pt 5. Thanks for putting in the time.
I'm on my way to watching this whole series of videos. My question is this: what do I need to do to get an instructor to provide this kind of instruction for me on my first days snowboarding?!
Now I’m looking for class, hope to get it Mount Crystal Ski resort the best place ever. This guy is super instructor
I've been having trouble transitioning from the slow methodical edge turns to the quicker edge turns. This video was so helpful, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Cat tracks are tough the first couple of weeks, so best for beginners to avoid them whenever possible until they have a couple of weeks of riding experience.
I feel like some of the most salient coaching was done in this lesson, especially at the end talking about distributing weight.
Cat tracks for beginners are the devils work! Great video though and the guy's doing very well.
This episode is so helpful~! I definitely use my up body too little and mostly rely on my lower body to turn, which is inefficient and makes me feel unbalanced… Consequently I catch my edge and fall over a lot! Gonna try to adjust my motion next time~
great videos! Perfect to refresh the snowboarding theory. Thanks a lot!
2nd day? This guy is a natural!
Freaking love this series!
This would be my day 20nice job
Around 7:00 he is so focused on board curving and not biting an edge and mises the point of focus that should be slight transitions in upper body of instructor that he should mimic by extending his hand, trowing his upper dholder and weight over the hips.
Excellent tutorial. Might be the boots making his arches cramp. I rented some boots, and before I was in them 20 minutes, I had the same pain. Felt like I was riding on the middle of my arch. Switched to a pair of Solomon boots, 1/2 size larger, and I had no problem for the rest of the day, and my arches never cramped again. I think inserts with arches too high for my feet is what causes it. Just saying this for the benefit of others who have faced this issue.
What a teacher!
Solid instructor for sure
Very helpful! Thank you very much ❤🎉
He is doin really really good impressive! 🤙
Great video
thanks for those great videos my man!
Tomorrow a colleague is gonna start teaching me how to snowboard and these videos have been a huge help👍🏼 where are you guys boarding? Which country?
SUPER MERCI BEAUCOUP POUR TOUTES C’EST VIDÉOS
Hi Sir, I’m a beginner. I’ve watched some videos of your channel. It’s incredible and fantastic! You’re a nice teacher. In fact, I’m living in a small space like a cubicle in Hong Kong. May I know how to practice at home? Also, do you have a class/ teaching school in Japan? Thanks in advance! 🙇🏻♀️
Glad you are enjoying our content! We actually have an online snowboard coaching platform called ADDICTION+ just head to www.addictionplus.tv to find out more :)
awesome videos. big help
Glad to hear it! Have you checked our our live training sessions with Nev?
I can’t tell from the video but what makes cat tracks so different? Is it just that it’s a flat area? Gunna be hitting the slopes in two weeks first time snowboarding so these videos are perfect
It is because they are so flat and usually narrow. While snowboarding most like 95% of the time you want to be on your edge for better control etc. So on cat track it feels so weird to go flat base also on camber boards it is super easy too loose focus and randomly catch an edge because of being on flat base.
You’ll notice it’s not easy at first just going straight on flat areas and you’ll tend to want to lean on an edge, as he mentioned very well in the video it slows you down to the point where you don’t make it to the end of the cat track forcing you to un strap and do the walk of shame haha
I can feel that fall on the cat track!
Basically, riding a board on a slope can be described as a dance between two following things:
-having your board glide on one edge, which gives you more controll, but you lose speed
-having your board be flat on the track, which gives you speed but you have verry little control.
On CAT tracks, as a snowboarder, you are in an extreme dissadvantage becouse you can not ride the edges becouse you will lose speed very quickly. And if you stop, it is gg, game over, so you are forced to ride your board flat, which is really unstable and hard to controll, especially for beginners.
My advice would be to try and get as much speed as possible before these sections of the track, and traverse them by doing really elongated "S" turns. Of course this is not always possible, but it beats gliding with the flat board in my oppinion.
Interestingly, flat sections like cat tracks are where you can clearly see how good of a snoboarder someone actually is, becouse it takes much more skill to controll the board while flat than when doing slalom on a slope
Something I like to do on cat tracks to gain more control when riding flat is to learn harder on the front foot. Not only do I think it helps with momentum...I feel like it keeps me more stable and I can quickly grab a toe or heel edge if I get squirrel-y.
Helpfull vid..keep up the good work👌
Which countries still teach this old 'top down' turn initiation? Is it just Canada? I thought everywhere taught the foot pressure/pedalling method these days.
Good job camera person.
He’s shadily the best rider of em all 😂
he's ready for park features!!!
Calm down 🤣.
Hi! Where are you guys precisely ? Thanks
where is this ski slope? which mountain or city?
did anyone notice the guy on the lift at 5:24 waving at the camera.
Is the " don't tease me like that"
I've noticed recently (both in these types of videos, as well as in snowboarding schools), that most people learn with their left leg on the front. I learned with my right foot front becouse I was explained that it has to do with being right/left handed, and I am right handed. And even though I am capable of riding my board both ways right now, I still preffer right foot on the front, so I find this new "trend" a bit interesting. Can someone explain if it actually has to do with being right/left handed, or is there some other logic in work
I've heard that aswell. I Great tip for know wich side you ride is to run and glide in "snowboard" stance, you automaticly find yourself in The stance you find most natural, or close your eyes and fall forward. Your front leg is moved forward to catch your fall
There's a reason left foot forward is called "regular" and right foot is "goofy". Most people are right handed and ride regular, left handers often ride goofy but it's not as simple as that, as the ratios don't totally add up. It's simply about where you feel comfortable.
Right handed/right footed people tend to do things in a way that lends more control to the right side of their body, so the person that explained to you that the direction you ride has to do with right/left handedness was correct. However, you probably interpreted that to mean, "put my right foot forward." (Which is a very reasonable way to interpret that if you haven't snowboarded before). What the person probably didn't explain was that in snowboarding, your back foot is the one with more control over the board. Especially when you're learning, it's generally advised to put your weight slightly over the front foot, which frees up the back foot to control how you maneuver the boarding. As people advance into more technically correct carving, your weight tends to become more neutral, but I digress. The point is, the reason righties usually ride with their left foot forward is that the back foot has more control over the board. So there is a chance that you may have had an easier time learning at first if you rode with your left foot forward. That said, there are plenty of righties who ride with their right foot forward, so maybe not. Regardless, now that you learned with your right foot forward first, that will likely always be the more comfortable way for you to ride because you built up so much muscle memory riding in that direction that at this point, righty/lefty kind of goes out the window.
Also an interesting tidbit. When trying to determine if someone is going to be a regular or goofy rider, I'll have them do a test where they put on socks and get a running start and slide sideways on a hardwood floor. Generally whichever foot they put forward when they slide is the foot that they will put backwards when they snowboard. This seems counterintuitive, but it works because when sliding on a floor, the front foot has more control over how you stop, and in snowboarding the back foot has more control. So it really is all about which foot has control more so than which foot is in front.
@@steelorange8275 the way my tutor determined my front foot is by pushing me from the back all of a sudden and than asking me which leg I used to stop the fall.
Tbh, I do not really have a preffered leg, so maybe that had an effect as well. I trained karate for 8 years before starting to snowboard, and in karate you really do have to train both righ and left sided punches/kicks so that probabbly contributed to me not really having a prefered leg. Not to mention that in karate fights it is extremely common to switch stands in order to keep moving and adapting, so it forces you to have a good coordination with both sides of your body.
It even extended to my arms, I can write pretty good actually with my left arm, I have no problem using knife and fork or a computer mouse with a "wrong" hand, and my left arm is as strong as my right arm when it comes to weights and lifting things. So if you needed a cool reason to train karate, this might be one :)
Is it just me or is he leaning to much for forward when on toe edge. Shouldn’t he stay in a stacked position?
What ski resort is that?
I think it is Whistler in Canada. 🇨🇦
Why does this look so easy but is actually hard once you try it
5:25 hello
Good
I wish he was my instructor
I dont know man, I learned to snowboard by bracking my ass so much, to the point I could not sit on the chair. But at least now I know perfectly how much it will hurt if I try to play it risky. And how to "control" those moments when I start losing control a bit and not just face-plant every time
Should of kept pushing him to push his hips foward on his toe edge. If he keeps bending over it'll jus be that much harder to break that habit in the long run.. better to have correct posture n feel weird; at least u no your doing it right rather then having incorrect posture and having to change it later.. overall I think though I think your a great instructor
this guy s so calm i d be like UH OH OMG FK AUCH YOU CAN DO IT OH FK HHH
1:09
5:10
12.10 top left to see meteorite entering the atmosphere
Am I the only one thinking bend ur knees a bit more??