How to Ride Switch on a Snowboard WITHOUT Going Back to Basics
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- How to ride a snowboard switch. Riding switch on a snowboard can be an intimidating task. And the thought of going right back to basics on your snowboard is not what you want to do. So follow this simple exercise and you'll be riding switch in no time.
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Learned how to ride switch in a day with these exercises. Thank you, MM for the awesome tutorial!!
Booyah! Awesome 🙌
@@malcolmmoore I want to get really good at snowboarding so have been watching a lot of YT videos to prep for the season. I'm sure nothing beats time on the slopes but during my initial journey, it seems the popular snowboard youtubers that the algorithm pushes on people are basically in the "watch me do tricks for 90% of the video and let me sell you subpar products" mode. Unsubscribed from most of those and mainly follow you, snowboard addiction, and Ryan Knapton. If I was in France, I'd definitely get lessons from you. Thank you for all the effort you put into these. They are gems!
@@byunism thanks I appreciate it! We've just opened up for the season today so I'll be getting back into the swing of things now 👍
Those first couple switch toe side turns are a legit leap of faith lol.
For real, I've only been boarding a month, so trying to keep my switch up to par with my regular.
As soon as you get over that awkward fear and can just commit to the turn things get so much easier!
it’s the opposite for me toe side switch is super comfy it’s heel side that’s the leap of faith but I ride goofy and my switch is regular
@@upgradeideas I've always felt turning toe side was far more "comfortable" than turning into my heels as well. I also ride goofy, though I'm sure the two aren't correlated
@@upgradeideas I’m goofy as well! Turning toe side goofy is more comfy for me too. But in switch I’m more comfy on heel side. Also I even find it hard to look left in my switch regular 🙈😅
fr its so scary at first
That four-legged snowboard dude is the best guy in the whole world.
😃🐕
Last thing I want to see on the hill.
@@J155Pyou’re the last thing people want to see on the slopes too 😮 😂
im melting at how pup runs in line with your carves
🐕🤙
@@malcolmmoore Hi Malcom, hope all is well with you. Have been in France this winter, and also the slopes look empty where you are..???😎
love seeing ur dog happy in the mountain :)
He loves it!!
That intro shot was probably the coolest intro I’ve seen on a snowboard video, maybe even on UA-cam
soon as i saw that; i was like you got me full attention mate
Thanks man ✌
Out riding right now.... You saved me many bruises, literally on the lift watching you in 30 sec intervals and working on things in small drills that you lay out. You have been a huge help; thank you!
Late reply, but thanks! Roll on this winter!
Absolutley, I've gotten a few days in this season already and spent a couple hours drilling my switch with your tips! Keep up your channel it's a gem!
I love how responsive the dog is😂
He's the best 🤩
I dedicated this last weekend to learning switch and had so much fun in doing so. A few beers helps with confidence haha
Beers always help! 😂
Indy mimicking your S-turns is the most wholesome thing I see today.
😂🐕🙌
This drill is pure gold!
I've been in sports my whole life (I'm in my 50s) and I've never been taught a drill in any sport that was as effective as this. Had me riding switch in no time today after having attempted several times before. You get that immediate contrast between doing the turn the correct way, feeling where your weight is and what you're doing with your feet, knees, ankles, and then you immediately try to apply that riding switch. The initiation became so much more obvious as well as the problem with a tendency to not weight / engage that front foot, or to unweight it too early and careen across the slope.
Previously, when I tried to ride switch, I knew I was facing the same problems I used to have riding regular as a beginner, but I didn't know how to fix them until this drill made them so obvious.
Thanks Malcolm!
Thankyou! That's awesome to hear! Keep shredding 🤙🤙🤙
totally agree Dom... for something as intuitive as balance, it is good for someone to emphasise Feel rather thanTechnical points...SUCH a good kinesthetic-style video. I think my switch riding improved just watching and visualising!
that pup is having the time of its life
I was working on my switch riding last weekend before seeing this video. The progression from the more natural to less natural movements is spot on. Great video!
absolutely gorgeous video, i could watch you ride that slope all day, well done. and i love your pup!
Definitely definitely helped me!!! These exercises truly helped me feel so much more comfortable on my turns. That led to more time riding switch and even more comfort!
Made a lot of progress riding switch on a freeboard using this routine today. Really helped things click. Thanks!
You're welcome!!!
The heel to toe transition has been so much harder to learn, but after forcing myself to do it a bunch my last time at Big Bear it finally started to feel natural.
Nice, good work 👍
Worked great on about 6"-8" of average snow starts to struggle a bit past 8". ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxoHYZbq5g9fkcAtinlTqstNlje-UQkCHN Very light weight and the chute spin control works well. For the low price you get a ton of value. My only complaint is managing the cord as it does take a fair bit of effort to watch and pull the cord out of the way. I found myself having to whip the cord out of the way a lot when I needed to make one way passes to mange the blow direction. It's less of an issue when you can work both directions. A battery powered version would be a lot easier to handle but that is also double the price and requires battery care. I chose the corded version so I didn't have to worry about batteries but I do now see how much work the cord is. I let my neighbor borrow it and it outperformed his smaller gas blower, he was totally sold. Very pleased with the power and operations.My only suggestion is to spend a bit more on a cordless version if you have budget for it. The cord is a bit more of a headache than I thought it would be. Very pleased with the Snow Joe brand and quality.
Your videos just give me so much chill. Despite losing a lot of confidence last time when my rental shoes were not the right size, i'm feeling confident and really looking forward to this year's ride!
Nice, thanks, good luck with it this winter!
Thanks man, been boarding for over 10 years and was all about switch a few years ago when I spent more time in the park but spent most of the last couple of years skiing and healing from injuries (tennis and skateboarding) and this year got a new board and found I had forgotten how to ride switch, due to all the skateboarding as part of my rehab my body was even more reluctant to go switch than the first time I learned. The intro basic exercise was a perfect reminder just to think about mirroring. Can carve switch after a day of practice but still leery of switch hopping and jumping switched so have more to work on.
You are a legend. Thank you for putting time and effort to make these tutorials and tricks. It really helps my progress with snowboarding.
Thanks ✌
I have to say this really helped me. Thank you. Did my first couple of switch runs the other day because of your tips!
Awesome 🤙
Super appreciate this! Been riding for a long time and have been slowly trying to learn switch by starting at the very beginning, but i never feel like doing it for too long. This is such a great way to go about it and just helps give me a perspective switch on how to tackle it, so thank you! Looking forward to trying this out on the mountain this week 🤘👽
Good luck 👍
You're the man, Malcom, I suggest your videos in Facebook groups to any snowboarders looking for training. Appreciate all you do for the snowboard community!
Thanks George, I appreciate the support! 🙏
I've been watching your videos to get some solid fundamentals going and I just got comfortable enough to try working on some switch riding today. A couple of falls later I found myself doing this drill intuitively and feeling pretty good. Thats so awesome that this is your advice for learning! You really are the best instructor on youtube this is my first season being able to ride the whole time and all my snowboarder coworkers recommended you specifically. Keep up the good work you truly are appreciated. My first week on a board I had terrible posture and counter rotated for all my turns and took lots of nasty spills. Another week grinding the basic of basics you preach on your channel and its been smooth sailing ever since :D
Awesome, thanks for sharing!
Great video Malcolm, I've been avoiding learning switch because I didn't want to spend my day in the floor again, but this method looks awesome. I'm gonna give it a try tomorrow for sure!
That was a brilliant way to break it down and stitching it back together. Super helpful!!
This drill worked really well for me! I was comfortable riding regular and this drill was perfect for getting me to apply the same mechanics in switch. Thanks, Malcolm!
Awesome, thanks Phillip!
Wow! Great timing, I was just searching how to ride switch better :) Thanks for the tips will give them a go when I go snowboarding
Awesome, hope it helps! 🤞
MALCOLM MY MAN, BY FAR THE BEST SWITCH VID EVER. VERY GOOD IN ALL ASPECTS OF RIDING SWITCH. YOUR THE MAN BRO 🏂🤙🏻😎
I appreciate that!
I've been practicing this exercise when I go to ride and honestly I got amazed on how much I improved since then (total of 5 hours ish doing all the exercises), not only starting to ride switch, but got a lot more comfortable with my regular ridding, a better understanding of momentum and what the body needs to do to go along with the board. I combined it with carving practice and early edge change, all from your videos, gotta admit, you're an awesome instructor and your tutorials are simple, complete and easy to get! thanks a lot for all the information, it's helping me sooooo much! truly grateful! cheers!
Cheers man, that's awesome to hear, keep up the good work!
This is the best explanatory Snowboard Video I have seen on how to practice riding switch. Thanks much appreciated.
Thankyou! 🙏
I need to get that switch down. Definitely a huge progression in your game! Thanks for the tips!
Nice work! I figured your method out on my own years ago for myself, but I'm going to have my fam watch this to help them transition. Thank you!
Cheers kirk ✌
Great ideas man! This is excellent. Simple, but totally functional. Back when I played footy, I trained myself to kick with my left foot basically the same way. Brilliant.
Thanks, wish I could kick with my left foot, can barely kick with my right! 😂
Incredibly awesome exercise - unbelievable!
Malcom, I only had to watch 5-6 videos from your channel and I could snowboard better on the next first run than after 1 week of self-training. Thanks for that.
But with this video here you have blown up everything.
I watched it in the evening, remembered the exercise on the next morning and stubbornly pulled through the first downhill 10 minutes.
Then went back up and Whamm, then in free alternation Standard and Goofy driven. I didn't even know which type I have been before.
Unbelievably simple exercise - with an unbelievable !!! success
In each turn I said "Copy" and "paste" to myself. And now both direction are identic. AWESOME!
THANKS
I had to come back here and thank you!
As a decent rider I learned riding switch in one afternoon. This exercise is so simple, but effective.
I feel so much more free on my board now
That's awesome, thanks for sharing!
Amazing high quality video, so mesmerizing to watch you snowboard, couldn't snowboard at all in 2020 and watching your video is the closest thing to getting onto the slopes!
Yeah 2020 sucks, resorts here are still closed but at least I can hike up!
@@malcolmmoore Wow after you hiked up, it make you really cherish the ride down on your snowboard, its like going back to ancient times when the ski lift or the magic carpet is not yet invented :)
Fantastic drill mate. I did this last year in Val D and it really helped. Looking forward to the new season this is the main aim. Getting switch down
Learned more here in 30 min than in my 3 sesh in snow centre. Great videos. Thanks
Thanks! Can't wait to get back at it this winter and make some more vids!
Kinda clicked on this video thinking I new all the tips, but I’ve never seen that first technique before. I’m definitely gonna try it next time I’m up. Thanks!
Awesome, thanks! 🙏
Excellent tutorial Malcom …. Best switch tutorial on UA-cam!👍
Awesome video! Took me literally half a day to switch while riding down the slope. Thx!
This was VERY helpful, omg. Thanks SO much!!! I could hug you! I literally tried this today and it WORKED!!! It feels totally alien, and I need to practice a ton, but I am SHOCKED at how well you explained everything and how useful those drills were! Bravo!!! 🙏
Awesome, glad it helped! And that you're still snowboarding at this time in the year! 🥳
Greetings from Moscow! This is EXTREMELY helpful, tried today, had fun and made visible progress with my switch. Thanks man!
Glad it helped!
Hello Malcolm, I am a 47 beginner snowboarder becoming addicted. I want to thank you for your tutorials, cause they are accurate, technical and clear to understand. You are real pro ! See you in Alpe d'Heuz !!
This is one of your greatest vids, spent a couple of hours doing this routine, and we've all progressed today. Epic.
Brilliant!! Glad to hear it helped 😊🙌🏼
Ten film jest genialny. Próbowałem na stoku i wszystko wychodziło super.
I really needed this video! Thanks so much for your amazing content! The way you explain things is awesome!
Thanks 🙏
Thanks Macolm, i went to mayerhofen to practice switch riding. was gonna do a nursary slope like a beginer, saw your vid, so practiced your technique. working like a dream, so just wanted to thank you. Kindeest regards, Rob.
This is doing wonders! I mastered the heel turn quite quickly but the switch toe turn has been my weakness. Now I’ve been practicing the second part of the exercise for 2 hours and I totally get what you are saying, Thant when doing a correct regular toe turn before every switch toe turn I can correct my self and feel the difference, hence teaching my self. I found that I was late in my edge change and ended up spending way to much time with a flat base in the fall line. Now I’m starting to feel much more comfortable and much more aware of my edges with the reverts. After this break it’s time to link it all together.
PS love the vibe of the music as well 😊😊
Just came back from a weekend snowboarding and finally learned how to ride switch thanks to this exercise. Many thanks for this!
Amazing great job!!
Just got back from a night of practicing this. First year snowboarding and I was able to ride full green runs switch after a few practice runs of back and forth. Keep up the great content.
Awesome work, thanks! 🙌
I need these broad runs with perfect weather and no people to practice! Great video. Thanks for the tips.
I filmed this during covid so slopes were empty! But try going outside of holidays and can usually find some quiet slopes 😊 have fun!!
Very good video and technique, i practice snowboarding for almost 30 years and i learned riding switch on my electric skateboard recently, what a pity a didn't know your excellent tutorial.
this video worked wonders. I watched this on the gondola and 3 runs later I could ride switch the whole way down the mountain! I caught a nasty edge when I got too cocky though. I will be practicing this technique on my warm up run every time I go this year!
This was actually how i learned to snowboard from day 1 (thanks to this video) and ive been equally comfortable on both stances on every run. Such a great tool in the back pocket that lets you get out of sticky situations as a beginner
Wish all snowboarders were taught this way...
This makes so much more sense than the "falling leaf"-thing I did. Wish I knew this exercise all those years ago too, because now I have to start all over again with riding switch
Thank you so much for this video! I have tried riding switch every now and then over the years, but never pulled through. With these tips I had the basics down after a day and am riding switch now on day 3 at maybe 70% of my regular level. Great video!
Yes great comment!
wow omg i think you just unlocked this in my mind. Thank you very much I am definitely using this season!! the revert is the key because its the training wheel to get comfortable riding backwards
👌 thanks Jonathan!
Watching your videos got me through my second with a breeze. My goal is to ride switch this year and I’ll make sure I get it down with these drills.
Awesome 🙌 I'll be back in early December with more!
Great tips, will definitely give this a go! I really need to start learning switch riding, just need to somehow get to a slope!! Thanks 👍
Yeah let's hope resorts can open soon!
Brilliant drill ! Years of forced unpleasant switch riding, doing like 2 turns and “oh shit it’s getting too fast now what ?!!” I love that it puts a limit to the experience and forces me to focus into just a turn, getting out the paralysimg uncertainty of “i’m never going to be able to do a whole slope”.
In just a session yesterday i already progressed more than in years before.
can’t wait next session to continue !!
I just did this and it's so easy! I now can do switch! Thank you for such simple lesson.
Amazing good job!!
This is sadly exactly what I need! Been neglecting my switch for waay to long!
Yeah, I often neglect it too this was actually my first switch riding of this winter. As the lifts here are shut I have to hike every run so I hadn't done any yet!
@@malcolmmoore You must be in monster shape by now! Not that you were in bad shape before. The longer runs you film would have killed my legs half way through. Extremely late start here, but now everything is opening up. We have lifts, but not the kind of runs you have. Happy days!
Thank you. your camera operator maintains excellent focus on the maneuvers. Most excellent. Well done.
I will thank her, shes my girlfriend! 😃
Thanks for your tips mate. Switch is tough but absolutely necessary. I’m at the point where it’s the only thing holding me back. Cheers
Nice!
This video is freaking gold. I've had to watch it several times and have caught a switch heel edge twice at significant speed right in front of the lodge lol The thing that's finally clicked the most has been " look where you're going and extend your back leg " really big moment right there.
Yes! Happy to help 😃
Awesome technique I wish I'd watched this vid 3 - 4 years ago! I'll still give it a go next time I get to the mountain it coukd definitely improve my flow
Thanks man, yeah, always worth giving it a go! 🤙
Tried these drills on the mountain yesterday. No idea how, and I still had to do a lot of speed scrubbing, but somehow within 2 runs of each drill I could turn switch without wiping out, and in 2 more attempts I could go down just riding switch. Thank you!
Thanks for the tips Malcolm! The place where you snowboard is absolutely beautiful.
Thanks, it's not normally this quiet though, only because all lifts are shut in france this year!
Did this technique for a few days and now I'm riding switch. With whole season ahead. Yey!!
Great videos! Thank you🙂
Awesome!
This helped me so much. Learned switch and can carve pretty comfortably too after a few hours of practicing runs. Thanks!
Awesome well done 🙌🙌
Another great video! We like them so much me and my friend have booked some lessons with you in April! Really looking forward to it!!
Awesome, but just to check, what's the name you've booked through?
@@malcolmmoore Should be 'Kamila' She was in charge of booking it!
@@eamonharvey yes she's in the diary!
this resort is top in so many levels. great content, love your riding
Thanks again!
Great video! I had been putting off learning switch by the thought of starting from scratch. Tried this technique out last winter and within a morning was doing some mellow blue runs switch from top to bottom. This really is a learn-switch-cheat-code. Looking forward to putting it into practice again in a few weeks time!
Amazing hope it helps 🤞 enjoy your trip!!
very cool exercise, can't wait to try next time i'm up on the slopes. indy looks so happy, gonna be tough to explain to him that he can't come along when the resort re-opens!
I know, hes the one loving this lockdown the most!
Your videos are so simple and concise. Thank you. Youve helped me out so much
Awesome to hear, thanks man! 🙏
Gonna try these exercises out - thanks MM as ever for making them simple to understand!! 👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks and good luck!!
Was trying to pay attention but got so delighted seeing your dog running & having fun with you, that my focus shifted there 😄 He's sooo cute! Love seeing him in your video. 😊
Okay...back to watching this all over again. 😅
🐕🙌😂
Love this
I found in my own experiments (before seeing this video) that doing these little butter 180s helped a lot in being comfortable. You don’t have to commit to doing a whole run switch and it just builds good edge awareness
🙏👌
Same here! I’ve been practicing my switch riding before watching this video and I always start my switch runs with a few 180 spins. It helps my switch foot to mimic the movements of my regular foot. However, my struggle is my toe edge turns when I ride switch. When I started snowboarding in my regular stance, toe edge turns came naturally, I only struggled with the heel edge turn. When I ride switch, I almost can’t turn on my toe edge without kicking with my back foot. I’ll try this exercice, hopefully I can get my toe edge turn corrected!
Learned switch in a couple hours! Thanks for the tips keep up the good work!
Good work!!!
Thanks for the tips! I’ve been trying to teach myself switch this year and this was different than some of the other videos I watched. Can’t wait to try this technique out. BTW, the clips with your 🐕 are awesome!
Thanks! Yes, my dog is the only one who is loving the lifts being shut at the minute, he gets to come with me everywhere!
@@malcolmmoore Wow! Quite the workout! Our lifts are still opererating, but even if they were shut down, we have big hills here, not mountains.
It seems a very useful exercise and really original approach for improving our ride! I iwll try it tomorrow in beatiful Swiss Alps(flumserberg)... Thanks man!
This is the best way to learn switch no doubt. I did this a couple of years ago regularly for a few days and can now ride switch almost as good as my regular stance.
Awesome! 🤙
Absolutely the best tutorial out there. Thank you!
Thanks 🙌😊
I’m not even joking I did this drill several times in a row and I already feel so much more comfortable riding switch after a few hours! Thank you so much!
Yeah!! 🔥🔥
Thank you Malcolm for this tutorial. I can now ride switch with ease due to these drills.
Awesome 👌
this is honestly a really good video. im in the off season right now but as soon as im comfortable on a board again(starting 2nd season in a few months) im gonna use this
Awesome, roll on next winter!
Malcolm,well explained,I am gonna try it in the morning .keep them coming
Cheers!!
Great exercise. I always try to ride switch on boring terrains and that's been very helpful. I think from toe to heel is harder than from heel to toe so I would start from second exercise myself
Nice! And yeah, you're correct about heels to toes being more difficult
Not sure who is having more fun, Dad (MM) or the kid (Dog)! That is one happy dog. Great pointers MM, thanks a bunch.
Hope to get indy back in some videos soon!
After last year really cracking and be able to run on my goofy stand, this year's goal is to raid switch. I'm doing a lot of 360º rotations and now I will add these exercises to the practice .... THANKS
Awesome, thanks for watching! 🙏
Weight on the front foot and stand up on the heel side and sit down for toe side are two tips from an instructor that forever helped me
I absolutely love how your dog makes turns with you!
Yeah he's the best 😍
Slowly getting the hang of this thanks to your video and guidance. Wiped out a few times but having a lot of fun learning
Awesome, cheers Thomas!
1 week and I will learn to ride switch with the help of your video. Im very confident it will work well, because i used alot of your technique-guides to learn carve, turns and stuff. Maybe I can learn to jump 180's too. We will see 😅 keep up the good videos ! you really are a better instructor and thats even for free, thank you very much !
Happy to help 😃🙌
Fantastic video, this exercise would have helped me a ton while learning switch last season. I really enjoyed how much you stressed thinking about what you're doing in your regular stance, this cannot be overstressed and was key to making my switch riding click. I started by doing traversals while holding an edge, and gradually implemented turning; funnily enough heel to toe transitions were easy and toe-heel had my board sliding out or me leaning back trying to force my heel edge to engage and failing every time.
It wasn't until I gave it a deep think while riding regular and contrasting it with my struggle on switch that I realized I was just flopping over and not using my ankles to dig the new edge in, in addition to not having enough weight on the front foot. Mindfully fixed both of those aspects and wouldn't you know it, have been riding switch very well ever since. I think people get caught up in just doing reps to become better at physical activities, but mental effort and assessment pays dividends. Thanks again Malcom!
Thankyou, I appreciate the comment! The more you understand your riding the better you will become for sure!
Bend your knees over your toes to put pressure on your toe side naturally. It puts force on the front of your boot at your ankle and will lift your heel side so it won’t catch 😀
Awesome exercise, learned riding switch in one day.
Two years after this video... HERE'S ME! lol
SAME DEAL / HUGEEEE THANKS, MALCOM!
for a full season I tried to basically teach myself to ride switchn/ then I scrapped it all... Started over with THIS VIDEO in-hand on the slopes / Bluetooth in my ear...
And, NOW IM JAMMIN.
Malcolm... so damn kind / helpful
🏂🤸⛄
THANK YOUUUU!
🙏
From the slopes of Sunrise, AZ... Thanks again!
Awesome!!!!
U slowed it down and made it look easy. Hope to put it in practice soon thks MM!
Good luck 👍