@@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!
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!
@@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 🙈😅
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!
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!
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!
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
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 !!
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!
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
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
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 !!
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.
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!
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!
Has been afraid of riding switch for last three years. Until I found your video a few days ago. Took me 2 hours on the slope to feel much better about it. You have true talent of a teacher. Thank you!
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
To anyone out there wondering if it is worth the effort or doesn't care; I have avoided many a wipeout and am a lot more versatile in my riding via being proficient in switch. Take the dive, its a blast.
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!
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!!! 🙏
ive been snowboarding since i was around 2 (im turning 13 in 2 months) and ive never learnd to ride switch. I can hit pretty big jumps and do alot of diffrent tricks but never have i gone more than 15 meters switch. Hopefully when i recover from my fever and go to the slopes i can learn riding switch👍
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.
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 !
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.
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!
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.
nice tutorial! A toeside switch turn is indeed the more difficult one, especially on dual or progressive sidecut boards, there is another tip which helps a bit: stretch rear leg to bring weight forward before starting toe side turn, in turn initiation lean toeside , change edge and bring knees together, this bends board and compensates the bigger radius at the tail (which is in switch case in front) of these boards. Also good in general for muscle memory/ brain programing: buy longboard and push switch as one exercise and as a second dance from regular to switch.. both trains the switch memory in brain and you save training time on piste.
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
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!
I have learned switch on a directional tapered wide full camber old Rossignol. It was difficult and awkward but I rode it slowly and it was ok after couple of days. I feel like nowdays everybody have a more philosophical approach with much more fear injected in learning. Relax and try and try againg untill you learn and figure out the details. Even this guy said that it will be much more solid if you figure out by yourself.
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!
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 😀
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!
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.
I have practiced bits of switch for years but as soon as it would feel uncomfortable I would do the classic thing of reverting back to regular and catching my mates up again. After watching the tutorial I found this exercise really worked for me. By the end of the day I was feeling so much more comfortable riding switch and was throwing more and more switch riding into every run and enjoying flicking between the two. I would be interested in seeing a video on some more advanced switch tips if you are up for it.
Great video. It would be useful to include recommendations about the angle settings of the bindings as I guess it is different when you fully ride switch or you only ride goofy/regular
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!
It’s been so frustrating trying to learn how to ride switch, and your instruction seems very unique. I’m definitely going to try this week. Thanks for the video!
@@Davidisawesome15 most definitely. Some days are better than others, as I still feel a bit awkward making the toe side turns while riding regular, but I go back to this drill whenever that happens.
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!
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
Perhaps I missed it but first step is center your stance on the board before you do anything. As an instructor for over 5 years i would still recommend on learning it on a mellow hill and learn to torsion flex your board while using your hips. Otherwise perfect video thanks for posting M.M. Cheers mate.
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.
im a skateboarder and this helped me way more then those "teaching videos" from my community. they try teaching and end up doing switch kickflip and such. way to complex for someone learning to just ride.
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
To me, going switch on chairlifts and t-bars was a game changer. Its basically 'idle' time that can be spent learning fine edge control and posture. And somehow it also improves my regular side. To me the hardest part is jumps. Ive been practicing for days, and still my landing is unstable. I think it has something to do with my weight Distribution, but no idea how to improve. Any tips? Thanks.
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 😊😊
On a day when you have time for only a focused video, it would be great to go through the revert in more detail. What move do you make to initiate the revert? Where is your weight? Is the board flat throughout? Is a revert only done on a traverse or can it be done on the fall line too? Things like that. This seems like a good way to motivate riding switch every day.
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 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!
@@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 :)
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
As someone who rides goofy, this video is a total mind melt. Trying to convert your regular riding to my goofy switch and my goofy regular to your regular switch is a really confusing, lol. Don't get me wrong, the video is excellent and I can't wait to try this drill... but for someone that is goofy, it's tricky to see what's happening here.
Dude, I've been riding for 12 years, and the last probably 5 I have been struggling to ride switch. This is a game changer. Thank you so much! Also, where are you in this video?
This is alpe d'huez in France. The ski resort is currently shut down hence the quiet slopes, I had to walk up to film this, and that's why my dog can come too!
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!
Gave this a whirl yesterday. Definitely effective though I took some good spills. I’m just a few days into my return to boarding after 25 years, and I spent the afternoon totally confused both regular and switch!
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.
I'm normally regular; after switching to goofy (be it by accident or otherwise) if I pick up speed - my back leg turns to jelly, really odd experience. Going to be practicing this. Thanks for the video never thought to go criss-cross on a slope for practice!
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 🤘👽
Great video and excellent clear explanation. Learned to ride Switch in a day. Thanks for posting. One suggestion would be to have explanations written down in point form, easier to check Than reviewing video over and over! Still super happy to ha w mastered it so Quickly. Will for sure Check out your other videos.
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..???😎
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!
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 ✌
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!
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! 😂
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!
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 !!
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 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
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 !!
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 👍
Made a lot of progress riding switch on a freeboard using this routine today. Really helped things click. Thanks!
You're welcome!!!
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!
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!
Has been afraid of riding switch for last three years. Until I found your video a few days ago. Took me 2 hours on the slope to feel much better about it. You have true talent of a teacher. Thank you!
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! 🙌
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!
absolutely gorgeous video, i could watch you ride that slope all day, well done. and i love your pup!
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! 🙏
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! 🙏
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!
To anyone out there wondering if it is worth the effort or doesn't care; I have avoided many a wipeout and am a lot more versatile in my riding via being proficient in switch. Take the dive, its a blast.
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!
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! 🥳
Did this technique for a few days and now I'm riding switch. With whole season ahead. Yey!!
Great videos! Thank you🙂
Awesome!
ive been snowboarding since i was around 2 (im turning 13 in 2 months) and ive never learnd to ride switch. I can hit pretty big jumps and do alot of diffrent tricks but never have i gone more than 15 meters switch. Hopefully when i recover from my fever and go to the slopes i can learn riding switch👍
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 😃
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 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!!
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 😊🙌🏼
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 😃🙌
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! 🤙
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!! 🔥🔥
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.
nice tutorial!
A toeside switch turn is indeed the more difficult one, especially on dual or progressive sidecut boards, there is another tip which helps a bit: stretch rear leg to bring weight forward before starting toe side turn, in turn initiation lean toeside , change edge and bring knees together, this bends board and compensates the bigger radius at the tail (which is in switch case in front) of these boards.
Also good in general for muscle memory/ brain programing: buy longboard and push switch as one exercise and as a second dance from regular to switch.. both trains the switch memory in brain and you save training time on piste.
Thanks for the tips! I remember learning to push switch on a skateboard, took me so long to get, but when I did it was easy!
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
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
that pup is having the time of its life
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!
I need to get that switch down. Definitely a huge progression in your game! Thanks for the tips!
I have learned switch on a directional tapered wide full camber old Rossignol. It was difficult and awkward but I rode it slowly and it was ok after couple of days. I feel like nowdays everybody have a more philosophical approach with much more fear injected in learning. Relax and try and try againg untill you learn and figure out the details. Even this guy said that it will be much more solid if you figure out by yourself.
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! 🤞
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 ✌
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 😀
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!
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! 😂
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!
This is the best explanatory Snowboard Video I have seen on how to practice riding switch. Thanks much appreciated.
Thankyou! 🙏
I have practiced bits of switch for years but as soon as it would feel uncomfortable I would do the classic thing of reverting back to regular and catching my mates up again. After watching the tutorial I found this exercise really worked for me. By the end of the day I was feeling so much more comfortable riding switch and was throwing more and more switch riding into every run and enjoying flicking between the two. I would be interested in seeing a video on some more advanced switch tips if you are up for it.
Well done I'm so glad it helped!! Yeah I think a follow up to this video is a good idea 🙌🏼
Thank you. your camera operator maintains excellent focus on the maneuvers. Most excellent. Well done.
I will thank her, shes my girlfriend! 😃
Great video. It would be useful to include recommendations about the angle settings of the bindings as I guess it is different when you fully ride switch or you only ride goofy/regular
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!
It’s been so frustrating trying to learn how to ride switch, and your instruction seems very unique. I’m definitely going to try this week. Thanks for the video!
Happy to help! Good luck!
Did it work?
@@Davidisawesome15 most definitely. Some days are better than others, as I still feel a bit awkward making the toe side turns while riding regular, but I go back to this drill whenever that happens.
@@leonardskim how long did it take to get a hang of it?
That was a brilliant way to break it down and stitching it back together. Super helpful!!
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!
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!
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!!!!
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 🤙
Ten film jest genialny. Próbowałem na stoku i wszystko wychodziło super.
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! 🙏
Awesome video! Took me literally half a day to switch while riding down the slope. Thx!
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!
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 ✌
Perhaps I missed it but first step is center your stance on the board before you do anything. As an instructor for over 5 years i would still recommend on learning it on a mellow hill and learn to torsion flex your board while using your hips. Otherwise perfect video thanks for posting M.M. Cheers mate.
Thanks, no I'm not centered here, but of course it does help!
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!
Trying to do some slow 360s is what has helping me learn to use my switch stance edges the most
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.
Greetings from Moscow! This is EXTREMELY helpful, tried today, had fun and made visible progress with my switch. Thanks man!
Glad it helped!
im a skateboarder and this helped me way more then those "teaching videos" from my community. they try teaching and end up doing switch kickflip and such. way to complex for someone learning to just ride.
Thanks, I'm also a skateboarder, I'm alot worse than I was 10 years ago though 😂
These vids are addicting somehow. And I’ve only touched snow like 5 times! I’ve never been snowboarding
Haha, that's cool, thanks for watching! 🙏
Lean into your front shin for toe side turn and think of your lead knee opening like a barn door for your heel turn!
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!
To me, going switch on chairlifts and t-bars was a game changer. Its basically 'idle' time that can be spent learning fine edge control and posture. And somehow it also improves my regular side. To me the hardest part is jumps. Ive been practicing for days, and still my landing is unstable. I think it has something to do with my weight Distribution, but no idea how to improve. Any tips? Thanks.
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 😊😊
On a day when you have time for only a focused video, it would be great to go through the revert in more detail. What move do you make to initiate the revert? Where is your weight? Is the board flat throughout? Is a revert only done on a traverse or can it be done on the fall line too? Things like that. This seems like a good way to motivate riding switch every day.
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!!
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!!
I love how responsive the dog is😂
He's the best 🤩
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 :)
Excellent tutorial Malcom …. Best switch tutorial on UA-cam!👍
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
I just did this and it's so easy! I now can do switch! Thank you for such simple lesson.
Amazing good job!!
As someone who rides goofy, this video is a total mind melt. Trying to convert your regular riding to my goofy switch and my goofy regular to your regular switch is a really confusing, lol. Don't get me wrong, the video is excellent and I can't wait to try this drill... but for someone that is goofy, it's tricky to see what's happening here.
Dude, I've been riding for 12 years, and the last probably 5 I have been struggling to ride switch. This is a game changer. Thank you so much!
Also, where are you in this video?
This is alpe d'huez in France. The ski resort is currently shut down hence the quiet slopes, I had to walk up to film this, and that's why my dog can come too!
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!
Learning switch has leveled my park riding. I can now hit features switch.
I absolutely love how your dog makes turns with you!
Yeah he's the best 😍
Gave this a whirl yesterday. Definitely effective though I took some good spills.
I’m just a few days into my return to boarding after 25 years, and I spent the afternoon totally confused both regular and switch!
Haha, jeez, I was not snowboarding 25 years ago!
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
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.
I'm normally regular; after switching to goofy (be it by accident or otherwise) if I pick up speed - my back leg turns to jelly, really odd experience.
Going to be practicing this.
Thanks for the video never thought to go criss-cross on a slope for practice!
Roll on next winter!
Simple but very effective...another awesome tutorial, roll on 13th March Passo Tonale 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Nice, the run down frm top of the glacier is epic.....& a real thigh burner😂
Fingers crossed for you and your trip!
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 👍
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!
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!
Great video and excellent clear explanation.
Learned to ride Switch in a day.
Thanks for posting.
One suggestion would be to have explanations written down in point form, easier to check
Than reviewing video over and over!
Still super happy to ha w mastered it so
Quickly. Will for sure Check out your other videos.