WHAT TURN TYPE FOR WHAT CONDITIONS??? (snowboarding tips)
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2021
- What type of snowboard turn should you be doing in different conditions? When learning how to snowboard it can be confusing how to know what snowboarding techniques you should be using. There was alot to go over here, but this should give you somewhat of an idea about what turn size, and techniques, you should be employing when snowboarding across the mountain!
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Didn't reply to me before! Lol, but it was kind of regarding this video anyway so I suppose it's okay 🤣
@@kiddkaos1 damn it! Sorry I missed it before, sometimes youtube doesn't show me all of the comments as some end up it the spam for some reason, or maybe I just missed it, I will endeavor to get them all from now on!
No question here just want to say I love your vids
@@PaulChannel96 thanks! 🙌
@@malcolmmoore Great videos. First time viewer. I have been riding a long time but never really thought too much about the types of turns so this will be fun to practice. One question I had is I am really having trouble doing FS board slides on fun boxes, I tend to slide out (because I am on edge) and fall on my butt when I get into that board slide. Could you make a video on how to spin on a box or rail?
I love this dog. The bond you guys have is phenomenal. Keep shredding dude!
He loves coming riding with me! 🐕😁
@@malcolmmoore It seemed like he was riding something else ❤😉
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I like that you read and like comments it helps you build a good community
Thanks! I always try! 🙏
Hey Malcom, you should watch your dog a little closer, he's starting a Family behind your back ;)
fun to watch your videos though... as i just can't get into snow... but i've been kitesurfing yesterday, so all good for those times :)
😂 I know, he's being a nightmare at the minute!
i agree i was supposed to go skiing this February and try snowboarding again
I'm really impressed with how natrual and well flowing your videos are. I didn't spot any cuts, shows you really know your stuff when you can talk about it that naturally!
Thanks 😊😊
I’ve been riding sideways for 20 years always hitting the big air but a lesson to all Malcolm is always teaching me new stuff so we never stop evolving as boarders love ya man
😁😁😁 thanks again!
I love how technical this got. Please do more of these. This was amazing
You are the Bear Grylls of snowboarding. Teaching and giving tips and tricks by surviving gnarly terrain. Thank you 🙏
Haha thanks! 😄
One of the best snowboarding tutorial channels on UA-cam man, I've watched almost all of your stuff, it's helped a lot! Also, super cute dog 😂
Thanks James I appreciate it, I'll be back with more in December!
This is exactly the lesson I was looking for today! I'm over in Méribel and after 2 years away from the slopes, my skills are far from what they were (as is my core strength). I spent my first run on the floor. Sat aside for a while and watched this video (it's part slush/part ice here depending on the time of day) and nailed every run afterwards! Dude, you are an absolute hero for these lessons. Practical and achievable. Chapeau!
Cheers bro 🤩
This was the most helpful video! You are a natural teacher, I normally find myself skipping 5 seconds all the time but was so captivated cause everything you had to say was actually meaningful and made sense. Even without cuts! Thankyou!
This was my first season (well I'ma keep going till every resort nearby closes down) and your videos helped me so much, the torsional twist one specifically got me from just sliding down the blues on my heels to actually shredding it 😁 I'm even teaching my wife now with the techniques you've shown me, thanks so much!
Awesome, that's great to hear 🙌
Love your videos! So helpful ！I will keep practicing with it ！
My favorite snowboarding channel
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Ive been riding for couple seasons, and I just realize I have been naturally using the down unweighted turns recently, and yes the feeling of it is awesome; you literally control all your turns and speed, and you feel the response from your board when you push it to complete an edge change. Awesome vid!
Let me say "Thank you!" Because as a self-educated snowboarder your videos helped me to improve a lot! This video in particular allow me to understand clearly the difference between those techiniques. I'm suggesting your videos to all my friends who are willing to know more about snowboarding. If i'll ever travel to your place I definitely book lessons with you! Cheers from Italy!
Malcolm, thanks a lot for such detailed guides. While there's a ton of snowboarding vids on youtube, I enjoy watching yours most of all as they are super informative and clear for beginners like me. Thanks!
Awesome, thanks for the nice words, I appreciate it 🙌
@@malcolmmoore and yes, the doggie is awesome as well 😄
As always, fantastic tutorial Malcom. Learning these new terms like up/down weighted turns unlocks a new way to describe the sensation of carving. So stoked to be able to pass this knowledge along with my friends on hill!
Thanks Trevor!
Another great video tutorial as usual. Not only you know your stuff, but you're also great at sharing and explaining what you've learned during your many years as a snowboarding instructor. Keep up the great work!
Thanks! 🙌
Thanks for posting these tutorials. They’re super easy to understand and fun to just listen to.
Thanks! 🙌
Amazing quality video as always Malcolm, thanks for sharing your vast knowledge.
Thankyou! 🙌
Great explanation!!! I knew all this type of turns but I did no know when to use them, it was more and intuitive kind of thing!👏👏👏
Your channel is correlating extremely to be the best snowboard channel on UA-cam. You are making tutotial videos that are worth gold. Very well done! By the otherhand I think most of uf would gladly see buttering tutorial videos from You. I know that there is a lot from those on youtube, but your explanation is much professionaled than the others have.
Great idea, thanks for the nice comments, I appreciate it 🙌
Love your videos Malcolm. They've helped my girlfriend and I progress so much this season!
Awesome! 🙌
Again Malcolm is correct great video u never disappoint. Great job
Thankyou! 🙏
Wooof! Retraction turns, let’s see you and the dog making some shapes soon!
Love the explanation of what a down unweighted turn is and what it is for. Very simple practical advice!
Thanks! 😃
Best instructor on UA-cam! I noticed on my up unweighted turns the boards wants to spring me into my next edge change. Can't wait to get out and try down unweighted
Cheers Adam!
Keep up the great videos man!! Love seeing the bond between you and your dog.. I love my animals they are my family my best buds
Thanks, looks like indy could be playing in some deep snow after this weekend, finally!
This video is sooo timely as just today I was tackling steeper terrain and found myself falling back into old bad habits. After watching this I have a better understanding of how to ride steeper terrain 🤗
Awesome! 🙌
Love your videos man so helpful! Counting down the months till winter here in New Zealand. Loving the Yuki Threads too!
Stoked, hope you have an epic season, I did 4 winters in Wanaka, where abouts are you?
Thanks! I have learned so very much from you! You are my favorite instructor; you make it easy to understand the skills for good snowboarding and I am able to apply them once on the slopes! You are a blessing!!
Thankyou, and really appreciate the tip! 🙏
Thank you so much for the best tips ever! I just noticed the topics that you are talking about is very useful.
Thanks! Glad they helped!
Hey Malcolm… my first video’s of yours. But your bringing it verry clear. Going to watch more of it.
Thanks 🙌
Thx for the vid! I was skidding turns for ages and never realized how to correct that. This vid broke it down for me, cheers Malcom!
Awesome, glad to help! 🙌
Thank you Malcolm🙏
Thankyou! 🙌
Excellent video. Full or information and well explained. 👌
Thanks 🙏
Absolutely phenomenal video. Every level 4 talks the way you do but it's so rare to see good, meticulously planned and informative content on UA-cam (:
Thankyou!
Gonna try this next time on the slope. Thanks for the video. Your videos are really good. 👍👍👍
Thanks! Hope it helps! ✌
Great vid showing turn progression in one hit!!
Thanks Chris!
Love your video ❤ helping me a lot riding more smoothly! 😊
Awesome!
Malcom, I can’t thank you enough for offering your snowboard wisdom for all to benefit from! This past season, I only had the time/money to get up to the mountain 4x. I don’t get up to the mountain frequently enough to begin with, so I really wanted to make good use of my days up there by improving every day. My first day this season I was just a passenger on my board and felt like I had maybe 30% of control in my turns and riding. On my 4th day… I was RIDING! And I was 90% in control for all my turns. The last day I was applying down unweighted turns, which feel a hell of a lot like surfing (something I am more used to). Applying your wisdom, I was able to improve my riding in 4 days. Next season I aim to be able to ride in powder!
Hey Maria, that's awesome to hear, good work, you're smashing it!
new gear looks great!! stay safe and peace!!
Cheers man!
Thank you so much for following up some of the questions regarding this topic. This video gives a lot of insights into the way to improve my turns. Greetings from Switzerland and keep well!
Thanks, wish I was in Switzerland this winter!
@@malcolmmoore Swiss capitalism did not allow for the slopes to be closed lol, I can imagine your frustration. Lots of hiking exercise for you though 😉
We are stuffed into gondolas running in lower capacity (you assume) hahaha.
Your tips made my week-long trip to Tahoe epic, I’ve definitely leveled up. Thanks Malcolm
Awesome, I'm very jealous of you riding lifts over there!
I hope the lifts open soon! Cheers from CA
thank you, exactly the video I needed!
Awesome ✌
@@malcolmmoore after mastering down unweighted turns, what should I improve/learn in order to become a better snowboarder? Start doing jumps and freestyle?
It depends what you want to get into really, freestyle isn't a necessity, I know good riders that are rubbish in the park, but some people love it. One thing that always makes people stand out as good riders is when they can carve well. Plus being able to carve well will help pretty much all other aspects of your riding too!
another classic Video and another video ill be revisiting :O) and Indy video bombing as usual He's great.
Thanks! 🙏
Great video as usual, will try to follow your tips when the snow domes finally open, jeez do I need them to open!! 😄
I bet yeah! I thought italy was going to open up for a while and I'm very close to some resorts there, but looks like that won't be happening anymore, I'm hoping for a good summer up on the 2alpes glacier now! 🤞
Great video as always. You are my favorite youtube snowboard instructor ;) Iam very sad that I couldnt go snowboarding this year because of corona.
Thanks Henry, fingers crossed for next season!
Well damn, I had a lesson with you probably 4+ years ago and just randomly stumbled upon your channel today. Either google is really inside my brain at this point or it’s a hell of a coincidence. Loving the channel and looking forward to more! Up-unweighting may have just finally clicked for me seeing this (despite the hour or so we probably spent on it at the time).
Thanks, we've just had our first snowfall of the season so I'm actually getting up to go riding today! The resorts aren't properly open yet, but 2alpes is open up on the glacier for French half term, so I'll be back with more videos soon!
Make sense, practice as you advised
Another awesome set of tips Malcolm, very clear and easy to follow. I'll be trying this soon! Your dog is one cool hill buddy. 👊😎🤙🇨🇦
Thanks! Hopefully indy will be riding in the powder with me after this weekend, finally some snow in the forecast!
@@malcolmmoore Oh man! That'd be so wild, hope you get a downpour of that white stuff. Us here in Canada aren't having much luck with snow, almost gone!
Aw man, absolute gold that - I’ve started taking notes! “up-unweighted = more passive ride” such a good description when comparing it w/ other types of turn where the whole body is much more engaged in directing the board. Q - are ‘terrain’ turns same as ‘retracted’ turns? Or is that too simplistic a comparison as I guess it’s difficult to keep the upper body still/separated from lower body over moguls. Ta in advance
Love the new gear 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks!! 🙌
Thank you for your tutorials, they help a lot. Just to need to get rid of the skidding. Bad habits from beginning of the riding as an amateur.
Thanks, keep going and you'll get there for sure!
As always, superb explained! btw I like the blue onesie, kind a 80ies ski vibes. :D
Thanks man, yeah I went for a bit of a retro look with it!
Great video, my riding has improved 100%, 🍻
Awesome!
Great video!
Awesome cheers
Going for my Lvl 3 snowboard instructing cert this year so I'm geeking out on all this stuff right now at work daily. Love your videos and have definitely used some of your teaching progressions in my own lessons. If you come to Mt Bachelor Oregon let's take some turns and drink some beers! Cheers Malcolm!
Definitely! Good luck with your exams, I think they call things different names in the American system but it should all be pretty similar!
God, your dog is fit to keep up with you! Love ur work - thank you :)
Thanks Kamila 👍
Great video man
Thanks! 🙏
Review all my fav videos of yours for my upcoming trip to Whistler next week 😄
Awesome, enjoy Whistler, 10 years ago that I was last there!
i was wondering how to turn on steepers and this video helped a lot thanks
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Great tips and demo thanks so much for all your brilliant videos. Really helping me to remember or learn correct technique and build confidence back after no boarding since 2020. Any tips on supporting beginner children that would be different from adult teaching - talking as a parent not an instructor for after lessons have finished!
Malcolm, I love the very clear explanations you give in your videos. Would you take the opportunity to make a video for those of us who are waiting for the snow season to start, to help practice and upskill our turns without a snowslope? Also any excercises for our thighs, butts and balance, as a pre-season workup would be great. We have still 3 months before Cardrona opens up down here and as you might have heard there is a new ski-basin opening up that will make this Wanaka slope the largest ski resort in the Southern Hemisphere!
Thanks Alistair! I will likely get on some pre season videos soon, I had heard cardrona was opening up some more actually, that will be awesome, I would love to get back to Wanaka soon!
13:41 Indy! This is a family show. Not a family-making show!
😂😂😂🤦🏻♂️
these choices keep me awake at night , now I can sleep more soudly
😂 glad to help, I'm really getting into those deep philosophical questions on this channel!
Awesome lesson. I'd love to see the terrain turns in action on moguls.
Indy so cute running up and down the slope
He loves it! 😁🐕
thanks for the video ı love it Can you upload a mirror image of the videos for the goofy ones?
A good analogy that came to my mind is that you can imagine sitting on a chair that basically stands on (or is centered over) the toe edge so that your weight goes directly towards the edge and when you want to switch to the heel edge you basically stand up from that chair and sit down again on a chair that is behind you which stands on your heel edge. As you can imagine it's hard to switch a chair without standing up first ^^
Malcolm, I’ve recently started watching you and it’s been very helpful!
Could you make a video about riding moguls while riding in moguls? Seeing you do it helps a lot!
Sure I will do this season for sure 👍
In the meantime, this video is not so much a mogul tutorial but I analyse riding some pretty crappy conditions!
ua-cam.com/video/rvpp70l9-o8/v-deo.html
Hey Malcolm, love your videos (and Indy!)
I can’t find your video on up unweighted turns. Can you provide a link please?
Hi Malcolm, thanks for another exeptional and detailed video. A few areas im confused about is for up-unweighted turns when you stand up and extend both legs going into toeside, should you push down slightly on your front foot (toes) to get the board faster to the fall line and then press both legs into the shin? Vice-versa going into heel side when you stand up do you press into your heel in the front foot to make it go to the fall line and sit down with both legs? Or is it simply just standing up with weight balanced in the middle of both feet and applying more weight on the front foot to make the board head to the fall line? In addition, when you apply torsional twist with up-unweighted turns do you open/close the door after you stand up and then bend knees or does the movement of opening/close come after u sit back down with knees bent? Thanks, much appreciated!
Thanks again Malcolm for your time and knowledge. Everytime I watch one of your videos, it gets me excited for the next time out to improve my riding.
Not sure if youve done a video on difference binding angles and the benefits of each. I'm planning to try a forward stance (positive on both bindings) the next time I head to the hill. I think it's supposed to help make turn initiation and edge hold even easier/more responsive. And I'm not really riding much switch at this point yet.
What binding angles do you prefer riding?
Thanks Gordon. I ride +18 -12 pretty much all the time, although I have my splitboard set to +21 -9. The slightly forward facing stance is really fun for carving in particular, it let's you open up your body and therefore angulate with your hips to get better edge hold. Think about keeping your hips (easier to visualise if you do it with your shoulders too) parallel to the angle of the slope and you can generate really strong turns! For me though I dont open my stance up too much just so that I can do a bit of switch as well!
You should do one video on line selection now. Good turning + good line selection = best riding
Also, what type of turns are best for really aggressive steeps? I hit a double black diamond mogul run last weekend that was kind of icy. Down unweighted turns?
Yeah but you need to get the timing of the down unweighted movement over the top of the mogul. To be honest sometimes when it is really icy you will end up just skidding a bit anyway.
Malcolm, just wanted to say I have watched and rewatched many of your videos and they are an awesome reference to someone who is looking to progress past intermediate snowboarding and taking his riding to the next level. Do you have any tips about maintaining consistent speed on steeper blue and black runs here on the states. I feel I do a better job controlling speed going from my toe to heel side but I slow down too much transitioning from heel to toe on steeper slopes. Any tips or specific videos I should watch? Thanks again for all your hard work and helping us all improve and enjoy our shredding!
Anil
Hey Anil, thanks for the support! Its difficult to say without seeing you ride but one of the best things to do to improve your riding, and edge changes, is to practice your carving. Get used to the feeling of edge changing without skidding the board. This will give you the sensation of setting your edge early in the turn. You can then bring this feeling back into riding steeper slopes. You don't necessarily want to carve on steeper slopes but the edge change itself should feel pretty similar, and then you can always make more of a skidded turn after the edge change to control your speed. Hope this helps!
Love it how Indie is doing nasty things with the other dog behind your back at 13:38 :D :D :D
The only upside of the pandemic - Indy shows up in your videos much more often! :-)
Apart from this - it's not easy to find videos where you can watch "normal" but advanced and clean riding. Therefore really enjoying your tutorials!
Can you give any advice on what to do when it's very windy or stormy?
Thanks, can't wait to actually ride some properly prepared slopes next winter, and with a lift! here's an old video I made about riding in bad conditions: studio.ua-cam.com/users/videoaQLSXntXzRs/edit
i was about to make a comment on a different video requesting you to make a video describing when to use all these different techniques until i stumbled on this...
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I had skip back couple of times, hard to concentrate 🐶🐶🤩
Haha, he'll be back in a video soon!
Hey Malcolm, without knowing it, I mastered all what you recommended us to do in your summary (including Open stance carving). All with your videos. I’m now fine tuning buy repeating the movements so it becomes automatic. I am wondering, what do you recommend to learn next besides freestyle tricks?
Great vid Malcolm!! For more icier conditions would a down unweighted turn be more effective? I realize I'm sliding a lot to lower my speed before I do a turn on parts of the hill with less snow. Do you have any tips to overcome that? Thanks my dude!
Ice sucks, end of discussion! Haha, it does but theres ways to ride it. Often an up unweighted turn is fine as, like I say, it gives you pressure through your board when you need it. Sometimes in icy conditions trying a down unweighted turn could put too much pressure through the board that you can't manage it and end up slipping out. Basically its not so much a decision on what type of edge change but a decision on whether you think you can hold an edge on the ice. If my board hasn't got very sharp edges or it is just so icy that I know I'll have no luck whatsoever then I'll just actually relax my ankles and end up skidding over the top of it. However if I am going to try and grip on the ice, then it's more a case of getting my posture completely in the right place, that I direct all my weight right over the edge, and then just hope that it holds!
Hi Malcolm! Thanks for the video, it's really clear! I watched almost all your video and they really helped me a lot for this season. I just want to ask about the upper body posture when doing the up-unweight and down-unweighted turns, the upper body should be separated from lower body and always facing front or turn with the lower body?
It can help to anticipate the turn by turning the body into to the turn a little first. This movement comes when you twist your board by turning your knee into the turn to make the edge change. Therefore it it often more pronounced in a down unweighted turn as you are in a low down position meaning you can really twist your knees out. It still can happen in an up unweighted turn but not so much, you tend to stay more in line with your board for these.
Gr8 vid
Thanks 🙌
Great video, Malcolm.
A question....how should one handle icy trails where some parts are steep and rocky hard? Here is northeast US, this is a frequent occurrence in winter.
I am a beginner and I snowboard only in resorts with groomed trails which frequently have patches of ice; and sometimes they are hard enough that one would not want to fall on it.
Indy is the dream ❤️
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Another great video, thanks so much Malcolm, especially for scaling the run, phew! I'll be hitting the slopes in a couple of days, looking forward to applying what you've taught. Question, is there any value in creating a lot of "torsional twist" to the board, in other words, when making a toe edge turn, for instance, is there value in accentuating the front knee and toe down and forward while simultaneously also pressuring down on the back heel, thereby creating more "twist" in the board. Naturally, the back foot would ease up through the turn and transition to the toe edge. Really appreciate your attention to mine and everyone else's questions and comments....You da best!
Thanks, I guess if you really accentuated the movements it would put you at a higher edge angle right at the start of the turn. This is quite an aggressive style of riding, think like ryan knapton style carved turns. But in everyday riding it's not always the best thing to do. As you continue through a turn more and more pressure builds up against the board so you want to progressively increase the edge angle, whereas if you go in with a high edge angle already you have nowhere else to go. But nevertheless is can be fun to ride like this especially on mellow pistes when it's easy to manage those excess forces!
As always, great feedback...thankyou.
Hey Malcolm, have you ever made a video on how to NOT catch an edge on the snowboard? That would be helpful for all beginners.
Yeah, that is a great idea 💡 thanks!
So I'm pretty new to snowboarding and the last time i rode I injured myself on an ice patch. What happened is I was for my skill level rather fast and carving medium turns. I got onto the ice patch with the toe side of the snowboard and started sliding then the edge getting grip and jumping up and kinda rattling down the ice which overstretched my tendon.
I want to go back to snowboarding but am afraid of it happening again.
I'd be thankful for general advice on how to deal with ice patches and how I could have handled the situation better.
Thanks and as always great video.
Avoid ice! Haha, sometimes you can't though... the choice is either to try and hold your edge on it by getting your posture spot on, or sometimes it is actually just better to relax your ankles and skid over any icy patches.
Thank you for all of your work. Question...i do really well on heels but once i am trying to do edge change to toes i trip on toe edge, maybe because i press on my toes so much! How do you correctly position your feet, do they stay flat and just move your knees, hips or do you move your heels and toes also?
Hi Malcolm, thanks for the videos, great informative content and one of the very few that know what they are talking about on UA-cam. Could you please highlight how is best to ride dealing with steep icy runs, and I mean ice, not hard pack! What gear is possibly better in terms of flex and what technique works best. Thank you
Hey Karl, thanks, when riding ice, avoid it, go to the airport, and book a flight somewhere else. Haha nah, ice always sucks, sharp edges help, as do things like magnetraction. But I'm not really a fan of magnetraction for how it feels when the snow is good. Sometimes you're just best letting the board skid a bit more across the surface of the ice, as trying to hold an edge on it can be difficult. I might get around to the video on this, but the thought of seeking out an icy slope doesn't excite me all that much 😂
@@malcolmmoore haha, thanks for your reply. Yes I agree I find best to skid at a slight angle, but when it all goes wrong I blame my technique. Well I’m sure it won’t be that hard finding ice atm 😂 we are in serre chevalier and in desperate need of snow!
Hi Malcolm, keep up the great work. Best tuitional videos out there. I`m getting a few odd looks whilst practising torsional twist in the lockdown supermarket queue but hey-ho, it`s got to be done. I bought a Warpig for this season so can`t wait until next year to get on the goddam beauty. I`m trying to persuade my skier mate that Alpe D`Huez is the place to go, as I think it looks great from your vids.
Is there enough to do for a week? , and what`s the near off-piste like ? Hope you can help.
Thanks man, not sure the supermarket is the best place to be practicing though 😂
ADH is a cool resort and I live here and still find alot to do. It is very south facing which can be awesome or crap, let me explain, the fact you get loads of sun is great but it means slopes are more prone to melting and then they refreeze again over night which can make for icy pistes. North facing pistes tend to just stay cold and grippy. But all the sun is great too! It's a pretty big resort but if you're an advanced skier you can blast around most of the areas in a day. Its big but not like the size of some of the mega resorts out there. You can always go to 2alpes for a day on your 1 week pass so long as you get transport across. 2alpes has some good wide pistes and usually a better park than ADH. The proper off piste is really good, but is best done with a guide, as alot of it is quite exposed. There is really good safer stuff off the sides in obvious places too but I guess like most places this gets tracked put very quickly. And avoid french holidays, again the same for all of france with this tip! Hope this helps!
Thats great info thanks.
I was actually in 2alpes for the last 3 days before the first lockdown. We managed to do most of that in a day! Food for thought. Thanks again.@@malcolmmoore
Thanks Malcolm, brilliant video. One question I would love to understand the answer to, is why do up-unweighted turns at all, once you've learned down-unweighted? It seems like up-unweighted are taught to us when we first start out, perhaps because they can be done slowly at low speeds? However do they have any advantages at all over down-unweighted? Are there any circumstances when you would need to do up-unweighted instead of down?
Honestly love your channel. Thank you for all the effort you put.
Up unweighted work really well in most piste conditions, its what I use most of the time to be honest when I'm just riding casually. As you don't need to be in the strongest low down position right after the edge change, you are just going down the slope with gravity at that point, they work fine. You are in the strong position anyway when you get into the fall line and from there you can then push against the board at manipulate the turn size like in a down unweighted turn anyway. Down unweighted are definitely better in powder and moguls,and can be fun on the piste, but up unweighted can be done quite aggressively on piste too!
@@malcolmmoore Ok, that makes perfect sense. Thank you.
I still watch these for technique tips for mountain and electric boards. So useful. Are you hiking up the hill each time or snowcat? And retraction turns????
I'm still hiking up, I think the retraction turns vid will have to wait for next season when lifts are running, I need alot of piste to demonstrate them which would mean alot of hiking right now!
Hi Malcolm, I have just discovered your channel and after 30 years of boarding I am learning lots of new stuff to try this winter, especially the down unweighted turn. I have a question about fixing an issue I have using the up unweighted turn on steep groomed piste and in powder. When I am doing tight turns in a very narrow space I find that the back of my board seems to be vigorously bouncing from one turn to the other almost pivoting on the front of the board, I also find my back arm seems to get a life of its own and is flaying around a bit if I dont concentrate on holding it steady. It is different to the camber giving the return of energy to the whole board from one turn to the other on easier slopes. I ride a Jones hovercraft which has a short tail end. I am not a speed merchant and like to feel the turns even on the steep stuff. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Martin
Using this as a refresher cause I got eaten alive by a few of vails back bowls today, ready to shred them tomorrow, or roll down them either works
So jealous of you guys with your lifts running!
Hi Malcolm, great video! I’m current practicing my down unweighted turns and have a naive question - it seems all the tutorials online about down unweighted turns only talk about the benefits of down unweighting, but what could be some reasons people might want to still use up unweighting if they already learned to do down unweighting? It just seems up unweighting has no obvious advantage in any situation compared to down unweighted turns. Is that so? Or is there any case where up unweighted turns are actually preferred.
Great video as always! Btw, nobody realized It took Andy 5 secs to jump on top of the other dog and bang her ahah 13:40.
Haha 😂😄
Your videos helped me so much! Quick question though, why wider turns on the mellow runs?
Also as a side question... do you think you can incorporate different stacked stances in a video (such as that real low forward facing stance pro freestyle riders use)? I’ve been looking for something like that and have found nothing about it, and you are definitely my best teacher lol. I’m sure many would benefit from that and principles from it. Thanks!
So the turn size for slope is to do with the amount of time spent pointing down the slope, therefore picking up speed. In a big (wide) turn you spend alot of time pointing down the slope you pick alot of speed therefore it's best for mellow slopes, if you did it on a steep slope you would end up going too fast, therefore smaller turns for steep slopes. You can if you want do small turns on mellow slopes too but you will end up going quite slow, but nothing wrong with that!
As for the stances, yeah that's something I want to cover soon, but I would like to give alot of demos and example so it will probably wait until next season when I'm on the lifts and have a bit more time to explain things!
@@malcolmmoore thanks so much for the reply! I’ll add that to my knowledge bank. Keep up the amazing vids!
Wow great video. I recently went boarding and I had exactly these questions so great timing for me. One question though, when riding in pow since you need to keep your weight back a little how are you able to do torsional twist since that needs to be done with more weight forward?
You do a little but think of just lightly feathering the foot for the turn initiation, so you still make the movement but you just dont put much weight into the foot. I actually just made a video about weight distribution between the feet covering this, but managed to delete the audio, so will have to do it again! 😂
@@malcolmmoore Oh no. That’s a shame. Can’t wait to see it. I seem to struggle with that as well, also like when to lean forward and when to lean backward. Also having problems with regular posture, I keep feeling like I’m not doing it right but I have no way of anyone showing me since videos are not live help. I know what I should be doing I just don’t know if I’m doing it. Lol
Send me a quick video on Instagram messages if you want and I can take a look!
@@malcolmmoore I wish I could. I don’t have Instagram