Intermediate Snowboarder Trying Black Diamonds!
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- Опубліковано 31 гру 2023
- This is my second time trying black diamonds at Belleayre Mountain. I've noticed things I've improved since the last visit and also what I am still doing wrong. If you have any advice for me, feel free to help me out in the comments! Enjoy the 2023/2024 Ski and Snowboarding Season!
Progress Day 3: • My First Double Black ...
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The only thing that really sticks out to me ( as an advanced rider) is the shoulders . Naturally, we want our eyes downhill so a common habit is pointing the chest downhill as well. This means we counter-rotate on the toe edge, and it slips out . Try taking that lead hand ( when you aren't filming) and keep it on the inner thigh. This will force your head to look over the shoulder heel side and into the toe side turns.
I'll try it on my next run! Thank you!
this is great advice. i've been trying to help a friend learn. definitely going to borrow this tip for them.
These videos are extremely helpful with my own progress, your attention to detail regarding your technique is great which made me realize a lot about my own riding
Thank you! Glad to help man! It really helps when you film yourself snowboard, or better yet have someone film you because they can have a better angle.
A little late to the party. I Like your videos. There’s a genuine and unpretentious vibe to them. As an advanced boarder of 20 years, learning how to properly carve is about first feeling when you are actually carving vs skidding. Once you understand that feeling it’s about proper body alignment, proper weight distribution to maintain and dig into the carve and lastly proper knee steering for control. I would say the progression is usually in that order. The better you are with each component the better you become with carving. And as far as learning switch, I wouldn’t worry about that unless you plan on hitting the terrain park and start doing spins, etc. and probably only learning switch after you’re able to carve properly in your normal stance. Good luck! Have fun.
Thank you! This is the most detailed explanation of the steps to carve Ive heard. Body alignment and weight distribution is still very new to me because sometimes I feel the sweet spot of where my weight should be, but most of the time I get it wrong and either fall or bail out and skid. Hopefully I can get it with more time in the mountain! Thank you again and enjoy your winter season!
Very underrated! I had the same issues with carving for a while. keep practicing and having fun!
I’m always watching expert content and it’s really nice to see someone who is around my level because it’s more relatable to me. Glad to have stumbled upon you!
Awesome snowboarding! Was at belleayre that same day grinding out the blues and blacks!
Great shots, love the editing, as an intermediate myself I haven't tried a black diamond yet but hopefully within the next few days so this was some good hype lol
Thank you! Yea just take it slow your first run and once you go down one, you'll feel a big confidence! I was really nervous but now I go down one when it's open! Enjoy your next few trips!
Great explanation! It’s very helpful 👍
Glad it was helpful! Enjoy your winter season!
love your videos man i recently subbed and cant stop watching, keep it up
Thanks a lot man! Enjoy your winter season!
So unbelievably underrated! Keep pushing and you'll become famous!
Thank you! But I have no wish to be famous. Just sharing my experience and hope it will help some people!
Keep Pumping more. I feel like I am at the same level. But I can also grow. Been doing for 2nd season now.... learning at age 28..not bad...
Keep practicing sir. I am learning the same time and hope to reach your level in the future.
It's been really fun so far learning. For me the biggest challenge was being scared of the speed and really activating my knees, legs, and shoulder turns. We'll get better the more we go! Enjoy your winter season!
Great video so far! I am buying an insta360 so I can also record my riding. Normally when I do snowboard (and that speaks for myself) it's all me, the board and the mountain. I fell countless times in many different sectors of a ski center and also just under the chairlift. The fact that I do this only for my self joy allows me to kind of forget that it might be people watching and laughing or whatever. Just make it naturally to fall and rise up again so you don't have to feel embarrased when you do so.
Keep up the good content!
Love it! i think I'm a similar level (or getting there hopefully!) and this is very encouraging. Dot Nebel looks really steep though, well done! Interesting point you made about not really needing to carve when going faster on green/blues, I will think about that. I agree the grooming on this hill looks great!
Thank you! I have a more cautious approach to snowboarding so i'm taking each step at a time. Going fast can be scary and the steepness of some trails can be intimidating. Just take it slow until you start to feel more comfortable with your board! Enjoy your winter season!
You’re crushing it bro!! I’m a beginner myself, only been up to the mountain once & have been doing a lot of studying from riders like Malcolm Moore, that like to educate here on UA-cam & you are definitely on your way man!! Can’t wait to see your riding a year from now!
Great stuff & love the self analyzation aspect to this video! Also I could see your technique & turns getting better & better throughout the video as you got thru multiple different runs! Keep going!! Great content!
Thanks man! Yea Malcolm Moore has the best method of teaching, he does it so differently than any other youtuber in a good way. But having reps in the mountain and being self critical is what helped me improve a lot. Thanks again and enjoy your winter season! Hope we both improve so we can enjoy more of the mountain!
@@InTuned182 absolutely agreed!! Love his ways of teaching as well! It’s really cool how he has multiple ways of teaching the same exact techniques. & yessirr!! Likewise! Can’t wait to get back up to the mountain to begin working on all the great techniques I’ve learned! Cheers man! Enjoy the rest of the season & let’s find some ways to keep our techniques sharp in the off season as well!! 💪🏾💪🏾
@@jihadpierce Yea man! I might try surfing. Not for the love of surfing, but to maintain my snowboarding balance and leg muscles haha.
Nice video my man keep it up!
hype video bro. I appreciate the realistic views/commentary. just your ability to self analyze will take you crazy far with learning. If you think of carving as using your own momentum to make your edges work for you, then you absolutely have that ish!
Thank you! Ill keep that in mind!
You're getting better each time, I can see it. Keep it up. Maybe practice hopping a bit when going slower as it can make you more comfortable bending your knees a lot more and feeling comfortable getting lower to the snow, leaning into that forward foot, especially on the blue runes. Fun watching your progress!
Thank you! Yea I went the other day and I think I progressed a bit! I was practicing a lot at the bottom of the blue runs. It'll be on the next video.
Dude keep rocking on, get most edge feeling as possible and you will revert to switchcarve 180 out asap!
If your having fun snowboarding, your doing it right! Just sub'd to see that shoulder game improve!
Ok I gotchu. This is the best advice ever check it out. To carve the way you want, what’s holding you back is that right now you’re so focused on being on an edge you are forgetting to “RIDE” the edge. Try on a blue run to point your board down hill and lean like if you were on your toes or your heels. Try to do that the whole,e way down and watch how something in your brain connects. Once you are riding the edge and not forcing to speed check. You will get the carves you want
carving is different than the skidded turns that everyone starts out with... it's good to learn the difference as you progress and learn to lock those edges in 💪🤙
Yea I had no idea at first, but yea I'm working towards the real carving soon!
@@InTuned182 doing great bro keep it up 🤙
Yea I thought he was skidding…
any tips on getting from skidded to carving?
@@MellissaChea "down unweighted turns" are essential for powerful and aggressive riding and there are some great instructional videos on here if you do a search. fwiw just don't take riding advice from the SnowboardProCamp guy cuz he doesn't know what he's talking about 😂🤙
Good stuff, cool to see someone who's not super advanced posting vids anyway. Try not to be embarrassed about wiping out- it happens to experts, just means you're pushing yourself to get better. Or that something funky in the terrain just got ya 😅 Ride on!
Thank you! I think wiping out is part of the fun haha. Growing pains but safely obviously. Enjoy your winter season!
Agreed!
I am also a beginner and find out that digging your sheens on your back foot will weep you into the turn and for the heel I try twist the front of the board by lifting my front toe while the back foot is still on the ball of my foot then dig my back foot calf into the high back. Always works for my toe side carves but my heel side carves are sometimes skidded
I've always expalined it as leaning into the front of your boots. That seems to click for people for some reason. That and if you feel like you aren't turning quickly enough put weight on your front foot. People who are having trouble initiating turns are almost always putting too little weight on their front foot. The other common mistake I see is people counter roatating or whipping their foot to complete a turn. This is useful in certain scenarios, but isn't how you should .
Bring your head and left shoulder forward when going on toe side. Your shoulder and head are pointing down the mountain while your nose is pointed against the fault line. A good way to practice this is put your arms and hands against your body and hips. That way you’re not using your arms to initiate turns.
Thank you and yup I agree. Unfortunately I didn't do that on the video I'm going to upload soon because I'm holding my camera on my front arm this time. If I dont hold the camera I can be more conscious of your advice next time! Enjoy your winter season!
dude that "heelside carver, toeside skidder" felt personal haha thats def something I need to work on as well
I am completly opposite to that. I feel very comfortable with my toeside. Maybe not a carver, but turn with good grip. And heelside much less comfortable with less grip turns
Haha yea dude, we're biased to the side we started learning on. We got this though! Enjoy your Winter Season!
@@InTuned182yo, I really appreciate your positivity in these comments!
Same here. Especially on steeper terrain, I'm much more comfortable on toeside. @@killboyomglol And even more comfortable on skis.
Keep it up!
Goat Path is the top curvy run, which then leads into Lower Algonquin. This is wide and when it's groomed out it's my favorite run there. You can get some serious speed going on top of some big smooth rollers.
one thing that i learned, you have to put yourself in faster speed situations to jump to the next level. Your muscles will adapt and will react faster to faster speeds which gives you much easier control later. Love your journey
Thank you! And you're 100% right. Its the hard truth when it comes to snowboarding. My strategy is to slowly creep up to higher speeds every time. I try to have a balance of risking and also preventing injury. Enjoy your winter season man!
great vid
You do look like exactly like I do runs. more bend on the rear knee then the front one and that its the point of my recent improvement. Also use to have a more fast slide like you are doing all the time, now Im kinda enjoy more the mountain just by doing a large "S" on the snow. If you still up there try at least once and tell us here. Nice Vid dude. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! Enjoy your winter season dude!
Lots of good tips in the comments so I’ll just give you my two cents and my own feels for carving.
When doing skidded turns I feel like my legs are doing a lot of work with my upper body doing counter rotation, overall a lot of energy is being used.
When I’m carving, no matter how wide the turn or how steep the run, it feels like I’m using very little energy and the boards edge and edge radius is doing the actual turning. I’ve never surfed before but when I am carving on the snowboard it feels like what I imagine surfing feels like; knees slightly bent, and my shoulders (it looks as if my hands are pointing where I want to go) are just barely opening and closing but really it’s probably just a matter of transferring my weight from toe to heel and the pressure in my feet is equal whereas on skidded turns I feel more weight on my back foot.
A good way to see what a proper carve feels like is to ride down a nice open green run and turning up hill by going from one side of the run to the other. If you do a skidded turn you won’t be able to go up hill at all but if you carve you will feel your board control where it’s headed and you’ll actually be able to go up hill. Once you experience that feeling you can then do more narrow turns (varying your turn width while carving is a skill in of itself). It’s also much easier to practice carving on a green run because you can be focused on technique without having to worry about your speed. But when you carve on steeper runs you can control your speed by doing wider turns.
Good luck!
u got it bro just keep practicing
Nice video man!
Thank you! Hope youre enjoying the winter season as well!
Nice video, looking good out there! What do you think caused your first fall? It was hard to tell without rewinding a couple times. To me it looked like leaning back too far from the board and knees not bent, during your speed check. Im on my 10th session and I try to critique and learn why I fell, out loud lol.
i think you can simply carce your frontside better with knees forward so you get better ankle rotation and therefore are more on the edge! :)
As an expert snowboarder it WAS actually refreshing to re-learn some tips that I forgot
On my 2nd or 3rd time snowboarding, I was sticking with some friends. I had no clue that the lift was going up to a black diamond (Wisconsin so not really a black diamond) and it was definitely a very slow trip down the "mountain"
on m first day sowboarding i had no idea where me and m friends were going and kinda went on a similar course like pikamoose with just giant downhill slopes. Never fell so many times in my life
Yea and peekamoose is a sudden drop like its name haha. When the conditions are right and theres enough snow it should be easier to get down peekamoose. Once you get it, you'll feel good about it. Keep practicing man and enjoy your winter season!
hey i'm a beginner snowboarder and one thing that really clicked for me was bending my knees more. made me feel the carves much better since your body position is more aggressive, maybe you could try that out for yourself :D
I went the other day and bent my knees more haha you'll see in the next video because my quads were on fire!
If you will “close” your leading shoulder on toe side you won’t skid as much (eventually you will start carving)
You leave your shoulder wide open instead of leaning it towards the turn
Hey dude, I really like your video. Excellent editing and as well as the music is just cool. Also, thanks for being a normie like the rest of us haha
Thank you man! Being a normie is an honorary title haha.
this helps with my techneque thanks! i am gonna have to wait cause i got into a bad accident and broke my wrist lol
Your welcome! Yea I should also get wrist guards and knee pads for more safety while I'm getting comfortable getting faster. We''ll eventually get there!
How do you have less than 1k subscribers?? This video was awesome!
Nice
chill vid
Just got back from steamboat resort and my homies took me down black diamond as my first time snowboarding
Just subscribed. More weight on toe-side by leaning into boots more should relieve that skidding. Obviously skidding occurs when you do not have an edge well and truly in the snow! Skied last season after a break of over 20 years. At 50 had a dabble last season with snowboarding for the first time and picked it up in a couple of days. Surfing for years and skateboarding as a kid helped a lot. Those hits though if you go down! Stoked. About to head off for three weeks of skiing. Can bet the lure of snowboarding will suck me in again this year!!!! Life's short and goes by way too quickly. Enjoy it.
I just went January 3rd with the leaning more on the toe side in mind, I think i did it haha. Enjoy your season! I'm happy to hear you reignited your passion for the winter season again.
It may be the camera angle but you look a little...rigid. when you get on your toes, push those hips out. Heels sit down. Then you will be in a good position to learn how to lock those edges in. Keep shredding
Great video! May I ask what are the recording and holding devices used to make this video happen? I am a beginner snowboarder and I want to track my progress, and this video's angle looks exactly like what I would want.
Thank you! And I am using the Insta360 x3 camera.
Key is to pivet your hip front to back, when trying to edge change
Thank you! Yup I tried to do that but I'm still getting use to the coordination and the balance during those edge changes! I'll get there though!
Crazy how your black diamonds are closer to green runs in California. How long have you been boarding? You seem to have the basics in sight. Squared shoulders, centered balance, and bent knees are the building blocks to all of it. What type of board do you ride? The shape and flex can have very different riding styles, whether you are a rocker, camber, flying V, early rise, etc... they all require you to engage your edges a little differently. Do you adjust your high back angle at all? Many park riders prefer zero high back angle, but if you are trying to progress all mountain, look into testing different angles. I use a slight angle on the front foot only, which helps with edge control. Everyone is different and relies on these aides more or less depending on riding style and discipline. All this and time, you need as much time on the mountain as possible.
Thank you! and yea I've only been to mountains on the East Coast. But also the action camera makes everything look less steep. Before this season I've went 6 times. My snowboard is a flying V, +15 and -15 on the bindings. I have not adjusted my high back angle, when I bought it the guy at the store gave it a bit of an angle I forgot how much though. I might try out +15 and -9 soon though, I heard it helps with carving. But yea I think I just need more mountain time. Thanks again and enjoy your winter season!
@InTuned182 No hate meant, just observation really, looks like a fun spot regardless. If you are at 15 and -15, try moving angle a bit to a 9 -9 or 6 -6 and rocking that for a few sessions to guage differences. Think of a finding a foot position that allows you to comfortably do a squat without straining the knees. Squats build center of balance, and the faster you go, the lower you want to get. The more controlled you can squat without falling to one side or another, the more improvements you will carry to the board and allow to tuck and book out at a moments notice. Sometimes, those older race stances can help, but if you are thinking of doing switch ever, it will make that a struggle. Also, too much of a forward stance will give you a control issue as more pressure is needed to engage your effective edges. Falling is part of learning, don't worry about who sees it. I've been snowboarding since 1998 and still fall, it happens.
Agreed those blacks are definitely less demanding than other black runs, and that’s taking into account that the camera is making it look less steep than it really is.
Just be aware diamond at one mountain can be considered blue at another. I know the camera makes it look less steep but the fact he could smooth carve shows that’s considered easiest of the blue in the cascades. Our blue is steep as well but you can’t go fast because you carving through hard mounds and powder with dips mixed in just for blue, the second you carve you are slowing and even while slowing you are doing jumps you didn’t want to.
can confirm, i think im like low intermediate level and i hit a ton of blues at a basin, a lot of them were really challenging and probably would be considered blacks at this mountain. btw i checked fatmap and the blues at abay were steeper a lot of the time
@@zrob. I took a friend snowboarding several times teaching him. I normally run blue but do diamond sometimes. Because it’s so steep and so much snowfall natural moguls form from people carving in big powder so much. So I ended up whipping my friend’s butt thinking after two days of green he can try a blue and it was full on diamond in many places. They don’t groom much of our mountains because they can’t, over 3k feet and steep till the bottom with many runs between tree paths. Even I thought the blue was challenging when normally they are not for me. The diamond I went down that day was not much different just add more small drop offs
Awesome video! What camera and stick were you using?
I used the Insta360 x3 and the stick it came with the camera. I'd definitely get a better stick though since this one doesn't have a strap, but it goes up to 6 feet.
YT recommended me a true gem today. As a fellow intermediate who just learned to carve without skidding, try to block your edge catches (3:05) with your arm. I broke my wrist last year which brought my season to an early end. Very good progress indeed and I hope you have a great time brother.
Stay safe.
Thank you so much! And sorry to hear that, yea it can be scary catching an edge on a speed I'm not comfortable with. Hope you're enjoying your winter season too brotha!
Your heel side is fine my guy. And never fight the fall glide with it.
defiantly keep focus on carving
if you want to carve you have to get a bit lower. bend those knees. but its just a matter of time on/in the snow. i learned to snowboard and carve by myself 22 years ago. no YT tutorials, tiktok explainers. just having fun in the snow and learning by doing.
Let’s gooo
Youre doing great but one thing I wanted to point out is try to keep square when youre carving because naturally when youre a beginner you want to skid so just try to practice your carving down some smooth slopes and remember to keep your shoulders stacked and belly button in the middle of the board. Goodluck youre doing great❤️
Thank you! Ill keep that in mind next time!
Casually cruising down a dynamic blue is way more fun to me than trying not to d*e on a black 😂 I’m still beginner though, only on my 2nd season
I still enjoy a dynamic blue. I find the best snow though is the end of the black diamond trails since less people go through it. Before, I would just skid down black diamonds to get rewarded by the snow when the trail turns into blue haha. Enjoy your season!
Any tips on getting more comfortable on the toe edge? I’m working on getting it instead of riding the heel side and flipping for turns
It took me a while to get some comfort on my toe edge. I'm still working on it too but I improved my toe side by leaning into the front leg (60% front, 40%back), bending my knees, commit to the turn, turn your front shoulder to the direction of your toe edge. Turn perpendicular to the downhill because the reason it was hard for me to learn the toe edge is because I'm scared to pick up speed and wasn't too comfortable slowing on my toe edge. Hope this helps!
Do you know what your avg speed was? I'm always curious b/c "fast" and "slow" are relative. I'm an East coast beginner and I like watching other beginners/intermediates. Bonus is I'm on the EC so I like seeing mtns close to home.
Last time I recorded my speed, my top was 33mph. I didn't get a good average reading because it averages the times I'm on the lift and when I'm walking. But I used the app: Ski Tracker.
My snowboard skills are pretty much identical to yours with the exception that I carve on toes and skid on heels. My goal now is to learn gripped turns, I don't really see Carving as a good skill in my local mountain resort cause they almost never flatten the surface and it's mostly little moguls, which sucks big.
That's awesome man. Yea I forget sometimes that carving needs specific trail condition. Doing mogul is hard and is a very useful skill though, im still trying to figure it out. Enjoy the rest of your winter man!
Just curious what board you're on. If it's a rental, and you told them you were a beginner, they probably put you on a board that isn't really good on harder runs. I've been snowboarding twice after skiing for years, so I caught on pretty quickly. I am linking turns like you and running blues confidently with ease. I quickly realized the rental board I was on was making it hard for me to progress. It was a Burton Radius which is more flat to rocker. No camber. It sucks at higher speed runs. I felt very squirly at higher speeds, and had trouble making hard carves because the board would lose the edge and I would slide.
I have a 2022 All mountain K2 manifest flying V shape. Yea I like having a camber and the rocker at the same time. My board is in the stiffer side so it helps me stabilize at faster speeds (my fast is not that fast haha). That's awesome progression! I'm trying to do your same progression on my switch side and its tough.
Belleayre?? That’s where I started snowboarding. Just focus on getting your runs in. I went down a black diamond my 3rd time board and there was bumps on that course. I survived lol
im looking to buy a board and urs is dope wwhat type of board do u have, im ttrying to find a board thats good on the park and for carving
I have the k2 manifest all mountain flying V profile. Although I think my board is good, I haven't rode enough variety to know what's good. The only complaint I have with my board is its more on the stiffer side so it very rigid. It does help me stabilize when I try to go fast. I would be more comfortable with a softer board for parks though.
To Carve. Work on leaning forward more to initiate turns. find your edge and then lean into your back leg to initiate the carve, the power comes throw the back foot. It will feel like surfing when you have the carve going. pop up stay centered lean over front foot and repeat to the other side. You do not need to go very fast to carve, but you need to put power in your back leg to hold it. your roaring brook run almost looks like your carving when your on your heal side, your toe side your kicking the leg out to much and letting it wash.
Thank you! I'll keep it in mind on my next run. I wrote a to do list to keep in mind before I go next time. Hopefully I could keep all of them in mind!
I feel like in snowboarding injury is feared way too much. My first slope EVER was a black diamond in Breckenridge about 7 years ago. You are sure as hell I crashed and slid half way down the run, but genuinely throwing yourself into the mix and getting used to the higher slope stuff is the best way to learn. Having a hockey background helped me but in my experience if your athletic and have good edge control/balance.....skip the greens and blues. Low speeds are almost always the worst place to learn board control.
Now riding for a bit this season I understand what you mean. But in hindsight I was too scared back then to try it. But I'm glad you can crossover a lot of the athleticism of hockey to snowboarding. I don't think I'm that athletic. Enjoy your winter season man!
How long have you been riding? This is my second year and i just finally got comfortable on greens and heading onto blues now
How old are you?
I started in 2014 but rarely went. I went only 6 times until late year. Green to blue was scary for me, specially the long blues and the change of steepness. It was the speed that scared me in the blues but the more you go the more comfortable you get. Enjoy the process man! I know I did even during the falls!
How do you keep your snowboard from turning to the goofy stance also I subbed before 750 just for future purposes
Thank you man! And I keep most of my weight on my front foot so my board is biased on the regular stance.
oh thank you! @@InTuned182
What are your binding angles at? Once I changed my angles to be more directional my turns improved. It helps open your hips and body downhill. Also just a preference thing and something to play with once you get more experience.
Im on +15 and -15. I was thinking about changing my back leg bindings to be more centered but I also want to practice on my switch, so im going to keep it for now and work on technique with my shoulder, hip, weight distribution and knees. Ill definitely make more directional near the end of the season.
For most people it's the opposite - but as you say - it's personal. If I look at the rider in the video his toe turns suffer a bit from open hips so wouldn't recommend it to him. I would rather recommend him to try steer toe turns with the hip. Or push when carving.
I just wanted to add it since it might help and avoid some confusion when he try (because it's always good to play around with things). And I really like the wibe of the guy. Keep on riding man 🔥
I was scared of black diamonds until someone taught me proper technique and kept telling me it's just a steeper blue.
subscribed. im a new rider.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy your winter season and keep learning out there. Its not easy but it becomes more fun later on!
set the max front lean angles on your bindings for easier carving. Watch Ryan Knapton vids to learn carves
Ill try it out on my next run! Ill check him out too! Thank you!
tbh as long as you know how to carve you can honestly hit any black. it’s best to just send a run because you never know your limits until you push them 🤷♀️
one thing I could recommend is to care less about the difficulty because some blues are harder then some blacks. also some areas on the sides are easier/harder than the run. your doing great and remember falling is good.
Thank you! Yup I found that narrower blues with sharp turns are harder than wide black diamonds. And yea falling keeps you in check that you still need to learn haha.
KEEP THAT WEIGHT BACK WHEN GOING FAST...I'm big believer in it. gives you a bail out plan too....better to slide out if shit goes south
Yea that what I tend to do on black diamond runs but when I'm at comfortable speed do front weighted to practice edge control.
where is this ?
These black runs look like European reds!
Hey man, just curious what board you have?
I forgot exactly which model but its a 2022/2023 K2 all mountain with flying V profile
My advice would be to try to keep your posture straight and keep your shoulders always parallel to your board. Try not to initiate your turns with your shoulders, rather wait for the board to turn at the same time as your body. Don’t force your turns. You can achieve that by just shifting your body weight either to the frontside or backside and just waiting until your board starts turning. Also rather than checking your speed at almost every turn try making a few turns without slowing down to feel getting the curve of your snowboard slicing almost through the snow and as soon as you feel that you’ve got too much speed you can stop completely and start again.
Ill try that next time! I think my problem is im a bit hunched up. I mean I still have a lot of problems but if I get the posture and shoulder right I can move on to the next step easier. Thank you and Enjoy your winter season!
instead of forcing your heel or toe side gradually lean into that edge and use the bite of the edge to turn instead of the base of your board
Thank you! Ill keep that in mind the next run! I have to learn to be patient and wait for the bite.
what board do you ride or is it a rental?
I ride an all-mountain 2022 k2 manifest flying V shape
im an intermediate and im going snowboarding tomorrow, should i try a black diamond like this video
As long as you're safe and know how to slow yourself down, I'd say give it a try!
you're an intermediate on balance and the basics of snowboarding but a beginner at carving. Best advice I can give you is to check out Malcolm Moore's vids..he is a great teacher and will give better advice than anyone can give in a yt comment.
Yes, I've been watching Malcolm for about 4 years now. It's only this year I started snowboarding with his advices since I didn't go snowboarding while I was watching his videos.
I'd also recommen=d checking out Jonathan Buckhouse and Tommy Bennet. They have so many videos to go through to find what you are looking to learn. Also, bend your knees more and get low. I didn't understand it until I started doing it and it has helped me start carving and getting less chatter on my heel side.
We need more videos
Just recorded one yesterday. It'll come out soon!
im like new to snowboarding and i can do a black diamond so im sure ur fine. I've basically only learned for 5 days and im comfortable with blue. Maybe my mountain is easier than this one tho so idk.
Awesome man! Some people just get things easier and you're probably one of them! Enjoy your winter season!
In Europe, we call these runs blues...
What helped me the most when I was struggling to keep up with friends and control speed was to just get low and SEND IT!! Literally took a single run of me straight lining down the mountain and the next run was great. After that I haven’t fell since hitting up to 52mph once
Also don’t worry about what color is what. A lot of the times I’ll see a blue being more fun/challenging than some blacks. Be careful on your double blacks as around me a lot of them have little humps literally everywhere
Wow that's fast man! I'm too scared to go that fast after seeing so many videos of people breaking their shoulder blade. And that's true, I wanted to test the hardest terrain so that I am able to just choose a trail and not care about the color as much. But the trail grading can be tougher on some mountain, so if I go down that well, I know I can explore the hole resort just fine! Enjoy your winter season!
I recommend not twisting your upper body as much on your toe side edge, twisting will create and weird angle where you're more prone to catching an edge and falling backwards. Try to focus on keeping your shoulder and board aligned to create a more smooth ride and less risk of falling.
Thank you, yea I just learned what knee steering is and I will try to do that more to keep my upper body more stacked and stable.
Fix your shoulder position on your toe side. You are to open, keep your shoulders parallel with the board and you’ll be in a good body position for a strong carve and be in more control
Bro sounds exactly like that one dude from Hodinkee. If you know you know.
good ass video good ass fit
Should come try a black diamond on my local mountains, that’s more like a blue run. Good content though, keep it up man🤙
What hill was this at
This is Belleayre Mountain
This is not to put you down, but I think an intermediate snowboarder is someone who knows how to really set an edge and carve hard. I would say you're on the more experienced side of beginner. I think you're on the cusp of intermediate though, keep it up!
Thanks man! And no it doesn't bring me down, if anything it motivates me even more! Enjoy your winter season!
I think he said hes a beginner at the beginning of yhe video
@@taliesinangling3564 Read the title dawg
If you are trying to carve I reccamend you do bend you knees a little bit more so that you can get a better edge.
go to a resort west of denver and you'll see you're better than you think. the east coast ice makes it feel much more challenging.
i always considered myself intermediate but i guess im advance
Went snowboarding for the first time ever last year and hit the black diamonds 4 different times after I did the bunny hills of course lol but I found out that day that I am a friggin natural!
That's awesome to hear man! Thankfully you were safe. I would have been too scared to get hurt! Enjoy your winter season!
doubt it
@@spleenful cool dude! Got a video of me at the end of my run if you’d like to see it.
@@spleenful it’s not even that hard to believe tbh it’s one of the weaker looking black diamonds but still a solid achievement in my book as a first time snowboarder👌