sooo sweet dude! your switch riding has already improved a lot! edit skills are insane on this one! it's getting better and better! All of your videos make me want to grab my board and go out immediately!
marty maness I don't give a shit if someone wears a helmet or not. I definitely don't always wear my own. I was just like the colour and look of the helmet and since he recently purchased it, I decided to compliment him on it.
everytime i watch Ryan new vid I get pumped and want to go epic on the slopes. And then when I hit the slopes trying to do what he does I would rekt!!! lol still learning a lot from your vids Ryan
Dude you are my favorite rider. 1:12 was the sickest thing I've ever seen. I wonder if u could grab the tail at 1:26!? Hope someday you can come here to Hokkaido and show us some turns in the deep!
hey mr knapton sir, is there any chance of you ever coming to loveland? my dad and i both learned and are still learning how to carve thanks to you and would love to meet you someday we figured out that lift three over by the beginner lift is always deserted and has a big long blue great for carving, youd probably like it alot. thanks for reading.
Hi Ryan, What do you think about extremecarving technique? Did you experiment with your stance to achieve the same laid-down turns as your frontside in a backside? :) As I see you use angulation on your backside carves, and you can't do backside laid-down turns as deep as your frontside laid-down carves. I ride in more directed stance(23/10 angles) and I don't use angulation all time, I use inclination in front-side and back-side turns to set my carve angle. And I think with your stance is very hard or impossible to do the same thing with backside turns. Thank you for your videos, I love it! Really smooth and stylish!
I ride switch stance a lot so I use 15,-15. I have used high +,+ a couple times just as tests, and that indeed helps with the body position for EC heelsides. But obviously riding switch-stance is awful then. As for my own EC style heelsides, here's the best I have that I've have on tape. I'd say pretty f'n good for a softboot setup with a duck stance, but they aren't something that I do most days like I do on the toeside. Still a work-in-progress. ua-cam.com/video/SYCaFg1ObYs/v-deo.html Thanks and happy shreddin!
hi mate!! really best run ever ... one question i want to buy a snowboard like you but donek is very expensive board, did you know some similar board from burton or other brand? im interested in burton bottom feeder but you tink is good to try to use like you in this video?
In general I recommend a 'wide' board so you can tilt it on edge more before hitting boots into the snow. And a bit on the stiffer side (with Camber) is preferred for what I do too. So look for those general characteristics, and if like riding switch and Twin is preferred too. Best luck and happy shreddin!
Ryan thnx so much for your carving tips! One question, you say to have your shoulders heading to the front. Did i get it right? and what is your stance angle? Duck 15 is okay?
Hi. For me, I recommend shoulders to the front and use more of a body position that alpine riders use, for a more advanced, freestylish way of carving (once you are already carving great using the traditional stance of shoulders in line with the board). For beginners my techniques won't really help. But if you're already ripping pretty good carves, then this way is better. And the past that yet, is adding extra rotation of the upper body in within the turns (haven't made a vid on this yet, but will be soon). And last thought on upper body positioning... nothing has to be mutually exclusive! Try a few carves with shoulders in line, then try the next few with them facing forward, and it's easy to play around and find the pros and cons and how they feel and when you may want to use both positions. Best luck and happy shreddin!
I use a Donek Knapton. It's a stiffer board designed for carving hard, but still with a twin shape for freestyle riding. The specs on Doneks can all be customized, so I go ultra wide for deep carving with my low stance angles. (other wise on like a 26cm waist, I'd 'boot-out' and fall from riding my boots rather than the boards edge, when I do the real low carves. Thanks and happy shreddin!
Ryan have you thought of doing a re make of your buttering tutorials? I know its readily available at peoples finger tips to scrol back l into your youtube Channel. I find when people join channels they will watch from then on forward. And i had to laugh because sometimes the choice of music was or is limited. There was one in particular that ive heard even in none snowboarding videos that you used. But i have to say the one with the guitar in your how to really really really carve pt 1 actually flows well with it. Those buttering tutorials though i have to say from 2014 are very very well done. Especially when you hear instructors complimenting /commenting on the detail / explanation of every move going into jumps presses etc. Is there a possibility of doing a video with metal? You had some vidéos few yrs ago with metal music. And they were awsome . are you limited because of copy rights? That would be a good video to do on how you edit. Music choice etc.. Yes i know lots of questions lol . what about the possibility of doing a clothing or gear line? Weve all modded out equiptment. Or change it Like the liner in the pants cutting them out etc. I actually cut / shaved some of the heal rubber off my boot. Just to lessen drag. that would be a good future endevour buisness possibilty. I bought the donex. Twin 30.8 waist board. Cant wait to try it btw. I knew i was really last yr when i purposly pushed my board hard and too much chatter and booting out. And put on 20 lbs this yr and im 216lbs needed a solid board. Lots looking forward to that. Going tonigjt to show those park kids how to carve
'all in my head' This year I'm using the epidemicsounds.com music mostly for a better variety of tunes. You should be able to find it there. Happy shreddin!
Yo Ryan, are your heelside carves ever as drastic as your toeside? What i mean is, when i apply pressure on my toeside, my sidecut takes off like a rocket. Its like an accelerator pedal. But my heelside never gets the same action. Any thoughts?
yup, for sure add forward lean. without it, no way to get the right amount of pressure on the edge. If you tilt your board too much and 'boot-out' that can definitely make you hold back from carving it as deep as you might want. Someday I'm going to bring a measuring tape out with me cuz I'm pretty sure I can make a tight heelside carve, and it have a smaller radius than my toeside. (which I attribute to using a duckfoot stance, thus on the heelside carve the pressure on the board is closer to the center of the board, thus I can decamber the board further (which tightens the turning radius). As a thought experiment to see that, imagine how little action you'd get out of your sidecut if you had a stance so wide that you were almost standing all the way out to where the nose and tail rise.... in that case, no matter how much you tilt the board on edge, it'd be really difficult to get the pressure to the middle of the board to make that decamber during the turn, so the radii of that turn would be much bigger. In that aspect its something I've definitely felt when I made the "how to find your snowboard stance" video. So crank up the forward lean, and happy shreddin!
I have been learning a lot from your videos! An issue I am having now is that when I try to really push into carves instead of a smooth carve it seems to slow me down more than anything. Almost like braking. Maybe someone else has input too? Thanks! Really enjoy the videos!
I run into the same problem! im trying to learn from his videos too but when i try to heel side carve i slow down a lot. it only works when i squat down really low and center myself on the board. The moment i lean toward the nose of the board i just go into a skidded turn...
I havent tried it yet but I saw in a snowboard addiction video about how to carve you have to be on your edge from 12 to 6 o clock for it to initiate better.
Amazing riding man!
Thanks Kevin!
Hey Ryan, what is on the arms of your coat? Looks like some kind of coating to protect your coat from those deep lay down carves you make.
i think it's vinyl. He made it himself im pretty sure
This is different video editing than usual. You should make these more often. :)
WOW!Amazing skills.You make it look so easy.You are the number one out there Ryan😀
Beautiful. I will go snowboarding this weekend. And I am excited to go!
Maaaaaan some epic shots. Really one of my favourite of your videos. Smooth as silk as per.
360 carve 😍😍
All your carving video’s are so smooth and chill. Ryan you always make it look so clean and easy!
I have to say that is probably one the best if not the best snowboard vids out here. Really smooth without that crazy hand waving like others...
sooo sweet dude! your switch riding has already improved a lot! edit skills are insane on this one! it's getting better and better! All of your videos make me want to grab my board and go out immediately!
This is your best edit yet, so sick! Can't wait for the southern winter.
Happy to see one of your smooth snowboarding videos 😀
You're one and only Ryan! It's a clear pleasure to watch you snowboarding.
I like these short but sweet ones. Keep em coming Ryan!
Once again beautiful
You are incredible in that you do...! Congrats...
Absolutely epic riding man! Thanks for all the vids, your riding sets the standard 👍👍👍
This was a joy to watch Ryan. Excellent cinematography and editing. Well done.
That was a damn near perfect circle. Nice. Compass snowboarding.
The KING!! 👑
Bro, I could watch this all day! Pure style
i could watch this for hours
You make it look so easy.
That is smooth! Great editing; short & sweet.
RYAN, you are AWESOME!!!!!!!!keep it up man!!!!!🏂🏂🏂🏂🏂🏂🏂🏂 Happy shreddin!!!
dude.... i am loving your tutorials.... solid technique!!! good good good!!!
How that heck is there even 1 dislike for this epic carving and riding. Love the way you ride, man. Can't wait for next season.
Wow, very well made sir!
Full circle at 0:29!?!
Perfect Ryan!
Beautiful riding, as always. Love the new track by The Chipmunks, too. Can't wait for the new album!
Damn,fine ass riding mate....truly great.
I am a ski instructor at Eldora, and you make me want to get back into boarding. This as you say “ isn’t dog shit”
So smooth
I've Really enjoyed watching the progression of your video quality thru just get better and better!! Keep them comin
You are the king of buttering!!
Awesome edit Ryan! Love the slowmos und music selection
Awesome riding!! One of my new fav vidoes :)
so smooth! so cool!
Dope riding, man!
i can die happy if i even got a fraction of your carving skills. Start doing board grabs with my carves and it helps out so much!
Man, that circle carve. Woohoo!
Mate that was just magic,so In sync with your board
Lost for words....QAPLA!
Super smooth! :)
Man, i really love ur style.
Beautiful
Loving that style man! And the helmet's looking good too!
marty maness I don't give a shit if someone wears a helmet or not. I definitely don't always wear my own. I was just like the colour and look of the helmet and since he recently purchased it, I decided to compliment him on it.
Crazy to see the production value on this compared to an earlier vid like how to really really carve 1... keep up the good work man!
You might be the best carver ever!
Best ever! Love it
Big like ! Keep going ! Looks amazing!
LOOOOVED THE IMPROVED PRODUCTION VALUE THOSE SHORT SLO MO CLIPS IT WAS ORGASMIC
That euro carv to nose roll around 0:55
Bro this is some super siiick footage!! Major props my man!!🙏🏼🤙🏼
Crazy montage Ryan, keep it up
awesome riding man!!
Soooo smooooooooooth!
Awsome edit👍👍
everytime i watch Ryan new vid I get pumped and want to go epic on the slopes. And then when I hit the slopes trying to do what he does I would rekt!!!
lol still learning a lot from your vids Ryan
Dude you are my favorite rider. 1:12 was the sickest thing I've ever seen. I wonder if u could grab the tail at 1:26!? Hope someday you can come here to Hokkaido and show us some turns in the deep!
waaaa so nice
Ok Officially Top G of snowboarding
Very smooth! ;)
oh man ... tu dechires tout !!!!!
Great video, good edit, nice shots, everythings done really well mate! And the new helmet is looking good:)
1:00 Holy fuck, so smooth!
AWESOME
beautiful videa man you are so awesome
Best moment @ 1:13
A M A Z I N G!!!
Mate your ripping 😄👊👍
Carving machine!
smoothest carver in the game
I'm quite amazed what is actually possible :D There was a little too many slow motions in my opinion, but still... beautiful :D
Круть! В свиче хорошо себя чувствует. Укладка тоже техничная. Молодец!
You're a god
WOW!
beauty
hey mr knapton sir, is there any chance of you ever coming to loveland? my dad and i both learned and are still learning how to carve thanks to you and would love to meet you someday we figured out that lift three over by the beginner lift is always deserted and has a big long blue great for carving, youd probably like it alot. thanks for reading.
Ryan, I love the back edge drag as you go over the hill and come on the other side at 1:11 in the video. Very cool. Curious, where's the music from?
hi, it's great) what flex of boots do you use?
Hi Ryan,
What do you think about extremecarving technique? Did you experiment with your stance to achieve the same laid-down turns as your frontside in a backside? :)
As I see you use angulation on your backside carves, and you can't do backside laid-down turns as deep as your frontside laid-down carves.
I ride in more directed stance(23/10 angles) and I don't use angulation all time, I use inclination in front-side and back-side turns to set my carve angle.
And I think with your stance is very hard or impossible to do the same thing with backside turns.
Thank you for your videos, I love it! Really smooth and stylish!
I ride switch stance a lot so I use 15,-15. I have used high +,+ a couple times just as tests, and that indeed helps with the body position for EC heelsides. But obviously riding switch-stance is awful then. As for my own EC style heelsides, here's the best I have that I've have on tape. I'd say pretty f'n good for a softboot setup with a duck stance, but they aren't something that I do most days like I do on the toeside. Still a work-in-progress. ua-cam.com/video/SYCaFg1ObYs/v-deo.html
Thanks and happy shreddin!
Hey great carving! What song are you using in this? Thank you!
literally can watch this video on infinite loop *-*
Zero dislikes. That is incredible Ryan! How long do you board every day, as that looks exhausting.
I'd love to ride to the point of exhaustion! Most days the mountain gets too busy eventually and I leave cuz of the lift lines. :( Happy shreddin!
hi mate!! really best run ever ... one question i want to buy a snowboard like you but donek is very expensive board, did you know some similar board from burton or other brand? im interested in burton bottom feeder but you tink is good to try to use like you in this video?
In general I recommend a 'wide' board so you can tilt it on edge more before hitting boots into the snow. And a bit on the stiffer side (with Camber) is preferred for what I do too. So look for those general characteristics, and if like riding switch and Twin is preferred too. Best luck and happy shreddin!
Wicked
Ryan thnx so much for your carving tips! One question, you say to have your shoulders heading to the front. Did i get it right? and what is your stance angle? Duck 15 is okay?
Hi. For me, I recommend shoulders to the front and use more of a body position that alpine riders use, for a more advanced, freestylish way of carving (once you are already carving great using the traditional stance of shoulders in line with the board). For beginners my techniques won't really help. But if you're already ripping pretty good carves, then this way is better. And the past that yet, is adding extra rotation of the upper body in within the turns (haven't made a vid on this yet, but will be soon). And last thought on upper body positioning... nothing has to be mutually exclusive! Try a few carves with shoulders in line, then try the next few with them facing forward, and it's easy to play around and find the pros and cons and how they feel and when you may want to use both positions. Best luck and happy shreddin!
Ryan Knapton thnx so much for your kind reply. Love your vids. Can you tell me what your stance angle is? +15 -15 ?
Fuck me this video is so beautiful
What board do u use? Absolutely amazing watch all ur vids one of if not the best I have seen on a board all day.....
I use a Donek Knapton. It's a stiffer board designed for carving hard, but still with a twin shape for freestyle riding. The specs on Doneks can all be customized, so I go ultra wide for deep carving with my low stance angles. (other wise on like a 26cm waist, I'd 'boot-out' and fall from riding my boots rather than the boards edge, when I do the real low carves. Thanks and happy shreddin!
Do you use burtons step on bindings?
Damn that was creamy
Nasty
Ryan have you thought of doing a re make of your buttering tutorials? I know its readily available at peoples finger tips to scrol back l into your youtube Channel. I find when people join channels they will watch from then on forward. And i had to laugh because sometimes the choice of music was or is limited. There was one in particular that ive heard even in none snowboarding videos that you used. But i have to say the one with the guitar in your how to really really really carve pt 1 actually flows well with it. Those buttering tutorials though i have to say from 2014 are very very well done. Especially when you hear instructors complimenting /commenting on the detail / explanation of every move going into jumps presses etc. Is there a possibility of doing a video with metal? You had some vidéos few yrs ago with metal music. And they were awsome . are you limited because of copy rights? That would be a good video to do on how you edit. Music choice etc.. Yes i know lots of questions lol . what about the possibility of doing a clothing or gear line? Weve all modded out equiptment. Or change it Like the liner in the pants cutting them out etc. I actually cut / shaved some of the heal rubber off my boot. Just to lessen drag. that would be a good future endevour buisness possibilty. I bought the donex. Twin 30.8 waist board. Cant wait to try it btw. I knew i was really last yr when i purposly pushed my board hard and too much chatter and booting out. And put on 20 lbs this yr and im 216lbs needed a solid board. Lots looking forward to that. Going tonigjt to show those park kids how to carve
Woooowwww!!!! Amazing skills! I'm impresed very much! Music od great to! What's name of the song?
'all in my head' This year I'm using the epidemicsounds.com music mostly for a better variety of tunes. You should be able to find it there. Happy shreddin!
Thank You! I love Your style and I took much from You. Really Thank You for inspiration for great and positive snowboarding! I'm waiting for more :-)
Yo Ryan, are your heelside carves ever as drastic as your toeside? What i mean is, when i apply pressure on my toeside, my sidecut takes off like a rocket. Its like an accelerator pedal. But my heelside never gets the same action. Any thoughts?
Try an asymmetric twin shape, and forward angle on highback?
You probably don’t have an aggressive angle on your highbacks.
Just maxed out forward lean, alot better! Thanks guys!
yup, for sure add forward lean. without it, no way to get the right amount of pressure on the edge. If you tilt your board too much and 'boot-out' that can definitely make you hold back from carving it as deep as you might want. Someday I'm going to bring a measuring tape out with me cuz I'm pretty sure I can make a tight heelside carve, and it have a smaller radius than my toeside. (which I attribute to using a duckfoot stance, thus on the heelside carve the pressure on the board is closer to the center of the board, thus I can decamber the board further (which tightens the turning radius). As a thought experiment to see that, imagine how little action you'd get out of your sidecut if you had a stance so wide that you were almost standing all the way out to where the nose and tail rise.... in that case, no matter how much you tilt the board on edge, it'd be really difficult to get the pressure to the middle of the board to make that decamber during the turn, so the radii of that turn would be much bigger. In that aspect its something I've definitely felt when I made the "how to find your snowboard stance" video. So crank up the forward lean, and happy shreddin!
u are best
your board sounds like a jet engine :)
it really does! freaking awesome
I have been learning a lot from your videos! An issue I am having now is that when I try to really push into carves instead of a smooth carve it seems to slow me down more than anything. Almost like braking. Maybe someone else has input too? Thanks! Really enjoy the videos!
I run into the same problem! im trying to learn from his videos too but when i try to heel side carve i slow down a lot. it only works when i squat down really low and center myself on the board. The moment i lean toward the nose of the board i just go into a skidded turn...
I havent tried it yet but I saw in a snowboard addiction video about how to carve you have to be on your edge from 12 to 6 o clock for it to initiate better.
the music is nice, who are they?
...molasses-like
song title?
ua-cam.com/video/gz6Vudpu6cY/v-deo.html
hi. where headphones..?