Snowboard Carving & General Tinkering
As I mentioned in My Setup for Soft Boot Snowboard Carving, I use directional setup for snowboard carving. I want to tell you about my personal reasons behind this. There is a lot of pressure around to ride duck footed stance … Continued
Recently, I’ve been asked many times on different forums about my setup for soft boot carving. I’m going to tell you how I set up my snowboard, bindings and boots so that carving becomes easy. Let’s start with snowboards. There … Continued
This is video by Mac Endo: I really like this video – Mac has a very clean style. Good powerfull carves, fairly still upper body. Great to watch. I’ve taken a few stills and save them. Here’s normal version: And … Continued
This time I’ll look at some theory behind snowboarding. I’ll try to keep it as simple as possible. In Mac Endo – Anatomy of a Turn 1 and following articles I described what happens during the snowboard turn. It is just one possible … Continued
This is the last part of Anatomy of A Turn by Mac Endo. Make sure you read the earlier parts before, starting with Anatomy of Snowboard Carving Turn 1. What we’ll do now is we will move back a … Continued
– “Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight ?” – “The same thing we do every night, Pinky – try to analyze Mac Endo carving on a snowboard”. Let’s pick up where we left in Anatomy of Snowboard Carving … Continued
After The Unstable Toe-Side we are usually faced with surviving the heel-side turn. Since snowboarding is full of opposites (which somehow make it attractive), the heel-side tends to be stable. In control systems theory terms, the heel-side turn is a closed system. … Continued
Let’s look at what happens after you assume a correct position during your toe-side turn. Les’s continue what we started in Anatomy of Snowboard Carving Turn 1. The rider is quite happy carving around. He can remain in this position indefinitely… well, … Continued
In the previous post Anatomy of Snowboard Carving Turn 1 I claimed that the goal the rider needs to achieve during the turn is to assume the most optimal position on the snowboard. Position that allows the most control over the … Continued
Here are some of my thoughts about snowboard carving – this one style/technique in particular. I personally think this is a great way to carve on variety of terrains and conditions. Furthermore, it does work both in hard and soft … Continued