Exercise to unlock the potential of your back leg - Snowboarding Tips
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ม.ค. 2020
- Today I'm giving you a simple exercise to help you get more from your rear leg when snowboarding. It is often forgotten as the front foot is that initiates a turn but it is the back leg that helps you achieve grip through the turn.
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To summarise the massive amount of waffle in this video, he is doing and teaching you to push the back leg out at the end, which is bad because you’re increasing pressure on the board for no reason; if you’re on ice or bumps and you push the board away, you’re done. It doesn’t increase your edge either for better grip like he says; increasing grip simply comes from bending down and into the hill.
Before I get any hate, I’m a fully certified instructor.
To summarise the massive amount of condescension in this, and other comments from this user on my channel, here we have a classic example of a know it all who really doesn't actually know it all. This isn't a video about riding ice or bumps, but if you think that increasing grip 'simply comes from bending down and into the hill' then you're very much mistaken. I mean technically whilst you are actually bending down you can in fact lessen the grip underfoot in a down unweighted movement, anyway, there are many different techniques that can work in many different situations, which is what I aim to show through my videos on this channel.
Wow , do you have a youtube channel like Malcolm ? Love to hear your explanations whilst boarding and filming,teaching and providing great uplifting content. Where do you teach ? Do you do private lessons ? Defo the kind of personality i would want to spend a few hours with on my valuable family holiday time.
Okey I got it. You may be a fully certified instructor but you should have never heard this "The front foot initiates the turn and the back foot controls the riding".
This advice comes from professional coaches who are currently teaching X-game/Olypmic medalists.
Please don't think you know everything about snowboarding because you are an "instructor"
There are so many knowledgeable kings and stupid fools in the comment sectionShut up please
I’m the world’s best mattress seller, and I don’t even include free pillows. I stayed at a Holiday Inn once, so I know what I’m talking about.
These are really great videos - thank you!!
You have a new subscriber, content that I believe will help me become a better boarder!
I dig how you teach. Cheers.
Great Video!
This is it! Amazing video as always you break thing down so well!
Thanks Sopanha!
This should be pinned to every carving tutorial videos as "see before".
I'm an intermediate boarder and have been boarding from early 90s on and off but never really learned to ride properly. I've tried every single thing when learning my carving and riding my board properly. I've been switching my weight over board almost to the tipping point and still got tail slipping even when riding across the piste. But when i got the hang of the aft pressure is when I started to get the hang of it.
I was taught to basicly stand on my front foot which started a bad habit leading to a shitty form and control. I realized that I had everything needed but the aft leg pressure. Putting more pressure to the aft makes me more prepared for suprices like bumps as well when riding compared to have most of pressure on the front leg.
you're really good at explaining thank you!
Thanks! 🙏
Nice tutorial mate! Keep them coming.
Thanks!
Just discovered your channel, and I'm really enjoying it! Keep up the great work.
Thankyou! I missed this comment before!
Can't wait to try this out the next time I go, amazing videos by the way!!
Thankyou!
Well done man! Love your videos and must say they really help me move from advanced to a more technical riding..
Thanks! It's hard this season with all the lifts shut but I'll definitely be back next year with more!
I'm a beginner and I actually got everything really fast.It made so much physical sense to me to shift to my back leg once I was halfway through the turn, everyone was telling me on Reddit to lean towards the nose, but it's exactly what you are explaining here.I get so much control from my back foot.
Great video as always! Really like your teaching style!
Thanks! 🙏
This is pretty funny to me. As I was first learning, I developed a bad habit of relying too much on my back leg. Last few seasons I've been working to break that habit! Love your videos!!
Great video. I was obsessed with putting all the weight on my front foot and I was wondering why the rear part of the board was skidding when I turned to the heel edge. Will put this into practice. Thanks!
AWESOME VIDEO
haha :D
Hi malcolm, thanks for the invaluable tip, I tried this technique and it really helped me to stay more refined and in control.
Thanks Kamran, glad to help!
Love your simple trick to discover the feel for yourself, so many things said in an intuitive way. Also love the explanation of why it is useful after the fall line. New subscriber right here, congratulations on making some original and worthwhile content, keep it up!
Thankyou!
Just discovered your great channel while trying to find beginner advice for my kids who are starting to snowboard. Your advice and explanations are very clear and concise. Am also learning a ton for myself even though I have snowboarded for years. Thanks!!
Thankyou, I appreciate that 🙏
Huge fan, you’re the best teacher I’ve found on TH-cam
Thanks Pedro 🙌
Great Videos Malcolm. Some interesting and effective tactics I'd not seen before. I am a regular to Alpe D'Huez so will be sure to hit you up for a session next time I am in resort.
Awesome, just let me know!
Dude you are verifying everything I figured out on my own... this is pure gold.
I've always wondered how people learned in the early days without instructors available. Shred on!
When i get this right it feels great. Rewatching these golden older vids.
I wince at some of my editing skills back then though!
@@malcolmmoore ive stopped using music in my vids too . Yep i get that way with my older vids aswell 😅.
wow you content is amazing! Your explanation is really clear and concise, I am an instructor my self and I find a lot of your tips and tricks are novel and useful! Keep it up!
Thanks John! It's been half term this week so I've been busy teaching therefore I have a slightly different video going up this week, but will try to keep the instructional vids coming! If there's anything in particular you want to see a video on, just let me know!
Great technique!!!
Thanks!!
Thanks, Malcolm at the moment I am really trying to find a more solid and direct way down the steeper run,s and in your vid I could really see the transition from front to back, so glad you progressed to a steeper slope. I'll keep it in my head as I try to make my moves more fluent ..thanks again ...
Thanks for the comment, glad to help!
Good video with good explanations
Thanks Imran!
Super useful and clear. Haven’t seen anyone else explain the problem of backfoot washout in the way before but it makes complete sense. Can’t wait to try to give more control.
Backfoot washout only happens when you are a backfoot rider. If you lead with your front foot and your back foot washes out, just means you are riding much too fast for the tight radius turn you are initiating. Instead of this excersise, i would practice his torsional board turns. Beacause if you torsionaly initiate your turns your back foot will automaticly push through the end of your turn as your front foot finds the new edge. Welcome to any comments or criticism. All for riding faster yet stable.
I found your channel earlier this week and am really impressed with your content! Thanks for the tutorial, will be trying this out in Austria next week!
Cool thanks, hope you get some goodnsmownin Austria!
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Awesome videos, Malcolm! You're right, most instruction only focuses on the front foot and getting your weight forward, but no one talks about the back leg, and if they do it is usually incorrect by saying to use it as a rudder. I'm realizing how stiff my back leg has been and need to break that habit. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Glad to help, cheers Brett!
I love the hair in the beginning really grabs your attention and makes you question.
The hair?! 😂
The base of the warpig making the snow light up orange is pretty cool. Almost like it has leds.
Yeah it's so cool
Great footage!!! I miss the slopes... hope they lift the bloody lockdown soon.
Me too! 🤞
I've been boarding for 3 seasons and developed some habits that I wasn't sure whether they are correct or not. Thanks to your channel, now I am confident that I'm progressing in the right direction (such as this video, down unweighted turns, etc). Hope to see more awesome content!!
Thanks, I'm absolutely gutted to not be able to produce much at the minute. Ski resorts in framce are shut down this season and may not reopen. I am able to hike, so still trying to make vids, they just take alot longer!
Keeping it loosey goosey!!
Always!
Great vid Malcolm, love watching all your videos! Any chance you will be making some instructionals on riding steeps/moguls etc?
Yeah absolutely, the next one I've already made and is on riding variable terrain, but as school holidays quieten down I'll have time to make more!
Nice vid and 2k subscribers now !
Wooohooo! Thanks!
Hi Malcolm, I have been curious about using the back foot for power and control on the down slope cuts left and right. This lecture and lab is helpful and Right ON! Today, we rode at Northstar, California USA on a fantastic bluebird day after a week past snow fall. The early runs were stiff packed with forgiveness when driving into turns. A lot of snow cones were created!
When powering into cross trail traverse, I did feel the back foot pressure does grip and traction is achieved with a rooster tail wake of grace and awe.
I do appreciate your insights for the confidence to ride better and attempt new methods to achieve Zen riding. Be well.
Thank you, sorry I missed this comment the first time around!
The way my brain inadvertently started viewing this was by imagining the shift in weight as a gear shift. Left foot initiates turn (clutch in) shift weight to back foot (increase throttle as clutch is released). Regulate pressure on back foot to avoid washing out (stalling out).
I hope this helps someone understand the process better. Manual transmission drivers are increasingly rare, but hey im 25 some of us are still learning!
Great content! As I progress, I started to feel my back leg is actually driving my turns. I wasn't sure if that's a good practice, because all I found online were sayings like "you should really drive your turn with front leg", or "using your back leg is wrong"... until I saw your video! This is exactly what I felt. 🔥🔥🔥
Awesome, yeah most of the narrative is geared towards beginners who often struggle to initiate the turn, which is where you use your front leg. But once you've made the edge change it's all the back leg driving you through!
Awesome Malcon! Super technique to put power on the back foot! I've been watching all your stuff to go Austria next month and try to rip like you bro haha. Would be nice if you can make a video about how to ride flat and narrow slopes, trasitions from steep to flat in high speed, sometimes am still struggling my edge ;) Cheers
Have you checked the video I made with Abbie? Getting the basics of carving down can really help with riding flats!
Great tips! Could you do a video on how to tackle really steep inclines? I have trouble switching and keeping my speed in check. I essentially lose control. I would say I'm a beginner plus who's just managed to do go back and forth between heel and toe edge. I just did my first blues recently. Thanks!
I will do a video on steep runs soon, but tomorrow's video is on short turns which are needed for the steeps!
Great Tips Bro!! 🏂
Everytime learning the people... ;)
I practice eurocarve but the heelside edge often slip out... I searching videos and Xavier De Le Rue video's has great tips... Make lot of intermediate to advanced learning videos!! ;) 🏂 👊 Thank you!! ;)
Thanks for sharing! Xavier is the boss!
Gold!
Thanks!
@@malcolmmoore You've got some real enabling stuff on here. I use it for electric longboarding carving. It pretty much all transfers. Absolutely game changing. The knee levers didn't come across well in the video, but in practoce they really changed my turn initiation. And focussimg on the back leg transformed my turn completion. Just great technical stuff that the other boarding channels don't seem to cover. You deserve more subscribers.
@@seanparker571 thanks very much, I really want to try some longboarding, hopefully over summer!
Yeah do it! Great way to carve and slide in the off season. You would smash it.
Hello Malcolm)
Can you tell more about back leg work. Often said, that you should not use it in turns. When it's bad, and when is good to work with back leg in turns?
Great video's, Malcolm. BTW: is there any chance that you'll be giving your opinion on apparel als well, in particular snowboards?
I might do a round up of my gear this season, but I'm hoping to get out and test some of next season's gear over the summer at some of the European glaciers!
Top Tip! Can you explain gravity to me please?
Your explanation is so clear! Thanks! Can I move weight to back leg even before the fall line? Lazy part not so lazy the ?
Yeah you can do, as soon as you've made the edge change and have set your new edge, you can go ahead on the back foot! Yeah, not so lazy indeed 😉👍
Thanks! I’ve been watching all your other videos to improve my riding! Your technical analysis is simply the best and clearest!
Thanks for this video. How do you get a smooth edge? I can get on my toes and heel but feel like I'm just spraying snow and my edges are not locked in when linking my turns. Thank you
Practice just traversing across the slope and leaving a thin line on both edges. As you start feeling where you need to have your weight in order to do this you'll be able to bring it back into your riding!
Hi malcolm! Found your channel this week. Really great tips. Love these videos about improving the edges and the excercises. What do you constitute to leg cramps on the back leg? Is the degree of the bindings? The boot tightness or being to loose? Would live to hear your input on this
Thanks Max, hmmm it's difficult to say exactly, especially without seeing you ride. It could be coming from a bad habit in your riding but more likely it is coming from either equipment like ill fitting boots, or like you mentioned stance angles. Do a wide leg squat in a comfortable position and just see how you place your feet, your stance angles should be similar to this!
Malcolm Moore thanks for your reply! I do tighten my straps on the back foot almost the same as my front foot, perhaps i should loosen them up as you suggested here. Right now my stance is at 23” centered, 19degrees on the front, -9 on the back. I used to ride at 15,15 degrees but used to catch edges a lot.
@@maxalmontephotography3898 best to just play around until you find something that works!
Play around by throwing some small carves back and forth. You should find that little comfort zone when on edge and your hips still have freedom of movement. If you feel unstable maybe too narrow. If you feel your hips lock and you cant rotate them while squating maybe too wide.
Hi I love your videos. By the way, what jacket are you wearing?
It's a burton jacket from last year, I can't remember the model name, breach maybe?
Is there an alternative for this for stepon users that cant adjust bindings?
So do you always keep that front binding a bit looser or is this just for practice? Changing my bindings to a more directional position helps me a to use my back leg more and quicker as well, but going to try this tomorrow.
Finally went snowboarding today, was so much fun! But I'm struggling with a lot of pain in my front leg, what am I doing wrong? It's the front of my thigh
Im in Alpe D'Huez 2021, would love to ride with you, will you still be there next year?
Most likely I will be!
Hi Malcolm nice videos, thanks! Please elaborate a bit more: on the heel side the back of back leg needs to give the boot more pressure; and on the toe side the front of shin needs to put more pressure on the boot? Is that what you mean？
Yeah that's right. You should feel the inner thigh of your rear leg contracting and tightening up to achieve this. It's probably around a 40% to 60% weight shift front to back foot. But you can play around with more or less. But yeah posture is key, so on the toe side you should feel your shin pressing into the front of your boots, your knee should be pointing over your big toe, not inside. On the heel edge you should feel your calf muscle in the back of your boots, leaning against the high back. But again keep the back knee pushed out so it's not coming inside of your big toe on your rear foot!
Thank you Sir. Now it is clear to me. Also I feel I am twisting the board to achieve the back-leg drive: on heel side the back leg towards outside toe to heel down and front leg toward inside heel to toe . And vice versa. It is easier to achieve the backleg drive this way. Again thumbs up to your videos, nice quality!
@@jplusm142 glad to help thanks!
Is it just the sun, or you've made something specific to the bottom of your board to make it glow orange this cool?
when the bottom of your board is a bright color it shines almost shockingly against snow. so much so that for me, lime green boards look super weird and like alien
Nice videos man, I went snowboarding 3 times now and have been getting better. One thing I've noticed is that everytime I fall, I cannot get up with my back facing the floor, only the other way. I'm 6'1 and weigh 200 lbs, is this lack of muscle or am I doing something wrong?
It can be really tricky it's just one of those things that take a bit of practice. It's actually easier on steeper slopes. Try holding an indy grab as you push yourself up, until you are pretty much stood on your fingers, then try and stand up from there!
Hey, Malcom... at first: I celebrate Your channel... even though not native speaking english I understand (nearly) anything you teach...
but now I have one question to this video: I don´t know the fault, but with me this leads to more skidded turns... perhaps I did change the weight in an intuitive way before and now that I try contiosly I overdo... ? ...carving the lines behind me have been smaller before ...
... and may be I should elaborate the edges...
Great work...Thanks
Strengh to You
Thanks, if this is leading to skidding you may need to increase your edge angle to allow the board to grip in the snow. Make sure you are leaving clean thin lines in the snow, staying centered on the board, and then start experimenting with more weight towards the back!
@@malcolmmoore Thank You for your answer, Malcom... the egde angle... this is a good advice... I´ll trie...
have a good time!... keeponkeepingon....
Can this exercise be adapted for Burton StepOn system? Could I just loosen my boot?
Unfortunately not!
Great vid!
Got back from D'Huez 3 days ago! I'm an intermediate rider and wish I had found your vids before I went out.
I found myself struggling to initiate and occasionally catching an edge trying to initiate heal turn on gentle slopes, never happened before and didn't happen on steeper sections.
Wasnt sure if I was doing something different, or if it might be down to board set up? I used a hire board and I don't think my front foot was facing as far forwards as before.
Any thoughts?
I wanna go back😭
Thanks for the comment. It's difficult to say exactly without watching you but it sounds like maybe you are a little bit bent at the waist on your toe edge. When you start to initiate the heel side turn you need to bring your hips back across the board into your heel side position. However if they're already a little back on the toe edge then when you try and shift the weight further across it puts too much pressure on the heel edge at the start of the turn causing the board to catch. You get away with it on steeper slopes because there is already more of an angle between your board and the snow just because you're on something steeper. As I say it's difficult to say but I imagine it stems from your toe edge posture. Hope this helps!
Hey Malcolm! Thanks for tutorials!
Got question about Heel Edge turn -
To initiate the Toe edge turn, giving pressure on the front foot and shin (correct pls. if wrong). Heel Edge - you give pressure on the highbacks with shins (just like on toe edge, slightly turning the foot sideways) or lift the toes (feet) up? Or both?
Couse some say NOT to lift the toes up (leaving feet stable) and only give pressure on highbacks, others the opposite - turn by just lifting the toes up.
I generally don't lift my toes up unless for some reason i need to get a little extra edge angle at an instant, like quickly tightening up a carve to avoid something. But try to rely more on trusting your high backs and aligning your upper body over your edge to get your weight in the right place. But otherwise it sounds like you're on the right tracks!
@@malcolmmoore Malcolm! Thank You!!!
Decided to give this exercise a go though I thought I am using my back foot correctly... Ended up doing multiple runs on the slope with my front foot loosely bound :D
My turn exit grip really improved and ended up a lot more confident in turning overall, but at the end of my riding I noticed that my back foot binding highback has snapped at the base. Provided that my bindings are kinda ancient and their time is probably long past, is it still possible I am driving them so wrong as to break them? 🤔
I haven't heard of that happening before! They must have been pretty old because that is not usual!
More positive angle in rear foot is better for what?
What board are you riding bro? Cheers!
Rode Warpig 154 🤙
it's definitely even more of a thing on these boards too. i swear my superpig feels like a car that has 4 wheel-steering.
My back leg's thigh is burning up and getting tired really quickly. Is this a problem with my technique and how can I address this? Thanks!
You're probably not really using your back leg in the correct way, most likely most of your weight is on it, but it's difficult to say without seeing you ride!
Next movie how to tackle a skiër... 😜
😂😂😂
I ski and I snowboard. I've been boarding for over 20 years and honestly some other snowboarders annoy me more than any other person on the mountain. Both methods have their own unique feel of sliding down the mountain, give it a try if you haven't.
@@ljshoreslokal It was joking, my friends skiing to and we best friends no worries ok
@@markc6123 oh ok
When Im turining on my front edge Im doing 180* most of the time. It's so annoying (despite it may look cool for people watching me and thinking im doing it on purpose :D ). How can i fix that ?
I see so you do front foot on the first part of the turn and when you rap around to connect it to the next turn you use your back foot then front foot again
Yep, that's right! Check out my video on torsional twist where I break it down more in depth!
what board is this?
This is an old Ride Warpig 😊🐽
I find myself using my back leg too much! Too the point I start cramping. Mind you I'm a beginner
Ah yep, we spend alot of time getting beginners to use their front leg, this video is then designed for those riders who then progress a bit more, and forget how the back leg can be important!
Do you have red lights on your board??
Looks like it! It's just a really bright base that reflect back against the snow. The board is called the Ride Warpig!
@@malcolmmoore That's awesome! I'll go check it out.
Ah I actually can't physically do this exercise because I have step-on bindings, haha
no sir, every time I've torqed a knee it's been either one footing or with loose bindings. do not want!
As you like 👍
You look so much better without the helmetless hair tornado that you have in the beginning of the video.
haha, just going back over some old comments I missed! You'l be glad to know that tornado is long gone now!
@@malcolmmoore if you’re happy, I’m happy. By the way, how is Covid affecting your livelihood and how are you getting through this?
@@paulhofman yep its affecting me pretty badly! All the resorts here in france are shut down so theres not much I can do. That said I'm on what is essentially the french version of the furlough scheme, so it could definitely be worse, I'm not gonna complain!
@@malcolmmoore That's tough. Wish you all the best.
But you don't look like Michael Moore...
I hope not! 😂
@@malcolmmoore
Quick question. I'm somewhat new (I've only been riding for two seasons), I ride blues already, but I need to learn the fast edge to edge switching you show on your channel.
My question is, could it be that I'm slow to turn because my board is super long 163 cm (I'm 5' 10")?
That is reasonably big but you can definitely still make it work. Boards these days are much smaller than they used to be. I used to ride a 167 when I first started and now ride around 159 usually, it was a little harder to turn but still worked! It is, however, more to do with your weight rather than height. If you're around 90+kgs then a 163 might be fine for you!
@@malcolmmoore
Gotcha, well I ordered a 155 camber that I'm gonna try this weekend. We'll see how it goes.
Bro you talk to much we want to see more demostration with your talk.
Ok, thanks for the advice!
@@malcolmmoore On the other hand, it's the clarity and precision in your talk combined with your beautiful demonstrations that make me a subscriber. Your approach makes it worthwhile to watch your videos again and again. Some of them I have watched a dozen times. Often, when I come back to a video AFTER trying the exercise on the mountain, I hear something important that I missed the first time.
@@robertphair2413 thanks Robert, appreciate it 🙏