I really liked the moment at 1:59, where you gripped the board in your hands and showed how the weight distribution affected how it pushed through the snow! And then other lighter foot glided ocer the top. I think I understand a bit more now!
Can you explain the difference between j and c turn better? I thought for j turns you stay on either your heel or toe edge the whole time while for c turn you change edges. So why do you start on your toe side for heel side j turns then? Why not on your heel side?
It’s easily confused- and to be honest it’s possible you’ll find a few answers out there. But to keep it simple think about drawing the letter on the snow. In J turns you start in either heel or toe side position. It doesn’t matter, but depending on that you’ll open or close your knee and shifting your weight to the front foot and start by going downhill. Then you initiate either the heel side or the toe side - get to that edge and stop, which will give you j turns - once to the heel and once to the toes. Your starting position doesn’t matter. You can start on your heel go downhill and turn to your heel edge and stop. That a heel side J turn. I started on my toes because if you do sequence of J turns to different side each time you’ll always start on one edge and then make the J turn to the other edge. Makes sense? In C turn the starting position matters and will determine which c your doing- heel to toe or toe to heel. So you start by traversing on one edge, (unlike J where you start by going downhill) then you shift your weight forward to go downhill and then open or close your knee to move to the new edge. So heel traverse- downhill- turn to toes. And then the opposite. (As if you want to write the letter C to both directions).
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I really liked the moment at 1:59, where you gripped the board in your hands and showed how the weight distribution affected how it pushed through the snow! And then other lighter foot glided ocer the top. I think I understand a bit more now!
Great! I truly believe that understanding movement brings us better results and more reliable progression
Brilliantly explained
Thank you! So glad it’s helpful and please continue with the steps and feel free to reach out with any questions
Can you explain the difference between j and c turn better? I thought for j turns you stay on either your heel or toe edge the whole time while for c turn you change edges.
So why do you start on your toe side for heel side j turns then? Why not on your heel side?
It’s easily confused- and to be honest it’s possible you’ll find a few answers out there. But to keep it simple think about drawing the letter on the snow. In J turns you start in either heel or toe side position. It doesn’t matter, but depending on that you’ll open or close your knee and shifting your weight to the front foot and start by going downhill. Then you initiate either the heel side or the toe side - get to that edge and stop, which will give you j turns - once to the heel and once to the toes. Your starting position doesn’t matter. You can start on your heel go downhill and turn to your heel edge and stop. That a heel side J turn. I started on my toes because if you do sequence of J turns to different side each time you’ll always start on one edge and then make the J turn to the other edge. Makes sense?
In C turn the starting position matters and will determine which c your doing- heel to toe or toe to heel. So you start by traversing on one edge, (unlike J where you start by going downhill) then you shift your weight forward to go downhill and then open or close your knee to move to the new edge. So heel traverse- downhill- turn to toes. And then the opposite. (As if you want to write the letter C to both directions).