It really is🤩 Just realized that I was hypnotized when I paused😂 Btw. I just ordered my first “cruiser board” head powerhouse. Looking forward to start carving🤩
watching this again 4 years later because im trying to get my switch riding to that perfect edge to edge flow like my regular riding has become from watching ryan. the muscles in my back leg when i am riding switch definitely need the repetitions now.
Shouldn't take getting hit but seeing it happen and getting hit twice plus hitting two people during my early days l look just as often or more than he does. The first guy I hit was sitting on the edge of a cat track and decided to jump up and out without looking just as I went for a 360 off the edge of the cat track, got my board between his legs and his board and we tumbled at least 30 feet after landing. No injuries but was scary thinking I took that dude out so hard. The other one was 100% my fault, was impatient at the end of the day and a skier doing snow ploughs turned 3 times in a row in the same direction when I guessed two turns before they would turn the other way. I guessed wrong and almost lost my pass since it happened near a lift with ski patrol waiting in line.
Yes I still slip out on my heel side now and then. No biggie as its always an easy pop up with just a bit of slow down. Typically when I am thinking about something other than snowboarding.....
The sound of the board cutting through the snow is the best. I'd love to watch a video of Ryan's riding without any commentary, just the ambient sounds.
This season was my first to live in Colorado which has afforded me the wisdom to pull off a run and find a chill spot in the trees to just enjoy the moment and listen to the edges carving snow… I used to live by the ocean and it’s a very similar experience
I’m more of a surfer so not well versed on different boarders and styles. I just try to ride the mountain like a wave. I’d never seen you ride before today and it’s incredible. Most videos are tips for beginners but these are definitely going to help improve my riding. It’s art how you use a board, thanks!
Up hill safety checks... dude you say this so much... like every video. Youve programmed me now. Damn you Ryan, you've managed to inspire my ride and make me a safer rider.
Awesome tips as usual Ryan! I found out while teaching friends how to do heel side carves that once they have most of your basic tips down the last bit that really helps them consistently leave pencil lines on their heel side is where their head and shoulders are facing. It's natural instinct for us to look and face down the mountain. If I'm having issues with my heelside carves that's usually the issue and something I catch myself doing from time to time. Once I convinced my friends to turn their heads across the slope and to open their shoulder in that direction, their heel side carves were a lot cleaner and more consistent. Helps to get them committed to the turn and properly pressure the heel edge. Super basic but super important. Hope that helps someone out there :)
This plus the slight weight on the front foot, 60/40 perhaps as he says, has done wonders for me personally. Great observation and advice as this had not occurred to me until you pointed it out. When you are in a toe side carve shoulder and head seem more naturally aligned with the direction where you are going. Heel, not so much. It is a different sensation when done right as compared to skidded heelside turn...
Ryan, I've been watching your carving videos for some time. Now I just came back from five days skiing in Riksgränsen, at the peak of northern Sweden. It is an 18 hour train ride from Stockholm. Still 2.5 m snow up there. I practiced your heal side carving tips and they made a ton of difference. The heal side has always been a weak side for me. Wonderful to finally get the technique right. Great fun. I'm so grateful. Thank you!
Excellent video. Best carving video I have seen. I wish everyone would watch this video as it is hard to watch (I used to teach carving) most snowboarders skid through their turns with their back hand waving around and their weight on their back foot.
Thanks. Obviously my vids won't change the masses... But the thing that bugs me is say a perfect groomer on a steeper pitch... And then at a busy resort like Breck... I literally fall here and there carving on it after say 10 am, just cuz skier and rider only skidding and scrapping it down to ice to a level even my razor sharp edges still can't grip in. 😩. Oh well, at least the flatter terrain stays decent.
Perfect example of why you do safety checks right @ 6:00 as Ryan was talking about it. The skier going off the lip is doing nothing wrong, hes shredding hard like we all should, but pay attention to your surroundings ya'll because not everyone else is! Being on the mountain is like being on the road, Shoutouts from from Vail!
Great tips! I’d add that you can adjust the turn radius by tilting your knees lengthwise along the board to flex it. Bring them in for a tighter turn, push them out for a wider turn. 🤓👏
I love that you make this relatable. You rock! Working with Donek on a wide enough board for those of us with large feet so I can carve and still have freestyle fun factor.
Your riding is SO smooth and graceful! I love how simple you make it and brake it down so well that beginners like myself can pick it up & begin apply it immediately!! So glad I stumbled upon your channel, I’m now a follower (subscribed) and newly addicted snowboarder!
Thanks once again for a very useful video. I just bought me a Splitboard with a softboot binding and have a bit of a hard time as a decades long hardboot carver.
Couple of key points that I have learned with some boards that are too narrow for my boot & binding size is that proper board width selection and proper binding placement makes a HUGE difference for backside carving. Making sure the highbacks/heelcups aren’t hanging off the back edge is vital to preventing boot-out & getting some good leaned over angles on heel side carves! Killer vid Ryan! Can’t wait to try some wider boards and improve my heel side carves! Mahalos & Aloha, Happy Shreddin, & Qaplaah!
So nice to watch your art ! Years of practice . I’m new and love to carve what is the best carving board in your opinion to purchase I am 5 foot 10 and 200 lbs
I found that I really struggled with the toe-to-heel transition because I wasn't committing my weight to that front foot. Higher speed = more fear = bad weight distribution. Self fulfilling prophecy haha. Great video I learned a bit from this as a snowboarder transitioning into my intermediate stage
For those really struggling to nail their heelside carving, try running posi posi for a day. It gets your hips pointed more downhill can help you work out what a heelside carve should feel like. Then start to move your back foot more towards your preferred angle and you will probably remember the earlier feeling of a good heelside carve.
Love your videos man. Can you please do one on the next step to go from carving like this video to full lay-down heel side carving? Toe side I can get my hands and forearms down, and it's a lot of fun. Hell side when I'm carving like you in this video and I try to get my hands or arms down I feel like twisting around makes my hips and knees turn, so then the board turns *really* sharp (basically across the fall line) and it's all over way to fast. I feel like I need to use my legs to force the nose of the board to point down the fall line more... is that right? Thanks man, keep it up!
Thanks for the tips! I definitely noticed it's easier to turn heelside with more forward lean on the high back! Still dialing my board in really fun to experiment
Im learning carving, today was a great day in the slopes. My hillside really needs to improve though. I get a good speed carving toe side, but when I turn to hillside, I spread a lotta snow in high speed and it causes me to fall sometimes, specially if there bumps. Gonna try this tips tomorrow
Man I wish our slopes looked like this. PS. I like how he reminds people to look up hill. So many people here just go down the hill not looking before they turn and it's dangerous. The slopes usually try to make it so that people give those ahead the right of way but the problem is you get people on the trails who aren't capable of maintaining even a moderate speed and you either sit on your back edge behind them or you pass them. I try to call out to people what side I am on, but I would like to see more people actively observing their surroundings and not just cutting across the slope without warning.
Nice tips as usual. My main problem with heel side carves seems to be holding the edge all the way through. I was riding it once and got some nasty chatter when I started to really cut across the run. Also, the closest I could come to guesstimating your speed is it looks like you travel the length of your board about 4 or 5 times per second. Assuming a board length of 158, that would be approximately 20-25 feet per second which is approximately 13-17mph. That's as close as I could come. Honestly, I'd say that's a bare minimum, but I just wanted to try to get a better idea of how fast you were going and that was the best idea I could come up with. 😂
By the way - you mention a tips jar occasionally but I don’t see it. You’ve taught me so much over the years so please make it clear where we can drop off tips - everyone who gets something from your expert teaching should really give you something for it - I’m useless at IT so make it easy for me to understand. Ironically there’s never been more snow in Scotland and I can’t get boarding due to restrictions, I’d get into trouble with the Brigade. Keep up the good work🙂
On toeside you're tucking your back knee in-feels good. On heelside are you pushing them both outwards, so as to put pressure on outside of each foot? I found that seems to feel more stable, but not sure if it's correct...
Thank you so much for making this video! I'm very comfortable carving on my toes but when I try heel side and really lean into it I end up on my butt. Gonna give it a try next week.
Dialed-in my carving a few weeks ago (intermediate)... but I'm realizing that my gear is now limited my progession. Gotta upgrade from my yard sale-bought board 😆
I'm working on tip 10 with my donek flux. I've got toeside down to my chest, but heels can be hard. Working on getting into the straighter legs after entering in aggressive crouch🤞any more pointers on getting the butt into the ground? I'm often going so hard I wash out
It's a challenging one. Everyone likes to act like they nail heelside carves... But few actually achieve that pencil line track when hitting high edge angles. My tip, really finish that previous toeside and even let the board hook up the hill slightly, then hit that high edge angle as early as you can and allow it to last through the whole turn. Mellow terrain is great for working on getting aggressive with em. Best of luck and keep on analyzing what's going on during it. 🏂✌️
Ryan.... First of AWESOME VIDEOS!!! I m still trying to find out what brand jacket u are wearing? style and that color looks great! Can u let us know pls? Thanks!
Hi Ryan, do you still offer on-site teaching lesson at Breckenridge next year? I am based on New York and think of going there about one-week next year to specifically learn from you. Only concern is the COVID situation, but hope early next year will be better than current.
For ultimate carving, what is the recommended angle for an edge? 90, 1, 2, 3 degrees? What's the edge-angle you prefer? Are a proper edge & edge-angle super important, or, actually not as important as I'm thinking? I can now grab my board when heel carving, but the carves are nowhere near yours; leveling up =)
i would be really thankful if you can give me a tip to carve when there are a lot if ski lines in the snow. My snowboard always tries to follow that lines
Love your videos. Started carving after seeing you. Can we also get a video for the toe side? I struggle with toe side but not as much as heel side and don't want to wait till 'T'
Hi Ryan! Do I need to pull my toes in for a sharp edge angle? No matter how hard I try to put the board sharply, it doesn’t work because the biomechanics are arranged so that the leg must be straightened in order to put pressure on the heel. How to sit down and at the same time press your heel to the edge?
I was taught to literally sit on the snow for a heelside carve. Even if you touch the snow, your speed should carry you through into the next one. And for my grab, I go back hand to front binding on a heelside.
Watching Ryan ride is hypnotic.
Thanks!
I agree
It really is🤩
Just realized that I was hypnotized when I paused😂
Btw. I just ordered my first “cruiser board” head powerhouse. Looking forward to start carving🤩
Getting hyped for the season on some Knapton vids in ‘22, and this stands true!
watching this again 4 years later because im trying to get my switch riding to that perfect edge to edge flow like my regular riding has become from watching ryan. the muscles in my back leg when i am riding switch definitely need the repetitions now.
Great recap to watch before going at it! Knew most but never thought of doing a speed check mid turn. That's something to try 🙂
Love those safety looks, especially when it appears that you are the only person on the whole mountain lol
:)
You never know when...
Shouldn't take getting hit but seeing it happen and getting hit twice plus hitting two people during my early days l look just as often or more than he does. The first guy I hit was sitting on the edge of a cat track and decided to jump up and out without looking just as I went for a 360 off the edge of the cat track, got my board between his legs and his board and we tumbled at least 30 feet after landing. No injuries but was scary thinking I took that dude out so hard. The other one was 100% my fault, was impatient at the end of the day and a skier doing snow ploughs turned 3 times in a row in the same direction when I guessed two turns before they would turn the other way. I guessed wrong and almost lost my pass since it happened near a lift with ski patrol waiting in line.
Absolutely blows my mind when people ahead of me are taking turns across the whole entire run without looking uphill once.
@@foodin5ish Always, like traffic without checking mirrors
Love a nice heelside carve, even if you wipe out, worst case you get some pow up the backside : )
I wear an xxxl base layer that is so long that snow never makes its way up to my back or down my ass. Highly recommend. ✅.
@@RyanKnapton Volcom pants zip into Volcom Jackets, was stoked to discover this
Not with a bib homie....OP piece of snowgear.
Yewww
Yes I still slip out on my heel side now and then. No biggie as its always an easy pop up with just a bit of slow down. Typically when I am thinking about something other than snowboarding.....
The sound of the board cutting through the snow is the best. I'd love to watch a video of Ryan's riding without any commentary, just the ambient sounds.
Yesss all most like ASMR
This season was my first to live in Colorado which has afforded me the wisdom to pull off a run and find a chill spot in the trees to just enjoy the moment and listen to the edges carving snow… I used to live by the ocean and it’s a very similar experience
Best edge control in the business!!!! Can we have a rolling edge to edge video??
this is terrific. I am a new snowboarder, and I've been struggling with my heel side skidding. This is a perfect tutorial for me.
you are the best snow boarder ive ever seen in my entire life
I’m more of a surfer so not well versed on different boarders and styles. I just try to ride the mountain like a wave. I’d never seen you ride before today and it’s incredible. Most videos are tips for beginners but these are definitely going to help improve my riding. It’s art how you use a board, thanks!
Up hill safety checks... dude you say this so much... like every video. Youve programmed me now. Damn you Ryan, you've managed to inspire my ride and make me a safer rider.
Uphill safety looks!! Such an important skill!! Looooove it!!
Apparently we don't do it enough and that's why we are still banned from Deer Valley Resort...
Carving is fabulous and those carving butters are so stylish
Ryan is as smooth as silk on the slopes!
Awesome tips as usual Ryan! I found out while teaching friends how to do heel side carves that once they have most of your basic tips down the last bit that really helps them consistently leave pencil lines on their heel side is where their head and shoulders are facing. It's natural instinct for us to look and face down the mountain. If I'm having issues with my heelside carves that's usually the issue and something I catch myself doing from time to time. Once I convinced my friends to turn their heads across the slope and to open their shoulder in that direction, their heel side carves were a lot cleaner and more consistent. Helps to get them committed to the turn and properly pressure the heel edge. Super basic but super important. Hope that helps someone out there :)
This plus the slight weight on the front foot, 60/40 perhaps as he says, has done wonders for me personally. Great observation and advice as this had not occurred to me until you pointed it out. When you are in a toe side carve shoulder and head seem more naturally aligned with the direction where you are going. Heel, not so much. It is a different sensation when done right as compared to skidded heelside turn...
@@ivanm5209 Thanks for reminding me of the 60/40 weighting since I am still often skidding out on my heel side
Ryan, I've been watching your carving videos for some time. Now I just came back from five days skiing in Riksgränsen, at the peak of northern Sweden. It is an 18 hour train ride from Stockholm. Still 2.5 m snow up there. I practiced your heal side carving tips and they made a ton of difference. The heal side has always been a weak side for me. Wonderful to finally get the technique right. Great fun. I'm so grateful. Thank you!
Great tips, Great Snowboarding, Nice Jacket👌
Dude! Ryan this is quality. This is probably the most helpful video I have watched from you. Thank you bud!
Excellent video. Best carving video I have seen.
I wish everyone would watch this video as it is hard to watch (I used to teach carving) most snowboarders skid through their turns with their back hand waving around and their weight on their back foot.
Thanks. Obviously my vids won't change the masses... But the thing that bugs me is say a perfect groomer on a steeper pitch... And then at a busy resort like Breck... I literally fall here and there carving on it after say 10 am, just cuz skier and rider only skidding and scrapping it down to ice to a level even my razor sharp edges still can't grip in. 😩. Oh well, at least the flatter terrain stays decent.
This is the video I needed but didn’t know I did. Can’t wait to practice these tips!!
Hes so smart love it
Ryan I really felt like the tip about keeping weight on the forward leg made a big difference, thank you
The uphill saftey check is totally pro. 🤘
Tx for all the tips man! 40+ rider here too! 💪
Carving is one of the best feelings ever, no doubt
One of the best tips I ever got was practicing edge to edge carving on the easy runs.
Ryan, you and Casey Willax have been big inspirations pushing me to progress with all aspects of my snowboarding game!
🤙🤙
Imma try the high back angle adjustment thanks for this
An Expert rider of the highest regard!
This video made me realize I always kick my back leg on heels side transitions. Thanks
Perfect example of why you do safety checks right @ 6:00 as Ryan was talking about it. The skier going off the lip is doing nothing wrong, hes shredding hard like we all should, but pay attention to your surroundings ya'll because not everyone else is! Being on the mountain is like being on the road, Shoutouts from from Vail!
Excellent video!! Great tips to improve my heel side carved. Glad to learn I’m not the only one who struggles with these!
These videos are amazing and I have been telling my self to get out there and work on my heelside carves. Now I have some tips 🤘🏼 Thanks bro!
I love that even u such a good ride still love these tips
Great tips! I’d add that you can adjust the turn radius by tilting your knees lengthwise along the board to flex it. Bring them in for a tighter turn, push them out for a wider turn. 🤓👏
I love that you make this relatable. You rock!
Working with Donek on a wide enough board for those of us with large feet so I can carve and still have freestyle fun factor.
Many thanks. You never stop learning... your driver x and stiff bindings are helping also. Equipment is also key in my opinion.
Your riding is SO smooth and graceful! I love how simple you make it and brake it down so well that beginners like myself can pick it up & begin apply it immediately!! So glad I stumbled upon your channel, I’m now a follower (subscribed) and newly addicted snowboarder!
I want to be like you man! Love the tips, you made me a better rider. Been watching your vids for a while. Cheers
Thanks once again for a very useful video. I just bought me a Splitboard with a softboot binding and have a bit of a hard time as a decades long hardboot carver.
Thank you. Love every single tip ❤️
Smart. Well spoken dude.
4:15 Ryan you're so good you can't make a turn wrong even when you try it! LOL!
Great tips Ryan. #9 Track analysis is way easier if you ride down under a lift! That's way easier to do at our small eastern resorts.
Ryan your videos are always my favorite thank you sir! You make it maximum fun
Couple of key points that I have learned with some boards that are too narrow for my boot & binding size is that proper board width selection and proper binding placement makes a HUGE difference for backside carving. Making sure the highbacks/heelcups aren’t hanging off the back edge is vital to preventing boot-out & getting some good leaned over angles on heel side carves!
Killer vid Ryan! Can’t wait to try some wider boards and improve my heel side carves!
Mahalos & Aloha, Happy Shreddin, & Qaplaah!
Damn that snow looks so good
I love that Man. Platonically, of course.
Huge! Best snowboard tutorials ever ..
Great tips! Been working on my heelside a lot this season.
Good call on the safety checks.
So nice to watch your art ! Years of practice . I’m new and love to carve what is the best carving board in your opinion to purchase I am 5 foot 10 and 200 lbs
I found that I really struggled with the toe-to-heel transition because I wasn't committing my weight to that front foot. Higher speed = more fear = bad weight distribution. Self fulfilling prophecy haha. Great video I learned a bit from this as a snowboarder transitioning into my intermediate stage
You are a good teacher, thanks!
QAPLA', I finally know how to spell it. Always great vids man. Thanks for posting.
For those really struggling to nail their heelside carving, try running posi posi for a day. It gets your hips pointed more downhill can help you work out what a heelside carve should feel like. Then start to move your back foot more towards your preferred angle and you will probably remember the earlier feeling of a good heelside carve.
Love your videos man. Can you please do one on the next step to go from carving like this video to full lay-down heel side carving?
Toe side I can get my hands and forearms down, and it's a lot of fun.
Hell side when I'm carving like you in this video and I try to get my hands or arms down I feel like twisting around makes my hips and knees turn, so then the board turns *really* sharp (basically across the fall line) and it's all over way to fast.
I feel like I need to use my legs to force the nose of the board to point down the fall line more... is that right?
Thanks man, keep it up!
Hek, i want to ride where he is. It is like freaking nobody is on the slope!
Great videos and awsome carving!!!
Thanks Ryan! You’re the man!!
I love how you emphasize safety while teaching rad s@#$, great job!
Thanks for the tips! I definitely noticed it's easier to turn heelside with more forward lean on the high back! Still dialing my board in really fun to experiment
Sweet flow man!
most killer intro dude
Ryan thanks for the video! it helped me with my heelside craving. BTW going to bear mountain this Saturday practice what I learned lol
love you Ryan! Thanks for the tight tips and videos!
Im learning carving, today was a great day in the slopes. My hillside really needs to improve though. I get a good speed carving toe side, but when I turn to hillside, I spread a lotta snow in high speed and it causes me to fall sometimes, specially if there bumps. Gonna try this tips tomorrow
Your videos are amazing!
Hi Ryan,
first of all, congrats for the video!
Could you be please so kind and let me know about the angle of your bindings?
Best 9 minutes ever!🤙
Thanks Man! Next week's is a real good one too. 😀🤘
Thanks for the tips! What type of board are you using?
Go Ryan go- I love the long shred vids with loads of tricks and nice tunes but these tutorials are an essential as well. Where’s Kristen and Katie?
Man I wish our slopes looked like this.
PS. I like how he reminds people to look up hill. So many people here just go down the hill not looking before they turn and it's dangerous. The slopes usually try to make it so that people give those ahead the right of way but the problem is you get people on the trails who aren't capable of maintaining even a moderate speed and you either sit on your back edge behind them or you pass them. I try to call out to people what side I am on, but I would like to see more people actively observing their surroundings and not just cutting across the slope without warning.
Nice tips as usual. My main problem with heel side carves seems to be holding the edge all the way through. I was riding it once and got some nasty chatter when I started to really cut across the run.
Also, the closest I could come to guesstimating your speed is it looks like you travel the length of your board about 4 or 5 times per second. Assuming a board length of 158, that would be approximately 20-25 feet per second which is approximately 13-17mph. That's as close as I could come. Honestly, I'd say that's a bare minimum, but I just wanted to try to get a better idea of how fast you were going and that was the best idea I could come up with. 😂
Best yet
By the way - you mention a tips jar occasionally but I don’t see it. You’ve taught me so much over the years so please make it clear where we can drop off tips - everyone who gets something from your expert teaching should really give you something for it - I’m useless at IT so make it easy for me to understand. Ironically there’s never been more snow in Scotland and I can’t get boarding due to restrictions, I’d get into trouble with the Brigade. Keep up the good work🙂
Hey Ryan. What is the material you've used on the sleeves of your jacket to protect them from damage due to friction?
Always a pleasure to watch your videos, Ryan.
What is your board's camber profile?
Great 🏂 tips👌!
Likes for squats... Ryan you are turning into a instagram model 🙈
Thanks for your Videos!
On toeside you're tucking your back knee in-feels good. On heelside are you pushing them both outwards, so as to put pressure on outside of each foot? I found that seems to feel more stable, but not sure if it's correct...
Looking at his board and boot setup I need to get a wider board haha
Any recommendations for ~165cm boards extra wide?
Thank you Ryan! Great vid
Def gonna get my carve sorted this year (only get 1 week a year 😫)
Thanks for the tips so helpful
Amazing!!
Missed out on First a lot this rain but I’m back! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🥑🥑🥑🥑🥑
ROCK!!!!! THANK YOU RYAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for making this video! I'm very comfortable carving on my toes but when I try heel side and really lean into it I end up on my butt. Gonna give it a try next week.
Thank you Ryan
Ryan I really enjoy your video’s
tip number 10 is really helpful
Dialed-in my carving a few weeks ago (intermediate)... but I'm realizing that my gear is now limited my progession. Gotta upgrade from my yard sale-bought board 😆
I'm working on tip 10 with my donek flux. I've got toeside down to my chest, but heels can be hard. Working on getting into the straighter legs after entering in aggressive crouch🤞any more pointers on getting the butt into the ground? I'm often going so hard I wash out
It's a challenging one. Everyone likes to act like they nail heelside carves... But few actually achieve that pencil line track when hitting high edge angles. My tip, really finish that previous toeside and even let the board hook up the hill slightly, then hit that high edge angle as early as you can and allow it to last through the whole turn. Mellow terrain is great for working on getting aggressive with em. Best of luck and keep on analyzing what's going on during it. 🏂✌️
Can you do those on let say a regular snowboard or we need a specific one =/
Ryan.... First of AWESOME VIDEOS!!!
I m still trying to find out what brand jacket u are wearing? style and that color looks great! Can u let us know pls?
Thanks!
Hi Ryan, do you still offer on-site teaching lesson at Breckenridge next year? I am based on New York and think of going there about one-week next year to specifically learn from you. Only concern is the COVID situation, but hope early next year will be better than current.
For ultimate carving, what is the recommended angle for an edge? 90, 1, 2, 3 degrees? What's the edge-angle you prefer?
Are a proper edge & edge-angle super important, or, actually not as important as I'm thinking?
I can now grab my board when heel carving, but the carves are nowhere near yours; leveling up =)
Nice carving but living on the ice coast of America we get boiled plate ice to carve... hardboots and 180 plus race boards pretty much a requirement.
i would be really thankful if you can give me a tip to carve when there are a lot if ski lines in the snow. My snowboard always tries to follow that lines
Love your videos. Started carving after seeing you. Can we also get a video for the toe side? I struggle with toe side but not as much as heel side and don't want to wait till 'T'
Hi Ryan! Do I need to pull my toes in for a sharp edge angle? No matter how hard I try to put the board sharply, it doesn’t work because the biomechanics are arranged so that the leg must be straightened in order to put pressure on the heel. How to sit down and at the same time press your heel to the edge?
Set your bindings highbacks further forward
what board ru on? sick cuttys!
I was taught to literally sit on the snow for a heelside carve. Even if you touch the snow, your speed should carry you through into the next one. And for my grab, I go back hand to front binding on a heelside.