Intermediate 'Master the Turn" snowboarding course 

Lesson 16

Lesson 2

Changing edges before the fall line:

Goal:
The reason we need to learn how to do this is because, as you become more advanced in your snowboarding, you will find yourself riding more challenging terrain and in order to help control our speed, it is vital you can change your edges early so the turn is completely controlled.

How:
What we are doing here is learning how to change our edge across the fall line.

Without this skill, riding black runs confidently will always be difficult and uncontrolled.

All of the movements are the same except this time, instead of letting our snowboard come down into the fall line, we are going to change edges just before your snowboard starts to face down the hill.

I have outlined a 5 step progressions on how to practice this technique.

-Start on Green runs

-Keep the basic stance strong and don't lean into the turn.

-Take your time, the same movements are required

-If you are falling, try adding some speed to help balance.

It pays to have some extra speed when learning this as it will aid in keeping you balanced.

As you become more comfortable with changing edges early, keep bringing the edge change back until you can change on to the new edge when your snowboard is completely across the fall line.

Where:

Green/Blue, if your good enough.

Exercise:

Practice this at least for a day, keep working on this until you can change edges anywhere and still maintain balance...

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