Halfpipe Snowboarding course 

Lesson 9

Lesson 1

Goal:
To introducing the basic skills necessary to ride half pipe.

How:
First of all before you even enter the pipe, we are going to practice some skills that will enable you to ride the pipe more effectively.

For this exercise we are going to be creating a U shape in the snow.

Start by having your snowboard facing straight down the hill on a flat base. As you gain forward momentum slowly start initiating the turn by flexing down and looking and pointing back across the hill.

It’s at this stage, we really start using Flexion and the side cut of our snowboard to help steer and direct our board across the fall line and back up the hill to a stop.

As your snowboard starts steering back up the hill, I want you to slowly start extending up and flattening out your snowboard edge back onto a flat base again.

Roll over and try it on the opposite edge.

The idea here is to be extended at the start and finish of the turn (Walls & Lip of pipe) and be flexed throughout the bottom and across the fall line of the turn. (Bottom transitions and base of pipe)

Practice this exercise 3-4 times on each edge!

After you have done your exercises, it's time to start introducing some timing into the exercise.

This time when you are flexing down through the turn, I want you to start counting in your head…

1, 2, 3 down and as you start steering your board down and across the fall line.

And then counting 1, 2, 3 up as you are extending and steering your board back up the hill onto a flat base..

Where:
Wide open green trails.

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