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Snowboarding Lessons - Edges

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Before you head to the slopes to test out the snowboarding lessons you have learnt it is important to make sure that your snowboards edges are pristine. In fact while you're in the learning process having good sharp edges will speed up your progression time on the snow. Head to your local snowboard workshop and get the technician to prepare your snowboard edges for you. Chat to the technician about what they did so you can learn too and then you'll be able to do it for yourself at home, so long as you have the right equipment.A good technician will have given you a 1° bevelled edge and detuned around the nose and tail. If you look down the edges you should see no burrs or chunks, just a nice smooth edge. This is what it should like if you did it yourself as well. A good snowboard workshop will pride itself on its tuning skills and always seeks customer satisfaction; if you're not happy let them know so they can improve.With your edges nice and sharp you will find your snowboarding lessons a lot easier, you'll be able to cut into the snow better, hold your edge smoother and be able to maintain balance through your turns. When it finally comes time to shred some powder, you'll thank me, your workshop technician and yourself for keeping your edges up to scratch.For great snowboarding lessons and your best opportunity to learn to skills needed to master snowboarding. Click Here

Snowboarding Lessons – Riding Switch-stance

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Switch-stance snowboarding can be a lot of fun. A good set of snowboarding lessons will have you riding in the opposite stance quickly and you'll feel completely natural (or goofy!) with your new way of riding. Once you've learnt to carve backwards and can make it to hits without losing any speed you can start trying all the tricks you've learnt forwards backwards. Pretty soon your repertoire of snowboarding tricks will have doubled. It is important to remember that fakie and switch are two different things. Switch-stance is when you ride exactly like you were opposite footed, fakie riding you still operate the snowboard with your normal lead foot. Switch-stance snowboarding is a state of mind. To become a snowboard jedi, click here, and complete your snowboarding lessons today.

Snowboarding Lessons – Linking Turns

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If you've just started out snowboarding, or been riding for a while and haven't taken snowboarding lessons then you probably won't be linking turns correctly. I see lots of snowboarders heaving their back foot around on the piste in an effort to get their boards to swing around as quickly as possible and aim themselves in the direction they want to go, and more often than not, usually when swinging to the heelside, they'll catch an edge and eat snow!Back foot swinging uses a lot of energy to counter-act the forces already in motion when you're in a turn. You will tire faster using this in-correct technique and then spend less time on the snow, which means you will progress slower. Back foot swinging is for spraying your friends, or punters, with snow and should be done smoothly and at high speed.Linking turns uses completely different techniques and is best learnt via snowboarding lessons, but these simple tips will help correct one of the major mistakes most snowboarders make when they're riding.The first thing is making sure you have the correct balance techniques. When approaching your turns keep this in mind "70% front foot, 30% back foot". In snowboarding, turns are initiated by placing most of your weight over the nose, letting the snowboard fall downhill, and following it through with even pressure along the inside edge. Don't freak out when you're pointed directly down hill and the gravity-induced acceleration kicks in, stay forward and keep pressure on the inside edge and the snowboard will turn through and you'll gradually slow down. By up-weighting or down-weighting with your back foot, you will be able to control your speed though the turn. Keep your shoulders facing the direction the snowboard is going and as you complete the first turn stand up flat so that you ready to initiate the next turn on the opposite side.For more snowboarding lessons that you can learn from home, click here and unleash the snowboarding jedi within you.

Snowboarding Lessons

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Snowboarding lessons are the best way to improve at snowboarding. From your humble beginnings, when you still rented equipment, right up to when you've purchased all the latest gear and now want to rip like the jedi snowboarder you watched in the park as a grommet.
You can only teach yourself so much using the trial and error format, and even though some of your snowboarding buddies might be good, and their advice might seem sound, ask yourself "Do they ride like a pro?"
Why are pro's so good? Yes, they have natural ability and have obviously got to a level where only their own skills and practice will help them progress. But, they were beginners once too... So, how did they get good? Most of them took snowboarding lessons at some stage of their career, and they probably took more than just one lesson!
By learning the correct body maneuvers, the pro snowboarder is able to commit these positions and movements to muscle memory. If they commit the wrong movements to their muscle memory, it becomes difficult to un-learn and re-train the muscles. That's why they get someone else to give them snowboarding lessons. Even Shaun White has a coach to teach him how to spin, boost, stomp landings and win gold medals.
If you start training your muscles from the beginning (not gym workouts, but actual snowboarding specific muscle movements), then your progression becomes easier, faster, fluid and very soon you'll find yourself shredding the slopes, just like you imagined.