![]() If you just flatten your board in parallel to the slope, you’ll slide down. So now imagine you’re strapped in and you’re facing downhill (so your board is perpendicular). You can see why we can’t use the “left/right” edge right? First we’re facing sideways and different people lead with either their left or right foot □ In snowboarding you have two edges you work with: the heel-side edge, and the toe edge. ![]() It’s like highside in MotoGP if you’re familiar. That’s what makes snowboarding fun (among other things)! Make peace with that □ You will laugh at it, laugh at your friends, and laugh at yourself. The tricks I’ll be mentioning have the same concept.Īlso, falling in snowboarding is given and natural, especially when you’re starting. Some are brought on from skateboarding (e.g.: Ollie/Nollie) some are just the shortcut versions (e.g.: Back 3 = Backside 360 = come off a jump, rotating towards your backside, doing a 360 degree turn). I’m also here to tell you that as you start to learn snowboarding, you will naturally master certain funny snowboard tricks without effort!īefore I start and if you haven’t noticed by now, snowboard moves (I don’t know if skiers do too) have funny and sometimes even slang-y names. Is it intimidating? Trust me, you’ll get there (if you’re interested in them). ![]() Sometimes they even do it in the most dangerous places. However when you see clips online of people snowboarding, they’re always doing some complicated tricks that include jumps, rails (metal pipes) or boxes (the flat white thing). The simple act of snowboarding brings the brightest joy to the most motivated and curious individual. ![]()
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