CORRECT SNOWBOARD POSTURE WITH ONE SIMPLE DRILL
Correct snowboard posture is so important for riding all types of terrain. Correct your posture with this one simple, easy to follow drill. Booyah!
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I personally think the most 2 professional snowboard channel in KZhead are SA and Malcom Moore. The other channels usually giving tips but they don't really building up the entire theory or system for whether beginner or elite snowboarders. I will keep recommending this channel to my friends and other ppl. Thanx Malcom!
Thanks Ollie!
Agreed, this guy rocks.
This is so true. It's my first season snowboarding and both channels are the best for learning
What about Bennett ?
@@taiwan153 personally I think he is a great snowboarder with awesome skill level, but i don't like his way of talking (talks way too much and fast),also his drills are normally too hard for beginners
When I was learning to snowboard, my instructor had me hook my thumbs into my pockets to keep my body in-line with the board in the same kind of way. It really works and is amazing when you realise you don't need to be flailing your arms about
I've heard this as well as just hands grabbing at the outer pant seems (like you were pulling em up) - I try and keep my arms down to my side when I ride for this reason
As a person who learned snowboarding on their own, i gotta say it: This actually helped a lot. Thank you very much :)
Thanks for watching 🙌
I feel ya mate. Same here.
I always thought I boarded fine, but I counter rotate, skid turn, and use my back foot as a rudder to turn instead of carve. KZhead is a godsend for training. The friend who taught me saw nothing wrong with my technique!
As a skier turned snowboarder at the age of 55 in the effort to enjoy my 16 year old's enthusiasm for snowboarding with him I have looked for ways to expedite my learning process. Of numervous teachers and videos I've watched Malcolm's turorials are the easiest to understand and relate to, his teaching style clear, practical, and applicable. He's helping me stay off my arse and stay safe while having a lot of fun and getting better and more confident on the slope. Thanks Malcolm!
The filming on this video is incredible, give your cameraman some serious props.
I will do, the cameraman is my wife! Thanks 🙌
Ties in perfect with Open the Door, Close the Door and the lever lessons. Thanks as always MM.
Thanks Gary 🙌
You are a great teacher! Thank you.
Thank you Malcolm! Awesome videos 👍
I started riding in 1989, rode until until 2002 when an injury forced me into taking a couple seasons off. Life is funny and a couple seasons turned into almost 20 years, I'm just getting back onto the hill this year. I'm consistently amazed at how bad my technique is. KZhead is a great innovation for coaching and I think I've found my favourite coach now.
Thanks Chris!
Excellent method to help visualize a d illustrate staying stacked. I need to work on this my next trip!
Thanks Malcolm, really enjoyed the tips shared from your videos and it helps tons with improving riding the board smoothly and aggressively. Keep it up man!
Thanks 🙌
will work so hard on this one , Thanks for another great video
Cheers 😊
I'm almost 50 years old and started snowboarding last season. It has been quite hard to get an idea of the basic technique. Things i've learned during my four decades on skis have proven to be a bit of an hindrance, not an advantage, because snowboarding is totally different domain. This was really helpful, kinda like mind-opener. My skipole is my magicwand for now - nevermind that it really makes me look like grandpapa on the hills!
Malcolm Happy New Year to you too, beautiful new DADA 🏂✨😀
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Appreciated Malcolm ! Very sharp and useful as all your videos. Thank you !
Thanks nikita 👌
Good to see you back Malcolm - some of the best instructor videos on YT in my opinion - you're the only one really explaining concepts like turning initiation from the legs, and different turn styles like dynamic turns and high edge changes.
Thanks so much!
Great video just need to find a ski pole now . Everything easy to follow . Going to give it a go heading boarding next month cheers
Really apreciate this. My kid also apply it and it looks good.
Yeah!!
Love this tip. Thank you
I came upon your videos because I have been snowboarding for a bit but knew some technique felt off. This video and the counter rotational one did so much to help me improve my posture and skill!
Happy New Year! 🙌 Perfect drill for correct posture. 👌
Happy New Year! 🥳
Malcom i really appreciate the effort you put into your content. These fundamentals are really hard to feel on the hill especially with less than ideal conditions but as things get wild i always take a breath and just try to think about upper and lower body alignment as well as your fore/aft video in the turns. Great stuff! I am a lifetime skier but skated a lot in my youth and wake boarded. Now in my 40s and not having been on a snowboard in 20 years it really helps to understand these fundamentals. When you are young you can crash til you get it but us older guys really enjoy the specifics about how and why this works!
This is amazing. The best video on KZhead by far! Thanks so much!
Thanks so much 😊🫶
Happy New Year Malcolm!
Happy New year to you too 🤩
Great tips and beautiful camera work with the recording, can't wait to put this into practice!
Nice, hope it helps!
I'm going to try all these tips ive learned from you. I know I have some bad habits even though I've been snowboarding for a long time. I find my right quad (back leg) gets really tired as I use it as a rudder. I have to use my knees more and the basic tips you have shared. Thank you.
I didn't even startet snowboarding yet, but thanks to your videos I feel really prepared 💯
This is super helpful Malcolm. Just shared with my daughter, and we will try it out the next time we're on the piste.
Hope it helps!
You are a wonderful teacher, thank you for your soul put into all these fantastic videos! We are very lucky to be able to see and learn from you! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much!!! Super kind words 😊😊
Absolutely the best video online on how to have proper posture and balance to learn how to carve 💯
Thanks Jigar 🙌
Nice exersise. Definitely worth to do. Thank's.
Cheers 🤩
This makes so much sense! I always had difficulty going straight on flatter slopes and now I just realized it’s because I turn my whole torso. Thank you for explaining this!
Happy to help Dianne 🙂
One of the first videos I’ve seen where the demonstration is so well explained and simple. Also might be the fact that ya make it look so easy! Thanks for this!
Thanks! 👍
Looking forward to being corrected on this next week!
You will be haha!
Became a level 2 CASI snowboard instructor in 2009, stopped working as one in 2012, started getting back into it again this year and oh my word how much you have helped me to remember things. Amazing how well structured your videos are, thanks for the tips and tricks.
It cannot be explained in better ways 👏👏👏
Thanks Sasho 🙌
I really liked how this video inadvertently shows how turning your upper body turns your snowboard via independent knee movement as you preach (you can clearly see how rotating your upper body pushes your front knee over the board edge initiating the turn) as long as you are using proper snowboarding form (which this video is trying to teach/correct). So many other snowboarding tutorials teach you to turn by saying your board follows your upper body but so far I haven't seen anyone really explain how this happens until it clicked watching this video (by rotating front knee/toe over edge). Now that I understand that is also becomes clear how bad posture and form can interrupt that process and leave you lacking control. Maybe you already have a video on this (I have only watched a few) but if not it would be cool to see one. In short a video on how a snowboard turns (switching edge by changing both edges at the same time or ideally by changing front edge first), how the most common methods taught (rotating shoulders/upper body) achieve this action and how common bad postures or habits interrupt this process.
So excited to try this “lever” system. Looks like this can take me to the next level with some practice. Great video. Thanks.
Cheers Chris thanks for watching
Malcolm is a legend his simpel tips has made me a way better rider thanks a lot man.
Thankyou, you're the legend 🙌
I'm going to have to implement this into my future lessons. Thanks for all of the videos and giving me a way to teach my students about correct posture on a snowboard.
Thanks Robbie! Hope this helps!!
@@malcolmmoore I straight up stole your idea. Our students at my resort really like the visual prop of the ski pole resting on the thighs. It seems to be a good way to illustrate how our shoulders should be aligned with our snowboard. Thanks for all of the videos.
A Most excellent presentation! Today was amazing at Vails north star resort! blue bird skies and light traffic after an epic snow flurry of Christmas week. Your point of the ski pole and symmetry over the board edge is dead on! I see that I need more practice. Thanks!
Happy to help Eric 🙂
Oh my god - this is so helpful, thank you 😊
Thanks, glad it helps!
WOW: just today (2 years AFTER this video) I was working on posture to be a better rider. I only started a little while ago, BUT after a few runs in the Bunny Park, the instructor I had RESET all my gear. he fixed & adjusted my bindings for me & then changed the lead leg. I thought I was goofy (right), turns out after his resetting my bindings and getting me to try left (regular) WHAT A DIFFREENCE. So yes, it could be lots of little things that add up to incorrect stance / posture.
it is just beautiful
Awesome! Can't wait to try this.
Hope it helps!
Just finished my first night of boarding. My friend took me to a very steep slope on the lift. Glad im alive. Got down by learning to slide on my heels reel quick. Now im going to practice toe to heel turns next time. Thanks for your videos.They were in my head on top of that hill.
This is video i need right now, best video timing luck 😀
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SUPER GREAT TIPS~~!~~ THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE CLIPS!~literally YOU are my MASTER SHIFU~~~~
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This channel is so underrated! thanks for all the videos.
Thanks, I appreciate it 🙏
What, why and how? Bang! Very easy to understand and very professional. Brilliant
Thanks so much 😊🫶🙌
@0:45 This is exactly my problem now. On steeper runs, I'm having to kick out my back leg to turn to my heel edge. And sometimes when I pick up speed, that back leg feels stuck and I just bail. It's great to see you show that my posture is the problem. Seeing videos my friends took, my posture looks exactly like that example with my right shoulder already open and arms flailing in the opposite direction. Can't wait to try correcting my shoulder and posture next time out. Great vid and demo.
Tried this today and it worked great
Awesome 🙌
@@malcolmmoore Instead of ski pole I used my avi probe folded in half. Then I didn’t need to carry a ski pole around haha
Best instructor hands down
Thanks 🙌
@@malcolmmoore hey malcolm I'm pretty new at this. What board size should I get I'm 5'10 195 lbs 🤔..any info would be appreciated
Thanks to your vids I have people telling me it looks like I've been riding for years, not my first season. Hit my first pow sesh. Man it feels so good
Nice, awesome Adam!
your content is amazing
Thank youuu 😊😊😊
Thank you. This helped sooo blody much!
Awesome 👌
Such a good video for fundamentals thank u man
Thanks 🙌
Just got a job at a resort and needed to learn to board, so, cheers mate!
Happy to help!! Enjoy!!!
I am a self-taught snowboard beginner, Malcolm is sharing great tutorial! I watch the video, try on snow and come back and watch again. I have to say the tips are really helpful! Big like!
Big love cheers!
you are the best snowboard coach in youtube hi from turkey 😇
Thanks Safa!
It is really a practical and easy-implement trick for a beginner like me to notice myself with right posture all the time. can not wait to try this, hopefully this could bring me to next level. thanks.
Hope it helps!
Nice one, I found my muscle memory starting to follow the turns by the time you were halfway down 😄
Haha, awesome 👌
You're doing great job! Best regards!
Thanks man, I appreciate it 🙏
Awesome drill, yer vids are so great.
Thanks! 🙌
Hi Malcolm! I must say, your videos have helped me enormously. You have a way of explaining things that I find easy to understand. I watched this particular one before I hit the slopes this week and focused on posture. I could definitely feel the difference when my posture was better. As a beginner, I was feeling a bit frustrated that I was not progressing but this was key! With good posture, I felt much more stable, like I was flowing down the mountain with intention rather than by hope or guesswork, and no big tumbles either! I can't thank you enough for making these videos, including some of your other ones emphasizing carving and connecting turns. Something's coming in the tip jar!
Thankyou, that's awesome to hear, and I appreciate it if you dropped some coins in the jar too 😀
I'm low key honoured that my poor form could inspire such excellent content. Cheers from Brussels!
Haha, cheers Beni!
Great video Malcolm!! Also, I’m really digging the new outerwear kit 👍.
Nice one, cheers Brian 👌
Helped so much. Thank you
Thanks Christopher 🙌
I'm just at the stage where I'm trying to push my riding to higher levels, your videos are so detailed. Being in depth about the bio mechanics of stuff really helps to make sense of new ideas 👌I'm still a beginner but progressing quickly. Couldn't do it without you dude, will definitely book a lesson if the French government ever let me come to huez 😅
Haha, yeah hopefully travel will open up a but more soon, thanks 🙌
Aloha Malcom, Skied earlier (12+ yrs) switched to ski/sb in my early 40s. Boarding exclusively for ~15 yrs+. Took intermediate+ lessons in CO & CA (one instructor made video, really helped to see my own riding). Definitely heard from instructors what you are teaching here, BUT, YOUR explanations/DEMOS ON & OFF the hill are just spot on! I've sent it down blues & groomed blue/blacks. BUT everyone once in a while, I feel like I'm gonna catch an edge or I do; mainly on the FLATS = Slam! BUT now I believe the problem is I am not having my weight centered over my board at key times so when I do get to flat area w/slush the edge catches or board gets squirrely. I don't twist anymore & riding is decent but not progressing to more dynamic boarding like steeps & bumps. BUT, after watching this video I am planning to go back to the basics for sure - the posture, the edge control, balancing over board at the RIGHT time, the steering knee/toes (really helps). I have to workout away from the hill to keep up w/my own expert riding 37 y.o. daughter AND to continue riding at 65+ (female = less muscle mass & front "regular" knee hurts more now). Again, the time/value proposition of a busy motivated boarder person watching your videos are much better than most I've seen over 25+ yrs now. Thank you for doing such an excellent job of explaining the basics & more!! Mahalo...
Love your video bro
Thanks you 🙏😊
Hey Malcom just started this season and I had a terrible time, felt like I completely forget everything had a terrible day on the slopes, I did this imagining a ski pole thing and I instantly got back to where I was at the end of last year, appreciate the video.
Awesome glad to hear it 😊🙌
I'm sure I will find a branch somewhere. Such good advice. I'm gonna try it.
Haha, nice!
Grab a selfie stick. Extends to the length needed and can collapse to fit in your pocket.
Nice tips well explained
Cheers Mark!
Omg, thank you man, thank you!!!
Thankyou!
The ski pole is a great way to teach this, tactile feedback vs telling them what to do.
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More people should like his video. Very good tips.
Haha thanks 😊
Here I am again, new season - repeated Malcolm video binge :D As a person who gets to snowboard just a week a year I find that I need so start from basics each time, because something has not clicked yet. One day I hope to have a lesson with you 🤞 Until then, one can dream, watch your videos and try :))
Enjoy your week!
Superb!👍
Thanks!
I am having problem with counter rotation i did not realized that until today. I will try this. Thanks
No problem, hope it helps!! 😊😊
Thank you so much for this. Just did this after 8 years of snowboarding. I finally carved with confidence and complete control today. Maybe getting a whole new set of better gear helped, but I felt amazing boarding like this today. Bombed diamonds without any problems! Thank you!
Yaasss 🤙🤙
Top tips from the master!. Just got to go find a skier to borrow a pole 😂 honestly great video again Malcolm & Happy New Year.
Thanks Andy, happy new year to you too 👍
Another cracking video. I may hit you up for an hour or two refresher when we are back in April. I broke my left ankle twice in the past wakeboarding(15 years ago), and I think you could help me with my stance and riding. I’m always protecting my front (left) ankle when I ride.
I might already be sold out! Ping me an email though 👍
Sent
I can ride switch hit jumps and rails, 180s and 360s both ways….. and I think I need to relearn how to snowboard. I really appreciate you. Thank you
And I need to work on my freestyle skills somewhat!
Malcolm, this is honestly mind-blowingly the best improvement video I have ever seen. Everything about it was well thought out and well explained from the dialogue to the cameraman’s camera angle. The only thing you could have improved on would have been handing back the pole to a waiting skier at the end. Making skiers wait for snowboarders should be a regular occurrence in your future videos!
Thanks Kuan, appreciate it, as does my wife, who does the camera! 🙌
Большое спасибо из Казахстана. По вашим видео очень быстро научился совершать повороты. Теперь осталось научиться на узких и крутых спусках ❤
Thank you!!!
Love it!
Cheers Dan, hope you're well!
great video, I am learning in the UK and had a private lesson last week... the feedback was you have this but just need to make sure you keep your head up and look in the direction of the correct edge (straight down the slop for heel edge etc.) I don't doubt that this is true for me but I feel like this drill will really help with my turns - thanks
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Malcolm, I’m on a new snowboard and I don’t have much experience. I’m always anticipating your next video - I’m curious, how does one improve “the feel” on a board? I’ve heard people online talking where on the sidecut initiates a turn, for example.
Best youtube instructions how to ride snowboard better. Thanks Malcom, only thing would change is ski pole :).After quit skis, do not understand healthy people using poles to move downhill. Ride safe
Haha thanks Armando 😂
@@malcolmmoore would be nice to give tips for inevitable part of snowboarding that no one do almost, falling down the run with strapped snowboard and surviving in one piece with or without gloves, googles, phones, camera, keys,...Thanks ride safe
New year, new kit !
Yeah, that's what you'll need to look out for on the slopes now!
great video
Thanks!
Great explanation as always. Thank you. Could you make a clip about on how to do emergency brakes and how to react correctly in case of a situation which ist some kind critical? Would be awesome. 😊
Yeah, not a bad idea, it's in my notebook! 👌
Love the content and thanks for all the information Malcolm. I've been boarding for past 20 years and feel like an above average rider, but when of piste like in some steeper trees where the run has started to get bumped out, I tend to struggle finding the right position and control my speed. This leads me to break check hard on heel side and lose any flow. Could you speak to this at all? Much appreciated
I found myself to be braking on one side than the other, and my posture was also part of the issue, I have no problem going into my toe edge, however with this instruction and I enjoy how it goes back to basics, My Skills will be further improved with a solid foundation! Your videos and this one show me exactly what is needed for me to continue to progress into the next Level! Music is so amazing as well! Thank you once more Malcolm!
I think biomechanically it is harder to push your back leg out on the toe side. Which means picking up more speed on toe side and trying to scrub it off on the heelside. This video really hits the fundamentals which really helps you from being uneven between edges. Basically he covers it in the first couple of sentences. “Back to fundamentals”. The ski pole and feeling based strategy is genius.
Thanks guys 🙌
First time I've seen clouds in your videos mate! Greybird next? Thanks for all the cool vids and tips, much love from Whistler BC
Haha yeah, that was pretty much a whiteout for me 😂
First timer, I was about to quit....then I watched this video. Game changer.
Stick with it 💪
Man, i hope this helps me too. My first season i thought myself the basics and i was doing slow but steady turns...i couldnt practice last year, so i got myself a teacher this year so it helps me get back into it easier... and he thought me the leading arm forward tehnique...i.did that and kept falling catching edges and now im lying in pain...im kinda afraid to do it again😂 imma try this on my own... i hope it helps, cuz otherwise...idk🤷♀️
The proper carve is a thing a beauty Malcolm looks so smooth and never fails to give great advice great video Malcolm and remember to eat bananas,bananas,bananas. 🍌🤣
Get them! 🍌🍌🍌🍌
Feel I may have been your inspiration for this one 🤣
Haha, not so much as some of my other guests though!