hi I'm Amy Gann with the American Association of snowboard instructors or
here with REI and this is how to put on your snowboard
the first part of getting our snowboard on is making sure our boots are on
correctly first thing you can do to set your day off right it's making sure that
your boots are not frozen when you get there so don't leave them in your trunk
on the way to the mountain keep them someplace warm so when you get going
your foots gonna stay warm and dry the second thing is making sure that the
only thing going in your boot is your sock so make sure you're pulling up all
your first layers your snow pants nice and high so that we don't have anything
that's gonna pinch or be uncomfortable inside our boots most boots have an
outside shell and an inside liner so when you go to put your snowboard boot
on make sure it's nice and opened up so it's easy to put on slide your foot in
give it a couple taps just to make sure that your heel is sliding back so that
when you do tighten everything down it's in the right spot I'm gonna get my
inside tongue right against my shin and I've got some velcro here so I fell crow
it down just to stay in place and then I've got that inside lacing system so
that my foot doesn't slide around so I pull this up nice and tight and then I
slide this down all the way down against the fabric so that I can't move and then
I just tuck all this string in then we've got the outer shell my boot is a
boa boot so what I do is I click this down and then I can spin it and it
starts to tighten so I'm going to tighten that down and then I've got one
on the side this one does the bottom part again I just wanted to be nice and
snug so that my foots not sliding around inside the boot and that's just gonna
make it so that when I do eventually get out on snow my foot is gonna actually do
it I want it to do on the snowboard and make those changes on the snowboard so
once I've got the boot on I'm just gonna make sure all my first layers are folded
nicely not crumpled anywhere and then I'm gonna put this outside this Gator
outside the boot that's gonna keep all the snow out so I don't get soaking wet
inside the boot and then finally pull down here so fan my boot again is that
boa boot but there's lots of different ways that snowboard boots might lace
there are traditional lacing systems just like a shoelace
and for those who want to tie kind of like a hiking boot they've
usually got some eyelets that you can lace up make sure that when you do that
each row is being tightened down so that when you do finally get to make a bow
tie it's not all just gonna fall apart another system you might have for tying
your boots is a quick lace or something that cinches everything down and for
those who usually just have to pull straight up and they lock in some way
just make sure that that extra string once you tighten it is folded somewhere
in the boot so that it's not hanging down it's not gonna get caught anywhere
all right so now that we're outside we've got our snow wear boots on let's
go ahead and put our snowboard on so we've got our snowboard we've also got
our bindings our bindings have a couple pieces we've got our high back our toe
caps and our ankle straps well we put our foot in it's really important to get
our heel all the way back in the binding and I usually give a tap with my foot
just to get a little extra snow off and then slide your foot in and make sure
that foot is all the way back against the high back now I go ahead and put my
ankle strap on what I do the ankle one first because it's gonna pull everything
back and again just make sure everything is nice and tight when I am ready to go
snowboarding so how the ratchet works is I've got this gap right here and my
ladder strap I'm just gonna slide the ladder right in there and then push that
all the way down as far as I can then I'm gonna start ratcheting to tighten it
up so crank it make sure you let it go it's gonna reset so you can keep doing
that you want to make sure that that's real nice and snug as far as I can get
it without being crazy tight so you're not cutting off any circulation or
anything like that after you've got that in you can go ahead and put your toe
strap on most toe straps now go somewhere over the top of your toe
middle part of your toe not right over your foot and not way down here
so when I tighten everything up my straps are pretty even between both feet
if I'm cranking everything down and I've still got wiggle room and I can't crack
any further then I may need to have these adjusted all right so I'm gonna go
ahead and strap in my other foot but I do that just make sure that that board
is in a really flat spot so you don't slide away anywhere give a little dig in
again I like to tap my foot make sure there's no extra snow on my boot sure my
snow pants not in the way ankle strap first and then my toe cap if struck
again standing up is difficult it's totally okay to sit down strap in there
and then stand up and get going now that we're strapped in let me show you how to
get out of your bindings as well pretty simple reach down to that ratchet
just right there pulling up till it clicks and then I can give it a little
shimmy and it's gonna come right out
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