Kevin here from SnowboardProCamp.
In this video I'm going to teach you how to do carving turns.
Carving is when you riding your snowboards edge around a turn.
with your back foot following your front leaving a clean line
in the snow. Carving is used to keep you in control at high speeds
for doing quick turns and in the terrain park when you're on the approach for a
spin.
There are five skills that come together
to help you complete your carving turn. Your stance, edging,
steering, pressure control and adapting to terrain. Your stance on your snowboard
needs to be balance
and centered to carve. Stand on your board in an athletic stance
with your knees bent, back straight and your hands at your sides
over your snowboards nose and tail.
To hold a carve around a turn
you need to have more of you snowboards edge in the snow.
Flex your ankles to increase the angle of your snowboard and lock in your edge.
Steering in a carve turn
needs to be quick and aggressive. Use your front knee and shoulder
to help you steer more dynamically through the carve. Turn your knee and shoulder
in for the toe carve
and turn your knee and shoulder
out for the heel carve.
Pressure builds
on your snowboard as you go around the carve turn with more pressure building
on your back foot toward the end of the turn.
Bend your knees around the turn to absorb that pressure.
Bend your back leg more
to absorb the pressure at the end of the turn.
Adapt the shape and speed of your carve
to the terrain that you're riding. Smaller carve turns on mellow terrain with less speed.
Larger carve turns on steep terrain with more speed
Work on putting
all these skills together to have a solid carving turn. If you guys have any questions
leave them in the comments section. If you have any problems carving
and you have a video, you can post a link to that video as a comment so I can watch
your riding
and give your some feedback.