How to Carve on a Snowboard for Beginners, [Part I]

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Hey snowboarders! If you're looking for a no frills, all bases covered beginner guide to snowboard carving, this is your one stop shop. This comprehensive video covers all of the forms, techniques, terminologies, and necessary knowledge needed for any skidded turner to start their first true carved turns. This is the UPDATED version of the old video which comes with various script, audio, and VX fixes, but you can view the old one if you’d like here.
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This is a first to the HTCOAS (How to Carve on a Snowboard) series, so look forward to more!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
02:30 - What actually is Carving?
04:49 - Long turns - the first turns
07:05 - How to perform your first carves
12:20 - Toeside U-turns
21:39 - Heelside U-turns
27:05 - Transitions
31:29 - Speed Mechanics
35:25 - Safety
37:32 - Carving gear recommendations
45:44 - Conclusion
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@MarkDonegal 5 дней назад

Best carving tutorial on RU-vid, period.

@shmsnow 4 дня назад

Thanks. Working on better videos!

@MarkDonegal 4 дня назад

@@shmsnow What you might want to consider is breaking the various techniques down into maybe 20 minute videos..part 1..part 2..etc. Unfortunately as a university lecturer I see most people don’t have the perseverance or ability to focus on a subject much longer than 20-30 minutes. A split will be more digestible to 99% of viewers and allow them to work on one at a time before moving on to the next.

@jonathanharrison4890 5 месяцев назад

Okay. I am now officially deeply in love with you. Sorry about that. But this video explains SO freeaking much, and for a non-intuitive analytical learner like myself, what a gift. I cannot thank you enough for your incredibly thoughtful, thorough, patient analysis/instruction. Wow! Just wow! Here in the U.S.. the open/forward riding style I would say is roughly divided into two camps: "alpine" style riding (as exemplified and promulgated by James Cherry) wherein the binding angles are double positive; and the more park-style riding (as exemplified by Ryan Knapton) wherein the binding angles are duck stance. Obviously, your instruction puts us much closer to the Ryan Knapton riding style. But he's been doing it so long, the technique is mostly just muscle memory for him, making it much harder for him to articulate or teach. You do such an beautiful job of breaking it down. I would be very interested in your reaction to the instruction of James Cherry . Like yourself, he is a brilliant teacher, but his forward/open body position eschews and disdains the duck stance. He also stresses the importance of elevating the shoulder on the inside of the turn.

@shmsnow 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for your compliments! I glad everything I tried to explain was clear and you understood it. I've seen James Cherry's video on carving form and it is so great. Many of the concepts from there can be applied to duckstance riding and they absolutely work.

@erichung4737 5 месяцев назад

From my understanding trying both methods, is that when you go posi-posi, you allow far more range of motion in your hips, which allows more involvement in your back foot securing and guiding the edge after you lead with your front foot. More hip torsion also allows more involvement of your obliques - which can make you take an even more aggressive edge angle. I have noticed a massive difference in keeping my speed and stability going +27/+15 especially on steeper or faster terrain. I feel much more capable to lock in my hips and command my board when I run posi posi - free style kinda lets you pop around like this video shows , but you can’t really get into the meat of a steep turn since you trailing foot won’t be able to participate as much as it needs to.

@iddqd6716 8 месяцев назад

I cannot express my feelings enough because I’ve been searching for something like this for at least a year! Thank you a lot! Usually it’s covered very basically but you dive deep

@shmsnow 8 месяцев назад

You're very welcome! Glad I could help.

@markcelentano1238 4 месяца назад

Super helpful. Especially letting us know to not use the ankles to get the steeper angle! And wow-the video is really well done. Tons of work I'm sure. Thanks!

@shmsnow 4 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful!! The lack of ankle tension is a huge oversight for many.

@rollingedges9469 4 месяца назад

Just keep the vids coming, carving either +/+ or +/- the feeling of that apex turn will change your life.

@Mike-so4fg 4 месяца назад

I am learning carving and watched more than 20 videos about it. Undoubtedly, it is the best video. Thank you very much.

@shmsnow 4 месяца назад

Wow, thank you! Much appreciated.

@JDenim88 8 месяцев назад

Thanks got the time and effort in educating others. Best guide out here.

@BBQKana Год назад

Great video! Got my carving basics down this season, but your video helped me better understand the technicalities.

@shmsnow Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@jalauzon 9 месяцев назад

This is a fantastic video. It's both much more thorough and easily understandable than any other I've seen on this topic. Great job!

@doctorjaysuave5487 3 месяца назад

I wanted to thank you for this very detailed tutorial. I have been doing park riding but my knees cant take all the jumps anymore. So learning to true carve properly instead of skidded turns has been a new and fun experience for me. You definitely deserve so much more subs and attention for such amazing work.

@shmsnow 3 месяца назад

Carving is something for everyone. I'm glad I could help you get into it!

@tanyy2679 5 месяцев назад

Can't believed i finished watching this video at 3am. i just returned from my snowboarding trip in Japan so i guess i'll have to save this video for my next trip. 😅

@farawayskies 4 месяца назад

pack your shit and move closer to the mountains, you won't regret it

@desmondlang4941 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for making this video brother. True gem 🎉

@user-ne4vg6ic2g 10 месяцев назад

Its best video for rookies, please do more and thank you!👍👍👍👍

@rja62b 6 месяцев назад

This video is so awesome.

@jcyt2023 7 месяцев назад

ty for all the amazing videos! so informative and scientific

@brilliantJason 4 месяца назад

awesome content, thank you!

@acseattle1975 5 месяцев назад

Hey I haven't finished this yet, but I am certain that this is exactly what I've been looking for from a tutorial. You are explaining everything literally, while also explaining theoretically. This is everything I've hoped for. Thank you

@shmsnow 5 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful! I'm glad the long form video connects with some people.

@xhardcorexsupportx 5 месяцев назад

Dude! You are amazing! Thank you so much for this in depth tutorial!

@shmsnow 5 месяцев назад

Happy to help!

@davidpalmer7976 6 месяцев назад

Great meeting you the other night at Big Snow, Seung. Thanks for your time and for directing me to your videos. This video (and part II) are really excellent. For folks who are contemplating watching this: definitely worth your time! Seung was nice to enough to spend 5 minutes with me the other night and it was a game-changer -- teaching me some of what you'll find in this video. Follow his advice and be amazed! I started snowboarding in the early 1990s and stopped in the mid-90s and just came back last year...and then saw what true carving was for the first time. I've been wanting to learn how to do it. Seung's teaching got me there -- a good start at least -- in 5 minutes! (The other critical advice I heard from another carver the other night: get over any concern about falling. Ya gotta go back to looking and feeling like a beginner to learn something new.)

@shmsnow 6 месяцев назад

It was great to meet you! Thank you for the kind words, and welcome to the carving club!

@acseattle1975 5 месяцев назад

You said in 5 minutes, he got you there. What part of the videos did yall focus on?

@davidpalmer7976 5 месяцев назад

@@acseattle1975 Basically 9-12 mins. And that exercise at 12 mins is what we did on the slope standing still, with the board perpendicular to the slope and facing uphill. Do exactly what you see there. Back knee comes down and a little forward; open stance (face front of board), straight back (don't lean over or hunch over) so weight is balanced above the toeside edge. The first time I did it while moving, I did a toe-side carve...it just happens. The other piece of advice, useful to think about on that exercise, which he may not have said here, but he said to me, is: get up on the toeside edge by just dropping your shins on to inside front of your boots...i.e., don't use your ankles (for now). Think about that as you do that exercise at 12. Seung gave me some quick advice on the heelside too (next section of video) but I learned more by watching this video before a trip to VT. It all worked! Key on the heelside, for me, in practice, was knees bent and putting more weight on the back foot, as he discusses...it was key to keeping that edge locked on a heelside carve. Other advice: take it pretty slow with long turns across the slope, and as I said, don't be afraid to fall...essential for learning and getting used to what is required to balance.

@acseattle1975 5 месяцев назад

@@davidpalmer7976 thanks a lot for sharing, invaluable insight as you got to learn from Seung in person! Will review this comment again after work and take notes for my trip coming up this week. Cheers!

@davidpalmer7976 5 месяцев назад

@@acseattle1975 Nice. One small possible edit: In the video, he does mention a little focus on the back leg to dig in the edge on a heelside, but it may have been that I felt a need to lean a bit more on my front foot, as I think about it. But I could be wrong. That's something you can figure out on the mountain if you're slipping on the heelside. Good luck!

@Maxim-Fitness 5 месяцев назад

Thank you 🎉 you are the best of the best 🎉

@peterhoughton1731 5 месяцев назад

I also have a Knapton twin with a 295mm waist. Money well spent.

@shmsnow 5 месяцев назад

It's the perfect ww for me with a 9.5 mens foot, will never change it.

@On_the_move24 Год назад

Дружище, очень грамотно и доходчиво объясняешь, удачи в развитии канала!!!

@shmsnow Год назад

Спасибо!

@shirleyliu5276 3 месяца назад

Thanks

@shmsnow 3 месяца назад

Thank you!

@iamMNKY Год назад

Got recommended to your channel by a guy I met at Snozone, gonna try this out when I next go out to the slope!

@shmsnow Год назад

Have fun! Might need to drop by snozone then.

@iamMNKY Год назад

@@shmsnow it's a bit smaller than what you're used to I think, but decent nevertheless and the staff are friendly, I go to the Yorkshire one, but I know theres one in Milton Keynes too?

@shmsnow Год назад

@@iamMNKY Honestly size is not a big issue, more so the pitch of the slope and the snow quality. And there'll be more as the years go by, as more snow melts. That's the fate of this sport!

@bitcoindaddy748 5 месяцев назад

This video is too good to be free 😅

@jimw8615 5 месяцев назад

Subscribed! Watched all your videos. Very detailed explanation from technique to gears. Awesome! Keep it up. Just to confirm the longest run in Big Snow is less than 100m?

@shmsnow 5 месяцев назад

Yes, it’s a small place. Come on a non holiday weekday for the least crowds!

@HoudiniLL Год назад

Fabulous video and content, SHM, especially with the updates! Question: Do you find benefits to a true twin board like your Donek Knapton vs directional boards? Easier and more fun switch riding I guess?

@shmsnow Год назад

Thanks so much for the compliments! I ride true twin as a style choice, allowing my regular and goody to be almost identical and seamless. Directional carving is objectively superior in terms of just pure carving, but it prevents switch which becomes backwards carving (which is also very difficult). I also just haven’t tried riding directional, maybe I’ll try it during the summer.

@samguan5236 5 месяцев назад

Been watching a lot of carving videos on RU-vid recently, you name it. I think this is hands down the best one that actually works. I don’t think any of the videos tell you to bend your rear knee to the ground during initiation on the toe side while getting your body in that open position but before you comment on it, watch closely a lot of RU-vid videos actually do that but they just don’t describe it that way. Most will say bend your knees and use the edge but that only works once the carve is initiated. Watch closely on how Knapton does it, it’s almost identical. I’m loving this, but I still got some work to do on the heel side… I’m going to try the tip of increasing some forward lean on the binding and see if that helps…. Thank you for the video again!!

@shmsnow 5 месяцев назад

The devil is in the details, which so many tend to glaze over. I try to get every little bit that's relevant to this skill level. I'm glad you think so highly, thank you!

@samguan5236 5 месяцев назад

@@shmsnow I had to head the mountain yesterday after watching your video and boom, I had the first heel side carve. I didn't realize that you also talked about forward lean in your video. I have a lot of issues with heel side right now with no forward lean on the binding, it feels almost impossible to tilt my heel edge to a greater degree without falling over. Any suggestions? Should I increase my forward lean?

@shmsnow 5 месяцев назад

@@samguan5236 Max out your heelside forward lean, it'll make your board pre-tilted and allow you to do less work to tilt your board enough to start a good heelside.

@samguan5236 5 месяцев назад

Wanted to report back that I had the aha moment on the heel side. It was lifting the front part of my feet against the boot and that created significant edge pressure giving me a very stable heel side! Amazing.

@shmsnow 5 месяцев назад

@@samguan5236 Glad you got it! Cheers to more "aha" moments to come.

@aznnerdyyy Год назад

Thank you so much for your videos! Just finished up with my first season of snowboarding. I’m planning to make a trip to big snow sometime this summer… do you do any in person coaching by any chance?

@shmsnow Год назад

Just find me, and I’ll drop you some tips. 2 turns is all I need to see!

@raffaeletarasco3153 4 месяца назад

Nice video … but I think you never mentioned binding angle … duck stance carving it difficult I would think … pos pos angle would be recommended no ?

@shmsnow 4 месяца назад

This video is for beginner duck stance riders. Almost everyone starts duck stance - forward stance is great too, but I do not ride forward stance. I am not qualified to make instructional content on it.

@darthBL 2 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing and great detail and tips. May I ask you what binding angles do you use? I want to model exactly like yours just to eliminate the confusion/additional variables. Thank you.

@shmsnow 2 месяца назад

Glad I could help! +12/-12.

@lucasrocha633 Год назад

You blew my mind.. other guys Tommie Bennet and Jonathan Buckhouse told to DON'T rotate body on carve...

@shmsnow Год назад

Not rotating body in the carve is okay for just basic carving. Rotating the body though, is a direct gateway to more advanced carves.

@farawayskies 4 месяца назад

How many 'step on / in' bindings have you tried? I'm really interested in giving some a try but don't know which ones to go far. Wish I could try them all out and decide for myself. I hear Burton's are great if not the best, but also like the idea of step-ins where you can wear whatever boots you want.

@shmsnow 4 месяца назад

So far I've tried - - Step ons - highly responsive, but only compatible with burton boots and the heelcup is a huge killer for heelside carves. - Flows - mid level response, but smallest highback (there is no heelcup) profile and compatible with all boots, amazing for heelside carves. - Supermatics - between step ons/flows in terms of response and heelcup profile, compatible with all boots.

@therascals8237 5 месяцев назад

Wouldn't it be easier to achieve back knee down and open body position with +/+ stance? Great video!

@shmsnow 5 месяцев назад

Of course! Forward stance carving allows for much higher limits on form, such as body rotation and lower body postures.

@iddqd6716 8 месяцев назад

Hey, I don’t really agree with the board recommendations. Twinpig and Orca have sidecut radiuses of 6 and 7 m which is too little for comfortable carving to my mind. I have Yes Hybrid with 6 m radius and when I try to carve the board turns very fast and then goes back up the hill. I bought Korua Otto with 8 m radius and it makes much better longer carving turns. Donek is fine - it’s 8 m or more. 29.5 waist is probably overkill for most people because it’s harder to turn it and you don’t really carve with 90 degrees angle, it’s smaller. 26-28 waist should be enough usually. Also, Orca is a hybrid rocker board and cambers are considered better for carving. I would recommend wide stiff (hybrid) camber boards with 8+ m sidecut for carving. But I would like to hear your opinion on that. Great video!

@shmsnow 8 месяцев назад

For higher edge angle deep carves, absolutely, 6 and 7 meter radius sidecuts are way too small. For the deepest carves you absolutely need a board with >8 meters so that you actually have time to up/down unweight. My 29.5 waist width and Flow bindings is honestly just a preference so I don't boot out in bad snow. I want to reduce overhang to the point of overkill, so I'm okay with a bit of excessiveness. I want to learn how to reach >90 degree carves like the Russian FunCarve folks eventually. The boards that I include in my recommended board list are good for intermediate carving, but remember, they are all still "all mountain" boards. My Donek is for carving (which is the only snowboarding I do), while those boards are for everything all mountain, including carving. 26 - 28 cm waist width is totally good enough for intermediate carves, and whatever else you want to do with the board. I don't take my Donek into the park anyways, but others might want to take their Orca into the park, like the board is built for. Hybrid Camber is a no go for me though. Pure camber or nothing else. Hybrid anything yields instability. Cheers!

@peterhoughton1731 5 месяцев назад

All depends on the size of your feet and your height/COG.

@jackylee4132 11 месяцев назад

after watching this video I tried it and instantly I carved i was like WTH!!

@VincentY376 Год назад

What're your thoughts on binding angles and the ability to lean your hip into the snow for laid out turns on heelside?

@shmsnow Год назад

I ride true duck stance by personal choice, but purely for carving forward/positive angles are absolutely superior, mainly because due to your feet being rotated towards the heelside, your hips and upper body are natively more open, making it easier to get into the open body stance, among other benefits. As for laid out Heelside carves, they’re extremely difficult to perform forward stance, and even more so duckstance. You need to open your hips and upper to ridiculous degrees, an advanced technique that required a lot, lot of practice. Knapton can do them consistently, but if you’re interested, check out the Russian FunCarve channel on youtube. They have some good tutorials on this exact thing.

@shmsnow Год назад

@Suz Your lack of experience limits your perspective.

@lucasogden9457 Год назад

Lol, Suz back at hating on carvers without knowing anything.

@Matttski 11 месяцев назад

@suz4359funny how all the pro carvers/racers have stiff boots with forward stance there is only one reason for this

@misterkenwong 4 месяца назад

Hi beginner here. I've been watching a lot of different videos on carving lately, like Ryan Knapton, James Cherry, and Malcolm Moore. I found your approach is quite different from them. Especially the part that shifting body weight a bit to the back, and not focusing too much on the front leg. Can you kindly elaborate on why you prefer this approach comparing to others? (Really like your waxing video btw!)

@shmsnow 4 месяца назад

Advanced levels of carving involve fore-aft movements, where you shift your focus to the front of the board and slowly transfer your weight to the tail throughout the end of the turn. I elected to omit this skill for people starting out carving - I find it easier for beginners to focus on just keeping their weight towards the back instead of throwing it all over the place, when they don't yet know what carving actually feels like. The carve is more stable towards the tail end, anyways. Thank you for watching!

@Matttski Год назад

hey what are the tongue inserts you had in the previous video?

@shmsnow Год назад

They are called “powerride” inserts. As of current, they’re Japan exclusive, and unavailable as far as I’m aware of in the U.S.

@acseattle1975 5 месяцев назад

When you link turns, you mentioned open and closing your stance. When one finishes their toe side carve, in order to look behind them one must close their stance or look into the inside of the turn. How do you open and close your stance relative to the example above?

@shmsnow 5 месяцев назад

I'm not sure what you mean. Could you elaborate?

@iddqd6716 8 месяцев назад

Hi, I’m thinking about buying NX2 bindings too - could you share you experience with them? Did you try regular non-carbon NX2? Do you miss a heel rotation option? Do you feel it’s more comfortable to use NX2 specifically on the small slope compared to regular straps bindings? It’s tedious to lock and unlock straps on my Union Strata so often and I’m curious if it’s better with NX2. Are those bindings stiff enough for you and can you freestyle or butter with them? Did you have any issues or problems reliability wise? Thank you

@shmsnow 8 месяцев назад

- I've tried non-carbon flow bindings. As expected, they're less stiff than the carbon ones, but still do the job. - Heel rotation is more important for directional softboot riding for correct force transfer to the binding. That being said I've never had to rotate the heelpiece for any binding, so I can't give a qualified opinion on this. - I don't really see how the size of the slope has any relevance to how comfortable the flows are, but I think flows are great for any size terrain! I use flows for the purposes in this video - the heelside overhang reduction mostly, not so much the rear entry. - The only reliability issues I have are that screws come apart somewhat loose often. Not the baseplate screws, the screws on the ladders/ratchets. I have to re-screw them in every few days so my bindings don't fall apart. Other than that, no issues when everything's tight.

@iddqd6716 8 месяцев назад

@@shmsnow I meant that you need to unlock the back foot out of the binding every time you take a chairlift and lock in on top of the slope. If slope is long on the resort you do it not so often compared to a 70-200 m slope which you ride. A lot of people use Burton step-on or other easy-entry bindings to lock in fast and ride straight away in my freezer 200 m slope. So I thought NX2 are more convenient than the regular bindings

@ekramhossain1982 5 месяцев назад

Does the snow condition matters? Like is there any diiference between fresh pow vs slush after freeze thaw? Thanks.

@shmsnow 5 месяцев назад

Snow conditions for carving? Flat hardpack and groomers are the best.

@ct9375 8 месяцев назад

Hi nice video. Beginner here. I was told to put 60% of your body weight on the toe side and initiate the turn my knee steering and keeping the body as straight as possible. After watching your video, you are leaning back and putting most of the weight on your back foot as well as turning your body. Can you walk me through the mechanics. Im trying to understand so i can do it. Thanks again for a cool video

@shmsnow 8 месяцев назад

These are two different styles. The one you are describing is the AASI (American Association of Snowboard Instructors) approved style of carving, where you keep your shoulders in line with your board the whole time (closed body). It also uses knee steering and the other things you described. This style is just fine for basic carving. The style of carving that I use however, and that I go through in this beginner video, is different from the AASI approved style - primarily by the shoulders and board being perpendicular to each other (open body) during the turn (very important), and weight heavily towards the tail. This style is more advanced, and more importantly sets up the proper base form the advanced techniques require in my part 2 video. Basic carving can be achieved with BOTH the style that I use and AASI approved style. But advanced, super-high edge angle carving, can't be done with the AASI approved style. The style I employ, and the basics I teach here, set up for high edge angle duckstance carving. As for the mechanics specifics, try cross comparing your footage that you've taken of yourself (or have someone to take a video of you) to my footage. This should help rectify form issues with some effort on your part. Also review the part where I talk about common mistakes - the devil is in the details. Remember to press all of your weight into your back foot boot tongue and not to tension your ankle in the back foot. Hope this helped!

@ct9375 8 месяцев назад

@@shmsnow thanks. Very very helpful. I will rewatch your video so I can work on the motion before hitting the slopes.

@shmsnow 8 месяцев назад

@@ct9375 You're very welcome!

@EpsilonNv 6 месяцев назад

would this method of carving work with double positive binding angles ?

@shmsnow 6 месяцев назад

Not really. Check out CarvingGeek for that.

@pawel-goscicki 5 месяцев назад

I'm wondering why all your recommended boards are hybrid profiles (camber/rocker/camber) instead of being the classical camber. I always thought classical camber is the best for carving. Is it no longer the case?

@shmsnow 5 месяцев назад

It just so happens that all the over the counter boards popular in the US are non-camber profiles. Camber is still the best for carving, always has, always been!

@desmondlang4941 6 месяцев назад

Is there any cons for maxing out the forward lean?

@shmsnow 6 месяцев назад

More response on heelsides.

@bkz9755 Год назад

Great guide great vid!! Thank u so much🙏🏾🙏🏾 greets from the Netherlands 🇳🇱

@shmsnow Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@desmondlang4941 6 месяцев назад

What pants are you wearing? I need a durable one for carving 😅

@shmsnow 6 месяцев назад

None! Just get black pants and pray.

@savikx 2 месяца назад

What’s ur boot size?

@shmsnow 2 месяца назад

9.5 mens.

@crisluspo7716 4 месяца назад

Hello I come here at Big Snow a lot with my wife to learn snowboarding. Would you be willing to do lessons for us? If so, can I email you for price, etc?

@shmsnow 4 месяца назад

seunghwimoon@gmail.com