How To Ride Bumpy Terrain & Moguls On A Snowboard 

When your friend says lets go through that powder and its straight moguls

as a snowboard instructor my self, I have to say these videos are incredibly accurate. Many of the techniques shown are what I actually teach to more advanced riders. the independence of both feet will take your riding to the next level. Save yourself the expensive snowboard lessons and watch these videos before going to shred

I like how he shows other riders making mistakes. Cause his technique is flawless and probably incapable of making them.

One of the best snowboarding videos. I'm intermediate rider and constantly I'm back to these videos to remind me of the proper and stylish technique. Thanks a lot!

Snowboard procamp = fun, Snowboard addiction = actual learning. Great content !

I voluntarily put myself through a mogul field 4 times today. I was shredding it harder than any skier i saw! tips really helped..finding they don't tire me out as much and it was actually kinda fun

I actually enjoy moguls as long as conditions aren't icy.

This is great advice... That said, I avoid moguls because they waste your energy regardless. It also depends on visibility. In white-out conditions, moguls are even less fun.

Very well made channel/tutorial, was watching for curiosity as an experienced snowboarder and got some very useful tips and some homework to do :) cheers!

I’m in love with Snowboard Addiction - sharp and clear

this channel is so underrated its very helpful

I like that this is somewhat of a concept teach primarily focusing on utilizing rebound. Keep doing the good work these videos really help with progressing and self regulating.

Hi Nev, thank you so much for those clear and simple explanations and the wonderful underlying videos. I know this is a lot work making so many snow fans more happy. You're my favored channel. Thanks!

Just came across this video. As an intermediate boarder some of these techniques I had already picked up on my own, but filled in a lot of gaps from this video. It's fantastic.

I've been riding for years, and these are great tips to help me improve! Thanks!!!

Your teaching is amazing!! Keep on riding and thank you.

Great instruction, well-done in a very understandable way. Thanks!

Very well explained. I try to hold my line and see further and to get some speed traversing like you said. Most of the things I'm already doing. Thanks!!

Great video! I find alot of times snowboarders hate moguls because they simply just don't know how to ride them. Bumps and moguls are fun on a snowboard! They're challenging, but when you ride through them smoothly and air a few, it's very rewarding!

Things I learned from this video: I counter rotate when I try to do tight turns on steep bumpy snow. When finish my turns, have my weight on my back foot instead of the front foot. thanks!

Excellent explanation. Thank you

Your riding is so skilled and effortless!

Nice and clear description! Great work!

Finally a video that gives good direction about line choice. Nice improvement over your older treatment of this subject.

I used to think my problem with steep runs was the angle, but what it turned out is that I didn't know what to do when I came to a bump. this video changed my life, thank you very much.

Love this video! One of the best ! Great job guys

My wife is an excellent skier, so we’ll end up on bumps sometimes and I’ve always had problems with them on my snowboard. This video definitely covers my issues/mistakes and will take this knowledge with me for the next time. Excellent video/lesson, thanks!

Best snowboard tutorial youtube period. I've been boarding for 20 years and his video has pointed out so many tips and bad techniques it's unreal. His "How To Improve Your Riding On A Snowboard" is a must see for every snowboarders new, intermidiate, or experienced.

Hey thanks so much for the well described exercices!

Your videos are just great - helps alot for improvement and from there on develop skills further -Thx

This is pure gold, thank you!

I like the line picking technique, that's where I struggle the most.

Very useful tips 👍

very helpful. thanks for sharing

The best instrutor!😍😄👏👏👏👏👏👏🎊🎉🎊🎉

Great video your riding is so smooth and looks sick 💼

Thank you this was super helpful

This is such a good video. I'm at a plateau in my riding that i'm sure these tips will help me overcome. Thank you!!

I learned so much from this! thank you

Awesome mate great tips

awesome and informative video!!!

Riding mogul fields really helped me to progress to jumps as it trained me to properly bend my knees and ankles and control my balance.

Very very very good job ty for yr precious advices u could be a very good instructor thanks bro

Brilliant & thanks for the well-made video! You present the info in a clear & concise manner Personally, I love bumpy terrain & downhill riding. Started snowboarding after my first half dozen years or so on the mountains as a skier, so perhaps that's part of it

My friend and I went through a huge mogul field, he was skiing I was snowboarding and I literally fell down the hill head-first laughing my head of the whole time. Funniest thing.

Going across without turning at first really helped me pre video. But I swing my back door out too much so I'll be jumping through my turns Monday to keep my hips alined

You make that look so good, damn.

Great video, these basic concepts are the same for riding bumps on skis also.

thanks!! the ski resort I usually ride at is usually groomed and that goes for almost all of the trails there but today they got some new snow so apparently they did not have enough time to groom some of the blues and blacks (which it was a bumpy pow day for sure) so I caught myself falling a lot and losing my balance because I am not used to it being that bumpy anyways this video helped a lot now tomorrow I will feel less like a beginner 🤘😂

Great instructions for beginners like me ))

There is so much time-wasting nonsense masquerading as helpful advice on RU-vid, but this is clear, concise, and valuable, and I know I'll be watching it again on the lift this weekend (if it's not too cold for my phone to stay on). With lessons north of $300 per session at some resorts, I'm sure many others have turned to RU-vid for help refining their snowboarding or skiing. Using the top of an upcoming mogul to slow down and initiate a turn was a big help, and also those independent shock absorbers, bending the knee as it hits the front incline and extending as you hit a decline... I think between this and someone explaining zipperlining through a mogul field on skis, these walls of bumps have gone from intimidating to exciting.

Excelente buen rey 🤝🏾💎

Thank you 😄

Great video.

Works Great !

You are a good snowboarder

As a bump rider, totally agree with everything in this video. The only thing I would add is to watch his back hand - he keeps it in and close to his hip which keeps his weight centered over the board and his upper body "quiet" and connected to his lower half. Just watch all the people making mistakes in the video and they are waving their hands all over the place instead of just using your knees/feet. This leads to an unbalanced, higher center of gravity and your upper body being thrown in the opposite direction from your board.

I do most of what the video detailed except I definitely use counter rotation to try to turn sometimes. Gotta work on it

Nev you are a beast 💪

If I get some moguls filled slopes in the next snowboarding day next month, I will really pay attention if I do what you explained here, and eventually practice it. Of course any of these snowboarding improvement tips is useless, if one doesn't take the necessary pre season physical training. The vast majority of techniques to improve snowboarding require firm and strong muscles, and people who do not have them yet, simply struggles after few minutes

Whenever there is powder, it always thinks it can bring its dumb friend moguls.

just got my season pass. your vids are pregame!

thanks!

I mistakenly read “picking your line” to “risking your life”… great tutorial!

0:28 that looks so much like The Wall on the French Swiss border near avoriaz. Probably America though?

Just get out there and ride, best advice !!! Start young lol it will hurt less !

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I ran full-speed into one of these bumpy trails and dislocated both shoulders last year.

Well, I can go through the mogul field with dynamic riding but I typically skid to save energy for the rest of the day. I think there's no point to prove you're technical on the runs you don't like, it's about having fun on the runs you like.

I ride with mostly skiers so I need to do this and like it. Thank you for these tips. I feel like I'm doing what you do but I don't look like that (as my daughter will attest). Wiil intermediate lessons help or will make my daughter film my horribleness be better for me? -no ego

do you know this guy? this is him 4 years ago. still as awesome.

I did learn ut myself but luckly ive been skiing sience i was 3y old and snowboarding sience 8 so i did it natruly when i tried to ride in the bumpy terrain

what binding angles are you usng in your front and back foot? thanks!!

One thing you do, that you didn't touch on specifically in your explanation that I think is worth pointing out and drilling on, is to shuffle your snowboard fore and aft under your hips. 5:18 When you finish your turns in bumps you accomplish it by moving your rear foot under your rear hip with a quick little shove forward of both feet. (If that's what you're reinforcing with the wheelie technique - well done.) You make the opposite movement to create nose pressure to start the next turn. By comparison, in your 'body position on groomed runs' demonstration, to add pressure to the rear you drop your rear hip more, allowing more of your upper body weight to influence the pressure. Even getting in the back seat more. Then a fairly large heave of the torso both fore/aft and toe/heel. While this distinction is subtle, I think it's critical to the discussion. On groomers you subconsciously allow yourself more upper body influence on the board because you know it will hold. In more dynamic terrain you can't afford to allow that much ballast to move that far from your center of edge contact. Your upper body in the bumps stays very tightly connected to your intended line while your legs and board under your hips move around to create nose/center/whole/tail pressure where needed. Better balance, better directional influence, more predictability and anticipation. This minutiae in lower body pressure adjustment is the key to bumps, deep powder, and park features. This might be going past the scope of the video, but you also pivot between your feet a lot in the bumps which contributes greatly to quick and positive directional changes by keeping contact as you move around the 'dome'. I would love to see you do a video incorporating those types of pivots into an exercise. For those reading along casually wondering what's this old fart on about? Imagine holding yourself up off the ground between two parallel bars. Strapped into your snowboard, keep your torso immobile then slide your snowboard towards one tip and then the other. Nose and tail. Once back on the ground, move your torso over the nose and tail. They are very different movements. How fast can you move your body over your feet compared to how fast can you move your feet under your body? Also, what does it take to slow down your upper body once it's got momentum? I dragged myself into too much detail again... my point here is... It's a very quick and effective movement to shuffle your board nose to tail without committing so much upper body mass away from your edge. Now think about this. You can do the same thing toe to heel. Also very powerful in the bumps and demonstrated in the video above. Heel edge towards toe, then toe edge towards heel at 5:24, pretty easy to see.

most riders don't enjoy bumpy terrain, but i do ( : One must be precise to ride smooth, every bump should be a kicker and that means lot of fun.

Thanks for updating your introduction to moguls and for discouraging snowboarders from side slipping through them Nev-san. Keeping the upper and lower body in alignment is great for learning the basics, but we aren't jazzed about that form for advanced level riding in bumpy terrain. Happy shredding, avoid moguls at your own risk fwiends!

Great tutorial. Moguls can be fun when you know how to Ride them, unfortunately, i don't see a lot of riders who know how...

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I confess I use counter rotation🥴 Probably should go back and lay a more solid foundation to stay turning with upper and lower body in alignment..

Tombstone Kid is still the best mogul snowboarder ever

What kind of boards do you recommend for this terrain? All-mountain vs all-mountain/pow? Do you recommend a medium flex board over a stiffer board for this?

I’ve never been snowboarding but I do skate how hard is it to learn to snowboard is it anything like skating

damn mane i live in germany and after 12am/1pm mostly of the slopes are shitty like this one. its horrible for the leg muscles when u are exhausted and still have to ride a valley decent like this after a day of boarding.

at 5:35 is that a skid turn? Do you still have to flex the ankle to engage the edge like carving? thanks

Speed wobble is an issue im having any advice

Just tried moguls for the first time, ate shit, now I'm here

Our moguls are SOLID ICE

It's a great video about how to deal with bumps :) I've got one question - you talk about straight back but at 7:00 your back isn't straight at all so what's the right way to ride? :P

wait a minute, what are other snowboarders seeking out if not bumps?

You guys do great tutorials... But if you rely on the board Flex to get your pop in the Moguls then you'll never get good in the moguls... It's all about saved energy with your flexion and extension

Also after bumpy terrain your legs hurts like hell, and you exhausting more quickly. I do not like Cheget Mountain because of that terrain all around

Any chance I can send you some footage for some tips??

facts

tge skiiers always look like janitors on the slops lol

I have snowboarded for eight days in total and can ride down the red and some black "slopes" or whatever you wanna call them, and i want to be compared, kinda. I can do pretty fast zigzags and some easy tricks, how good am I?(make your own skale fx. 1-10/bad-good)

I must be one of the only snowboarders who actually likes moguls

It wouldnt be a problem. The only problem is the psychic boundary not do go faster or just to try it at this speed.

Fucking love it. Bumps are the best! Ok, maybe after Pow and slush. Just send it!

Is the SA logo in the video a needle?!

Brasil!