Snowboarding S Turns - Early Edge Change 

I would love this quiet slope to practice on! I feel like the majority of my turns on the mountain are determined by me dodging people :(

Those clouds ☁️😍 That S shape would make a good logo for you. Nice to see you back 👍

There is no better channel on YT than here to learn snowboarding! Extremely good explained, mate! 🙌

Thank you!! Lots of videos explain beginner skidded turns and carving, but it's very hard to find explanations for the progression in-between. Looking forward to bringing this to the slopes soon!

After learning knee steering and independent foot engagement,sinking and raising body to take pressure off for faster turn was an important piece!It’s in skateboarding ramps too,sinking to put pressure at bottom and rising to relieve it so can turn at top more easily.

As a surfer this gets me excited to try snowboarding the first time. nice curves!

I've been searching for a video like this, I'm just at the beginner turn stage. Your channel is amazing, Thanks!

I love how this video leads into different videos. Gives you a sense that this journey can take you on different paths and this is one of the main ones. Brilliant snowyoutubing!

I didn'tknow this channel... but now it's my favourite one already. Lot of very technical expertise and explanations! Thank you!

Thank you thank you, was dusting 1m deep today, bouncing of the snow in turns, as adviced, dopamin forte, effortlesly.Now I feel the pain in abdominal muscles when smiling.Keep the flow mr.Moore, be safe

Always enjoy MM video. There is always something I can learn from him

Always learning something from your videos. Great job !

Thank you for the video. I have been trying to better my carving to make it seem smooth instead of aggressively carving

Your videos are immense. I haven't boarded in 3 years, but after watching your videos, I'm on the verge of ordering the Lib tech orca, and managed to convince my mates to go to Livigno next year 🙂

Just got to Tignes Val Claret this morning finally! Was so great getting back to it and will be sunny all week 😎 on top of that a v helpful video thanks 🤝

Hey Malcolm! Thanks for another great video, always learning from you. Would be awesome if you could make a video going over snowboarding stances, explaining how different binding angles and stance widths can affect your riding style, and what's best for different situations. Would love to hear your take on the subject, and see how you came to find your riding stance. Thanks!

Hi Malcolm, I wanted to tell you that I find your videos immensely helpful. I watched your videos all week and took notes, practiced my alignment with my board on indoors, and visualized how to make these turns. I love the technical explanations. I really didn't understand *how* snowboarding even worked and it was really hindering my ability to use my body + board together. Today on the hill I got a private lesson and thanks to you I could tell him I was working on Up Unweighted Turns and he helped me see that I wasn't unweighting it soon enough. I'm working towards an earlier edge change like in this video next. I felt the magic of a gripped edge carve a couple times today, and an almost floating sensation as I switched edges which I never knew was possible! Thank you so much for sharing the magic + science of snowboarding. Sending you love and fresh powder days from Manning Park, BC (a small hill a few hours south of Sun Peaks). Also hitting that paypal tip jar asap. Thanks again. -Stiina

Great video (as always)! One thing I keep getting reminded is (the basics, really) that I'm not doing things the right way cause I'm cared of some speed, speed that is in fact essential to have, and I'm actually making it harder for myself since I'm going too slow (while the beginner in me perceives it as fast) :D So, in 20 days, for my 3rd year of boarding (more like 3rd week as I drive 6 days a year, like a true poor peasant I am) I'm going to employ the "Drink 2 shots before going on the slope" strategy :D

Man, I never thought I'd try snowboarding, but after watching your series of beginner videos today, I feel like maybe it's possible! I'll give it a try when Finland gets a nice fresh fluffy snowfall to cushion all my first-day falls, haha!

Such a beautiful place to live in...

last winter i went snowboarding for the first time in my life. I got a coach , he helped a lot, but boy the help i got from your channel is immense. Thank you for the info youre putting out there. Love the channel

Mate, as per I like your video before it even starts. Quality as always

kinda my first season and it clicks more and more every week i go out finally can start learning more advanced things

Thanks Malcolm

Thanks for another awesome video!

This is a sturdy toy snowboard for backyard or neighborhood sled hill use. We did not have issues with friction as one reviewer mentioned. I can see how it may delaminate over time, but so far so good.

Awesome lesson man! ♥️

Another great tutorial, quality as always👍 The snow is looking awesome out there, I can't wait, only one more week....😬😄

Even tho i already know all this stuff i just love watching other people explaining them.

Thanks Malcolm for another great video. Could you also take a video about ollie tutorial. Your changes from piste to the powder looks so great and smooth. I would like to jump like you man but it looks so weird and I am not smooth like you. I appreciate, if you also take a tutorial about the ollie 😃

Thanks for another great video!!! ALWAYS appreciate it. I have questions on the bindings. How do you set your bindings? Are both of them should be the same angle? FYI I'm a goofy rider and I can't quite ride switches.

Hi, thanks for the vid. a question which scares me to try early edge change: when sliding on an edge across, the minute you flattened the boared, a skid starts due to gravity, so how come one is not catching and edge when switching edges but continuing with the "across" movment....?

Another great video MM. Your video on "Opening and Closing the Door" taught me to make my first S turns. Does that body movement continue as we progress as riders or does it become more of a Toes up Heals up movement?

Greetings from Turkey🤗🤗

Can already do this, I just enjoy watching your videos awesome dude! Hoping to get out to France this winter! Had a 2 year break now due to the obvious reasons!

I just started learning snowboarding this season and your videos are the best on YT! I've been practicing linking my turns and I find that I struggle with turning from heel to toe a lot more than toe to heel because I feel a lot more comfortable riding on my toe edge. I find that I often over-rotate when turning onto my heel edge because I get afraid of picking up too much speed and just feel less comfortable on that side in general. Do you have any tips on how I can improve on those heel to toe turns?

Great video, thanks. Whats your bindings angles and stance to get the most for carving ? Best.

Great videos malcom you are helping me a lot, i have a doubt, why is so important to grip across de slope? Thanks and take care

Dude your tutorials are so good man. I know you've been snowboarding in France a lot, have you been to Val Thorens and was it good? Im going to Val Thorens in januari!

HELLO!! This really helped, but i'm still a bit hesitant everytime i try to go down an uneven slope or a one that’s like tilted cause i don’t know how to turn properly on those,. So it would be grat if you could do a video on that :) Thanks for this great video !!

Perfect

hey congrats on growing the channel. I was wondering if you could do a short vid on the easiest way to get off of lifts, especially when its with a bunch of people on it. I'm able to get down greens and blues no problem but I still fall once in a while getting off the lift. Not sure what the best technique is there

nice

So as a beginner, during the edge change, do I use the "levers" as described in your torsional twist video or do I stand up and sink back down like described here?

Unreal conditions!!

Can I control the speed I go down the mountain? I can do S turns and since I dont shave/drag my way down the mountain, im going down the mountain super fast now... By making bigger (wider) or smaller( thinner) S shaped, will that help me control speed?

hi, whenever you transision to the other side, do you twist the board with a torsion method or do you just transfer weight? I'm picturing the board on slow speed as front leg steering, back leg rudder. with high speeds, do I still need to do that?

I think another good way of correcting yourself is to quite simply record or have someone (a friend) film you to see how you are actually turning...I myself wasn't aware of how I was turning for a bit until I actually saw it myself, from there I can correct myself and "adjusted" to better and more proper technique S turns...

Hi Malcolm, to ride this open S turn on steep, would it work well if my binding is duck feet setup or it need to be more directional ?

What is your stance width? Do you vary stance and binding angles for the different riding styles - carving turns, park etc..?

I know I have some bad habits to weed out of my riding, but trying to be more aware of them. But there are times when I feel like I'm in the correct posture and digging my edge in, but then I hit different terrain/ texture (usually hardback or ice) and my edge gives out and I lose my balance. Do you have any tips for those situations?

Where is this mountain it’s sooooo pretty

Where are you and what's the altitude? Seems well above tree line.

Guys, what snowboard should I buy for carving, switch rides on slope? I'm more intermediate rider and I want to bring my riding to next level. I'm using Burton Swath boots. I'm considering Capita DOA or Supernova at this point and Never Summer PROTO. Which one should I pick? Please...helph :E

Where did you film this video?

Where is this?? So nice

Oh, I've been working on my edging skills since I was 13! Don't see what that has to do with snowboarding though...

do you use your back foot to control the turning?or only the front?

is the S turn same as Carving?

I hope this is not outside the scope of this tutorial - I am still a bit fuzzy about when or when not to teach flat boarding. Thank you, Malcolm.

Big up to the Cameraman

Song name?

i hav too many mogels and people on the slopes so its hard for me

Going from the beginner turns that he demonstrated to the carving turns that he demonstrated is too much of a leap. The skid turn that he demonstrated actually shows the apex of the turn. What you really want to do is not hold the apex of the turn to Long which is what a lot of inexperienced Riders do. You want to the apex of the turn to be short and transition to your next turn sooner. The body posture he explains works for all types of turns. You must bend your knees through the turn and until the end and stand up out of your turn in order to transition to the next turn. That is weighting and unweighting. Standing up out of your turn frees your board from the snow surface. In combination with weighting and unweighting you must lead with your body much like a skier reaching with his Pole. They call that reaching for your turn. You should reach with your lead arm which for regular foot is left and Goofy is right. This commits your body in front of your snowboard. Much like weaving on a bicycle your body always leads your bicycle follows through. Also known as the pendulum. These are also called slalom turns. The sideslip is basically the Apex of your turn. There's also a component transitioning your weight between your feet. At the apex of the turn the wait will be on your back foot. When transitioning to the next turn your weight will transition to your front foot. And then transition back to the back foot. Front foot back foot front foot back foot. All this happens in concert. After you accomplish the slalom turn then you can start to learn the carve which he calls the S turn. Carving requires a much finer line of balance. Maybe I will do a video. Good video with a lot of good information. If you're accomplished at slalom turns definitely go for the carving turn. If you are beginner Rider don't try to make that leap to soon.

I have good edging slills but not in snowboarding 😔😏

First!

"requires you to have good edging skills" idk, kind of sus🤔

Soooo, foiled again by the pesky eu nations and their rules. I'll get to shred with you one day dude 🤙😂huez looks sweet this season. Shame.