Teaching Complete Beginners How To Snowboard 

I think this kind of video is much better than just giving some 5 tips for beginners. In here you actually see a beginner's struggles and how they overcome them. That's great. What a petty nobody told the guys to get propper clothing for snowboarding. Amazing, Kevin!

Those guys are super tough for riding as long as they did without gloves, snow pants, goggles, or properly fitted equipment. not to mention they hiked all their runs!! kudos to them, it was awesome seeing the stoke ignite in two new riders :D

"You fail when you Quit. Failure is an event, not a person" -Z .... Honestly.... hit me harder than i thought it would xD

Love how you saw someone struggling and spent your day teaching them. I remember my first day on the beginner hill, realizing snowboarding was way harder than I thought and questioned why I was doing it. In the end, watching lots of tutorials (mostly Kevin), I started my second season 2 weeks ago. I’m over 40 so you are never too old to learn if you have good teaching and a lot of patience the first year. 😀

Love how you needed to find a newbie so you just found a guy in jeans.

As someone who’s going to try snowboarding for the first Tim this winter I do appreciate the tips for beginners and actually seeing beginners learn. It’s so hard to watch pros try and teach tips because they already know what they are doing. This is way more realistic

Loved it! Dedicating your time to help strangers is really an act to be praised.

Best beginner video so far I have seen. Teaching using real beginners. Makes me feel I have a chance to learn.

I love this so much, really shows how friendly people can be on the slopes. I'm 36 and have never done anything like this but in 2 days i'm gonna try snowboarding for the first time. Seeing this video gives me a lot of courage to not give up. Insane development on these students!

I just want to say what an absolute legend you are. I wish there was more people like you in the world. I’m a Pakistani and I’ve just started snowboarding and I found your video so so helpful. It doesn’t matter where we’re from, we’re all human, and I love people like you who help anyone regarding race, colour, religion etc. I’m a mountain biker and I help anyone I can in any way I can. Thank you and god bless you.

Dude, this act of Kindness goes long ways, great job helping strangers, we got to see where they struggled and see their progression. Subscribed and Kudos to you brother! Keep them coming!

I'd whished my swiss cousing taught me how to snowboard like this 21 years ago. They would just simply tell me "see you at the end of the track". I learned the hard way, but it was fun. Next week I will go snowboarding again after 21 years.

Can't thank you enough for putting captions this round. I know it's not the norm but watching this with my wife, who's severely hearing impaired, was really awesome. Caught myself holding back some tears. Really appreciate your videos Kevin!

Great teacher. Calm, chill, with simple instructions.

Randomly helping strangers. That is most excellent. I hope this coming winter when I'm going to learn to board there's someone as nice to help when they see me struggling

I just went snowboarding for the first time yesterday but failed miserably at stopping. Actually having a visual of you teaching beginners helps so much more when learning what to do, I’m going back this weekend and will use the tips you taught these guys!

Taking some friends snowboarding for the first time ever this coming season, this is an excellent example for "what to expect" on their first day

This lesson is great. It makes me think I could learn snowboarding myself.

"Failure is an event, not a person" Absolutely based.

Love that you helped a couple guys that were so green. They likely had an awesome experience on their first day and will keep going!

I'm 32 and planning my first ski trip with my cousin and his wife after Christmas this year. Watching other videos have made me feel like I "understood" the concept of how to slow down, turn, and keep control. Seeing it like this gave me a new perspective and your explaining to them and seeing them learn from your guidance gave me the best perspective so far. I'm even more excited to go after watching this video and feel like I am more prepared to start my own slow-process practicing the first day on the snow than before. Can't thank you enough. First time will NOT be the last time!

Teaching new riders is one of my favorite things and after 15 years away from it, my son finally let me teach him yesterday. I'm SO excited. Came looking to brush up and get some reminders. This video is perfect. Great teaching and a nice approach!.

we all have to start somewhere! I think that the best thing is that the two of them had a positive first time. It will go a long way towards them returning to try snowboarding again, and again. Helps to have a great instructor like Kevin too! wtg Kev!

Love how you saw someone struggling and spent your day teaching them. I remember my first day on the beginner hill, realizing snowboarding was way harder than I thought and questioned why I was doing it. In the end, watching lots of tutorials (mostly Kevin), I started my second season 2 weeks ago. I’m over 40 so you are never too old to learn if you have good teaching and a lot of patience the first year.

This is so great! I'm new at snowboarding and just moved to CO. I got on a snowboard when I was like 6 at a random sledding park growing up in NY and these kids lets me go on their board and I hit a tiny ramp not kowing what to do. Ever since then I've wanted to try this sport. Finally at 26 I live in a state where I can do it and financially able to. It's been disheartening seeing so many people hate on the newbies, but everyone starts somewhere. We need more people like you! Much appreciated!

A bit of a lengthy comment but bear with me: I work at an indoor SB and ski school in San Francisco, I also just went to palisades this past weekend and would like to say that this video has given me more info to give to our clients in terms of what to expect on the snow, in comparison to our E-Slope. I’m falling in love with snowboarding day by day thanks to channels like this that lead by example as well as being welcoming to newbies like me

Taking some friends snowboarding for the first time ever this coming season, this is an excellent example for "what to expect" on their first day

Amazing. Lots of folks go for their first time , all the time. It costs a lot to save for a trip, let alone one during holiday/winter months. Depending where you end up, could be $10k-$20k for just shy of a month abroad. So a lot of folks will do a snow sports trip maybe once in their life. These two guys looked like they appreciated the lesson. So did I. Going on my first snow adventure to Hokkaido in a few weeks 😊

I'm going snowboarding for the first time in a couple of weeks and I found this video to be the most helpful one I've found on RU-vid. Thanks heaps for uploading this mate, its awesome!

Jeans, no gloves, no goggles. Deff good candidate for beginners video. Your a good guy my friend. Keep it up.

I've taught a bunch of people and this is pretty much exactly how I teach them. I do more of the falling leaf stuff though so I know they can at least get down the run. I'm very patient and am used to teaching/training people (at my job). I also had to learn snowboarding on my own, my friends were NO help lol. So I can see what people are doing wrong and how they can fix it.

Going to go on my first snowboarding trip tomorrow and I feel like I got some real helpful info from your video. I expect to fall a lot but that is part of the learning experience. Thank you for the great content.

I will be teaching beginners this year. This video helps to learn how to approach them. Thanks Kevin!

You are so nice to do this with them! I’m starting for the first time this season and I wished you were my trainer.

Perfect teacher. Patient. And not judging.

Man I can seriously binge on these beginner walkthrough videos!

Amazing! Channels like yours, Tommy Bennet, John Buckhouse, Malcom Moore, Snowboard Addiction, have all inspired me to teach someone how to snowboard this season.

Great teacher. The guys were also very good. They made progress quickly

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan Kevin again with the proper content drop and also just being a super dope human being. Props man for doing you, always appreciate your videos. Have shared them with many family members/friends who are getting into snowboarding!

This is how I learned, I kept going up on my own, doing my best, until a good dude showed me how to do it, then I learned on my own after that, much respect my dude!

"Failure is an event, not a person" yes. legend. Love this video.

Yo Kevin! This was such a nice, pure and wholesome video! Appreaciate this type of content greatly and I also think others do, as many people are bloody beginners. For myself I could relate so well to the process 🙂 Also probs to those guys, for being so dedicated and enjoying what they do. The improvement was real good.

Props to you for teaching these guys. My friends just left me on the top of the mountain and I had to learn everything you are teaching on my own. It's was rough, I was in jeans, no gloves and no instructions.

So I'm starting as an apprentice this winter as a snowboard instructor and I'm going to take my level 1 course, I appreciate this video so much man, and from one of my favourite snowboard channels!

Randomly helping strangers. That is most excellent. I hope this coming winter when I'm going to learn to board there's someone as nice to help when they see me struggling

My daughter (16) and I (44) just got boards and can’t wait to learn how to snowboard. I would love to get some training like this just out of nowhere! 😂

Congrats to these guys. Getting on the mountain can be intimidating. They did awesome!

The best teacher always said the most important thing is to have fun.

This was an awesome video. Surprisingly satisfying. It was so good of you to help out 2 strangers, Kevin! And Zubair and Ali: you guys were awesome! (And super lucky to have an instructor like Kevin). InshaAllah you continue to have awesome days on the mountains!

Been boarding for so long i dont remember how i learned, i promised a friend I'd teach them and i came here to make sure im teaching them right! Great video

That was just heart warming. Thanks random-click snowboard dudes!

Amazing! Few things that i do that just help build good habits and makes it a lil easier to teach. 1. Go over basic terminology/ physics of snowboarding. 2. The first time they get up don’t help them. Walk them through it and have them get up to the best of their abilities and kind of go through a progression of helping less and less until they can get up on their own. 3. After heel slip/ toe slip, reach falling leaf on both sides. And last but not least give them an example before every thing you teach them, makes them understand It better. Just a few things I like to do. Great video!

Heading out to Brek tomorrow to take my first lesson. This was awesome, and these guys had a great persistent attitude! Awesome! They're probably pros by now!

I thought kev had given up on teaching! But this could a good series. Im always open to some tips kev :)

I used to snowboard and ski a lot but couple years ago I moved to a new city and none of my friends here do either so I haven’t gone in like five years so this helped jog my memory a bit since I’m going for the first time In five years today😂

Such a very nice of you teaching strangers ❤

Great instructor, great gentlemen from Pakistan. Thanks for the lessons, going to do snwoboarding first in February.

man these 2 dudes got lucky as fk! Lessons cost a lot of money haha and they got lessons from the man himself this is legit!

Watched this before going out for the first time. Fell a lot, but wished there was a more flat spot on the mountain. There was a small learning area but with my wife and me and 5 other friends trying to teach us, it got crowded real quick. Sunlight Mtn was overall a steep grade for a corresponding learning curve. I'm going to keep watching your videos and try to implement these methods to get better. Been waiting 26 years for this moment lol (I'm 42 now)

the way I was taught was that the foot you are more dominant with goes back. So because im right footed, I should be left foot forward, but again, its very different with snowboarding and the fun of it is finding out what side you are more comfortable forward, and turns out im a goofy stance and not a regular, which goes against what I was first taught when i first learned in canada and then even back here in the UK. Love the video though and always look forwards to more of them!

This is the best video to watch before for anyone who is going try for the first time. I watched this video many times and tried snowboarding for my first time and actually made so much progress. Thank you for making such a wonderful video.

excellent job! Kudos for helping out these 2 guys, and refreshing our memory...

Appreciate you! The learning attitude of the guys is great too.

He taught someone for free! He deserves a thumb up! Such a good energy.

Love the absolute classic learner board. Iconic.

I love to see more creators doing this :) keep up the awesome work spreading the love for snowboarding!

You need to find these guys again and see how they have progressed

My first lesson last week was my skii friends taking me up a lift (I didn’t fall off!) and then basically having me send it down the green. I wish I saw this before I hit the mountain! Seeing these guys progress was super reinforcing. Cheers

Honestly wish there could've been someone like this for me. Just went for the first time with some friends yesterday and we kind of just jumped straight into things.. went down the bunny hill twice and thought we were ready to hit the actual slopes.. did pretty good for the first time but this definitely could've helped a lot

Failure is an event, not a person. That's a nice one. Bruce Lee used to say "Failure is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated, until defeat has been accepted as a reality".

“Failure is an event not a person”these dudes are sick man! You Forsure made their day fun. Yeeeewww

I had my first lesson 3 days ago and can relate to their foibles- you're a saint! So good of you to take the time to do this for them!

I am gonna do snowboarding lessons, cant wait! I've wanted it for years, today i'm probably gonna plan it. Ur videos are super helpful as i see wich struggles i might get and how to solve them. Thanks!

This was so helpful. I’m going to take lessons for snowboarding tomorrow so it’s great to watch the progression of someone else to understand what I may go through.

As a dude who has both snowboarded and sky dived, I’d say I’m more afraid of the snowboarding. Relearning at 30. I had an uncle who worked at a ski hill so we got to go out there every weekend. Taught myself when I was 9 the old fashioned way by going down and falling a million times. By the end of the season I got it down enough to go without falling a few different trails. This time I have guides and can’t wait to actually learn.

I think that will be a good option to make more movies with these guys and see progression with you step by step.

love the confidence in both of them, they didnt even freaking bring gloves lol

2 weeks ago, I went for the first time to ski as I got there. I decided to try snowboarding. I bought a snowboard from the shop and kept trying to learn about 9 hours later. I was so tired and sore. I was able to figure out the turns, but stopping was so hard. So I have decided to go on another trip again in a couple of weeks to try snowboarding again. I wish I could run to someone who will teach me, lol.

Watched this one yesterday and today started to snowboarding within one hour!!

I was trying to teach my friend how to ski and I found this video. I have a piece of advice for any beginner who wants to learn to ski. If you do decide to learn to ski, before you start I recommend you first learn how to set up your bindings properly. Because I found in the video that the gap between their binding plates and boots is too large, which will directly affect the control of the skis and affect the initial experience. The first experience is very important.

Very cool you stopped and helped total strangers. Watching them struggle like that was more beneficial than a pro doing it.

I have skateboarding experience so I think that's why snowboarding came so naturally to me but I'm hooked on it. I am proud to say I was impressing my friends who have been snowboarding for years with the progress I've made with going only 2 times.

Those guys had the best attitude and will have lots of fun snowboarding. Great teaching job. It was a good combination.

Thank you, my very first video before my first ever snowboarding day

I went snowboarding once for school for 3 days and had such a good teacher. It was my first time ever but I was already used to wakeboarding, skateboarding and waveboarding. At day 3 I was able to reach 45 kmh while still in full control and now I'm addicted and really want to go again. I'm saving up to go on another snowboarding vacation.

I’m 60 years old and will be going on my 1st snow trip. Not sure if I want to snowboard or ski. I’ve surfed my entire life as I live in Hawaii so snowboarding/skiing is a whole new concept for me. I hope to come across someone as generous as you to teach me some lessons

This was super awesome to watch. Not only the teaching part - but how we need more people like you in this world. Great job, much respect to you!

This is a day they’ll never forget!

I am by no means a bigginer but i really enjoy this video because it give me little tips on what i should be doing better!! THANK YOU

You did a great job teaching them! Wish I had you as a teacher when I first started 😂

what an awesome act of kindness!

Going learn snowboarding, planning to take lessons but it’s also very help so far. My ❤jump a lot of times. But I love the confidence level. Love it

These two guys are so lucky to meet you. We went snowboarding the first time yesterday, our coach completely got our feet wrong. I learned more from this video than what I did for the whole day yesterday!

THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO, My Two Sons are taking Their FIRST Solo Ski Trip This week To The Slopes In a few weeks and I'm so nervous, the first time I went skiing I had no Idea what I was doing Fake it till you make it I always say it. I had gone on a high school trip, finished ski school and did my thing and a misjudgement caused me to break my leg. Well my sons will be learning for the first time 23, 28 They keep asking me to go to the Condo and just relax and keep the dog company and enjoy the view of the blue ridge mountains, I just don't think I can deal with the cold and the snow, Multiple Sclerosis is not being nice to me, and the walker is working overtime, no need to be sad I would never get on slopes again, that fear is gone but the pain will never go away. I pray they enjoy and pray they choose to do it again and with my younger son living with a Autism, but Genius level, I told him thats might not help him snowboard though.... I pray they have trusting and good snowboarding instructors that are fun and Patient.

Very kind of you teaching strangers. God bless you brother!

Did snowboarding today for the first time, wish I had a trainer like you. I’ll be using your techniques on my next trip.

you made it look much more appealing to the wide audience, to see beginners struggle like so, good job !

I'm so glad I found this. I just went snowboarding for the first time yesterday after wanting to do it for years, but similar to one of the guys in the video, I was just afraid. I didn't really have any help or guidance, and basically wore myself out just trying to get around with the snowboard, trying to skate just from watching others. Unfortunately it's kind of late in the season, so I may not be able to get out again, but hopefully next season I can try and find a good hill to practice what you showed in this video and get more comfortable on the board. Plus, do more cardio over the summer, in an entire day at the hill, I only managed 2 trips down the bunny hill just because of how exhausted I was trying to get around.

Just learned the hard way via trial and error today for the first time, incredibly sore now but man once you get the hang of it it’s so fun, don’t know what took me so long to try snowboarding.

Awesome video. Thank you for this. I just signed up for a snowboard lesson for the first time and I feel like I can handle this. Got myself new snow pants and better jacket for the first time in years too. I’m looking forward to it.