17:48 in your first video you mentioned toe side, put your front hand on your front knee for positioning. In this clip, your hand is much closer towards your high back, which I find more beneficial for body positioning/leaning away from the snow. Reaching a little towards the high back helps me keep rotation and also encourages leaning away from the snow and better edging. A Donek rider video mentioned a drill of rear hand to front toe on heel side and front hand to front heel on toe side. While I don’t try to touch, I find that really helps me hold what I feel is better posture (haven’t videoed to see), especially on toe side. Once I realize I’m bent forward and then correct it by reaching for my heel, it really helps lock in the carve. Thank you for your content, it has been so useful for improving my carving.
This one put me in the doghouse for a few days. She doesn't appreciate my hyper-critical nature... Hey Jason! Want to be my next technical analysis "victim"? I like the "edgeLever" name, but I thought "Talanian Strap On" was more catchy...
@@cherrycarves , yes, i get it. I have had a few rough days on the mountain with my wife too. Regarding the name, well, since my site/vids are for kids, the TSO sounded a bit too.....um.... anyway, I would love a tech analysis of my carving from you. That would help my riding immensely. I don't have any self videos but I will try to get one this season.
Thanks, Great lesson. I’m Happy that your instruction correlates with how I learned to ride in 1991 with ski boots and a Nidecker board. Back leg tucked in and facing forward for much of the ride.
I just picked up a late 90’s “hot logic” carving board and hard boots with new liners in my size from another old timer. So that I could try carving in hard boots again. So modern boards are much better are they. ? Well I’ll find out in the next week as I’m on my way to Switzerland!!
Love this! I'm a person who wants to know where my hand, hips shoulders etc need to be, its those details that make a huge difference to your carving. I haven't seen a video broken down to this level and can't wait to get myself filmed by a friend and look at what I need to improve. Saving this. She rips btw.
Thanks for sharing! I love your content. They have been the most helpful videos for me on RU-vid regarding learning how to carve. I still suck, but feel that my style has improved. You've also inspired me to get my first dedicated carving board, a lightly used Korua Bullet Train Plus 160.
It looks like Martina might be more comfortable in a duck stance seeing the way her back knee keeps pointing rearward for stability I really appreciate the frame by frame brake down and for me the most important lesson here is Line Choice! Line choice is everything and reveals a lot about the pilot and their navigational experience Cheers Cherry
@@cherrycarves Given your insight into the biomechanics I think it would be great if you could apply that to how they do and do not apply to his carving style. You don't need to do him, specifically, but insight into how a duck carver approach is similar and different would be great to see.
I have the same problem with the back knee pointing outward on heel side creating that cowboy stance you referenced. I try to rotate it in and can’t seem to get it right and my body still faces the side of the board instead of the front. Any tips on pointing that back knee in and driving the body position to be more forward? Will a more positive stance angle help? Currently 33f/18r
@@cherrycarves I find that if I think about not just going knock-kneed as an end it itself but doing it so my board flexes a bit I'm a little more active with tucking my knee and squaring my hips and my upper body. Is this self-defeating or is this a reasonable way to think about it? Also, I implemented your the touching your knee tip in my last trip. Really helped. It's funny how there are parallels with surfing technique. As the Hobgoods say, "Hand down, man down." Thanks for the great vids!
@markwadia8313 Ya if it's working then do it! You and I may be doing the exact same motion but thinking about it differently or using different verbal cues to get us to the same place. What does "hand down man down" mean? And what's a Hobgood? I'm not a surfer. Yet.
@@cherrycarves cool. Will keep on keepin on. Sry… thought you mentioned that you surfed in another vid. The Hobgoods are two brothers who were Championship Tour competitive surfers. It’s a technique to get the rider low during bottom turns. It refers to getting your hand low enough to touch the water. It is a different technique than snowboarding but does share some similarities
In order to put the knees together is preferable a narrow or a mid large stance ? Because I tried to put my knee near the front, but I inflamedmy back knee Tendon, lateral back where we have the Fibula.
I had the same problem and by untightening just a lil bit boots and bindings I felt better. Now that I built some muscles and have no more pain I can go stiffer
@valeriogiajvia165 It depends on the binding. Sometimes I just glue some rubber strips directly on the footbed. I have a video on that specifically coming out soon. It will be unlisted though so sign up for the mailing list to be able to find it.
@@cherrycarves This is the first video that it's like that, all of the other ones are ok. Not that it's a problem I just turned the volume up. Thanks for the awesome content!
Noticed it one of the earlier video's. It's not stereo anymore, but mono. No worries, just volume up :) I find these kind of videos so valuable and am learning so much of this. Kind of reluctant to send my own material though because I haven't reached this level yet.
Yeah... Snowboard carving is my expertise, the video production part is the bane of my existence right now; I need a millennial. In the meantime, you get what you pay for so stop complaining. This is free carving technique coaching at the highest level, take it or leave it. You're the typical wizard not me, take off the headset and use your computer speakers, man...
@@cherrycarveshaha, no worries! My comment was a bit snarky to begin with anyways. 🤣 Oh man, so I'm super swamped at the moment... But it might be worth swapping contact info for when things open up. I have some other ideas for improvements for the channel - if you're interested.
@typical-wizard Yeah, email me please? The address is in the fist 10 seconds of the "Four Drills" video. I just shot a bunch of video in my boardroom and the audio is brutal. Maybe you can show me a quick way to fix it?
Hi James, the audio of your voice is fully panned left (only playing through the left). This makes its extremely off-putting to listen to on headphones. Maybe I'm especially sensitive to this but it makes the video unwatchable for me.
@@cherrycarves fair enough, I'll wait till I'm somewhere to watch it without headphones. Just thought it was worth pointing out in case you hadn't realised and could could fix in future. Don't want to sound too salty, I still really appreciate the content you're creating for the community!
James this is great!! and his wife has great style! A snowboard professional always told me that the conventional boards on the market have the waist too wide for my size 21 or 22 boots 🫠. You comment just the opposite and now I am a sea of doubts.... 21.5 cm waist for a size 22 boot with double positive? How do you see it? Too small? I just bought Burton Lexa X bindings and Thirtytwo TM2 Hight . Waiting to try the combo next week....🤸🏾♀️ (There is no size of the Nidecker Kaon, Ride C8 bindings)
Martina had size 24 boots and 26.5 waist in this vid. Now she rides size 23 boots and a 26 waist. This is a good fit for her, both. The mondo plus 2cm rule of thumb works better for larger feet, since the boot length is shorter relative to the foot length in larger sizes. So you may need plus 3 or 4cm. Size 22 boot? 25cm waist. But you'll have to adjust that for sidecut radius, snow type, binding type, stance angles, stance width, riding style... Who made your custom 21.5 waist? How does it feel when you try to carve a woman's board with a 24.5 or 25cm waist? How close are the ends of your binding to the edge of the board in your preferred stance? Try your new setup and see how you like it. I'm guessing that if you ride like Martina, it'll be too narrow. And don't listen to "snowboard professionals"... They're mostly caught up in the "group think" mentality and won't understand your specific needs. Good luck. If you need more help email me next time with photos of your setup.
🤯My head just exploded!!🤯 The waist and boot size ratio you mention is the one I always use, perhaps the widest 27 cm with my triple base. And I always felt good, it's just that I have a hard time centering my feet (the small foot, bindings, wide board) I was almost always off-center. With the new narrow board I am much more aggressive, faster, I can do things easily, but I also feel like I have to make physical effort to maintain the line. The very whore seems to want to take me to the other extreme. Little pressure on my part? Boots and bindings too soft? The sidecut is the longest I've ridden to date and the board is crying out for posi posi. Too many changes and few days of driving to draw my own conclusions. As soon as I receive the new boots I will email you!! The board is amazing with challenging edges, they built for me just what I asked for. I knew I could be wrong!!! I'm not ready to design shapes myself yet!!🤓 I have a feeling it could be the board of my dreams, increasing the toughness of the interface and the positivity!! Thanks, teacher!!🏂🏾
About that back leg (of your wife). If she knows that the knee should go inside, but she doesn't do it - is that suggests that this is because of "mobility limitation"?
I think it's just hard to unlearn bad habits sometimes, and easy to forget about the knee when she's focused on so many other things at the same time while ripping steeps at high speed.
