10 Tips for Snowboard Carving Turns

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In this video we have 10 tips that will help you improve your carving snowboard turns! A carve is when you ride your snowboards edge around a turn. Carving is an aggressive way to turn with your snowboard with speed and control. Carving is also necessary if you want to do spinning ticks in the park and for riding the half pipe. You can start learning to carve by focusing on one turn at a time. For the toe carve focusing on bending your knees toward the snow. For the heel carve pretending like you're sitting in a chair. As the individual carves improve you can start linking them together on a mellow slope. Always progress at your own pace and be safe while practicing your snowboard carving turns. Thanks for watching!

[larryhouse]

I went out yesterday. For basically the second time ever at Marmot Basin. And carving all of a sudden made sense by doing one simple thing. Steering with my eyes. Being a beginner I always found myself looking down in front of me, I now lifted my head up and exaggerated looking where I wanted too go. Holding my arms out too my side a little bit and even pointing my lead hand in the direction I wanted too go, kind of steering with my shoulders as well. Seeing many of your tips here I see that once I kept my head up and looked where I wanted too go, almost everything else here came naturally. In 1 day I went from never riding toe edge too being able too bring the board too a powerful stop on my toes just by looking far uphill. It all came naturally. So impressed.

[keniaamaya]

Hey guys, great vid, love the tips! They really helped a lot. My fiance is a snowboard instructor and saw what you guys were doing and thought that everything was great besides one thing and maybe this will help you and everyone else who is trying to dial in their toe turns. When doing toe turns and on the toe edge, always make sure your hips come forward like you are sticking your waist out in front of you in order to get your hips (center of weight) over the toe edge, then sink your knees down to the snow, trying to touch your knees to your toes. This is the one thing that seems to be missing here and once you both implement this technique you will find your toe edge to become easier and less effort. Hope you have a good day and thank you for sharing these tips with us. Happy riding! :)

[puzz]

snowboarders always seem intimidating but you guys are the most friendly I've seen! I love your guys attitudes, being experts but not taking yourselves too seriously and showing when you fall, etc. awesome tutorial :) gonna try these tips out next time

[nikohelin]

4:12 trying to pick your nose with those gloves is hard isn´t it xD

[paytonfalco]

I learned boarding after skiing for 10 years and you guys help me A LOT and I don't think I would be this good this early on. Thank you and keep doing what your doing ❤️

[bodice]

I'm trying snowboarding for the first time and these videos get me so excited. I've been skiing for 5 years first time snowboarding YAY!

[maxipunk]

Hey guys! I am from Argentina but currently living in Slovenia, and experiencing the snow for the very first time. As a former skateboarder I've started feeling the need to slide on the snow, so I got myself a snowboard and instantly having 18 years old again. Your videos helped me to understand quickly how to ride it and I am very thankful for this, keep the good job! Cheers!.

[Anders]

“When I saw myself carving for the first time, it was horrible”. Thank you, THANK you! 😸 I just did that today, saw myself on cam. I’m rookie so, ok. But OMG. There are areas of improvement, for sure. Thanks for a great video!!

[steveokay]

This has got to be one of my favorite SBPC vids.
I was out last weekend practicing my carves and I could hear Chris' voice in my head:
"Bend more....more....MORE! MMMOAAARRRR!!!" :)
Seriously helpful dudes.

[sheilasexton-desersa]

Great tips guys, here's another, when making big, long arcs, on heel side turns you can move your weight forward over your front foot to dig your edge in and straighten up as you transition to the toe side arc then moving your weight over your back foot. So remember, its heel side/weight over front foot and toe side/weight over back foot. Try it and you will feel the power in your transitions.

[phatwoofer]

Hey man! I went snowboarding for the first time since I broke my ankle last year, I was worried that my ankle would give me problems when I would carve and stuff, but I'm glad to say that everything went fine and I'm exited to get back on the mountain! Also awesome work in the channel!

[angelalacandalo]

I love tip #10! A mental image of how you should look like when snowboarding helps me a lot especially thinking about how you do it in your videos! Thanks guys!

[paristexas]

thanks for making this... i'm working on carving - did a private lesson today to focus on carving (with a goal to soon ride switch). Tomorrow I'm going to take your advice to exaggerate the carves to find the sweet spot!!! awesome!

[monica]

I love this video 😂😂😂 — I'm trying the exaggeration tip and it's working 👏👏 You two are amazing!! (Btw: min. 4:11 hillarious 😂)

[lefterakas]

Hi from Greece. The best channel for snowboard tips.

[Harley]

Chris is hilarious! Kev, I'm lovin these daily vids... Keep it up!

[tziyonstersworld]

AMAZING CHANNEL, you REALLY helped me learn quickly on my first day of snowboarding class! Thank you SO much, I couldn't have done it without you!

[sstalder]

Good video with some good points and nice slow progression, but there are a few things that bother me. Both of you guys favor your back foot riding, which is why your edges are sliding out, not because they aren't sharp enough. Try adding slightly more pressure onto your front foot, especially when initiating your turns, for better edging. Another thing is when you guys ride toe edge (Chris more than Kev), you want to extend your hips forward rather than keeping them back in a seated position. This adds more linear pressure and a higher edge angle to your toe edge for better carving. Also, the "steering with your knees" part is right and wrong. The body movements are more or less correct, but your feet are what's actually doing the steering. Those movements change the torsional flex of the board, which is initiating your turns. I feel like beginners will get the wrong idea steering with their knees, and not actually understand what they are trying to accomplish with the movements. And finally, your bonus tip is actually backwards. You want your knees bent in between turns and extended in the middle of your turns. Releasing pressure in the middle of your turns will cause your edge to lose grip, resulting in skidded turns or loss of control. Search for dynamic carving for more info on this. That said, you're putting out a lot of great information for new snowboarders in a free and easy to access format. I'm subbed and looking forward to more new videos!

[mattkhoury]

It’s the transition from heel to toe carving at moderate to high speeds that freaks me out. I’m scared of catching my back edge. How do I shift my weight from heel to toe properly to feel more confident in that maneuver so that I don’t catch an edge and can control my speed and high speeds? And that rocking back and forth move, you make it look easy but I find it very difficult.

[inevercrash]

I've been trying to learn carving for a while and this should really help