Snowboard Stance Setup Pro Tip / Angles & Width Interplay

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Video description / background:
Setting up your snowboard stance is quite a thing... The options are seemingly infinite, and there are so many opinions on this subject.
As always, following the biomechanics of your own body and basic physics will get you much closer to a FUNCTIONAL stance for your riding style than any trend, hype or general opinion.
Here's a guideline on how your stance width and your binding angles are connected and together create what I would call the PERCEIVED stance width.
#snowboarding #snowboard

[Justaride-Snowboard-Channel]

One year in, 55.000 views later this video has seemingly helped many people to find a better stance.
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[newrenaissance]

you have to be the only guy on yt who knows how snowboards (and skis) actually turn and how physics and ergonomics work. perfect tip

[martinbailly]

Once again, excellent analysis ! I never considered the distance between my heels, very clever ! Your approach is so refreshing and totally logical in my books ! Kudo Lars !

[bm]

What a legend you are. I went snowboarding for the 6th time ever yesterday The first 4 times I used my buddy’s board who’s a different height to me. So I watched your video and thought u know what I’m gonna get my own board so I got it fitted to my size and stance and holy sh!t i absolutely love it. So yeah thanks man

[JollyOrfali]

I never really thought about how stance angle effects the distance between your heels or toes, and the pressure points from edge to edge. It’s pretty obvious now that I think of it, thank you for the insight!

[Jasonfitnessoutdoors]

Excellent information! Never thought about the distance between my feet this way. Thank you🏂

[timeflex]

Finally, a wise approach! I'm tired of that "keep it 30 degrees" mantra. Thank you.

[alirezamoayedi]

Thanks for mind opening explanation. I am at beginning to start carving and want to set up my bindings. This helps much to understand how and why. Great

[tomyeo]

I started riding in the 90s. My first board was fairly narrow and I have big feet so I had it set with my back foot +9 and my front foot +15. That’s just what I learned and got comfortable with. It was a longer board for the time and I just wanted to go downhill fast, didn’t really care about riding switch much. I went to a local hill recently and got a rental board for the afternoon. When I asked for that setup, they looked at me funny and asked if I was really sure😂

[ShredAheadSnowboarding]

just watched your stance video; we are on the same track. I like you rode just duck stance for years due to teaching others and using true twin rides. Never changing the angles, but now with the directional ride boards in order to get the best ride; I also have move to a more forward alignment especially on the rear foot for better use of the back and front knee movement, giving a better fore and aft and use of equal pressure and edge work. We are riding the same train, nice plus going on 80 it easier on my knee's!

[jplpagan]

One of the reasons I like asymmetrical side cuts. Not that they are necessary, but I ride a somewhat wide duck stance and the asym make heel carves feel tighter.

[markthompson]

Awesome info. Thanks for starting this channel. I geek out on all this kind of stuff.

[bketelslegers]

I went from 10 years hardboots to softboots. good explanation .greets

[FourTand]

Good info. I'm 188cm tall. My length from floor to center of kneecap is about 55cm. Took a look at all my boards and that's about where I have my bindings mounted, center to center. For angles, I usually ride somewhere around +18 or + 21 and 0 degrees or -3. If I'm focusing on carving more than anything, I'll run my rear foot +3.

[angelogiannosa]

Great info! Can you comment or make a video explaining what reference stance is and what might be gained or lost if you adjust stance width away from that?

[jonathanmaron]

New to your channel, but really enjoying the content. Thank you for clear explanation and thoughtful insight. Keep up the good work!

[duo]

Thank you for the insight. I ride +24/+6 on a directional board and have been debating going to higher angles. I paused to kind of think about it and it just seemed uncomfortable and unnecessary. I flipped my discs to the other more aggressive angles I was considering and it just didn't look right or feel right to stand in. This puts logic to the sensation that I had attempting to adjust. I am incredibly happy on 24/6 and will likely stay there long term as a directional rider.

[kaeptn-g]

It's interesting, I ride a 2014 Nitro Pantera 166 Wide, being at ~95kg and 1, 83m. I like my bindings to be as close together as possible but until now I was comfortable with +45 and +6, so 39 degrees difference 😳
I'm all into bombing down the hill and/or carving, and before I saw your video I thought about trying +45 and +12 but now I think I might also want to try something like +32 and +6. Thanks a lot for your content it is really helpfull 🤙

[casey]

Finally someone talking about width between heels & combined total angles. This is very on point. I'm curious how tall you are? Im 6'3" and rode +6/+30 & a 22" stance past several years. That seems so narrow but when I try wider it feels forced, maybe I have narrow hips or short legs. Or maybe 22" is'nt that narrow these days? Im starting the season -3/+24 on my all mountain rig since I'm trying to implement more freestyle into my all mountain riding and I like it. I have a natural super duck stance in normal life so I found I can have a slightly negative back foot angle and still comfortably get my hips and shoulders facing forward & still have the stability & slash power that the slightly negative rear foot gives me.

[drummerAVA]

Definitely have always preferred a directional stance… 15-5 ish… I just feel so much more in control.

A couple years ago I was set up ducky footed on a rental board and couldn’t stand it, had to get everything tweaked! Stance width, angles, and all!