How To Snowboard Chutes & Couloirs

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Get better skill in steep narrow terrain, couloirs and chutes with this snowboard tutorial How To Snowboard Chutes & Couloirs. This is just one of our many Drills Sections in Level 3 Ripper.

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now when we go out riding we're gonna
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experience little tight Cutes or couloirs
especially for getting into more
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extreme training so a drill that I like
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to practice is the Chute drill so this
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drill is to practice
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making turns in this little small
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environment of five to ten feet so I
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want to make sure that I make my turns
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that quick so I really go out practicing
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before I've I start doing this drill
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quick turns and I've talked about
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dynamic movements and dynamic turns so
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before you start doing this drill really
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practice a lot of quick turns dynamic
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turns so that you're able to get the
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board around very quickly so you're
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gonna be making turns or when you're in
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Cutes you might have like three feet
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you know so maybe ten feet or whatever
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but I like to make turns within five to
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ten feet so I'll choose somewhere on the
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trail I find a trail that's got
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maybe some trees or a rope lying along
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the side that's one of my
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lines and then five to ten feet away
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from that I'll have someone or what I
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usually do is I'll draw it and I'll have
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my students go down but I'll choose one
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one line that I don't have to make and
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another one I'll just drag down put my
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hands in the snow and just drag like
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that and this said little animation kind
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of shows you and then I make my turns
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within that area now to make these turns
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I have to use a lot of rotation a lot of
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twist and I'm really more dynamic and at
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first I really try to emphasize making
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these turns with my board on the snow
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because when I get into steeper terrain
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and I jump turn as soon as I get that
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friction off the snow my center of mass
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my my my potential energy he's gonna
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take me down the fall line as quickly as
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possible so I'm gonna gain as much speed
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as possible so in a steep steep
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environment I want to keep
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my board on the snow so I have effective
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edge and I don't start gaining speed if
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I jump turn Oh as soon as I land I'm
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gonna carry so much speed I might skid
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out or who knows I might hit a rock or
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something worse and then after I I do
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this drill sometimes I come back
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and I've already made a line and then I
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scoot it out further and I do it again
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and that way I can choose where my chute
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is it this one I just made or do I
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you know follow the the next chute
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that's right here and I might vary it
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sometimes I might make the line as I
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come down maybe just a little bit I'll
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make it shorter and then go back to the
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original line so you know that maybe
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it's ten feet and then all the
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sudden it's only like three feet I have
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to make the turn right there because the
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chute is really narrow. Now we do this chute
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drill because we want to be able to
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practice turning quickly and this
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will not only help me in chutes but
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also like in trees as well so this is
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very good practice to help me turn
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quickly I feel safe navigating steep
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terrain and I do this because I might be
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experiencing places are and terrain that
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I need to turn quickly.
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