2008/2009 Snowboard Review
The snow has pretty much all gone now, it's time to review my progress this season.
As usual, I captured some video to show visually my improvement. The video this year is not so good, as the camera's in-video zoom function setting has screwed up....
With some frame-by-frame observations, some critique:
- On the toe-side, the edge angle has increased, pivoting seem quite smoothly. However, the body lean out too much and caused a skid out on the lower part of the turn.
- It should be with a more aggressive cow-boy stance to drop down the knee, and increase speed to keep the momentum.
- On the heel-side, I was able to hang pretty low and create that edge. But there is a skid on the top of the turn caused by body weight to the back of the board and a slide at back-side.
- More pressure on the leading leg (or less on the back leg) and even earlier pivoting+anticipation to steer smoothly into the turn.
- Also need to stop trying too hard and assume that robot stance and stiff hand position. Relax is the form.
Some new idea:
- Focus on more cow-boy stance on heel-side, as I already does on toe-side.
- More knee headlight steering.
- Relax!
Review from last year can be found here
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As usual, I captured some video to show visually my improvement. The video this year is not so good, as the camera's in-video zoom function setting has screwed up....
With some frame-by-frame observations, some critique:
- On the toe-side, the edge angle has increased, pivoting seem quite smoothly. However, the body lean out too much and caused a skid out on the lower part of the turn.
- It should be with a more aggressive cow-boy stance to drop down the knee, and increase speed to keep the momentum.
- On the heel-side, I was able to hang pretty low and create that edge. But there is a skid on the top of the turn caused by body weight to the back of the board and a slide at back-side.
- More pressure on the leading leg (or less on the back leg) and even earlier pivoting+anticipation to steer smoothly into the turn.
- Also need to stop trying too hard and assume that robot stance and stiff hand position. Relax is the form.
Some new idea:
- Focus on more cow-boy stance on heel-side, as I already does on toe-side.
- More knee headlight steering.
- Relax!
Review from last year can be found here
tags to del.icio.us: snowboard, video
tags to Technorati: snowboard, video
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