Correct Stances on a Snowboard
Hi! I'm Michael Bryant of the Telluride Ski and Snowboard School and this is your snowboard tip of the day. Today, we’re going to talk about stance width and angles. Okay, if you’re getting your board from the Reno Shop, the guys in the Reno Shop will help you asses out your angles and your stance widths so don’t worry about that. But, for those of you who fine tuning in your personal stance width and angles, this is how you can ago about it.
First aspect is you start out with your feet underneath your hips, slowly start to move them out until you feel pressure just on the inside of your feet, okay. The idea behind the wider stance is we have a better platform to balance on. But, if we go too wide, we actually inhibit our natural shock absorbers. We cannot absorb as much so we can't land those big tickers away that we wouldn’t want to. And, if we go too narrow, we’ve actually decreased our balancing options so get then out from underneath your shoulder standing just on the inside of your feet will be your width.
If you’re more of an all mountain rider, you probably have a directional stance and that is where both feet are pointed in the same direction towards the nose of the board. And then, the other stance angles are -- is more of a duck stance with the back foot actually has a negative angle. This is better suited or free style maneuvers and riding switch. Beware of extremes though because extremes can cause pain and possible injury in the future so get out there and try different stance width and angles and find tune your snowboard stance. I'm Michael Bryant of the Telluride Ski Snowboard School and that was your tip of the day.
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