Learn To Snowboard

Originally posted by Attrox I enjoyed the ending of that video too, funny to see Doug almost eat it on that rainbow box

Easily the best snowboard instructional videos IVE seen! Thanks for the hard work!

Long awaited, The Butters Video!!!!

Thanks doug, I've actually been up in mammoth since friday, got two days of riding so far, going to go up monday morning(tomorrow). Your videos have been insanely helpful, not even joking. My ollie is higher than ever and I just started doing presses non-stop today, picked it up pretty quickly.   I have a couple questions I wanted to get your feed back on if you don't mind!! Hopefully you can get back to me in time for my session tomorrow, but if you can't no worries, it will be food for thought til next season!

Right now I'm riding the Custom V-rocker 156 (Thanks to SS's sale of course and the same board you used in some of your videos). I ride regular stance and I've set it up so that my front foot is at 15 degrees and 1 line back from the reference point (sorry, board isn't in front of me for me to tell you what is written on the line under the ref line).. My back foot is 13/14 degrees and at the reference point. Q1. First off can you please give me your stance settings on your V-rocker, I just want to know them out of curiosity, I know everyone is different.

Q2.
What do you think about my stance positions if I'm trying to master riding switch right now, should I try to get used to riding the vrocker at the reference points instead of my front foot positioned 1 line back from the ref line? I kind of catch my back toe edge(which is my front toe edge on the board) when I try to transition from heel to toe while riding switch. Don't know if that makes a difference...


Also I wanted to ask about buttering, it's going to take me a few more sessions to master presses, I can do a wheelie press(?0 for a while when riding down the slop(like for over 30 feet continuous) at this point and getting used to front presses THANKS TO YOUR VIDEOS and in 1 day!!

Q3. But my question in regards to buttering is, do I need more of a jib board than the custom v-rocker and is a centered stance at ref points pretty mandatory? Seems like having the front binding set back a bit might throw off butters a bit.   

Once again Doug, thanks for your videos, SUPER helpful!!

Great video.  Buttering is first on my list of things to learn next season

Love the ollie tutorial, will help heaps.

wow, finally a video that i've been dying for. great vid Doug! extremely helpful, too bad i wont be able to try any of your advice till next season

Request for a video on tips for riding in the glades besides avoiding trees.

i landed my first 180 this weekend, i was so stoked.

Great videos they helped me alot!!

Great videos!!! THanks!

great videos! they helped me! thanks!

Great video. I have learned a lot from them.

Thanks! Learning will be easyer

In response to your question about dialing in your ollie: Lets break down the steps and clear up the body movements that you listed. 1: Set up towards the nose - Be able to shift your board underneith your body while it is flat on the snow. This will allow you to drive back towards the tail. (So it is not a lean forward, but rather shift your board back to setup towards the nose.) 2: Drive the board forward to load up the tail  and pull up your front foot - This puts your weight to the tail and allows the front foot to easily be pulled up into the air. 3: Your back leg should be flexed as you prepare to generate and release the big pop off the tail. The front legs height at this point is going to be directly related to the height of your ollie. 4: Extend the back leg to pop the board up into the air. As soon as the board pops both legs need to be pulled up into the core. If you only allow the back leg to pop up the front leg will get the teeter-totter  where the front leg goes down as the back leg goes up. 5: Absorbing the landing by extending the legs to meet the ground. Landing with a flat board and up right upper body. Hope this helps.

Originally posted by Dhulem14 Request for a video on tips for riding in the glades besides avoiding trees.

These videos have been a huge help! thank you Doug! These make more sense than any instructor i've had a lesson with.

yeah, those basic tricks are sweet to do for fun.

Originally posted by nammertime im starting to butter any tips?

Carving technique videos (both Up and Down Turns) would do ALOT of people some good. because most people dont even know what those are or when to use them

Thanks for the butters video! its the first thing im going towards next session!

Originally posted by Jim_ Hey Doug,   I tried to learn to press this week but pretty much got nowhere.  The video is great, don't get me wrong.  I couldn't get any significant flex out of my board.  Is my board (2009 Burton Custom 157W) too stiff to press, or am I just too lame to do it?  Thanks!

Originally posted by Vick Wow Doug, thanks a lot. Definitely put a lot into perspective and makes tons of sense. I'll definitely fix my stance to center now. Coming from a freeride board I've always had the front set back a bit. Also I can't believe I missed that video, that helped out a ton also, currently I have my toe ramp extended to the max setting thinking it's just supposed to meet up with the toe edge of the boot as much as possible, obviously I was wrong, I'm going to have to recheck that and probably move the toe ramp back a couple notches since I have size 9 ozones with medium cartel ests. Thanks again for all these videos and priceless info. It's definitely helping me use my time on the mountain more efficiently as I'm sure that's the case with everyone else! We commend you!

Thnx Doug, your comments are of great help! Will keep at it till I get it right. It's all carpet practice from here until next season though.

Cheers Doug,

These videos are awesome mate! Keep it up!