Can't ride in a perfectly straight line HELP

 

Believe it or not, riding in a straight line at low speeds is one of the tougher skills in snowboarding. I've been riding for 15 years, coaching for 12, and I still dread taking those connecting trails...

 

There are a few things you can do to help eliminate edge catches in these situations:

 

1) Try to keep pressure on one edge all the time. You can accomplish this by keeping your legs bent to keep your balance, and either put extra pressure on your toes or on your heels by flexing your ankles and keeping yours knees bent.

 

2) I think the reason your back foot is sliding forward is because your weight isnt equally distributed over your board. Most people load the nose with with most of the pressure when riding in a slow straight line. This will release all the pressure from your back foot and the tail, resulting in the tail moving around more freely and sometimes unexpectedly! Its kinda like your doing a slight nose-press without knowing it. The best way to correct this is to equally distribute your weight on both legs. A trick is to try and push both feet outwards so you feel the outside of your feet pushing up against the side of your bindings. Also, you can try pointing front knee towards the nose and your back knee towards the tail, this is called a "cowboy" stance cause its like if you were sitting on a horse. This position pretty well guarantees equal pressure on both legs.

 

Try these 2 techniques out next time you ride, if you are still having trouble, send me a message and I'll give you some more pointers. Good luck!

Backflipmasterdana

 

Probably the rocker on it simply making it less catchy with the elevated contact points, and so rather than catching an edge and eating it, you just start to slide out and can adjust... but glad the advice worked out.