Learn to Snowboard Painlessly

A new approach to teaching/learning snowboarding

You can learn to snowboard without hard falls. Snowboarding is life on the (snowboard) edge. So the key of success is in keeping snowboard on the correct edge.

You get the maximum safety respecting next two rules:

1. Use exclusively the pressure of lower legs for tilting the board onto its edge. Never use the movement of ankles for this reason.
2. Start lessons by learning of the board edging using rather steeper slopes. Gentle slopes represent the ultimate danger for beginners.

• Home
• Introduction
• Getting in and out of Bindings
• Keeping Board on Edge
• Learning of Edging by Side Slipping and Down Slipping
• Next Proceeding
• Snowboard turns – basic mechanics
• Basic rotational turn
• Basic counter-rotational turn

I have been dealing with the problem over the last few years of how to make snowboarding lessons less painful for lesson participants and more effective. My conclusions led to a different method of teaching in comparison with currently used one, especially in the initial stages of training. The key aspects of the new approach are described at this site.

If you would like to help me make the content more comprehensible, email me to startsnb at gmail.com, please.

Milos Kmetko