How To Use A Trampoline To Improve Your Snowboarding
I’ve put together a video showing my first usage of a trampoline, to improve my snowboarding. If the concept of using a trampoline to help your snowboarding is new to you, then here’s the idea. Bouncing around on a trampoline, whilst strapped onto a snowboard, gives you a lot of goes at grabbing your snowboard [...]
How To Use A Balance Rail To Improve Your Snowboarding
I’ve put together a simple video showing how I’m currently using the balance rail I built, to improve my snowboarding. The balance rail can help primarily with your jibbing: rails and boxes. You can work on your body position and balance on the rail as well as the movements used to get on and off. [...]
Snowboard Addiction Freestyle Lessons Review: Part 2
Snowboard Addiction provide a whole load of instructional snowboard lessons. This is part 2 of the Freestyle Lessons review. Part 1 provided an introduction to the content included in the course, which is extensive, along with some initial impressions of the material. In part 2, I’ll comment on some of the stand-out bits of instruction, [...]
How To Make A Balance Rail To Improve Your Snowboarding
The idea of a balance rail was presented to me as part of a series of instructional videos. The aim: work on your balance, body position and movement without actually being on the hill. Improve whilst you’re at home. That sounds good, doesn’t it? So how do I get one? Actually there’s not much too [...]
When Are You Too Old To Get Good At Snowboarding?
Are you too old to snowboard, to get good at it? Am I? The short answer is: no, probably not. I’m writing this at the age of 30. A few years ago, I was on a steady curve, getting better each winter. I haven’t done any seasons and don’t ride more than a handful of [...]
Snowboard Tricks: The Concepts of Rotation and Counter-Rotation
Are you fairly new to freestyle? Perhaps you’re just starting out with your first ollies and straight airs, or maybe you can spin 180s, 360s and ride a few rails? If the above description fits you, or you’re close to it, the following is definitely worth reading. Start thinking about the concepts of rotation and [...]
Snowboard Addiction Freestyle Lessons Review: Part 1
OK, so I ended up getting SnowboardAddiction’s Freestyle Download. The download covers the same five DVDs that you can buy in physical form, if you prefer: Jumping Vol 1, Jibbing Vol 1, Jumping Vol 2, Jibbing Vol 2 and a Data Disc. There’s a lot of stuff! Between the jumping and jibbing volumes, you get [...]
"Go Snowboard", Neil McNab’s Instructional DVD: Review
The McNab instrucional snowboard DVD (Go Snowboard) is very good, it’s excellenty priced and comes with an accompanying book. Perhaps non-beginners may find it more useful than those just starting out, but if you’re in the market for instructional guidance, I’d recommend this. Who’s it for? In my opinion the terminology and demonstration used for [...]
