How to Shifty Boardslide on a Snowboard

Welcome to our online snowboard camp! This video breaks down how to do a shifty boardslide snowboarding. Our how to snowboard videos are filmed using real students in the Whistler terrain park. In this video I break the shifty boardslides into three parts. Your line into the jump, locking in the shifty, and riding away clean. There are other how to snowboard videos on the channel to help improve any area of your snowboarding. Including trick tips in the terrain park, tips for in the alpine, and beginner snowboard lessons(coming soon). All the snowboarders in the video are actual students. So whether your an advanced snowboarder or a beginner, there's something on this channel for you. Subscribe to get updates as new videos are released.

How to Snowboard in Powder

Snowboarding in powder is what snowboarding is all about! It is also one of the more difficult skills to learn, if your used to snowboarding strictly on groomed runs and ice. Here are three tips to help you snowboard on powder.

1. Pressure your back foot. It is important to put more pressure on your back foot to keep the nose of your snowboard out of the snow. Try to bend you back knee more and move your hips back over the tail of your snowboard. Practising ollies and tail presses are a good way to practice for powder.  As you come around a turn in powder, push on your back foot to spray some snow out to the side. Spraying snow out to the side will slow you down, and set you up for that next turn. If we are spraying snow down hill, you will slow down too much, and get stuck in the powder. Its important to keep the nose of your snowboard up, and pointed somewhat downhill to keep your speed and momentum up.

2. Anticipate  turning  with your upper body. When your riding in powder, its a bid harder to turn your snowboard. If I'm on my heals, and want to make a toe turn, I begin to look where I want turn, and also point my front shoulder in that direction aswell. This isn't going to turn my board but it will antisipate the turn and help to make it easy for my knees and snowboard to follow. Anticipating the turn with your upper body will also help keep your body lined up. Having your shoulder, hips and ankles all squared up will keep you balanced through the powder.

3. Activate your knees. Your knees are key when riding in the powder. Keeping them bent will help you absorb any bumps through the powder. Extending your legs around a  turn will help spray snow to the side, and control your speed. Using your knees will help steer your snowboard through the powder and turn you where you want to go.

Hope these tips help!

First Day of Snowboarding - Three Things to Learn

Your first day of snowboarding there are a three things you should learn to make your first day of snowboarding safe, and fun.

1. Walking with your snowboard on (Skating) - The first thing you want to learn is how to skate on your snowboard. Skating is basically walking around with your front foot strapped in. Your front foot is usually your stronger leg. The one you would kick a soccer ball with, or the one you would put out first when sliding across some ice. When walking try to keep more weight on your free foot. Keeping more weight on your free foot will let you move your snowboard easier, and will keep it from sliding out. Another trick to skating is to keep your snowboard on a bit of an edge. The edge will help keep your snowboard locked into the snow.

2. Getting on a Chairlift - Practising getting off the chairlift before getting on it will save you allot of falls. Find a very small decline to practice going staight down hill with one foot. Take your free foot and put it in the middle of the board against your back binding. Bend your knees and keep your weight centered in the middle of the snowboard. When your ready to stop try dragging half of your free foot in the snow. When you have this mastered, your ready for the chairlift!

3. Stopping - Before you learn to turn, you need to learn how to stop. Find a easy slope and someone to give you a hand. The things that stops your snowboard is your edges. Practice sliding down the hill on your edge. Your edge is like a gas peddle. The closer your edge is down and close to the snow, the faster your board will go. Lift up your edge away from the snow to slow down and stop. Try to keep equal weight on both feet to use your whole edge evenly. Keep your knees bent and your back straight.  Having someone give you a hand will save you allot of falls and a sore butt. Once you can control your speed on both edges confidently your ready to start making some turns!

How to Snowboard Toeside – Three Tips to Turn on your Toe Edge

Having trouble turning toeside on your snowboard? Turning onto the toe edge is definitely the harder edge to turn onto. I've got three tips to make the toe turn easy.

1. First I like to break the toe turn down into three parts. Being on your heels, pointing your snowboard straight, and finally on your toes. A good trick to get your snowboard from heels to staight is to point your front hand, straight down the hill , and lean a bit more on your front foot. These two things will make your snowboard go straight. Try this on a very gentle slope. An extra thing to try is point your back hand straight up the hill.

2. Now that your snowboard is staight, start to pull your back hand back, so that your shoulders start to face the top of the hill. As you do this start to push onto your toe edge. Pulling your hand back and facing your shoulders to the top will make your snowboard face the same way. Pushing on your toes will get you on your toe edge.

3. Once your on your toes bend your knees with equall weight on each foot, and slow yourself down. You want to spent as much time on your toe edge as your heel edge, so practice staying on your toes until you are in control of your snowboard.

Good luck with your toeside turns! Leave a comment if your need anymore tips, or Like this article if it helped you.

How to do a Front Side Boardslide - Snowboard Pro Camp

Your first day of snowboarding there are a three things you should learn to make your first day of snowboarding safe, and fun.
1. Walking with your snowboard on (Skating) - The first thing you want to learn is how to skate on your snowboard. Skating is basically walking around with your front foot strapped in. Your front foot is usually your stronger leg. The one you would kick a soccer ball with, or the one you would put out first when sliding across some ice. When walking try to keep more weight on your free foot. Keeping more weight on your free foot will let you move your snowboard easier, and will keep it from sliding out. Another trick to skating is to keep your snowboard on a bit of an edge. The edge will help keep your snowboard locked into the snow.
2. Getting on a Chairlift - Practising getting off the chairlift before getting on it will save you allot of falls. Find a very small decline to practice going staight down hill with one foot. Take your free foot and put it in the middle of the board against your back binding. Bend your knees and keep your weight centered in the middle of the snowboard. When your ready to stop try dragging half of your free foot in the snow. When you have this mastered, your ready for the chairlift!
3. Stopping - Before you learn to turn, you need to learn how to stop. Find a easy slope and someone to give you a hand. The things that stops your snowboard is your edges. Practice sliding down the hill on your edge. Your edge is like a gas peddle. The closer your edge is down and close to the snow, the faster your board will go. Lift up your edge away from the snow to slow down and stop. Try to keep equal weight on both feet to use your whole edge evenly. Keep your knees bent and your back straight.  Having someone give you a hand will save you allot of falls and a sore butt. Once you can control your speed on both edges confidently your ready to start making some turns!

How to Ollie Your Snowboard

Ollies are an essential snowboard skill. They are fun to do around the mountain, and they are key for tricks in the park. They are also super easy to learn. Just think of the tail of your snowboard like a spring. If you jump on that spring your snowboard it will spring your up. So lean onto your back foot and trying jumping off that foot alone. What will happen is it will spring you forward onto your front foot. To fix this, as your jump off your back foot, pull your front foot up to level out your board. Suck your knees up and land with both feet at the same time. Start off trying to ollie on the flat ground, then master it off the run, before taking it to a small jump. Good luck! How to ollie snowboard video coming soon!

How to 180 onto a Box - Snowboard Trick Tips

Whats up Guys? Welcome to your online snowboard camp! Today we’re going to work on  how to 180, on and off a box. This trick is stylish and allot of fun. Couple skills you want to have  before trying this trick, are front and back 180’s, 50/50’s, and board slides. A new skill you will learn in this trick,  is how to twist a 180( Or skate style 180). The difference between a skate style 180 and a regular 180 is skate style you twist your upper body in the direction you want to 180. Then untwist your legs and snowboard underneath you. Keeping your upper body and lower body separated. If you twist your upper body and jump, your legs and snowboard will want to follow.. The reason we don’t want to rotate the 180 is because if you rotate your spin. You’ll keep spinning. By twisting its stops your spin at  180 degrees. Practice twisting 180’s on the snow before you take it to the park. On your ride in, you want your snowboard to be headed straight towards the center of the box. This will line you up to stay on the box until the end. You want your upper body to be twisted facing towards the box. Next you want to get a little bit onto your heel edge. Popping off your heels will help your toe edge clear the front of the box. As you pop untwist your legs underneath your and land 180 on the box with your board flat. Once your on the box start twisting your upper body back .  As you come off the box you want to  untwist your legs to land the 180. Bend your knees to absorb the landing, and ride away clean. Once your comfortable with this trick, you can add variations to it. Adding a tail or nose press. And stepping it up to a more advanced rails or doing the trick switch. Have fun with this trick, and I’ll see ya in the park!