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> If you go too steep, your students will be terrified of the "dead zone" when they are between edges and pointing down the fall line, because they will acceler
by ambicapter 8y ago
> If you go too steep, your students will be terrified of the "dead zone" when they are between edges and pointing down the fall line, because they will accelerate and be afraid. That's how you teach people to go top to bottom on one edge, which is not what we want.
100% correct on this one (obviously, you're an instructor). I find the hardest/scariest part of people learning snowboarding OR skiing is the point in the middle of a turn when they have to face downhill and start to pick up speed.
- grecy 8y agoAbsolutely, the beginner linked turns are some of the hardest in snowboarding. Usually the trick is to get them to point and look across the hill (not down the fall line) so a) they won't get scared and b) they'll go across and make the turn, rather than rocketing down!