My geeky tips for snowboarding: 1. Remember gravity. If your weight is towards your back (uphill) foot, gravity will try to make that the front foot and bad th

My geeky tips for snowboarding: 1. Remember gravity. If your weight is towards your back (uphill) foot, gravity will try to make that the front foot and bad things will happen. The natural inclination (no pun intended) is to shift back when you get nervous, which is exactly what you don't want to do. Keep weight forward for control. 2. Keep the angle between where your board is pointing and where you are heading small. There's a temptation, especially if the slope is a little steeper than you're comfortable with, to really dig in with your edge as you go mostly downhill. This is exhausting, and makes it much more likely that you'll catch that edge and bite it. Instead, go more side to side on steeper slopes, if needed, but keep your board and your direction closer together. It will be much easier and less likely to cause wipeouts. So I'm told. (If you're really somewhere you're not comfortable, you can always leaf down.)