How to Stop a Snowboard With Your Toes
Stopping on a snowboard is a basic skill you need, and being able to stop on either your toes or heels is essential.
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Instructions
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Prepare for the toe-side stop as you would for a toe-side turn by lowering your weight and leaning forward, rotating your shoulders around to the uphill side of the slope, and straightening your back as the turn ends.
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Continue rotating uphill until the board is perpendicular to the slope instead of letting the turn flatten out to transition into the heel turn.
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Hold that position perpendicular to the slope with your heels up, and let the board sideslip to scrub off speed. The faster you're going, the more you'll need to sideslip before you stop.
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Sideslip to a full stop.
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Tips & Warnings
Sideslipping without any rotation is key to a graceful stop. Practice sideslipping when you are just beginning.
One common mistake when trying to make a toe-side stop is to let the tail rotate too far around; you'll end up going backward down the slope. To avoid over-rotating, balance your weight evenly between the front and back legs. If you feel the tail of your board drop too far, put more weight on the back foot.
Snowboarding is an inherently dangerous activity that can result in serious injury or death. We recommend that you seek proper training and equipment before attempting this activity.
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Comments
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codyjdoan
Dec 24, 2007
Like the first commenter said. keep your toes down hard until you absoloutley know your stopped. a caught back edge is about the most dangerous thing that almost all snowboarders encounter. great way to break a tailbone or giving yourself a concussion, which i have done.
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codyjdoan
Dec 24, 2007
Like the first commenter said. keep your toes down hard until you absoloutley know your stopped. a caught back edge is about the most dangerous thing that almost all snowboarders encounter. great way to break a tailbone or giving yourself a concussion, which i have done.
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Aug 08, 2006
I wrote the same thing in my tip for heelside stops and named overpowering stops. Same thing applies here. You don't want to stomp down too hard when you're doing a toe side, because it'll just make you bounce - not as much as heelside will, but enough. With toe sides, you can lean over a little more than heelsides because your butt is up and can pull you up out of it. You can use it as a sort of emergency brake. That's right, toe sides can be used for emergency stops. Because you can lean over so much more with toe sides than you can on heelsides, you can end up making a quick stop with them without actually falling. That's if you're more experienced, though, and can transition to toe side quickly if you made a mistake of some kind and are almost certain you're going down. If you don't have as much experience, you might just stop yourself by leaning over a lot, but you'll probably end up getting a face full of snow in the end anyway. That's why if you're not too experienced, you don't want to lean too far just like heelside. Another final thing to be careful of, is when you're doing a toe side stop, even if you're already slowed down extensively, don't let loose your heels. In other words, even if you think you're slowed well enough, don't just let go of your heels and let them sink, because that's an immanent butt-plant and trust me, it'll probably hurt a little. You always want to make sure you keep your calves and heels stiff when doing a toe side so you don't let your heels go down. It won't end cleanly or enjoyably.
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Jul 31, 2006
When before you stop like this, make sure there is nobody bellow you for a quite a distance. Leave ample room. You don't want to hurt someone, you will be responsible. You can't exactly see where you're going when you try to stop like this.
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Jul 31, 2006
When before you stop like this, make sure there is nobody bellow you for a quite a distance. Leave ample room. You don't want to hurt someone, you will be responsible. You can't exactly see where you're going when you try to stop like this.
