Gliding Away From Lift Chair in Snowboarding

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Kevin Byford with the Ski and Snowboard Schools of Aspen on behalf of the Expert Village. The next thing you want to do is find a gentle slop with a flat run out area, and we're going to practice getting off the chair. Imagine this a ramp--when you get off the chair--and we're going to ride down it. The key thing here is that we maintain a good stance; we look where we're going. Nice. Now we're going to work on doing a direction change. Don't get confused, this is not a turn, it's a direction change. We're going to go straight, and just a little drift off the to the left or to the right, so when we're getting off the chair we can avoid anyone who's in front of us. The key here, we're going to go off to the left here, to my toe side, same neutral stance we had at the beginning, but now I'm going to press down on my toe, push my knee over my toe, and look towards the direction I want to go, which is to my left."