Keeping a Flat Base on a Snowboard

Video Transcript

"While doing nose rolls down the mountain you want to keep your base flat. If you don't keep your base flat and you're on an edge you're very likely that you're going to catch your edge. Which means that your board is going to stick to whatever edge you catch and you're going down that way facing either the snow with your stomach or facing the snow with your back. So you want to stay away from the edge catching and keep your base flat. Flat to the snow. That helps out with your knees if your knees are bent and your weight is centered. You shouldn't have a problem with catching your edge but if you're off balance and your feet are just moving around and you don't have board control you're very likely to catch your edge. When doing front side nose rolls and back side nose rolls you want to keep your base flat. So this is a base flat. This is good, good material for completing what you want to do. If you're going to go and you're going to catch your edge that means going and you're spinning and you're going catch your edge. This is heal side catch your edging. So when your spinning if you catch your edge too much you're going to fall backwards because that's your heal edge. When you're going if you catch your toe edge this way you're going to fall forward because you're falling forward. So if you keep your base flat and most likely with any snowboarding or any aspect of snowboarding when you are snowboarding you want to focus on keeping your base flat and then when you do those different tricks you slide off your 180's and nose presses and what not, you'll get the feel for where you have to push to complete your trick."