eHow launches Android app: Get the best of eHow on the go.
Summary: Knowing how to carve on a snowboard allows the snowboarder to maneuver down the mountain easily. Get snowboarding tips for how to carve on a snowboard from a sponsored snowboarder in this free video on snowboarding.
Melissa Evans has been snowboarding for the last six years. She is sponsored by Bear Mountain, Academy, VonZipper, Etnies, Neff, Dakine, and Bonfire. She recently took first place in...read more
"Alright, so we're going to be carving. Carving is super easy. It's one of the main things you need to know in your snowboarding. Also, once you get to know how to snowboard and you can say you know how to snowboarding. Carving has a big part, because you're just. Once you just want to take free rides and ride you want to carve on your heels and your toes and your heels and your toes. That's what carving is all about it's just going back and forth from toe to heel, from toe to heel. So, I'm going to be coming down the mountain on my toe edge doing a big toe side turn then all the sudden I turn on my toes or my heels, come across the mountain, go back onto my toes, come back across the mountain. It's like doing a big S all the way down the hill going back and forth. That's what carving is. Alrighty, so I'm doing some basic carving going toe side, heel side, toe side, heel side. Here I go. I'm going on my toes, onto my heels, toes, heels; making an S all the way down the mountain."
eHow Article: How to Carve on a Snowboard