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Snowboarding Course - Skating
Here are some tips on how to skate:
- Attach your front foot to the Snowboard Bindings, and leave your back foot free.
- Make a skating motion by placing your front foot in front of you while using your back foot to move forward. Skating/Sliding on your Snowboard with one foot attached is something you need to learn and would do often in Snowboarding. Every time you need to enter or exit a lift or travel short distances on a level or uphill slope, you will need to skate.
- Try skating around but make sure that your back foot should never be ahead of your front foot. Make sure to only make small steps with your back foot.
- As you improve, you will learn how to take bigger steps and really kick with your back foot.
- Also, make sure to keep your front leg slightly bent with most of your weight on your front foot. It will help keep your balance.
- As your skills improve, you will be able to make some speed. You will also be able to place your back foot on your Snowboard Stomp Pad or press it against the back of your Snowboard Binding if you don't have a stomp pad. Then, try to keep both feet on the board as much as possible. Try to crouch and get up while sliding on the board.
You might not be comfortable with skating at first. Try practicing it and soon enough you will be good at it. Skating demands more balance and attention to the terrain so keep on practicing and you will soon be able to skate with ease.
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Lessons Overview
Below you can find all the lessons of our Learn Snowboarding Online Course:
| 1: | Snowboard Basics |
| 2: | Carrying your Snowboard |
| 3: | Skating |
| 4: | Switching Edges |
| 5: | Gliding |
| 6: | Moving Up the Slope |
| 7: | Sideslipping (Heelside) |
| 8: | Sideslipping (Toeside) |
| 9: | Traversing (Heelside) |
| 10: | Traversing (Toeside) |
| 11: | Falling Leaf |
| 12: | Garlands |
| 13: | Linking Turns |
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Sunday 21st December 2008 at 2:14:14 PM
I prefer to skate with my back foot behind the board, this keeps my front knee from twisting. I can do it either way, but prefer my foot behind me, as do alot of my friends.. do whatever way works for you, but I would try both.
Sunday 11th January 2009 at 1:02:50 PM
yeah i prefer to put my free foot behind me, and kick with my toe. When you put your foot in front of you, the natural tendency is for your front foot to sweep away from your body. Putting your foot behind you and kicking from the other side keeps your weight more centered.
Wednesday 4th March 2009 at 5:57:51 AM
I ride left foot forward but when I need to skate like that I strap in my right foot and push with the left foot.
It so bad I''ll need to get used to do it in the right way?
Saturday 30th May 2009 at 4:31:57 AM
@ Fab. I ride down the mountain with my right foot forward (goofy) but I also skate and get off the lifts with my left foot strapped in. Whatever is comfortable is fine. Maybe with more practice I could learn to skate with my right foot strapped in but this doesn't bother me the least.
Wednesday 3rd June 2009 at 5:28:57 PM
I don''t have a problem with skating, but I do have a problem with flat surfaces (if that makes any sense). Cat tracks are the worst - while traveling down them, it feels like I don''t have the kind of control that I have while going down slopes... the board feels like it''s floating and wants to rotate... unpredictably.
Monday 29th June 2009 at 8:35:27 AM
Rich- Riding on flat surfaces is always a hard thing to be able to do. Try to keep your speed up if you know the trail flattens out. If you have more speed, its easier to balance. Also just keep your weight centered on the board and let the base lay flat on the snow. If you start to feel off balanced, use the edge facing up the mountain instead of turning down toward the side of the catwalk that drops off. It will help you keep balance and speed.
Wednesday 8th July 2009 at 10:36:16 PM
i have a crook right knee. someone said snowboard is better than ski for weak knees.
should my good knee be the forward knee?
Tuesday 14th July 2009 at 1:05:31 PM
Crooked Knee,
I would say ride with with your good knee back because when I go out and up and ride down my back knee is what tends to get strained. But then again you put pressure on your front leg to ride down push yourself up.
Some say that your front knee is what helps you steer, which I don''t disagree on but what it comes down to is preference. Your front knee is what gets the pressure but your back knee is what''s supposed to help you keep control and stop and thats alot of pressure too.
I hope that helps and gives you a little insight.
If your still not to sure when you go out into the slopes stay in the base area find a small hill and strap both feet and feel your way down, try both feet. Whichever feels more comfortable to you and whichever make you feel more in control is your stance.
Thursday 29th October 2009 at 1:56:34 AM
I like to skate with my back foot behind my board also. I can keep my balance better this way.
Friday 1st January 2010 at 3:37:57 PM
skating is super easy once you get the hang of it.
it took me about 3 or 4 trips to get really used to it. once you learn how to carve skating becomes a whole lot easier. just what ever you do do not give up on snowboarding because no matter who it is every one can always get better.
Sunday 3rd January 2010 at 7:33:51 PM
hey guys im new to snowboarding. how do i stop after i''ve caught a decent speed skating?
Wednesday 6th January 2010 at 12:13:57 PM
@Cesar - Try sliding the foot that is not strapped in so that the heel is hanging off the board just slightly. Then you can break by pushing down on your heel. Just make sure that the outer side of this foot is wedged against your binding so that the board doesn''t start fishtailing on you.
Monday 18th January 2010 at 12:20:18 PM
it''s a little hard, tho, cos yor board keeps on slipping either out in front or behind you (depending on which foot you lead && kick off with)
Thursday 11th February 2010 at 10:10:31 PM
Is it better to have the front foot strapped in an not the back one? can someone explain why so? >_<, I heard that 90% of the weight needs to be on the back when unloading is that so?
Tuesday 16th February 2010 at 7:49:35 PM
I ride with my right foot in front, but I skate with my left foot forward, my problem is getting off the lift. I am having a hard time staying in control with my wrong foot forward, but I am very unstable skating with my right foot forward. any advice?
Sunday 25th April 2010 at 12:42:47 AM
I also want to know if anyone leaves the back foot strapped in, when skating and push with the front? I ride my long board mongo style.. chair lifts give me trouble.. Never feel in control with the front foot strapped... any suggestions??
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