YukiRide

Snowboard · Freeride · カービング

Backside Turn.

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かかと側エッジでのカービング

Difficulty
Category
Type
Prerequisite
01

How to

Step by step

  1. On a gentle slope, point your toes down the hill and glide straight.

    Slow enough that you never quite stop is plenty

  2. Bend your knees and lower your hips, settling your weight onto your heel-side edge.

    Bend deeply (roughly 80-100 degrees), thinking "leaning back against a wall" rather than "sitting in a chair" - keep your shins fairly upright and avoid pushing only your hips backward

  3. Press evenly along the full heel line of both feet and feel as if you lift your toes a touch.

    This tips the board onto its heel edge, and the board's own sidecut starts carving an arc on the snow so it begins to turn on its own

  4. Send your eyes early toward where you want to go, and open your shoulders that way too.

    Your body follows your gaze, so looking ahead pulls you smoothly through the turn

  5. Keep slightly more weight on your front foot (about 6 front : 4 back).

    Loading the front foot lets the nose grip the snow first, so the arc flows cleanly

  6. Where you want the turn to finish, ease off the heel pressure and let the board go flat to the snow.

    From there, roll onto the opposite toe-side (frontside) edge to start the next turn

  7. Alternate left and right turns, linking them without stopping

02

Tips & common mistakes

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Tips

Deep knee bend and low hips drop your center of mass, which makes you steadier against side-to-side wobble and keeps the edge from suddenly washing out. Standing tall lets a small tilt throw off your balance

COMMON MISTAKE

Seat drops and you sink into the backseat → caused by folding only at the hips into a squat instead of bending the knees. Hold your hip height where you feel tension in the front of your thighs, keep your shins fairly upright, and re-bend the knees

The rest of the tips, fixes for each mistake, and what to try next are in the app — learn them while you log. Intermediate+ tricks are for Members.

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