Today was my second time out on the hill since moving here 5 days go.
I discovered that I've been snowboarding wrong for a long time. Perhaps its the way the stance was on my old board, but I've been carving with too much of a backward lean. You can still make it down the hill in this stance, but it involves a lot of "fishtail" carves, where your turns are more of a speed check than a real carve. Getting your whole body evenly distributed on the board and initiating/performing the turn with your whole body is so much more efficient since you're able to have solid and even edge contact throughout the whole turn.
Maybe I only realized because this new board is so much more responsive and aggressive than my old ones. I had to take a step backwards, go onto the green runs and really get the movement down.
I'm a slow learner, but this slow uptake had a benefit... I understood the movement a whole lot better than if it had just come naturally to me, so I was easily able to apply it into my switch stance. Now my switch is progressing real niiiice. Another reminder that what may be bad in the short term proves to be good in the long run.
Makes me wonder what else I've been doing wrong for so long.. y'know?
Beauty exists everywhere, friends!
