Zurich Snowsports Club

Perfecting the Basics (snowboard)

We’ll contact you about dates and confirm when the group size is sufficient.

Sport: Snowboard Level: intermediate Group: More Feedback (Slower paced) Participants: 4-6 / instructor

We'll work on the things that make snowboarding easier, more fun, and by getting them down will take you to the next level faster.

Objectives

  • Mastering One Foot: Steering one foot, Control on surface lifts, Controlling speed one foot
  • Stance: Body position for safety in bad terrain / bad visibility. Understanding 'stacked position', 'breaking at the hips'
  • Progressing turns: We will check your technique. Adaptation on turns can be speed check, emergency stops, etc.
  • Carving: Normal, Switch, Fakie, With Jumping, With tricks

Prerequisites

  • At a minimum, you should at least be comfortable with 'breaking' turns (i.e. turning then slowing down, then the next turn and slowing down again, and so on).