EC with skwal

[m]

hi guys,

first of all, congratulation to this cool pages

i really enjoyed the pics & movies.

regarding the technique description, i would not, out of personal experience, agree that it is the angle of the bindings and the size of the board that is the responsible for the bad technique of the majority of the snowboarders.

why this conclusion? personally, i am an extreme carver on skis & skwal. and i have made the experience that it is very well possible to do extreme turns touching with the whole body the snow with a skwal.

the technique to do so is, of course, sligthly different from the technique that you are (very successfully ) applying. to turn flat, you
* either just "dive" to the other side (the rotation implied by this movement is just enough)
* or you push yourself up to "fall" to the other side

the technique on the skwal appears to me a little bit like the back turns you are describing, with the difference that i apply the pressure not with my heels, but with the side of the foot.

these movements are, if you are coming from extrem carving on ski, very natural.

Regarding to your statement that body movement should be as scarce as possible, i completely agree with you, as well as with the fact that counter rotation is the "death" of all technical progress (also on the skwal).

kind regards

m

[fivat]

Hi m,

Thank you for the compliments. Since you live in Switzerland, we could meet on a slope this winter, I would love to share some EC turns with a skawler

regarding the technique description, i would not, out of personal experience, agree that it is the angle of the bindings and the size of the board that is the responsible for the bad technique of the majority of the snowboarders.

There is no bad technique. We just propose ours, which links gesture purity and best efficiency for EC turns in any condition (even on the ice).
Above all it is important that the feet don't touch the snow during the turns, especially if you ride on iced snow. I have often seen students who were surprised to fall during their turns, while they had not noticed that their feet touched the snow...

-Patrice Fivat

[pete]

well, i don't know if you're frenchspeaker... if yes, there are some topics about skwal, skwal technique vs. EC technique...

But to resume what i think about the two techniques, i'd say that for sure they're different but dealing with the same mouvement: going into the turn. I agree that the EC backside turn looks closer to the skwal.

In fact, fo me, the skwal helped me in my snowboard technique by teching me the rotation.