Huh? Of course. But this is not a question of opinions, it's a question of facts about various techniques. I'm trying to make you understand what is called rotation. Look at the picture below: see the surfer shoulders and hips when he is on toes side (frontside). This is the end position of a fronside turn, the result of rotation of the chest in the same direction as the board. On next turn the rider will turn his hips and shoulders on the left: the board will turn on the left too.starikashka wrote:Patrice Can i have my own opinion? Is it allowed?
It is of course an exaggerated animation, because it is made as a didactic tool to show clearly the differences. Your 3 videos are precisely examples of no rotation, as said by Arnaud. If you compare the shoulders relatively to the axe of the board, we could however say that the shoulders are slightly turning in the opposite direction of the board. In that sense it's quite a counter-rotation, the opposite of rotation.starikashka wrote:This A gif is not reflecting what we would call bomberstyle...
So it's very different.
The surfers are leading their boards by rotations. They have no other choice (excepted for some tricks like the "off the lip"). It's natural to transpose this technique to snowboarding. There are many advantages which have already been discussed a lot here. One of them is to help closing the turns much better: the rider is really leading the board.
With the body facing the nose or slightly counter-rotating, the board turns by itself on its edge, that's all. It's OK for racing, performing quick turns, making "banana" turns, or skwaling. All depends on the goals and discipline.
Please starikashka, don't opposite techniques or philosophies here. They all have advantages and disadvantages. The thread here is about a new Swoarder who want to understand the Swoard technique (originally called "extremecarving", but now everybody is using this term for different things).
I hope that my explanations about surfing, etc. are clear. Anyway you will ride with me one day or another, right? It's planned, no? So it will be nice to show various things and techniques for real.
We could talk a lot about the legs movements too. But sharing this on the snow will be better.
Patrice Fivat