How To Get Quicker & Sharper Snowboard Turns By Reducing Your ‘Delay’

Here’s one of the big reasons why an experienced snowboarder’s turns are so much sharper and quicker than the average snowboarder.

Delay is bad.

Turns are made by starting the turn with your upper/lower body and following through with the rest of your body. However, how someone just starting out turns and how an experienced snowboarder turns is very different.

There’s a delay between when you start the turn and when you follow through with each part of your body and we want to minimise this delay as much as possible.

So for example, when you turn from head to toe, you turn with each section part of your body and there’s delays between turning each part:

The smaller the delay in between your movements, the quicker and sharper you can execute turns.

How to reduce your delay with one simple change:

A lot of snowboarders learning to turn will turn like this:

1. Start turning head
2. Finish turning head
3. Start turning shoulders
4. Finish turning shoulders

This is wrong. Here’s how you want to be executing your turns:

1. Start turning head
2. Start turning shoulders
3. Start turning hips
4. Start turning knees
5. Start turning ankles
6. Finish turning head
7. Finish turning shoulders
8. etc. etc.

The key here is we’re not waiting to finish turning one part of our body before we start turning the next part. Everything starts one after another, no delay, no waiting.

By making this small, but key change in how you execute turns, you’ll reduce the delay between different parts of your turning technique, which means you get a more quick, sharp and responsive turn.

Happy shredding.

- Jed

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