danmyersmn

I think I am going to start with this idea. I can change my binding angle easy enough to switch every run. I keep trying to figure out how to get out of my duck stance mindset. As I visualize the running the hills I keep seeing myself coming up on my rear leg toes and pushing the back of the board around a turn. I need to break that mental image and remove that option. A complete change may be needed.

I actually quit snowboarding 7 years ago after knee surgery and started again this year. I am duck stance now because its comfortable to have my rear leg (surgery leg) toed out. When I do squats and dead lifts I do a duck stance as well. I don't know how I will take to carving but I want to do it. I have no interest in the park and keep trying to improve my downhill boarding. Carving appears to be the proper way to move to where I want to be. Only by trying will i know if my body (knee) is up to it. I have never tried to carve. I am more of a slide/push/muscle and force it sort of style. Or another way...more redneck midwest flannel then fancy euro turtleneck.

Hi all, I have gotten the itch to give carving a go. I have been reading "the norm" and plan to use that as my starting tool for my next time out. Trying to visualize the method has me wondering how I would want to set my binding angles. "The turn is created solely by leaning to one side or the other while maintaining a rigid beam-like body perpendicular to (i.e. 'normal' to) the plane of the snowboard." Follow this up with Norm II: "After you've become comfortable executing linked norm carves facing sideways, take one more run making norm carves facing forward." I will be starting out using my current hardware. Rossignol Vintage 163 with soft boots/bindings. I currently ride +15/-15. Would I want to move my bindings to something more alpine like or is the point of the norm to start learning to carve using your current setup? Or should I just go out as is and try and feel the carve in "the norm"?