Learn Advance Snowboard Carving: Surfer Turns Grab Carves

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Lock in your carves by grabbing your snowboard to make Surfer Turns or Carve Grabs. Carving is the absence of rotation or pivot allowing the back foot to follow the exact same path as the front. This is just one of our many Drills Sections in Level 3 Ripper.

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Surfer Turns and Carve Grabs
When we start carving we're following
the same path, our front foot follows the
same path as our back foot and I've
given some drills like the circle drill to
help you start carving but now
we're moving on L2 Rider and we're
picking up two L3 ripper we want to do
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carve turns while we're grabbing our
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board! Really the only couple grabs
that you can do the whole time on toe
and heel switching edges without
smashing your fingers is either a nose
or a tail grab so we can start out by
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just doing some turns does not
necessarily have to be carving yet but
trying to make some turns while you're
trying to grab your board so reach down
try to grab your tail try to grab your
nose try to grab your toeside edge or
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your heelside edge you'll
know that if you're making turns you can
only do your your nose or your tail so
after you're getting a little bit more
flexible there I know that's yoga really
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helps out if you're not being able to
flex down and grab your board maybe get
out and do some stretching and do some
yoga before you're attempting to do
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these grabs the big key is being
flexible you need to be able to reach
down and grab the board take a run and
do some do some turns where you're
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grabbing your board that's the
first thing you want to do take a run
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and try to try to make turns while
you're grabbing your board your next run
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you're going out and ripping carves
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just go out carving or you just ripping
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carve and doing as much carving as you
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can so take a few runs and then your
third run really trying to lock in and
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grab your edge I found that most people
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like to grab their toeside edge as
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they're making a heelside turn it's a
little bit easier because of the
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flexibility when I'm doing a toeside
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turn I have to really reach around and
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grab that heelside edge it's a little
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bit more difficult and it really looks
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like you're surfing
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and down touch the snow after you've
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started doing turns while you're grabbing
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your board start carving and then build
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into that so the first step is make
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turns while grabbing your board and then
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take a run where you're just completely
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carving and then start to bring that
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back in so you're making carves while you
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grab your board if you watch surfing
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you'll see surfers they really lock into
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their wave and they grab their board
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that really locks in their edge and
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their scag and they can really
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ride that wall so the same thing
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with snowboarding if we can lock in our
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edge we're just grabbing and we're more
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solid and we can really rip nice carves
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we can really edge our board we can
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carve a lot deeper into the snow it's
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really fun to do it when there's a lot
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of corduroy and it's perfect conditions
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usually in the morning that's when
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you're getting to get that like nice
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stiffer firm snow and then as it heats
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up throughout the day gets a little
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softer
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you'll make even bigger trenches so why
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do we do these carve grab turns it makes
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us really flexible and that helps us get
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get around the mountain more efficiently
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now also when you start to get into more
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freestyle you're reaching down and
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grabbing your board anyway so if you
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want to start getting air and going into
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the park if you can grab your board
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while you're on the snow you don't have
to have that extra danger of being in
the air and not being able to grab your
board so it helps progress you into the
park a lot of the times when people are
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learning to carve they skid a little bit
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the skid there's not a fine line so
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grabbing your board really locks you in
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and holds that edge and you really carve