Yes these are up unweighted turns and just pushing the snow really hard after each edge change. Down unweighted is retracting your legs to release pressure on the board for edge change. It looks like getting down during the edge change and standing back up in the turn.
I love Kevin's tutorials, style, and demeanor and in this instance I think his terms are mixed up or aren't consistent with standard snowboard instructor lingo. Perhaps a regional difference?
@@jerrychinn I love Kevin and his content as well! It’s been helpful and very inspiring to watch. But I think it is worthy to clarify the terms and be consistent with the standard lingo to reduce potential confusion. And as far as I know, all the snowboarding teaching systems (AASI CASI) have the same and consistent concept over the term “down unweighted”.
I think you're confused about your terminology. You're repeatedly doing up-unweighted turns. Down-unweighted means you reduce load through the board by dropping down during the edge change. Please go watch Malcolm Moore's video on down-unweighted turns and it'll become a lot clearer. You can actually use down-unweighted turns to achieve a similar technique of pumping but a lot smoothing. Drop down during the edge change and then push and extend legs during the carve.
good stuff, good stuff! any tips on how to do this better on steeper slopes? on the mellow ones it feels easier when you can link multiple turns one after another, but on steeper ones I feel that I always have to stop these carves and reduce the speed maybe once every 2-3 turns
I don’t think people actually carve their way down a steep slope unless they want to break soundbarrier, I could be wrong tho, but to shed some speed what I think is fun is to keep your carve until you’re going back uphill😛 so instead of linking s-turns you’re more making c-turns, keeping the carve going way longer until you lose some speed
Thanks Kevin. Hope you're getting your powder board ready for this upcoming cycle. Going to be deep in Utah. BTW, what's going to be your board of choice for the pow this season?
So many of you commented this video has wrong information and still nothing done from the author. I love all the videos from this channel but making a mistake like this and then do nothing to stop the spreading of wrong information is sad to see/ why not write something in the description or just erase and re-upload the video with an intro clarifying the misunderstanding?
Kevin, long time fan of the channels but please oh please, this ain’t down unweight, it isn’t even mid unweight. What you did here is complete up unweight turns….
Please make a video for the Up-Unweighted for clearer comparison. ;)
"You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means"
Inconceivable!
Simple explanation. you are most flexed at the initiation of the term. and are then progressively extending the joints as you shape the term
I might try this to conquer plateaus where I often stall and have to unbind or grab an unsuspecting skier by the leg😂
These are up unweighted turns. Someone forgot his banana's this morning
Yes these are up unweighted turns and just pushing the snow really hard after each edge change. Down unweighted is retracting your legs to release pressure on the board for edge change. It looks like getting down during the edge change and standing back up in the turn.
I love Kevin's tutorials, style, and demeanor and in this instance I think his terms are mixed up or aren't consistent with standard snowboard instructor lingo. Perhaps a regional difference?
@@jerrychinn up unweighted and down unweighted are universal terms. It would be like mixing up heelside and toeside. They're opposites.
@@jerrychinn I love Kevin and his content as well! It’s been helpful and very inspiring to watch.
But I think it is worthy to clarify the terms and be consistent with the standard lingo to reduce potential confusion. And as far as I know, all the snowboarding teaching systems (AASI CASI) have the same and consistent concept over the term “down unweighted”.
First turn I saw I thought my whole life has been a lie, glad someone else has pointed this out 😅
la flexion inversée en français, technique qui permet plus de power notamment pour les riders legers. J adore.
I think you're confused about your terminology. You're repeatedly doing up-unweighted turns. Down-unweighted means you reduce load through the board by dropping down during the edge change. Please go watch Malcolm Moore's video on down-unweighted turns and it'll become a lot clearer. You can actually use down-unweighted turns to achieve a similar technique of pumping but a lot smoothing. Drop down during the edge change and then push and extend legs during the carve.
this is exactly what i was thinking
Great treasure in coming
good stuff, good stuff!
any tips on how to do this better on steeper slopes? on the mellow ones it feels easier when you can link multiple turns one after another, but on steeper ones I feel that I always have to stop these carves and reduce the speed maybe once every 2-3 turns
Make your carves wider and apply more force to the edge on each carve. Just go slow until you get more confident
I don’t think people actually carve their way down a steep slope unless they want to break soundbarrier, I could be wrong tho, but to shed some speed what I think is fun is to keep your carve until you’re going back uphill😛 so instead of linking s-turns you’re more making c-turns, keeping the carve going way longer until you lose some speed
Be safe ❤ the palisades just had an avalanche today! Supper sad, and scary!
Shalom
Thanks Kevin. Hope you're getting your powder board ready for this upcoming cycle. Going to be deep in Utah. BTW, what's going to be your board of choice for the pow this season?
thank you bro!!
Can somebody tell me the exact place in this video?
Park City, Utah
These are up unweighted turns, not down unweighted turns.
Aka Pumping 😂
So many of you commented this video has wrong information and still nothing done from the author. I love all the videos from this channel but making a mistake like this and then do nothing to stop the spreading of wrong information is sad to see/ why not write something in the description or just erase and re-upload the video with an intro clarifying the misunderstanding?
Yessss
Kevin, long time fan of the channels but please oh please, this ain’t down unweight, it isn’t even mid unweight. What you did here is complete up unweight turns….
“Down unweighted carves…” 😂😂😂 Back in my day we just called it pumping. Love how RUclips has over complicated simple things.😅
Is this video serious or joking? These are up unweighted turns
This looks like pumping
and it looks kinda silly...