How To Fix Heel Jutter In Your Snowboard Turns

Hey what's up everyone Kevin here. In this video I want to share with you guys how you can fix one of the biggest problems in snowboarding which is sliding out on your heel edge. It's super common when you're a beginner intermediate to be going through some turns come onto your heels and then just have it start to like chutter out and slide onto your butt. I'll share with you guys a few easy ways that you can fix it. So to start with the reason that you slide out on your heels and you get that chuddery feeling is because there's too much weight going out over the snow and with too much weight being out past your board on the snow that can cause you to like get that chuddery feeling and then fall backwards. The other thing that's happening is you're coming in to your heels with too much speed. So a combination of speed and gravity just pulls you back. So now that we know that it's super easy to fix. So the first thing we want to do is keep more of our weight over top of our board and the way that we can do this is having a good body position with our knees bent, back straight. This puts all of our weight on top of our snowboard so that we can make nice and smooth turns. If we get too tall and straight the weight again goes back out over the heels but by having our knees bent, hips bent and back straight keeps all the weight over top of our board preventing us from putting that weight back and sliding out. The next problem is coming into that heel turn with too much speed. The easy way to fix this is first to spend more time slowing yourself down on your toes. By spending more time slowing yourself down on your toes then it leaves less work for your heels. So as I'm going through I'm thinking that I want to control half of my speed on my toes and half of my speed on my heels. By doing it this way it's evening out the pressure so that I'm not making my heels do too much work. Another way you can prevent putting too much weight onto that heel and sliding out is to start to spray more snow out the side of each turn. By spraying snow at the side then it slows you down faster so that you can keep your board more on an angle going down the slope and by spraying snow at the side my board's not coming around all the way sideways which is where I can then get that chuddery feeling. So if I were to just skip spraying snow at the side and try to do it all at the bottom that's when you start to get that chuddery feeling again. So in your riding have that balanced body position slow yourself down as much on your toes as you do on your heels and try to spray snow out the side. All those things are going to help you out but there's one more thing that you can adjust on your snowboard that'll make it easier as well. The final thing that you can do to fix the heel jitter is to adjust your high backs. So if your high back is currently at zero that means your boot is pretty much straight up and down and with this straight up and down high back it makes it so you have to lean further to initiate that heel edge. So by simply adjusting your high back if zero is straight up and down I like to put it at like a three out of four. So now the high back is angled more towards your shin so that when you push on it the heel edge is going to activate much earlier. This could be the one thing that really solves the problem so give this one a try. I hope these tips will help you with your heel turns. If you have any questions hit me up below in the comments. Have fun with your snowboarding and I'll see you in the next video.