How To Choose Your Perfect Snowboard Stance! Every Stance in Action

Not only are we going to show you how to set up your stance, how to figure out how wide it should be, what you put your dominance in, the angles you should be using, but also explain why you're doing it by showing you the different benefits and downsides of different widths and different angles. Here we have a positive positive stance so that means both bindings are angled towards the downhill slope. This is really good for having your hips open allowing you to go and perform harsher turns getting more leverage of your hips and this is going to let you go and your hips lower down and just start driving in weight into those turns with less effort. But downside for posi posi is it really hinders freestyle potential so stuff like an ollie is going to feel slightly weird. If we go and cut over to like these side hits it's going to make it a little bit hard to pop up slash and get that little bit of control but it's still great for going and cruising around. But really why posi posi isn't done too much in part is because of switch riding. With switch riding it completely closes both my hips and it makes it very awkward to try snowboard and feel comfortable. Here this is about as awkward as i'm ever going to feel in my life and this is going to make it so it's really hard to do 180s it's really hard to do butters. Basically if you're doing anything but carving posi posi isn't the answer. You can do stuff like more narrow like slight angle of the front foot no angle on the back foot but straight posi posi this is like 23 21 is really aggressive and it's really only used for linking together fast speedy turns and trying to get low and carve through the mountain. Here's as wide as you can possibly put your stance and we can see it's like a full elbow and a fist in here or full elbow and fingers extended and this is as wide as you can physically get this snowboard. Oh my god as if Sean White snowboards like this this is ridiculous. A wide stance has major benefits but also massive downsides. The benefit is your legs are already bent down make it really easy to squat down and get your going like i could chill here all day so it makes it really good for stock positions forward slide on stock it's just really making you like full sumo squat thug mode but downsides are it's going to limit your controlling your hips make it so it's hard to get height on ollies it's hard to go and open your hips into the turns and it's going to really hurt your mobility so on stuff like a butter it's going to be hard to get that flex on that tail and pop over because our center rotation is so much set over our center of our board so anything like freestyle popping utilizing the tail or especially stuff like utilizing counter rotation is all going to be very limited because the wider stance slows down these movements. A really big thing that i'm noticing with the stance this wide is it makes it so i can't hold my legs completely straight my knees are holding this little bit of bend because if i try fully straight and extend up i have no control so by widening the stance too much you're not going to be able to hold that comfortable stack position and it's going to make you really uncomfortable and get really take away a lot of your micro controlling your snowboard but then you're getting the benefits of stability and that range of motion so it's great for landing tricks but it's not good for finesse this is as narrow the stance as you can put on the snowboard and we call this the jib rat stance it's really good for rails and that's why they call it the jib rat stance and what it does is it keeps your stance narrow making it so you can go and rotate and counter rotate your lower body with a lot of ease and can really utilize the tail of your snowboard with keeping your weight very centered over your board so it's really great for little butters little switch ups and just pivoting fast. If you wonder why some people can go and move their legs on rails like crazy backboard press and just whip her around like nothing it's because they're rocking a more narrow stance but downside is it limits your range of motion so as i try to squat down i'm going to pull on my knees i don't have the ability to go and really bring my legs down so this is going to impact my max power on my ollies it's going to go and impact my landing ability because it's just not going to let me go and fully use my athletic stance all the way into my squat position just really limiting my range of motion and that's the thing with people going really wide or really narrow is it's limiting your range of motion when having a narrow stance is fun it gives you a lot of ability to rotate your hips utilize your counter rotation letting you get super fast rotations on your board it's not going to be good for going and building your fundamentals and building your bigger tricks so if you're trying to do anything but ride rails i really recommend not going as narrow as you can because it's just going to limit your range of motion too much the reason why you ride duck foot is because it makes it so it feels exactly the same switch as regular because you have the same open angles so in theory it feels the same but most people rock this at like 15 15 and that's very aggressive the reason why we don't really want both feet out this much angle is because it's going to rotate your ankles more and your knees more making it so every movement you do everything that's being done is more straight on your knees so like it's super ridable super controllable but i wouldn't really want to be rocking 15 15 all day so here we are with max forward lean and you can really see that it's making it so my binding super angled towards my boot this is going to make it so when i go and put pressure onto my heel back i'm putting a ton of leverage on this narrow point right here the more leverage you put on the top here the more it's going to turn you so max forward lean is going to make it so your heel side turns are super responsive and it's going to force you to ride more on your toe edge a max isn't very recommended because it's going to make it so your board's very responsive so we're just going to go and demonstrate what it's like to ride my quads are absolutely burning the fact that you have to ride with your legs like this the whole time for forward lean because it's forcing you to bend just no relief no tension that's so painful i can't believe how much my quads are burning in such a short period of time uh max forward lean not the move somewhere in the middle is where you want to be for all the reasons we discussed in this video is why i ride the stance i do and that's 21 inches perfect reference stance i'm six foot this is a 159 centimeter board and i ride with 12 on the front foot negative nine on the back foot and this is so good because first of all the width of a stat gives me full range of motion full explosive power lets me fully utilize my tail move around i still get that benefit of fast motions and i'm not restricted so i can still go and get super low and the angles being open lets me go and open my hips what's really important in snowboarding is having ability to open the hips and then when i want to go and switch to switch it goes and makes it so i don't need to rely on opening my hips as much i can stay a little more squared a little more stacked and that's going to let me go and control my riding a lot more so when i'm regular i have the ability to go and fully launch into open these hips and when i'm switch i can be a little more boxy a little more fog mode and just sort of stay more condensed so that's why i chose this stance it's perfect for all around conditions powder park rails carving it's just going to work for everything finding a stance that works for you and it fits somewhere in the middle it's going to be your best bet if you're trying to go put yourself in the snowboarder and you don't want to limit your possibility thank you so much for watching this video if you want to support the channel please leave a like and a comment below it helps more than you know and we'll be back at it with another video soon have a good one