How do you correctly do S turns while snowboarding?

Question

How do you correctly do S turns while snowboarding?

Answer 1

Take a lesson!

Work on your turns and get more comfortable, they'll link up nicely and you'll be able to tighten them into s-turning and carving.

Answer 2

Its a slow shifting of weight from your toe side to your hill side of your board.  When you actually make the turn your board show be facing down the fall line. The S turn is not something you can really force its more of a timing thing. Check out the web site http://www.abc-of-snowboarding.com/learn...  - it has some great flash animation of linking turns.

Answer 3

Kind of hard to explain but I'll give it a shot.  If you watch a beginner or intermediate snowboarder make turns they tend to kind of fish tail i.e. they just kind of push the heel and toe edge back and forth with their back foot as a result all they're really doing is kind of a constant back and forth braking motion down the hill.  To really start cutting turns you need to rely more on the edge and the curvature of the board, thats why they're shaped like they are. To start getting a feel for it next time you are going down the hill when you let the board run down the fall line try rocking your weight onto your heels and kind of imagine sitting your weight over the edge, so your legs will be bent a little, your shoulders turned into the line you want to take and your weight is 50/50 or maybe just a little more weighted to the front foot.  What your trying to do is to get the board to rail over on an edge.  When you first do it feels little out of control because the board picks up speed, this is normal just try to let it run out so you get a feel for it.  Once you get comfortable with that feeling try it on your toe edge, same thing weight 50/50 or slightly forward on the balls of your feet but this time it should feel like kneeling on your edge.  When you get comfortable railing the edges out on both sides start linking the two together, what you really want to start doing is initiating your edge transition a little earlier than you would normally think you should i.e from toe edge you should be initiating your turn while the board is still mostly at an angle to the fall line.  Your head will tell you you'll catch an edge but done correctly you'll flow from one edge to the other. Once you get comfortable you can use carving to accelerate by really driving the board through the turns, done right it's like stomping your foot on the gas.

Answer 4

? lean on your toe then on your heel?

no offence but its pretty easy so i don't think you have to ask