6 Tips for Riding the Rope Tow - Beginner Snowboarding

[@DashFlashTheLife]

Remember my first time on one of these babies. I just grabbed on and fell and got dragged to the top 😂

[@tandersb]

Then the rope operator was terrible at their job.

[@supremetempo]

2:15 "I like to give myself a little pull, right as im getting off"

[@shredwithskye8083]

Thanks for the tips! I fall every time and can't wait to try these tips next season. How about the rope tow that has the seat that goes between your legs? Any tips for that? Thanks, love all your videos!!

[@seancheng3658]

The HCSC rope Tow is so nice, but it also really sucks, maybe it changed, this is my experience during session one.Being 13 and just a bit shorter that the average adult, I had lots of difficultly riding it. As a good example, I knocked over the Crab Grab signs. Twice. My failure to success rate was 8-1 on the first day, but the final day, it was 1-14. it was My first day was hell, and I ended up giving up and walking to the mini pipe for the clinic. It I think the most vital tip is to REALLY lean in on your back foot, and let it take you up. I also had trouble on getting the bar up, I grabbed onto the solid part and just sorta flung it up. Just one push is all you need, and leaning on the hard part makes it a little more of a smooth ride. I also found in the beginning sort of letting the wire run through your hands is a good way to get a little prepared, and holding it just when you push, until you are firm onto the handle. Stay steady, knees bent, don't let the little bumps that were there fly you around. Don't try wake board style your first time, but you can do that if you get a little desperate, or you're under 5 foot. It actually quite a bit of fun once you get the hang of it, and STAY RELAXED, and don't tense up.

[@ByToySoldier]

thx for the tip!

[@SnowboardProCamp]

+Sean Cheng Great advice Sean!

[@sethgreeley2621]

I really like all your videos and I've learned a lot from you. But my personal favorites are your snowboarding vlogs which were really fun to watch. I think you should do more of those next year. But still this year was your best video year in my opinion

[@JiggedyJam]

My local hill just has a rope with no handles, and it's super fast too. I really struggle with getting on it, plus it shreds my gloves.

[@iwantfunnyful]

Heading out to hcsc tomorrow can't wait to try out everything on this channel

[@maryanneleadbetter9265]

Than you so much for not being cocky! I appreciate your honesty and help:)

[@alejandragavigan3877]

such a good tutorial Kevin! it's so necessary to know this,I fell a lot of times in France cause of this... hope to see another one soon :)

[@gerrybaker7055]

i wish my rope tow had a handle lol, would be way eaier

[@aydenh4902]

Gerry Baker no you don’t.... trust me

[@demarcus4985]

@@aydenh4902 fr

[@stefanbugaj243]

We have a lot of them in Wisconsin, I prefer no handle.. one place has knots every so often in the rope which is nice to relax your grip a little

[@neutronstar9038]

Thanks for the wonderful tips Cool guys! I like the TJ style!

[@skith_]

Thanks for the tips man. I just started snowboarding last season and I'm pretty god at it but I'm not too good at the rope tow yet

[@SnowboardProCamp]

+Smith Lifestyle Thanks for watching! Keep up the riding!

[@skith_]

+SnowboardProCamp thanks. I will. I'm so excited for next season

[@deeplydisillusioned683]

Don't even know if you have them there, but here in Scotland on Cairngorm, there's some really old poma lifts that have worn springs that have a really heavy jerk, i'm sure the viewers could do with some tips on coping with them.

[@yourHEROineETA]

I definitely had trouble with this! I think I was putting all my weight when grabbing the rope tow and that was a bad idea. Practice.

[@JFish191]

what about tow ropes that are just a rope and not a handle? thats all ive ever seen and i have the worst time on those things

[@sandpapergaming2517]

JFish191 same

[@almightyplayz6378]

SAME

[@sammypreston1396]

Could you please start doing some videos of you snowboarding and some of your best and favourite tricks

[@bryanemerickab5034]

Yo I saw you today at high cascade! Your a legend

[@mattroome5264]

the first fall is me

[@SnowboardProCamp]

+Matt Roome is that really you? That tow rope was a tough one to ride. Did you get the hang of it after?

[@mattroome5264]

yeah haha. Definitely ate through my gloves though.

[@cartero0217]

Love your vids so much

[@sebastiendarcy3632]

Could you please do a video were you try skiing for the first time.

[@1118knifeelite]

At 0:39 that's my bud Kincade right there! Hahaha

[@FireRowz]

Thanks for the video! One of the mountains around here has a very short rope tow that people used to get up the little hill from the bottom of the lift to the lodge area. I never used it because I was afraid of falling. maybe I'll give it a try next time I'm there. it is a little different than the one in your video, it has no handles and the track wheel is vertical so there are 2 ropes on either side going the same direction. Do you find it easier to grab the rope from in front of or behind you?

[@gabbyburke9897]

ugh there's a mountain near me that's tiny, where it only snows once every few years, but they have an old fashioned tow system where you have a weird metal clamp thing called a nutcracker and for the first few feet you just have to hold onto the rope to pull yourself until you can get a free hand and wrestle the nutcracker over the rope. skiers are fine with it but on a snowboard it's hell.

[@ogpumperz4066]

I had to search this up because I can do many tricks but this I always have trouble with

[@parkerjohnson3122]

I’m beginning snowboarding and my dad keeps trying to talk me into skiing instead of snowboarding because the tow rope is “impossible” with a board so hopefully I can use this to prove him wrong

[@MangoMitch]

Wow, I was here to today!

[@SnowboardProCamp]

+Mitchh IV Awesome! This was filmed a few weeks ago, but we're back at High Cascade for session 6!

[@NOTaNPC.]

much needed

[@cindylutz3316]

Did you ever ski before you started snowboarding? Or have you ever tried skiing

[@jaxsonplatter1820]

I wish I had this my first time I it took me like 10 minutes to approach the rope then I fell like 5 times getting up

[@jaxsonplatter1820]

+Dean S yeah I'm a lot better know and have roughy my self a lot of things

[@carsonkidd9375]

That's a t bar a tow rope is just a rope and you grab on and it destroys your gloves😂but that's the best we have in winnipeg

[@Little_Lotta]

I was thinking that, the tow-ropes where I live don't have those handles. But, it's not a t-bar either. Don't t-bars hang from a rope over head?

[@carsonkidd9375]

+•HarmonyJH• Don't think so, you might be thinking of a chairlift

[@Little_Lotta]

No. I'm not thinking of a chairlift. Those are benches that you sit on. You rest on a T-bar. They're kind of shaped like anchors. Those are the one in Alberta.

[@laurencea.8099]

A T-bar is basically an upside down T.

[@matthewcurrie2479]

Carson Kidd FINALLY SOMEONE FROM WINNIPEG.

[@Daniel-oz5dm]

Would have thought that years at an indoor would prepare me for any button lift there is. But went on holiday and instead of a nice stream of lifts coming round they store them and they're spring loaded.

[@deeplydisillusioned683]

Oh daniel... indoor lifts are pussycats compared to some you'll meet! :)

[@Daniel-oz5dm]

+still dissapointed yeh I learnt that the hard way, having someone shout at you in French because you're holding up the line doesn't help! Putting it between my legs with one leg unstrapped didn't quite work with those rocket propelled lifts

[@blueskies7274]

Slow rope tow is easier to handle. There are very fast ones though that you could quickly fall off

[@Staxxyy]

The resort I'm boarding at has this t-bar where the rod is kinda falling off to the right (it's lower then on the left side) and if I would just go with it my weight would probably pull me to the right and I would most likely fall.. So far I always faught the rod there and somehow managed not to fall but I am struggling every time I get there and it's allways a close call.. Does someone have an advice for me to make it easier ?

[@aZebruh]

Also known as a t-bar. My first time at breck i went by myself and got dragged almost all the way to the top on my back

[@Little_Lotta]

That's not a T-bar. They're way different.

[@andrewstokes7767]

my mountain doesnt have a tow rope like that its litteraly a rope that you grab on to. but im a heavyer person and riding it kills me but i hate leaving my friends bc i cant ride it any tips

[@candy27cgc]

The HCSC rope tow is evil. It wants to kill you. There are so many bumps and it throws you everywhere trying to knock you off. I have never had any trouble with rope tows till I went there for camp. Only fell off once all week, but damn it took all my focus to make it up in one piece.

[@varunmunjal9659]

The thing is, the sport of snowboarding is there to speed up the physical activity until when you can defend yourself that the listener should get talked down to for slowness, so all snowboarding means is others owe you a reason why you're uneducable.

[@Little_Lotta]

I got the tow-rope the second time I tried it.

[@aydenh4902]

Why do unbind when you use the tow rope

[@Thekidisalright]

Peoples People because when you exit, you can push off with your free foot instead of bunny hopping away from it, which is faster and won’t jam up the exit area.

[@moaka8]

my best memory of the rope tow is not knowing how to slow down or control my skis and running into it. fun

[@bebeysmael1.]

HEY YOU GUYS IN OMAHA CAN LEARN HOW TO GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY IN THE SNOW. COME ON NOW. LET'S GO ROPE TOWING IN THE SNOW... YEA

[@neutronstar9038]

Garrett which snowboard do you ride?

[@garrettokun1073]

I usually ride a brackish board, but this week I didn't have my brackish board's and I went back to my old 2011 Salomon Drift Rocker. Ole' trusty.

[@neutronstar9038]

+Garrett Okun, Ummm... Well ..ha-ha ha, you had hard time with rocker in summer Snow at Cascade, when powder Snow is less. I guess😂

[@garrettokun1073]

+Vikram Khandka I didn't really notice a difference.

[@Linlds21]

Why didn't I watch this video before I started me first ride

[@kirkywaffles192]

My tow rope goes so fast. What do I do?

[@almightyplayz6378]

What if the rope goes *SUPER* fast?

[@pnkelefant]

is the rope tow very different from the T-bar?

[@SnowboardProCamp]

+pnkelefant The T-bar is similar in some ways, but I think is a lot easier once you get the hang of it. We have a T-bar video on the channel.

[@MrMe1280]

ive never seen a tow rope with handles like that.

[@MrNewtothetown]

it is easier to keep both bindings strapped in

[@Little_Lotta]

That's not safe though. If you fall off, you don't have a foot to help you get out of the way of the person behind you. A guy in front of me did that once and at least five people behind us ran into me. It must have looked like dominos. But it can hurt someone. Keep a foot out.

[@MrNewtothetown]

thats what me and everyone else does here in the Midwest and if you fall just quick hop out of the way besides look how much space there is between the handles, also handle tows are relatively slow but rope tows are a lot faster and no one spaces them out also they get rutted out and it is easier to get through them strapped in. plus you can just hop on the rope and get off right away instead of having to strap in or out Also you foot could slip off your board and then you fall, try it this winter and it will be easier trust me just do it.

[@226c.wrxsti]

First time me riding the rope tow at rabbit hill edmonton it destroyed my gloves.

[@alvinwolf2356]

Wow thats where i go cool

[@milahtryon3682]

ok

[@minibndistributeurdesourir7382]

Yep this is soooo hard but after falling 3 times well....I made it

[@thomasszyszka7692]

Tow ropes always mess up my gloves/mittens. Anybody else?

[@JFish191]

same

[@TheSkatingRaptor]

Yeah, my tow rope doesn't have handles and my gloves last season got destroyed

[@blueberrymomo4497]

i've never seen that thing

[@jason401.]

Tip number 1: buy 30 pairs of gloves

[@taethepotato1201]

Almost all your intros start on the chair lift

[@SnowboardProCamp]

+Anopax Fang Lots of free time on the chair so it a good time for doing audio.

[@lexlife3273]

+SnowboardProCamp totally more time for shredding