Snowboarding Mt Bachelor In Oregon With My Girlfriend Vlog

[@jasonwatkinspdx]

Mt Bachelor is definitely the best resort in Oregon imo. I love Mt Hood Meadows and Timberline but they generally get the very wet snow typical of the PNW. Mt Bachelor being further east usually has better snow quality. It's not like Colorado or Utah but it's better. Also I just really like how chill Mt Bachelor is as a resort. When your skills are ready for it doing tree runs on the NW lift on a powder day is truly epic, but you gotta respect the tree wells and keep it safe. For your next snowboard trip I'd strongly suggest getting a lesson from a private instructor. If you're gonna spend all the money for travel, an airbnb, lift tickets, etc, it's very much worth it. Instructors are really practiced at getting the fundamentals across so you'll learn really fast from just a couple hours. The thing about snowboarding is once you have solid fundamentals you go from green to double black real fast. A decent instructor can take you from greens to blacks in a single lesson. I'm not an instructor but I'll offer some tips based on what I see in the video. Just hoping to help and not come across as patronizing. So Marie has a solid vertical stance which is great, but she's creating rotation by counter rotating the shoulders vs feet. This is a very common problem among people learning to snowboard because it feels intuitive but as you progress it becomes very limiting. If you look at footage of pros you'll notice they rarely counter rotate their shoulders to turn, they only do it when throwing a trick. This is because the way to turn is from the bottom up, using the board. You want to create a twist in the board. Make the board do the work. So let's say you're on toe side and we want to turn heelside. What we do is first shift pressure on our front foot from toe to heel. This twists the board. We also do a mild shift of our center of weight towards the heelside. These two movements combined will make the board turn all on it's own due to how it's contacting the snow; you won't have to move your upper body at all. As the turn comes around you shift pressure on your rear foot from toe to heel as well. So it's a 1 - 2 thing. First the front foot, move your cg into the slope, then catch yourself on the new edge with your back foot. Heelside to toeside is the same concepts just in the other direction across the board. Concentrate on keeping your shoulders, hips, and feet stacked vertically, and let the board do the work by changing the pressure on the edge. On steeper slopes I think it's useful to think of it as intentionally falling then letting the board rotate under you to catch yourself. To explain a bit more the problem with using shoulder counter rotation to turn is it only gets you about 45 degrees when you need 180. So the common failure mode here is you realize you've only partially turned and things are starting to feel out of control, so you twist your upper body back and throw counter rotation again trying to kick the board around. This simply will not work on steeper slopes. You must turn using the edge not your upper body. If you look around at other riders you'll see a lot of people that are stuck at the intermediate skill level because this repeated shoulder pump has become too much of a habit. It's very limiting. That said, counter rotation has its place when doing freestyle tricks and such. Just don't use it to try to turn on a double black. Also, re the scare factor. Remember that one of the great things about snowboarding is if you get yourself on something uncomfortably steep, you can just do the heelside falling leaf pattern all the way down. Back and forth with no turns, can see where you're going, and so long as you don't lose the edge grip you'll be fine. This is one of the big advantages of snowboarding vs skiing, where with the latter if you end up on something you can't handle you still have to make turns while doing the "A" wedge. Or walk it down. Anyhow I hope you continue your snowboarding journey and I just want to encourage Marie that she's right on the threshold of locking in some skills that will make her experience dramatically different. Once you get the fundamentals you will be ripping down the double blacks in a care free way a lot faster than you might think. I couldn't see any of Julio boarding in this so I don't know if he's beginner, intermediate, or advanced, but since you clearly can skate you'll advance in snowboarding super fast if you focus on solid fundamentals.

[@julio_guzman]

these are great tips! Thank you so much for the advice :) I have been snowboarding ~10 times in total so I am still learning but I'll keep pushing and improving

[@bermudezeg]

I know you’re in love bro but change the song you can’t do that song in All your vids. Not hating just gets stagnant. Don’t take it harsh. Like the new generation

[@julio_guzman]

You got a point, I have a few songs I’ll rotate through from here on out. Thank you for the feedback 🙏🏽

[@julio_guzman]

My next video today and tomorrow will use different songs lmk what you think