Tips for Surviving Icy Runs Snowboarding

[@dacasman]

This is practically considered a powder day where I snowboard.

[@SilenceGust]

Hahahahaha I Loled

[@Josephiscoool]

dacasman same for me right now I'm waiting to it to snow

[@TheSpainy]

Haha I was gonna say the same. That's a pretty powdery run

[@TheSpainy]

+KnaxxLive yeah you cAnt hear the dreaded ice scrape under the board.

[@BlinkBoxx44]

dacasman yeah I ride in New England and most runs before we get natural snowfall are just hard snow and ice. I have to sharpen my edges so often.

[@alessiostar11]

the guy in the background at 0:28 doing the YMCA hahaha

[@blake4292]

alessiostar1 its chris lol

[@amandawinit842]

That's chris my dood

[@pumpedupgaming5419]

Lol that dude in the back doing the ymca 😂😂

[@DavidBridgeTechnology]

30s in for those who missed it. Wtf was he doing?

[@rahaviggysegev274]

YMCA

[@manbiteslife3110]

its chris

[@erickleos2994]

What minute?

[@markmathers5694]

My strategy for surviving the ice is to hang up the board and go drink beer.

[@amandawinit842]

Here on the ice coast we would never snowboard then

[@krisbowditch827]

Wise words 😷👍🍺

[@benrb287]

Agreed!

[@sideways_fun]

Look ahead for piles of snow to turn in or as a breaking point if you have gained too much speed across an icy patch.

[@LuizPoleto]

AKA "how to ride on the East Coast"

[@Osprey1994]

Luiz Poleto I hate how icy shit gets here. It would be fine if I could find a place that groom's their slopes more than once a day.

[@jojolikescocoa1]

sooooooooooooooooooooooo true.

[@GrReaIm]

That’s why you don’t see east coast riders falling all the time, we can hold an edge on anything

[@ridethecliche247]

ICE COAST!

[@ridethecliche247]

@@GrReaIm we've learned that it hurts too much to fall.

[@JPGMUSIC793]

Can you do a video on how to go straight? Whenever i have to go on a catwalk or pickup speed to cross one, i have to stay on an edge/carve the whole time. If i let the board go flat i catch an edge 90% of the time. Thank you, and awesome videos!

[@SnowboardProCamp]

+MTT Now! I've got a cat track video on the channel. I hope it helps you!

[@setha9818]

It really helps if you have a newbie with you. We all pretty much look like them and it really helps seeing how you correct them, as I'm sure we can see ourselves making the same mistakes. Cheers.

[@lillcarter]

If only I watched this before yesterday! Came up to an icy run too fast and didn't really know what to do... caught my heel edge and hit the ground big time! Brand new helmet totally destroyed but it done its job! Thanks for your videos, I watch them religiously :)

[@Johnny-adamser]

Damn man. I hit my head yesterday. Helmet was fine, can’t imagine how hard was your hit. Hopefully you are still alive 5 years later.

[@BillMoman]

I'm glad I found your channel. I love your videos. 1 tip I always tell my students is if they hit a patch of ice they didn't know about and start to slide out, drop their weight really quick. It's the quickest way to unweight the board which will allow the board to slide back under them and then you can ride over the ice and start carving once you're on better snow.

[@chrisrawles1]

Hey Kevin, I was in France over the Xmas break and some dudes were watching your videos in the cable cable car. Your channel is everywhere! Keep up the good work.

[@christophermatthews555]

Very timely video! Just got back from Lake Louise and it was -32 again. The snow is really hard at those temperatures and there were a lot of icy spots on the front side of the mountain. A heavier set guy bombed past me then washed out, sliding down the mountain on his behind a hundred miles an hour for hundreds of feet before he could stop. Luckily he was okay.

[@SuperZbx]

The video is just in time! I am going to a snowboarding class this weekend and expecting some icy runway due to the warm weather in Ottawa

[@gfdwsbhedvy4555]

These vids really help me! I've gotten a lot more talented at snowboarding for the 3 months I've been watching this channel. It's really gotten my confidence up. Keep the great vids rolling👍👍

[@justgreen7793]

My tail bone thnx this tutorial a lot, many times I start too early and some areas have Icy patches....also in some narrow trails in the woods.... so far most painfull way to fall :/ !! Gracias amigo! Cantabria Mountains, Spain.

[@gonenjon]

Great tips! I would say that the best tip regarding icy days and runs would probably be to have a good old camber board. Any rocker variant would simply slide out on you when you try to turn with a bit of speed. If you want to have control on any slope, use camber. I did find tough that my flying-v board was easier to pop and was much more absorbent on landings and overall vibrations.

[@KingAceto]

You have thought me how to snowboard. I subscribed 2 years ago when I first started and now I can do everything at my main park. Thanks a lot man👍🏻

[@SnowboardProCamp]

+KingAceto Amazing! Thanks for sticking around the past two years!

[@Anony_Max]

Okay this really shows my experience with snowboarding. I've been riding 2 weeks in total and everything went super well, except for ice riding. Turns out I am doing the opposit of everything. I was cutting my edge in really hard, not sliding with the ice. Which made me crash 2 times on the head on a narrow flat ice run.

[@THEpicND]

Lol this is not ice. Where im from (the Poconos) this would be a reasonable normal run

[@andrewkaminskas7721]

Rep the Ice Coast, Blue Mt. here. 75% of trails on normal days after 3pm are this

[@THEpicND]

Andrew Kaminskas blue mountain is my main as well

[@nickstevens6433]

My main mountain is the poconos as well, and the ice is so annoying.

[@THEpicND]

Nick Stevens its the closest to me (only 2.5 hrs away)

[@neekbot]

Ay blue man squad

[@erikh7975]

Get low and relax when you hit the ice. also plan your turns ahead of time to engage the turn where you see powder puffs

[@DarthLai]

If I may suggest the subject for the next video- health tips. What to do with sore muscles, what could be the cause of leg pain, how to prepare for a season, that kind of stuff. Love your vids Kevin!

[@SnowboardProCamp]

+DarthLai We're going to start doing more health/lifestyle videos soon! Thanks for the request!

[@DarthLai]

That's great to hear! Happy shredding

[@lukejagodzinski]

Good tips! I find sliding with the ice the most effective. After a few tries to slow down on ice and falls, now I just try to ride straight and pass icy part as fast as possible :). Of course you will gain a lot of speed. When fighting with ice, you will almost always lose :)

[@1LLSAY]

Thanks for all the beginner videos!!! It will be my second time going snowboarding in my life this weekend, and I'm able to go up to the highest point in big bear mountain and come down somewhat safely thanks to your beginner video!!

[@SnowboardProCamp]

+1LLSAY Amazing! Thanks for watching!

[@DJEcchi]

I love my Rossignol One MagTek board and it handled ice like a champ. Can't wait to see if Never Summer Proto Type 2 can do the same.

[@TheSamShowOfficial]

Watching this from the French alps. How much longer till the snow arrives!!

[@drenalintherapy]

I just rode sugar mountain for the first time . That was frickin ICE . Hard to learn basics in it but still lots of fun

[@j5ky]

Doing a day on a dry slope is great practice for ice, teaches you good technique and balance. Most riders that learn on a dry slope find ice easier to deal with

[@YveltalGAMER]

Thanks for the helpful vid Kevin. The hill I go to only grooms in the morning so by the end of the day, little to no snow covers the ice so I have to deal with it every day

[@Gamepro2112]

You had way more powder than where I board but thats also cause the resort I go to has never had real snow, its always made, and it always seems to be just solid ice all the way down. It's very painful as a beginner rider since falling onto my knees is like slamming into concrete.

[@kipanshi]

Thanks for tips, Kevin, love your videos. Our mountain has mostly hard icy runs because of warm weather, the best advise i can give myself is focus on not falling at all and ride carefully :)

[@Resakan]

Thanks for the tips I've learned a lot from your videos✌🏻️

[@IFayZe]

Hey Kevin! Ever been or thought about coming to board any resorts in Banff/Jasper? Like Lake Louise, Sunshine, or Marmot Basin? If not you should definitely look into it, they're my home mountains and I think you'd really enjoy them!

[@benwilson9658]

see to me thats fresh pow pow

[@mitch5737]

haha thats rough

[@Osprey1994]

You should have gotten a good dumping recently. It got hot here in CT though so it melted down a bit and now we have a crunchy top layer... Still Gona head up to Berkshire East in a day or 2 weather permitting.

[@Johnny-adamser]

This is no ice. Yesterday I fell hard on the northeast: it was like trying to snowboard on concrete.

[@wellmaxmedia]

I got a few lift tickets for my birthday today can't wait to get out this weekend!

[@TheMcStoners]

lol 0:29, guy in the back doing YMCA

[@suicidal_cookie868]

Iron_Colt Thats chris

[@Bigal-pn2pm]

Thank you so much, I just went snowboarding for the first time and I had a lot of fun, your tips helped a lot! Thanks!

[@Gavolak]

I find more often than not that on icy days, there will be large patches of snow that LOOK like nice powder, but when I head over I realize that the powders COMPLETELY frozen over and when I leaned back to prepare for ice, I slid out completely and wiped out pretty bad. Any tips for spotting what patches are ice and what's actual snow?

[@bennettpoh]

Normally ice is darker in colour whereas snow is white, sometimes ice look like snow, as you said, so my tip is just to take your first lap slowly and basically checking out the slope. For those ice patches, just ride it out on flat board.

[@davemeese6788]

Try australia mate. You'll find softer snow in an ice skating rink

[@semipro6600]

Hey Kev I'm going to whistler soon to snowboard there for the first time and i was wondering if you can give me some tips about the mountain like which runs are usually icy and stuff like that...thanks

[@Liquificati0n]

I had planned to watch this video at some point. I ended up going to my local hill last night and sure enough it was the iciest time I've ever been there. All runs were entirely ice, there was little to no snow (we had freezing rain followed by warm weather and then very cold weather, the slush froze). The only way I felt safe was to carve and lock in an edge, otherwise I ran the risk of sliding around without control. The conditions in your video seem to be dealing with patches of ice but I feel like solid ice requires carving to remain in control.

[@allio7342]

Wow even the icy runs at Whistler are better than the alright runs here in Montreal! Just had a snowstorm tho so hitting the slopes soon

[@annahavasi4289]

Just the video I was waiting for! Thank you Kevin!

[@PabloPhreshcobar]

in new York it gets to be pure ice, it will get to like 35 degrees Fahrenheit and the snow will melt a little along with lake effect snow then the next day you're in the negatives. I've gotten about 3 concussions from random ice patches. I wear a helmet now but that NY ice ain't no joke

[@spencermullin9435]

I was riding a steep icy run other day to a jump the day before I'd go right from the top wasn't as icy yesterday I started sideways on my edge when I dropped in like that for five feet and still cleared the knuckle 3 feet amazing but I see why speed checks are important esspesiaccly for beginners like myself where they may not be so used to different kinds of snow conditions

[@cutthroat795]

I like tip 3. It’s usually the icy patches that I’m not expecting and make me panic stop and fall.

[@judenaz1639]

I was hoping you'll tell them to adjust the highback on the bindings. Setting the 'knob' down makes it easier for the board to grip the ice. A quick fix without taking the bindings off. 😉

[@POPOkakaFURZ]

Best tip is to ride just on the very side of the slope... the place where all the snow gets pushed (usually about 2-3 meters in width) Just do quick turns and ride against the edge of the slope (kind of like a wall slide)

[@johannabauer5443]

Exactly the tips I needed. Thank you so much!

[@mattyoblobber]

Hey guys love the videos as i'm off to bansko bulgaria later this month, any tips for quickly getting back up after a soft or hard fall to keep momentum and save embarrassment?

[@manuelstrondl1797]

Today was the first day of riding after 1.5 years. I tried my first tamedog on the pist (practiced in powder) and somehow crashed, broke my collar and scaphoid bone and dislocated my shoulder really bad. However first day felt good and I'm looking forward to retry it this year...

[@calebmhorvath]

on the east coast, we call this a powder day

[@darkstar-mq3mb]

This is almost how the snow always is in MN for me...

[@Brian1jetfan]

I live in east. that's not icy

[@Nyxoy81]

Brian1jetfan yeah I live in nj and icy means you can see it

[@pknick21]

Tips for saving your speed when on long icy cat walks please. I seem to catch edges or get caught in ruts- which gets amplified at high speed-when you need your speed to get to a different area.

[@pluskey1826]

your tips are dope and have totally helped me, keep em coming!

[@ThirdEyePerspective1111]

Thank you, I'll try these tips out. What if it's a steep and icy surface, where you pick up speed fast because of the steepness? When I get going too fast, I tend to want to carve often, in order to slow down and not get out of control... yet, when it's ice, like you said, you really can't carve too deeply or turn too aggressively. So what about controlling your speed on ice, or slowing down on ice if you've picked up too much speed?

[@magzraptorxx7235]

I was just up in whistler!!! I live in van city! Also can you give some tips on riding side trails and or breaking down how to jump! Thanks kev!

[@magzraptorxx7235]

Also u should review the no strap bindings

[@donmueller626]

Do a video on controlling your speed on a fast, icy catwalk---which are everywhere at Whistler-Blackcomb.

[@Elena-nh1px]

I always have problems with icy runs thanks for helping I'll use these tipps next time

[@artrazz7824]

Always great tips enjoy your vids! These tips and others have def made me a better rider *im in my mid - 50s and love the learning curve after switching over from skiing - Great channel to subscribe too thanks!

[@JetLi2618]

Thank you for the tips! I will apply them. Now I know not to fight the ice, just go with it!

[@matthijswijling8040]

Hey Kevin, nice video! Did you see the step-in bindings from Burton? I thought these bindings are pretty cool as well as pretty practical. What do you think about them?

[@FlyPsiche]

0:50 I hope I had listened to this advice a week ago. I cracked my collarbone on a icy run, season over

[@EDKsurly]

I typicalyy SB in the poconos. Icy is the name of the game there....

[@robbyemrich2501]

Ikr, so do I

[@nickstevens6433]

Same, it can get really annoying

[@lacrosse4higher]

EDKsurly Blue Mountain!?

[@EDKsurly]

lacrosse4higher Camelback or Elk

[@lacrosse4higher]

EDKsurly I was just at camelback for 4 days over my winter break. Actually wasn't too bad until it got dark

[@charalampostsolakidis3587]

keep going Kevin and thank you for the tips and also for all the videos you upload !!!! Great job!!! 😆

[@Wild_Cog_Motorcycles]

Thanks for the tips Kevin, keep up the great work!!!

[@mattyoblobber]

Any tips for riding on a narrow stretch on a board without getting in the way of fast skiers too much? cheers

[@oolong2]

I find that riding on ice is more like a balancing act. You have to just "feel" that point in your lean where your board is just about to slip out and just hold it steady and don't get aggressive.

[@OMGitsMotion]

I would totally avoid having my board parallel to the slope as thats when my board slips from underneath me on ice ?!

[@caden01691]

Ice is always my worst enemy, so I needed these tips! 😂

[@ashtonmax]

awesome video dude! just started snowboarding and thanks to your videos im making awesome progress fast! i sometimes stuggle to keep straight as my edge catches can you do a video on how to ride straight without the edge catching?

[@SnowboardProCamp]

+Ashton Cz you are the second person to request that video recently, so I'll try to get one up soon! I do have an older one already on the channel.

[@ashtonmax]

SnowboardProCamp​ thanks a ton dude youre awesome!

[@DrParanoidAndroid]

Best tip I have is not to change your style too much when you hit the ice, don't react too hard, act as normal but like Kevin said go slower and less dramatic with your turns

[@ElDukeAy]

My two cents, one important thing in surviving icy runs is, don't fight the ice - just go with it. Initiating an aggressive turn on ice, will almost certainly result in disaster. I've found that when you encounter an icy patch, just keep riding exactly the same as when you entered the patch, until you exit it. Don't try to stop the turn, and worse don't even think of stopping unless it's life or death (going off a cliff or colliding with someone at a speed that will result in serious injury/death). Just ride it out.

[@SnowboardProCamp]

+ElDukeAy Great advice!

[@ElDukeAy]

Thanks Kevin, I also wanted to say thank you so much for your videos. They've contributed greatly to improving my riding, and find them very informative and fun to watch. Keep up the great work! :)

[@thomasfitzpatrick7597]

Hey, Kevin I think I saw you last Tuesday , on the 14th at Ski Apache , where you there ?

[@mitch5737]

do you do half pipe? If so could you give some beginner tips?

[@1gesteban]

If you do happen to go down on your butt on ice, what’s a good way to stop! I had a scary experience last season and would like to know how to bring myself to stop and not slam into some trees.

[@pochohats]

@snowboardprocamp tips on how to shred on the first day of snowboarding

[@ajn.mychannel4864]

Come over to Australia, here that is called a powder run, Ice here is when there has been no snow in a week or so and the run gets groomed in the morning, then it is a challenge just to get your edge into the "snow" to turn, hahaha.

[@spazzen]

Yeah, but on the plus side its always warm enough that by 10am you've got slush to board in and the ice isn't as big an issue :D

[@veronicajakubowski3868]

As an eastern snowboarder, yes this is a powder run ahaha. Usually, in the beginning of the season, I get my edges super sharpened and my technique differs from yours. I actually dig my edge into the ice so that I don't slide out. But I'm sure everyone's technique for riding on ice differs. I wish to ride on powder all day every day... :(

[@ChrisEyres]

i like my edges a little detuned as we are in the park alot or riding powder. im sure if we were out east we would all have super sharp edges.

[@stevanblum25]

Sup Kevin!! I love your vids, keep it up! Also, im a beginner snowboarder, and I always have trouble with side hits. do you have any suggestions on how to Ollie when hitting the jumps? Thanks man!!

[@joshuafoster4824]

Can you do a video about some Basic tricks.

[@ispellitsean]

Joshua Foster he's done a few, check his channel

[@rot_v]

I went down an icy run last week and it was extremely bumpy, no signs to warn the riders either. And I just slid for ages, stopped by slamming my board into the ice but damn that shit was fast.

[@ryanwalsh9414]

Honestly the conditions look really good there, is that not normal, because everything in this video looks like the best of conditions I've seen so far.

[@ChrisEyres]

Ryan Walsh we have had a lot of snow so it's been harder to find ice than usual

[@bas2362]

Do you have any tips for taking ramps? I feel like I always have to much speed and I do a quick powderspray to crontroll it but I just don't have the confidence to do it. Should I just commit to the jump?

[@leevi2138]

Fantasticus start with smaller and work your way up to the bigger ones stay relaxed in the air dont freak out after leaving the lip of the jump

[@bas2362]

Thank you so much!!

[@Osprey1994]

Fantasticus if you go big to quick and you have icy conditions you could end up like I did years ago. I went off a ramp got to much air and came down on my arm. Broke and displaced my radius. Learning to Ollie or hop off small bumps helped me a lot. Also remember if you fall don't try and catch yourself on your arms unless you want to ride the ski patrol sled. Learning how to take a fall is very important if you want to take jumps (honestly being able to fall without hurting yourself will help in general).

[@Youtubefan101]

Baspect (GFX) try to find a park rat that is actually good and ask s/he to show you the speed and what helped me in air was just committing to a small Indy to keep your body in a relaxed position so You don’t flap like a bird.

[@bustindustin959]

Just send it jerry

[@nickshinn5110]

Great video, thanks for the tips on the icy runs!

[@GeraltBosMang]

When doing blue/black with ice, how do you go down smoothly ? they're hard to stay on thin edge because you will be going down too fast and loose control, and on the other hand if you stay too much on the edge, you also loose control because theres nothing but ice to stay on and the steep slope makes you plummet down hill.

[@teopieri9109]

AHAHAHAHAHA at 0:28 theres a guy doing the YMCA i love it

[@amandawinit842]

Was chris not around enough 2 years ago? Seems like everyone don't know who he is lol

[@samcrocker2638]

U just earned yout self a new sub!💗😊

[@BlackCoffee21]

I love the daily videos

[@architectminiatures7597]

@snowboardProCamp Awesome tips man!, here in Arizona at Sunrise we get a lot of Icy runs. and this will definitely help me improve my riding! Also something I have noticed in the majority of your videos is how clean the top of your board stays!! after 1 single run, my board always seems to have 2inches of snow caked on it. any tips on stopping this? it annoys me lol.

[@cameronlukewilson281]

If only we had days like this up on Coronet. Lol

[@tomsharpe8181]

Just got the dragon nfx2 goggles in the mail! They look so sick!😁😁

[@oconnorgannon]

i just switched from those to Oakley's actually. They aren't that nice

[@j.t.thomson5321]

Great video idea! this is really something good to learn!

[@naerys87]

Was riding ice all week on my only snowboarding trip of the year.. Like, just ice on 1/2 of the runs and baby moguls in spots where there was snow. Thanks weather-gods.

[@bpdrx]

Thanks for all the tips! keep em coming

[@westcoast2372]

That tunnel is sick. Wish we had something like that at bachelor or mt Ashland

[@ChrisEyres]

they made it for the olympics to go under the downhill course, so we could still ride while the competition was going on

[@westcoast2372]

Chris Eyres that's awesome

[@benwilson9658]

if its a sheet of pure ice just go down it flat based or on your heel edge

[@boballan6045]

Hello from Russia, Kevin! Thanks for the great channel! You really help people from all over the world to ride better and get more fun. This year picture really improved, which camera do you use? May be i missed smth, but i think you didnt exlain the technique of carving (up / down-unweighting). Could you make a video(s) on that? Good luck and see you in russia))

[@ChrisEyres]

Bob Allan we have video covering this very thing out soon

[@JonasDBH]

hey Kevin do you have any tips on how i can improve my snowboarding and learn new tricks when there is very little snow so the park isnt open and you cant ride trees or do sidehits