10 Best Carving Tips & Drills for EVERY SNOWBOARDER | Beginner to Advanced

[@ryanlrhys4036]

You are a great teacher!! Thank you for these tips. I’ve been skid city out there need to clean it up! 😅

[@bigmistake2429]

Awesome videos Tommie! What really brought my carving to the next level was focusing on the edge change drills by doing down unweighted and up unweighted edge changes. After the down unweighted edge change by gradually standing up building pressure on the edge really helps the edge hold. And vice versa on the up unweighted edge changes.

[@dean6267]

Great tips TB. This is where I'm up too in my learning. Will come back to this video for sure. 👍🤟🤟

[@catlover-u7c]

Great great tips! I’m all about techniques and getting them right from the get go! So thank you ! I’m going to try this tomorrow at mammoth mountain

[@jakemelvin9052]

Dude your awesome! Im a skier and snowboarder and your helping me get better!

[@jerrychanchan]

this video really make me understand what should I do for carving!! Thanks!!

[@Gary-np7hl]

I can’t say enough about tommie b’s drills. Every time out I do a few warmup laps and incorporate about a half a dozen of them, both regular and switch. I credit them for me getting my mojo back. I had a number of years with infrequent riding with injuries and fatigue. Bad habits formed. I came very close to giving up snowboarding. Now I’m on pace for 60 days this season. I wanted to run into you up at copper and personally thank you, but it looks like I’ll just have to buy a hoodie instead. Btw…. Those one of a kinds rock. The patterns and color schemes are so steezy. No offense, but your gf had to had some input on that. Luv ya, man!

[@gtALIEN]

ooh gonna try the nose and tail press carves, looks challenging

[@thomasmann9175]

Another TB classic. So helpful. Thanks man

[@tommiebennett]

THANKS my dood! stoked you found it helpful!

[@thomasmann9175]

@@tommiebennett Tommie could I ask your opinion please on a board for my massive feet (EUR 50). I ride a Palmer timeless 167 which they said would be wide enough, but I boot out on decent carved turns, which rips me a new a*hole .... I'm looking for a really wide waist like 30 or even 31. Come across anything like that? Ideally a bit less stiff than the timeless too to allow more freestyle possibilities. Thanks!

[@mankybrains]

Sweet tips and drills. I watched some of your older videos and saw the toe heel drill. I was up the mountains a week ago and I still can't get myself to switch back and forth between the toe and heel so fast. More practice for me.

[@rodkoehler]

Thanks! Gonna try some of these drills when i get over to the new Gray Butte lift in Mount Shasta this week.

[@DCEJosh]

I’ll have to give some of these a try on Monday!

[@anatolyloegering547]

Makes sense to me!😊

[@GenuineBrad]

Going to try these first steps tomorrow at Winter Park (Jack Kendrick trail)! Thanks Tommie B!

[@jacobiwolf77]

Kendrick is a good run for that

[@JuliusHiiden]

that toe and tail press + carving is new to me, wanna try them

[@alessio0157]

Awesome 🤩!!

[@Goophy7]

Hey Tommie, where have you been riding in this video? That resort looks stunning!

[@tommiebennett]

Copper mountain, co and it’s def my favorite

[@wunjofordinal5304]

Shoutingz"fuck you - im NOT doing this" art my phone, was my immediate reaction upon seeing him explain the 'early edge engagement'. Tommy sending me on no suicide mission 😂

[@TeresaBernstein-n4y]

Love your gear. Any chance of a women's range?

[@tommiebennett]

We are working on a women’s line as we type. Excited to see what we can come up with.

[@TeresaBernstein-n4y]

Me too cannot wait!! @@tommiebennett

[@digitalsmear]

This video is pretty good, but, as a fellow AASI pinned instructor, I'm bummed you didn't go more into WHY the fore and aft drill is useful and how to actually apply it to turns. Still looking for a good video on that to point people to.

[@darkslider802]

Sick! ❤

[@ivanbadyulya5562]

Thanks! What snowboard on the video?

[@LucasE269]

Are the skidded turns he talks about here the same as the knee steering turns he talked about in a previous video?

[@nayhem]

10:28 Not quite Michelle Kwan, but very fun to watch.

[@HazelEyes420.]

Sick

[@RiceManCA]

hey man what you filming with the quality is crispy

[@tommiebennett]

this is filmed on a Sony fx3 :)

[@fujobu741]

Where’s the Bennetek hoodies? Been trying to grab one of those for a few months now.

[@tommiebennett]

My dood! Got a few option on the store now. Shopbenetek.com

[@awayinmymind3970]

I have trouble trying to fully extend my body out horizontally on toeside. I can get low enough to touch my knee, and even elbow, but I'm struggling to stay balanced when I attempt to extend all the way out.

[@jacobiwolf77]

I can't say specifically without watching you ride, but you might have your hips too far back for proper balance

[@Ozzy1kneeboard2snowboarder3]

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

[@ardaeser1906]

What is your board model?

[@koalafro]

shoutout the godfather bennito

[@KingsleyKauvaka-sg3nl]

He looks like a short person when he does his toes side for 10 seconds 😂

[@born2drum1]

Yeah he’s like 5’1”

[@marioguaranha]

🔥🔥🏂

[@kristiangrau8283]

I am ski and Snowboard instructor, and I do teach all my students to identify the edge on transition from the beginning, without necessarily explaining to them that they are carving, and I find that you overcomplicate things, and in my opinion, you are not using your back hand corectly, therefore, I hope you don't mind my comment, and I wish you the best, we all want to become better snowboarders aren't we?

[@tommiebennett]

lol. All good. Funny how you may see a lot of pro riders using the back had as a counter balance. As an instructor myself, I def don’t want to ride like an AASI robot. Have your own personal style is what snowboarding is about but obviously style is subjective

[@kristiangrau8283]

@@tommiebennett my impression, does not come from necessarily watching pro riders, but more from the fact that snowboarding being an asymmetric sport, I find that the back hand gives you extra control of your muscle on the oblique fascias, therefore it helps you to become much more smooth and controlled with your entire body, cause snowboaring opposed to skiing and especially when carving, as you are mentioning as well, is not relying on rotarional separation or contra rotation!!!

[@MonsenyorDen]

Смотрю из России. Очень хорошая подача. Томи, браво и спасибо!

[@jacobiwolf77]

No full layout on the toeside? Boo!

[@AK-bw8xk]

Don't take this wrong but with all the hand gestures it looks like your having a seizure.