Don’t Stop Forward Momentum Following an Edge Change

Did you ever make a turn and then just plop down, with your board out of gas?

I noticed that if I don’t take an effort to finish my heelside turn the board will chatter, lose speed, and I’ll fall to the ground. Not good. (This could happen in toeside turns as well, but it almost always happens only in heelside turns.)

There are several reasons why this might happen to you (or me). One is that the tip of the board has actually started going back uphill, meaning a loss of speed. To make sure that I continue going forward–and this is especially true when I want to follow a turn with a heelside traverse–is to shift my weight towards the tip of the board. I think of it as a little hip shift.