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If you have seen recent snowboarding videos of professional riders, you have probably seen them demonstrate quick edge changing.

Quick edge changing means that there is no neutral flat base moment with your board between turns.

When your board is flat on the slope, you have more freedom to spin on the ground.
This can be viewed as the most unstable situation while riding, as there are no edges holding your board.

Thus, we want to eliminate the flat base moment just as easily as advanced riders do so.

Also, you can start and finish your turns quicker if you change edges immediately after finishing the turn.

For example, the quick edge changing technique will be helpful when you are riding between trees, on moguls, and on steeper and narrower slopes.


Step 1 – Basic standing position


You should check your standing position before attempting edge to edge turns, because you need a strong sense of balance to successfully hit these types of turns.


1. Toe to heel balance


Try to keep your center of mass above your board.
The key is the position of your head and hips.

If you stand tall over the board, you're aware that your head and hips are above the board.

But with this posture quick edge changing can be harder with the moving distance of your head.

To reduce the moving distance of your head, try crouching on your board.

Now your head and hips are pushed out with this posture and your upper body is inclining as well. As you can see, this is not quite the best standing position for edge to edge turns.

Because you want to keep your body in line over the board as much as possible with this crouching posture, you don’t want to lean your upper body too much toward the toe side.

The most common posture seen on the toe to heel balance with many intermediate riders are:

• Shins Standing straight
• Hips Pushed out far toward heel side
• Head leaning toward the toe side

Because your shins are standing straight, your hips are pushed out far from your board.

To keep your center of mass with this hip position, you must lean your upper body even more with your head.

Physically, this posture is balanced because you have equal weight on both the toe and heel side with your head and hips. However, your upper body will be leaning too much. This is not the ideal posture for riding, because your head and hips will be pushed out too far from the board.

Now let’s fix it.

We want to keep our hips and head as close to the board as possible while crouching.

When your shins are standing straight your knees are above the center of the board, and this disenables you push your hips back in alignment.

If your knees are above your toes your hips will be closer to the board.

To keep your knees above your toes, keep flexing the muscles on your shins.

This helps your hips stay closer to the board, and now you don’t need to lean your upper body as much.

Now straighten your head so that you can keep your body even straighter.

This posture allows you to keep your balance stable and to control your edge to edge turns easier.


2. Nose to tail balance

There is a skill in moving your weight fore and aft to get better board performance.
But to make things easier, we won’t talk about that here.

Basically, you want to keep your weight in the center of the board since this is the most simple way to keep our balance.

Or you can do as many advanced riders do, and pull your hips backward while keeping your head in the center of the board.

This posture is recommended if you set up your binding right in the middle of the board so that you can ride the same way you would ride directional board.

When their posture is out of alignment on the nose to tail balance, intermediate riders look like this:

• Hips pushed forward

• Upper body leaning slightly toward the tail


With this posture, your center of mass is above the center of the board thanks to the position of your head and hips, however this is a bad alignment, and will make riding harder.