Assessment & Preparation: Health and fitness play a key role in maximizing performance and preventing injury in snowboarding. To help you achieve your goals this winter you should start by assessing your own fitness and determining areas that need improvement. Before beginning any physical training you must ensure that you are not dealing with any injuries that may be made worse through exercise, if you are unsure about your condition you should check with a doctor or physiotherapist first.

We are hopefully all familiar with the basic ideas behind the use of questions in our lessons & training sessions, such as: checking for understanding, review purposes, highlighting breakthroughs, etc.

I really think sometimes we forget to ask ourselves a few important questions to help us understand what we are teaching and if it’s working or not? I’ve compiled a brief list of some of the questions I ask myself every time I teach a lesson, course, or session, that help me get success from my time in front of the group. 

As instructors and particularly instructors training for certification courses, we spend most of our time on a snowboard making turns, and trying to perfect those turns…left, right, left, right repeat…and we’re getting pretty good at it, but how much time have you spent thinking about HOW we get from one turn to the next? There’s been this idea floating around for a few years that we need EARLY edge, and LOTS of it but if you watch the good riders out there you’ll see that they focus more on re-centering in the transition between turns and then moving to the new edge in a controlled way.

In CASI’s reference manual, there is a small section about the Q angle as a key anatomical difference between the typical male and female body types. But exactly what is the Q angle?The quadriceps or “Q” angle is the angle at which the quadriceps muscle meets the kneecap compared to the line formed by the ligament attaching the kneecap to shin. To assess the Q angle: find the pointiest part of the hip bone (ASIS) and draw an imaginary line from here through the centre of the kneecap (patella). Then imagine another line from the bony point just below the kneecap (tibial tuberosity) up through the centre of the kneecap again. The angle between these two lines is the Q angle.

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