Know How: Snowboard Grab Guide

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You can grab your snowboard in so many different ways, and in heaps of different places. You can use your front hand, back hand or both.

Some places on your board are considered to be cool, and some are not so cool. Check out the grab guide of common grabs and try some new ones next time you are out on the slopes.

Be aware the Tail Fish and Tindy are considered to be bad style. I have marked them on the grab guide to help you NOT grab in these areas, so consider yourself forewarned! Looking at the grab guide you can see that the method and melon grabs are located right beside each other but ultimately you can grab anywhere close to there and it works, but the major difference between these 2 is how they are executed.

To do a Method you grab your board and extend your back leg back or forward, where as a melon is meant to be a lot tighter and when you style it out you push your board forward. Now With the Seatbelt and the Crail, the further toward the ends of your board you can grab the better.

To add style you can tweak your grab, so put in some snowboard DVD’s and watch to see how the pros are doing it, and then put your own style into it. Happy Shredding girls!

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