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Re:Snowboarding for Geeks by grecy on Friday December 14, 2018 @11:11AM (#18681815)
The trick to sanding up on your heel edge is to throw one hand out in front of you for balance, and "walk" your other hand closer to the board as you stand up, keeping some weight on it as you go.

Kind of this: https://youtu.be/PRyQXSZfO0A?t=32

It takes practice, and it's about building muscles you have never used before!

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Re:Snowboarding for Geeks by stefanmichael on Friday December 14, 2018 @11:14AM (#18681851)
I use two tricks to stand up on my board. I started with the hand out but that wasn't working too well for me because I still couldn't compress my hips. Now on heelside I grab with my front hand in the middle of my board like a mute-grab, then I use that as leverage to pull my hips in close to the board, then I stand up.

Alternatively I go toe-side and stand up super easily because its just like getting up off of your knees if you fell to your knees on the ground. I stand up on my toe-side about 95% of the time now.

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