Five days of focused work on your carving. No freeriding sidequests, no powder day excuses, no "let's just cruise for a bit." Five days where every run has a purpose and every chairlift ride is a debrief.
I built this program over 30 years of riding, racing, and teaching. It breaks carving down into independent systems: edge control, body position, vertical movement, transitions and rebuilds them one by one. Each day builds on the previous one. By day five, you put it all together.
This is not a course where I show you a trick and you try to copy it. It's a structured progression where you develop feel and understanding, not just muscle memory.
You already carve. You can hold an edge on a groomed slope and you know the difference between a carved turn and a skidded one. You've probably been riding for years. But something isn't clicking: maybe your toeside is weaker than your heelside, maybe your transitions feel forced, or maybe you've just plateaued and can't figure out why.
This is for riders who are ready to do boring drills on easy slopes if that's what it takes to get better. If you need steep terrain and speed to have fun, this probably isn't for you.
Day 1 - Edge control and upper/lower body separation. Everything starts from the feet. Edge engagement comes from the lower body: ankles, knees, hips. The upper body stays quiet. We spend the first day isolating this, because most problems I see in advanced riders trace back to the upper body doing work the lower body should own.
Day 2 - Balance and body position. Once the lower body controls the edge, the upper body becomes your dynamic balancing system. I use what I call the trampoline model: bad positioning under load gets punished immediately - especially on toeside. We work on trusting the edge and finding your balance point through low-speed, high-commitment drills.
Day 3 - Vertical movement, terrain absorption, and pressure timing. Up-down movement must be independent of edge angle. When these two systems work separately, pressure becomes a tool you can apply early, mid, or late in the turn, consciously shaping each arc. We also work with terrain features, because you should always have fun, even if the groomer is not perfect.
Day 4 - Turn transitions. A carved turn is a steady state, you're balanced in it. To start the next one, you have to deliberately knock yourself out of balance. By now you have three independent systems to do this with: edge angle, upper body balance, and vertical movement. We need to operate them all at once, with clear purpose.
Day 5 - Integration and the mental game. Training and riding are two different modes. We practice switching between focused drilling and letting go - trusting that the work is in your body and getting out of its way. I'll show you how to rewire your dopamine reward cicuit and connect the boring drill with the thrill of high speed carving.
I don't teach from a textbook. I teach from what I observe works on actual snow.
Every drill has a clear purpose and a success criterion. If it's not working, we figure out why and adjust. We do not push through hoping repetition alone fixes it. I use video analysis when it helps, because riders are often surprised by the gap between what they feel and what actually happens.
The group is small. I keep it that way so I can give real, individual feedback - not generic instructions shouted from across the slope.
Chairlift time is teaching time. Every ride up is a conversation about what just happened and what to focus on next.
I've been snowboarding for over 30 years. I raced Parallel Slalom and Parallel Giant Slalom competitively—European Cup, World Championships, South African Championships (won multiple times). I collaborated with a snowboard manufacturer - Never Summer Industries - on their carving boards, namely The Chairman and The East.
I spent five seasons as an instructor at Tiffindell Ski Resort in South Africa. One slope, one lift, thousands of runs on the same 350 meters of snow. That's where I learned that mastery comes from repetition, not variety. More about that on the snowboarding page.
Drop me an email at bartek@taktyk.pl. No forms, no funnels, no automated sequences. Just write to me and we'll talk.