Falling leaf in Snowboarding

Reviewer Nails the exact mistake most riders make and how to fix it - genuinely excellent coaching.

Moderator Drill one of five is explicitly 'folding leaf with an edge hop at the end' and gets the most detailed treatment in the video - what it is, why it's chosen, the exact foot/knee/hip mechanics, common failure modes. Entirely and thoroughly on-topic.

Reviewer 'Point, look, lean' - simple enough to actually remember and use on the hill.

Moderator Whole video is the falling leaf, heel side and toe side, with a stated progression before (skating, edge slides) and after (straight glides into J-turns). Nothing else in the frame.

Reviewer Best-in-batch breakdown of falling leaf - precise cues, both edges, no filler.

Moderator Step three of this four-step breakdown is explicitly 'the folding leaf into the full line' (falling leaf, clearly a captioning artifact on 'folding'), walked through on both toe and heel edge with precise knee-clock-position cues. This is squarely, thoroughly about the exact sub-skill.

Reviewer Clear, correct and built on the side slip. The 'small rotation only, 11 to 1 o'clock' cue stops the usual loss of speed control.

Moderator Teaches the falling leaf as a side slip plus a little rotation: rise, rotate hip and shoulder to drift left or right, return to neutral and flex down to stop. Squarely the sub-skill.

Reviewer Solid, well-sequenced teaching - explains the why, not just the what.

Moderator Opens by naming the skill, explaining why it's called falling leaf, stating the prerequisite (braking on both edges), then walks the weight-shift mechanic on the heel edge and tells you to repeat on toe edge. Also frames where this fits next (S-turns). This is a textbook on-topic falling leaf explainer.

Reviewer Good weight-shift explanation, and a genuinely useful nudge to not neglect your toe edge.

Moderator All zigzag/falling-leaf mechanics - how to shift weight to drift left or right off a straight side-slip and back to center, on both edges. On-topic throughout.

Reviewer The feet-not-hips cue here is the kind of detail that actually fixes people's falling leaf.

Moderator Explicitly labeled 'level two out of seven: falling leaf' and stays entirely on it - blending the side slip with fore/aft pressure to steer. This is precisely the sub-skill.

Reviewer Quick, but accurate and it shows the actual motion, not just talks about it.

Moderator This is it -- literally demonstrates and names the falling leaf ('now look, I'm literally doing what is called a Falling Leaf as I go right as I go left'). Equal shin pressure, hips over the toe edge, weight-shift for direction. Exactly the skill, on the toeside edge.

Reviewer Solid rundown of the toe-edge falling leaf - the weight shift and steering cues are the right ones for a first-timer.

Moderator Straight down the middle - this is the toe-edge falling leaf, walked through step by step: releasing the edge, shifting weight, steering back to center. Exactly the movement this tag is for.

Reviewer Clean, correct cueing -- a beginner can take this straight to the bunny hill.

Moderator This is literally the falling leaf drill, lesson 6 in a beginner snowboard series -- teaches it on both heel side and toe side with the weight-shift/look/reach mechanic. Dead center of the sub-skill.

Reviewer Clean, correct steps - a little terse but nothing wrong in it.

Moderator Names it directly - toe edge falling leaf - and stays on it start to finish: releasing the front foot to steer into the fall line, returning to center, working both directions. This is exactly the sub-skill, no drift into other topics.

Reviewer Diagnoses the actual cause of catching an edge, not just symptoms.

Moderator This IS the toeside falling-leaf progression -- traversing across the run on the toe edge under control instead of pointing down the fall line -- even without using the term. Directly addresses the classic beginner fear and mistakes on this exact drill.

Reviewer Solid teaching on the weight-transfer mechanic and why it matters before turns.

Moderator Explicitly frames this as 'the falling leap' (falling leaf, clearly mis-captioned) that beginners learn right after sliding straight and right before linking turns - that's exactly where this skill sits in the progression. Walks both directions with weight-transfer cues. Squarely on-topic.

Reviewer Explains the fear AND the fix -- hip position cues that actually work.

Moderator Opens by naming the exact falling-leaf pattern beginners default to, then teaches how to get comfortable on the toeside edge that the drill builds toward -- squarely in the beginner toeside/falling-leaf wheelhouse, even though it drifts into J-turns near the end.

Reviewer Clear, correct, and genuinely useful for a first-timer.

Moderator This is the heelside half of falling leaf even though it never uses that name -- side-slip body position plus the weight-shift mechanic for directional control left/right, which is the actual mechanism of falling leaf. Doesn't link it to the toeside side or use the term, so not a complete falling-leaf lesson, but the core skill being taught is exactly this.

Reviewer Clear cues and it tells you what goes wrong and why — good teaching.

Moderator This is a full tutorial on toe-edge sliding including the back-and-forth across the slope — the toe-side falling leaf — plus a troubleshooting section on the two most common ways it goes wrong. About as squarely on-topic as it gets for the toe-edge variant.

Reviewer Explains the actual mechanic behind the steering, though the delivery could be clearer.

Moderator Entirely about falling leaf on the heel edge and the specific steering mechanism ('peddling') that drives it. On-topic start to finish.

Reviewer Clear and well-explained for its length, just brief and closes with a resort ad.

Moderator Short but precise — explains falling leaf by relating it to side slip (a move the learner presumably already has), then gives the exact mechanism (press more on one edge to steer that way). On topic and efficient.

Reviewer Rough delivery but real, practical coaching — worth watching despite that.

Moderator Real, hands-on demo of falling leaf on heel side then toe side with both feet strapped in, plus addresses real beginner fears (don't panic when you fall, doesn't matter if you're goofy or regular yet). On topic and practical.

Reviewer Explains the 'why' behind the drill well, light on the 'how'.

Moderator Squarely about falling leaf on both edges and, specifically, why you're doing it - getting the board pointed further down the fall line as a bridge to linking turns. On-topic throughout.

Reviewer Clear and well paced. The chair stance and look-point-lean cue are easy to take to the hill.

Moderator Heel-edge sideslip for beginners: sit-in-a-chair stance, lifting the toe edge to control speed, and drifting left or right by looking, pointing and leaning that way. That is the heelside falling leaf in practice, though the name never comes up.

Reviewer Good analogy, real feedback loop — solid teaching once you look past the repetition.

Moderator Real lesson clip specifically teaching heel-side falling leaf via a 'drop your toes like a gas pedal' analogy, then individualized feedback per student. On topic and hands-on.

Moderator This is a real falling-leaf lesson on the heel edge - toes up, shin engagement, sliding across the hill and back. It's only half the picture (heel side, not toe side) but what's there is squarely on this skill.

Reviewer Good beginner cues here - toes up, weight onto the balls of your feet - but it's a bit loose and trails off before tying it all together.

Reviewer Clear, well-cued instruction on the sliding — punches above its runtime.

Moderator Genuinely spends real time on heel and toe sliding back and forth before it ever gets to turning — toe pressure for speed control, looking where you want to go, going back and forth on both edges. That's falling leaf even though the video's endpoint is the first turn.

Moderator Beginner progression: slide down on the heel edge and stop by lifting your toes, do the same on the toe edge, then let the board run straight. The first two steps are the falling leaf in all but name - sliding on one edge and drifting left or right by leaning or pointing. Going straight is a different skill.

Reviewer Simple, confidence-building steps for sliding on each edge - a good start toward a proper falling leaf.

Reviewer Good posture cues and a heads-up on the over-turn mistake - just needs the video to land fully.

Moderator This is toe-edge weight-shift work matching the falling leaf pattern - directional cues (go right, go left), stance correction (stay stacked, don't bend at the waist), and a warning about over-rotating into a turn. It's demo-narration style so some of the value is in the visual you can't fully get from text, but the content is squarely about this movement.

Moderator Toe-edge sideslip for first-timers: sliding down on the toe side, drifting left and right by looking over your shoulder, stopping by looking uphill. That sideways drift is the toe-side falling leaf, though he never calls it that or gets into front and rear foot pressure. On topic, just not squarely.

Reviewer Good first-timer cues for sliding on your toe edge. Light on mechanics, but easy to follow.

Reviewer Everything visible is high quality - can't confirm the falling leaf part specifically, but I'd bet on it.

Moderator This is a 'zero to linking turns' complete walkthrough from a credentialed instructor. The excerpt I've got only gets through skating, straight running, and toe/heel posture before cutting off right as side slipping starts - it hasn't reached falling leaf yet in what's shown. But falling leaf is the standard bridge between side slip and linked turns, and this same creator explicitly teaches it as a named core step elsewhere in this batch, so I'd bet on it showing up later in the full video. Rating on the side of likely-covers-it but flagging I can't confirm from what's given.

Reviewer Good coaching for a nervous rider: stop and reset on each edge, keep it slow, don't whip the board round. Light on how-to, but it targets the fear that stalls most people.

Moderator Coaching tip for a student who's scared of falling leaf in the direction she likes least. Squarely about building the falling leaf, but about confidence and progression more than mechanics.

Reviewer Cues are fine, explanation is thin - lean on the visuals.

Moderator Same content as another clip in this batch almost word for word - looks like reposted/scraped footage. Judging the content on its own merits: it does walk through the sideslip-to-turn weight shift that is falling leaf, knee/hip/shoulder cueing on both legs. On-topic.

Reviewer Right ingredients, but you'll need the video playing to make sense of these words.

Moderator This is the falling leaf progression alright - sideslip with knee/hip/shoulder direction cues, transitioning into edge-to-edge turning. The wording is choppy (bad translation or auto-caption), but the content maps onto falling leaf mechanics clearly enough - weighting one foot, angling toward the nose, coming back to neutral. It drifts into full turning territory toward the end, which is the natural next step, so it's not 100% narrowly falling leaf but it's squarely in that neighborhood.

Reviewer Well taught so far - just can't confirm the falling leaf segment specifically.

Moderator Same situation as the companion full-progression video - excerpt covers binding, skating, straight running, posture, and gets to the J-turn stop before cutting off, hasn't reached falling leaf in what I can see. Given the standard teaching order and this instructor's demonstrated curriculum elsewhere in this set, I'd expect it's covered later, but I'm rating this a notch lower than the sibling video since it stops slightly earlier in the progression - slightly less certain it reaches falling leaf within this specific video's runtime.

Reviewer Useful chunk on toe sliding, just not a lot of it.

Moderator Tip one is toe sliding practice — shoulders to the top, knees forward, heel edge up, sliding back and forth — that's the toe-side falling leaf and it's explained properly. Tips two and three are about initiating the turn itself, different skill.

Moderator Sideslip lesson: board across the fall line, heel edge first and then toe edge, edge pressure as a gas pedal, then standing up with bent knees and hands out to the sides. That is the foundation the falling leaf sits on, and it briefly mentions steering the slide with foot pressure, but it stops short of the leaf itself.

Reviewer Great sideslip tutorial. Nail this and the falling leaf is a small step, though it stops before the leaf.

Reviewer Gets the idea across (stay on the heel edge, only touch the toes to change direction) but it's hand gestures and no real breakdown of the weight shift and rotation that steer it.

Moderator Part two of a first-day series: getting up, heel and toe edge stops, and then the falling leaf. Falling leaf is the last stretch, not the whole video.