Booked a flight to Lithuania to ride the indoor park in Druskininkai in May. It’s the closest and cheapest option for me, and the park lines look decent. A couple days of just laps on pipes and jumps. Honestly feels like the only way to bridge the gap until November.
I’ve also been building a snowboarding learning app for beginner and intermediate riders. Not a coaching app exactly — more of a resource layer for the stuff that happens between riding sessions.
I posted about this in r/snowboarding before, but I think I might have been asking the wrong crowd. Not in a bad way — that sub is more general riding culture, and this is probably more of a nerdy progression / training question.
One thing people there told me pretty directly was:
“An app can’t teach you snowboarding. Time on the mountain is the only thing that works.”
Didn’t love hearing it, but yeah… it’s true.
So I stopped thinking about it as a “coaching app” and started thinking more about what actually happens between sessions.
Because for me it’s always the same:
- scrolling clips
- watching the same trick breakdown 10 times
- convincing myself I’ll learn a cab 540 one day
then doing basically nothing structured until I’m back on snow
I’ve been doing that for like 3 seasons now. YouTube, IG, random forums, saved clips I never look at again. Pretty sure a lot of people do some version of this.
That’s kind of where my head is at now — not replacing riding, not pretending an app can teach snowboarding, just trying to make the in-between part less chaotic.
Stuff like:
- how do I structure progression a bit instead of just saving random clips?
- what should I focus on right now if I want to land a specific trick and what are the foreseeable next steps?
- what can I work on off-mountain, strength, mobility, trampoline?
- mobility / rehab / basics when you’re not riding
- where do I find riding mates that are on the similar level as me?
I’ve attached a few screenshots from what I’m building, but I’m mostly curious about the resource layer idea itself.
For people who are into the nerdy progression / training side of snowboarding: what would you actually want in something like this?
Structured trick progressions? Off-snow drills? Mobility / rehab basics? A place to save tricks you want to try? Session notes? Video breakdowns? Something else?
And just as important — what would make you roll your eyes and close it immediately?
I’m not trying to replace riding. I’m trying to figure out what, if anything, would actually be useful in the messy time between riding days.
