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Snowboard toe drag or heel drag is one of the worst things for your snowboarding. Toe drag and heel drag is when your snowboard boots hang too far over your edges. The main problem with toe/heel drag is that your boots will actually touch the snow during your turns, which can cause you to wipe out or not be able to make hard turns. Having toe/heel drag will also take away your ability to fully manipulate your edges. The best position for your snowboard boots should be right above your edges.
So How Do You Fix Snowboard Toe Drag or Heel Drag?
Adjust Bindings:
The first thing you need to adjust is your bindings. First look at your binding plate (the part the screws go into and is rotatable). Some binding plates have a bunch of separate holes, like Burton (note picture) and other's have open slots. Both styles are set up so the rider has the option to adjust how the binding sits on the board.
Get Binding Risers: At this point you have two more options for fixing snowboard toe drag or heel drag. If you like the angle of your bindings now and don't want to change them you can get some risers. Risers are used under your binding plates to lift your bindings off the board. This extra lift will help with toe/heel drag. It actually doesn't elminate the drag, it just rises your boots higher from the edges. The means that it will be a lot harder for your boots to make contact with the snow while turning. Risers are also good because they give you better response on your turns. Adjust Binding Angles:
If you don't mind switching your binding angles you can try and make them more duck-footed. A lot of big-footed riders who have a 0 degree for the back binding angle can greatly reduce the amount of toe/heel drag by switching their back binding angle to the same as the front or slightly less. For example, a standard snowboard stance is 15 degree binding angle in the front and 0 degree binding angle in the back. But by setting the back to -15 degrees or at-least -9 degrees, you spread more of your boot over the width of the board side ways. This will help reduce the amount that hangs over the edges. I wear size 12-13 boots and ride a stance of 21 degrees in the front and -21 degrees in the back and even though I ride a pretty narrow board, I don't have any toe/heel drag. Give it a try. Now if you can't get rid of your snowboard toe drag or heel drag or can't at-least reduce it to an acceptable amount, even by combining all three options above, you are going to need a a wider board. They do make wide snowboards for the big-footed rider.
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