Now, being a Brazilian Jiujitsu practitioner, my body is beat to hell. I mean, really beat to hell – often, there are times where there isn’t a single joint on my body that doesn’t hurt. Oftentimes, it hurts just to sit down, bend over, and strap my board in – my injured back just doesn’t agree with it.

So I happen to strap in without sitting down.

It occurred to me one day that others might find this technique handy as well (to avoid “wet butt”, to subjugate injury, etc.), so I filmed a short video tutorial:

If you’ve got ADHD like me, you might appreciate this short summary of points:

To strap in without sitting down:
1) Locate the fall line
2) Position your board perpendicular to the fall line
3) Create a snow/granular/ice shelf for your board to rest on by either scraping snow down or (easier) chopping a couple of times into the ground.
4) Balance over your snowboard, making sure it’s resting on the shelf and won’t slide.
5) Carefully step your free foot into the binding, taking care to place it all the way back against the highback.
6) *clickety clickety*
7) Tighten the ratchets on the other binding.
Final tightening to dial in preferred level of binding tightness.
9) Ride away, doing ground 360s as you do (or you could just ride normally).

Q and A:
Q: It doesn’t work on hard pack/ice.
A: Of course it does. You just need to create a better shelf. Unless you’re riding on top of a frozen pond, you should be able to scrape down/chop down enough stuff to make a small shelf with.

Q: It sounds overly complicated and time-consuming. I’d rather sit down.
A: Please feel free to sit down and strap in. I only do it this way because my back is jacked up. As far as time-consuming goes, replay the video and race me:D

Q: What if I slip? Won’t I look like a jackass?
A: If you slip, it’s because your shelf was too small or you didn’t make it perpendicular to the fall line, but closer to parallel. And yes, you will look like a total jackass.

Questions? Jackass stories? Feel free to leave a comment!