Turning is not really something you can teach, it's really something you just have to do yourself. What I can tell you is balance is HUGE. If you've got good balance, you're half-way there. Basically, it's just using your legs to steer the board while at the same time leaning your body to one side either left to go left or right to move right. You know, I still remember my first skiing lesson about twenty years ago, and they told us to think of our legs as peanut butter and jam, meaning that we were to keep them together. Anyway, (enough with the nostalgia) when it comes to snowboarding, it's all about getting comfortable with moving forward in either stance; regular or goofy-footed. As you probably already know regular stance means left foot forward and goofy-footed means right foot forward. Chances are you will feel more comfortable with one stance in comparison to the other. It's all about getting comfortable with both. By the way, I should explain a little what I mean when I say comfortable because I talk about comfort and fear quite a bit. Well, in this context, I consider comfort to be the opposite of fear. Fear causes you to fall, and comfort allows to do whatever the heck you wanna do! Whether its jumping off a 10 foot jump, grinding on a rail, or hitting the half-pipe. It's as simple as that, at least in theory. In practice, doing these sorts of crazy stunts take years of hard work and diligence. But at the same time, its all super fun anyhow, even if you just want to be the occasional snowboarder with a decent amount of skill.
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