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Please see our copyright and disclaimer notice page. If your students have been riding for any length of time on packed snow, they probably feel noticeably more comfortable riding their edges rather than a flat board. When your students ride powder, though, they need to realize that they're not riding on the snow anymore but in it. Therefore, to avoid being launched into a sea of snow, they need to team to use the board as a flotation device. This is why in powder snowboarders must abandon what they know about using their edges on hard snow to concentrate on keeping the board much flatter so it will float on the snow instead of cut through the soft stuff to what's underneath.