Jumping/Air advice

I am looking for some of the more seasoned/experienced riders to lend their insights……. I am a realtively new rider who spends most of my time carving around with my 9 year old daughter (she skis), but I do enjoy hitting some of the smaller jumps………I have wakeboard for many years, so when I began to go off jumps with my snowboard I had a tendency to turn my snowboard in the air a bit (i.e.