A Trick Guide 2: The difference between bio, cork, d-spin, misty, rodeo, flatspin and underflip

personally i think you have given too much info on the subject. Remember when teaching people you can always give more, but never it take away....

The body rotates ON AXIS, FORWARDS, BACKWARDS, and SIDEWAYS. So in order it would be Normal spin, bio/misty, cork/dispin/underflip, and flatspin/rodeo.
 
love how rowen called the dub flip way back when (not that a lot of people didn't, but this is in a dated thread) and my threads for when i have access to a PC and can watch the .wmv's
 
yea I saw this like months ago and I just got a Tramp so I had to look for like a hour to find this so I could start dialing in some spins.
 
Rowen, the Rodeo and Flatspin videos are pretty poor examples. With the new stuff that's out after 4 long years, you should look at updating this to a version 3!
 
In my opinion the "overflip: is a made up fucking fairy tale trick. It doesn't exist. The way it is described here is a misty 5.
 
nice work dude!!!! i have done a fair bit of judging and this is the flat out easiest way to explain most of these tricks...extremely helpful!!!! thank you for your time...
 
I have the time to make a update of this thread.
Corks and Dub corksBiosRodeosFlats and Dub flatsMistys and Dub mistysUnderflipsOverflips (rare trick, and hard to find vid of)
But I need help to find good vids of the tricks so if you have/know of a vid with a good example PM me and I will start making this thread.
 
Does anyone one think that names for tricks are rediculously stupid? besides being able to go tell your bro's what you did that day is there really any point. Now most peoples answer to this is "The are important for judging competitions" which is true to some extent. I think we would all agree though that even if you do a switch 14 doesn't necessarily mean it was good looking, or even more difficult that a 9 with a really poked grab.

In my opinion everyone does things differently, and it is this variety that makes our sport so interesting. Having standards for what a trick "should" look like fucks things up. Also, I am from a mountain where many of our hits are natural or slightly packed down. For any one who has skied some backcountry features you quickly learn that you just cant do some tricks of some features. A three may not work but you might be able to get a rodeo 7, there is so many changing factors its hard to tell sometimes what your manuever is actually going to end up lookin like.

Finally, I think it slows down the pace in which new skiers can learn. This is open to your own opinion, but have you ever been nervous to try something new because it sounds difficult or has a really long fuckin name, but when you try it you quickly find out that it was much easier than you thought it would be. I know i meet a lot of people that won't try something because it sounds gnarly, and i dont think thats the way it should be.

At the end of the day I believe personally i would be a much better skier if i never learned any of this bullshit and just went with what i felt. And i wouldnt have to listen to how "sick" everyone has been gettin for the past 12 years of my life.

/rant
 
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