Best way to land switch?

CaptainGaper

CaptainGaper

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Hello people! I am learning how to do 1's ands 5's but I am not used to landing switch. What is the best way to practice landing switch? And where is the best place to practice? + K for helpful answers and those who give me K!
 
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Hello people! I am learning how to do 1's ands 5's but I am not used to landing switch. What is the best way to practice landing switch? And where is the best place to practice? + K for helpful answers and those who give me K!
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Can't ski switch, can't land switch.

Before you practice landing switch, head out to the bunny hill / green runs and top to bottom those fuckers backwards all day every day. Master the bunny, move to green. Master Green, move to blue. Do it just like you're re-learning all the hills.

Learn to ski perfectly in control - turning, stopping, scrubbing speed and handling bumps in the terrain. Get to the point where you can pop rollers, look over both shoulders equally well and literally ski from the top of the chair right into the liftline switch with no turning around.

It'll improve your switch takeoffs/landings better than any jump practice you could ever do.
 
Make sure when you land you don't lean forward because a lot of people do this and fall because of it. Also, when you land, turn your head and spot what is in front of you so you don't hit people.
 
Just practice riding switch and staggering your stance backwards all day long till its quite natural. Eventually you will be able to carve backwards and what not.

Its the same as landing forwards. If you can ride switch well landing backwards is easy.
 
What bishop said is very true. I could only do blues over 1 shoulder and was scared to land switch. Can carve both shoulders switch and hit jumps comfy switch now. It helps fathoms.. Also the dont lean forward is big. I was trying a urban roof drop today and couldn't get it for the life of me due to that
 
2nd what Bishop said.

If you are trying to focus more on skiing out on landings of jumps try finding a decent sized jump and WHEN ITS CLEAR TO GO skip the booter and pop a little 180/skid around to switch on the knuckle of the jump. Straight line down the whole landing and out of it until you are clear before you turn back around.

Keep doing this with more and more speed until it starts to feel really comfortable, and eventually you will be landing pretty confident 180's off of the knuckle. Once your comfortable go down to small jumps or whatever and just send it, it shouldn't feel much different at all.
 
Read through quickly and not much help has been posted from experience. Love skiing switch and sometimes prefer backwards landings in some situations.

The best way to stick it is to practice a bunch of 180s and go faster every time. You want to remember to keep your head up at all times, and on landing keep an eye out for the ground near your hip of preference. Leaning forward your first times is normal. After some time, you will naturally land centered.

Make sure to keep arms up forward and flex lightly your knees on impact and if you nosepress on landing, think of more takeoff.
 
Keep your eyes up too...a lot of people, including myself, have trouble first learning switch landings because they look down at their noses instead of back at the jump. Do this and you should land nice and centered instead of nose heavy.
 
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