Box feature help

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Em2bella234

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Hey ladies. I have been having trouble with the box feature and my not so new skis. When I learned box I had diff skis. They were 153 88 racing rentals. Now I have k2 remedy skis which are 163 92. Yesterday I was at Big Boulder and they had an extra long box feature made up of like 3 long skinny box’s. Not much of a angle to them on the slope but I keep going off the box mid way and to the left. How can I correct this. I’m not turning my skis and I’m pretty steady when I ride. I have no issues on a single box. I’m not advance by any means and I’m def a scared my cat.
 
Stoked you’re getting after it!!

By not turning your skis, do you mean you’re riding it straight on as a 50/50?

If you are, try to keep your weight centered over your boot. With a box being a slippery surface, having a backseat or favoring one leg over the other will make your skis pretty squirrelly. You can also try doing this as a 50 or ski slide, where you use one foot to stabilize and lock yourself on the side, and ride the box with your other foot.

If you are popping and hitting it sideways, try spreading your stance out a bit more.

Either way, make sure you’re looking at the end of the rail. This is a huge key on both small and larger features.
 
Yeah I’m riding straight on so 50/50. I’d like to learn a 90? But I’m still trying to feel more confident on riding straight before I turn at all.

What do you mean when you say I can try a 50 and use one ski to stabilize?
 
I'm working on the trying to get to the 90°.

I found that I have an alignment issue with my right foot/knee so it tends to favor the inside edge more than I want. That caused box troubles until I consciously focused on keeping that foot flat when 50/50 boxes.

Also could be you're still getting used to the new skis. It took me a long time to get used to mine after being on race skis all last season.

I think Laura means one ski on the box while the other is on the snow beside it?
 
13970686:nmwninjart said:
I'm working on the trying to get to the 90°.
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these guys are really great, worth watching. otherwise just keep doing it a ton.

By ski slide I mean like this- typically a way to slide a feature with less surface area and still lock on. Not necessarily the right or easier approach, but may allow you to get a better feel for the balance and dynamic between your skis and the box.
 
I see now on the one foot on and one foot off deal. Interesting. I suppose then that would build the feeling of locking on a rail? I had the video on mute because I'm at work haha!

Thanks for the other video too
 
Thanks ladies yeah I love stomp it tutorialials. What has been happening is my left ski takes off the box and I try to keep my right ski on the features for as long as possible. My dominate leg seems to be my left. When I hockey stop my left ski is down hill. I’m gonna try to maybe do what you said and instead of letting my left ski hit the snow keep it just below the right ski. Maybe I’ll be able to get it back on the feature??? Practice practice practice. Thanks for the vidoes. I found one from ski addiction that was good too.
 
13970733:lauraobermeyer said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNHUImbT3lM

these guys are really great, worth watching. otherwise just keep doing it a ton.

By ski slide I mean like this- typically a way to slide a feature with less surface area and still lock on. Not necessarily the right or easier approach, but may allow you to get a better feel for the balance and dynamic between your skis and the box.
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I really love the stomp it tutorial videos. That being said, I've never been able to do the shifty box slide, I slip out every time I try it, yet lots of people recommend it as a way to learn to slide. The only way I can box slide is by hopping on 90 and staying squared up (no counter rotation) then I just continue the rotation to come off switch, or I dip my lead foot heel (needs to be a skinny box for this or you need to be near the edge) and that spins me back to forwards again. Something about using counter rotation and being twisted up makes me dig my edges in. So anyone else struggling with grinds you might find it easier to just jump straight to hopping on 90 rather than going for the shifty method. Plus the shifty thing doesn't work on hand rails from what I can tell (IDK really cause I suck at rails but my box game isn't terrible).
 
Yeah since I can't seem to get the shifty thing past like a 30° angle I'm thinking just go for it and hop on at 90° to start with.

Update. Im up to 70° almost there. I found it became easier to rotate once I stopped trying the counter rotation arm swing thing used in the video. Widening my stance a bit helped too. I think that popping more and throwing the rotation more will get me the rest of the way

**This post was edited on Dec 16th 2018 at 6:48:59pm
 
13970733:lauraobermeyer said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNHUImbT3lM

these guys are really great, worth watching. otherwise just keep doing it a ton.

By ski slide I mean like this- typically a way to slide a feature with less surface area and still lock on. Not necessarily the right or easier approach, but may allow you to get a better feel for the balance and dynamic between your skis and the box.
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Decided to try to learn ski slides today thanks to your video link. Only took 4 tries before I got it but it's a really fun low risk trick to learn, I definitely encourage other ladies to give it a try. Worse case scenario you fail to weight your box foot and just ride one foot on the box and one foot on the snow. Excited to try it on some taller skinnier boxes next.
 
I found the video I was thinking of that explains why the shifty method might not be the greatest way to learn slide
=240 How is everyone's box progress going?
 
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