Can somebody give me advice with backswaps?

[RoidedSasquatch]

So I learned backswaps on PVC this year. However I wanna take this trick onto bigger rails like flat downs/ hand rails or higher rails. However I can't commit and always either don't try and just slide the rail or eat shit hard. One of my problems that I notice when I watch footage of me trying it is I go super slow which works on the low PVC rail but not so good on the taller flat bar or hand rail. So I tried to correct this problem but I find that when I hit the rail fast I got sloppy and catch edge and die or end up coming off the rail. I need help as I want to step up my rail game from throwing 2s out all the time. Inb4 commi harder. I've been trying.

 

[Crispy.]

Keep working on them, commit more. When you pop up, you really have to jump and make sure you're jumping straight up, not to one side or the other. Land with a wide base.

 

[AndrewOze]

kind of start your rotation on the rail just a tiny bit before you hop and it will bring you around easier.

 

[K-Dubs]

its all in the head to. if you spin your head, and look to where you want to spin it should come around

 

[seanahue.]

i'm one of those people who can only do surface swaps, popping hard kinda fucks up my balance and makes me a lot more likely to catch a tip/tail. what really helped me was pulling my feet quickly together right after scissoring. 'click your heels,' and rotate your hips+shoulders all in the same motion, then once you're past 90 with your tips/tails on the other side of the rail, you can widen your feet again to center your balance or scissor the other way. a nice bonus of doing em that way is if you don't commit hard enough, a lot of times you'll accidentally lock into a switch 50 or forward 50 on front swaps, which helps them come a lot more naturally once you try to throw em on purpose.

 

[FuckAllOfYou]

for me, i've found backswaps way easier if i am very upright on the rail. I know it's bonerish, but it keeps my balance better and the swap comes around easier.

 

[John18_6]

if you're on a nuttable rail, please be sure to pop. a broken tailbone/nutsack is never a good thing.

 

[Charlie*]

I go super slow which works on the low PVC rail but not so good on the taller flat bar or hand rail.

You pretty much solved the problem on your own... You can't expect metal rails (that are often built up onto platforms/knuckles/mounds etc) to slide the same way as PVC laying low on the ground. I had this problem myself a ways back. I was frustrated for the same reason because I felt like the things I was practicing on PVC weren't translating to the metal rails in the park. Part of the reason being that PVC is just much more slippery than steel and you have to take that into account.

Hate to say it but you sound like you already know what to do... you just gotta commit harder, and keep your speed up! Visualize what you want to do before dropping in. Also have you already got front swaps on lock? If not, i'd start there first. Its only my opinion, but I think getting comfortable with front swaps on big rails would be much easier than starting with a blind swap. Good luck!

 

[RoidedSasquatch]

if you're on a nuttable rail, please be sure to pop. a broken tailbone/nutsack is never a good thing.

You pretty much solved the problem on your own... You can't expect metal rails (that are often built up onto platforms/knuckles/mounds etc) to slide the same way as PVC laying low on the ground. I had this problem myself a ways back. I was frustrated for the same reason because I felt like the things I was practicing on PVC weren't translating to the metal rails in the park. Part of the reason being that PVC is just much more slippery than steel and you have to take that into account.

Hate to say it but you sound like you already know what to do... you just gotta commit harder, and keep your speed up! Visualize what you want to do before dropping in. Also have you already got front swaps on lock? If not, i'd start there first. Its only my opinion, but I think getting comfortable with front swaps on big rails would be much easier than starting with a blind swap. Good luck!

I can front swap but I don't have it down. I'm skiing tomorrow so I guess I'll just throw it on a rail and hope for the best. My hill does have a very wide metal tube thats really low. It's sort of canon like though so maybe that could be a good place to start the transition.