Commitment

[cannonation]

I've been skiing park for about a year now, and the only trick I can really do is a front 270 out of some easier rails. I want to learn blind 2's, switchups, and hit some of the harder rails and I think about it at home but when I get to the park it's just not there. I wanna be able to throw crazy stuff like the hood crew but It's just different when I get to the park and there's people throwing 450's off and underflips. Any tips you use to throw down and do bigger tricks?

 

[270on420out]

At the beginning of every lap I tell myself to go fast and take chances.

 

[a_burger]

find homies to ride with

 

[cannonation]

At the beginning of every lap I tell myself to go fast and take chances.

Does going faster make balancing easier on the rail, and does it make them less sticky? Our park has really sticky rails and when my skis get stuck on them and I slam it kills my confidence for the rest of the day. I don't want to say anything to the park crew though because good skiers plow through the rails like nothing.

 

[cannonation]

find homies to ride with

I ride with my friends but they don't really hype me up, they just kind of do their own lines and listen to music. They don't really wait up for each other, we just meet at the bottom.

 

[Mingg]

ski with friends - i've found having people that you know around if you were to fall makes it easier to laugh it off and less intimidating.

Plan out what you want to do while on the lift and commit to it there. If you stand looking at a feature, you're gonna psych yourself out. Once you get off the lift just go, don't stand at the top (unless there's a crowd waiting to drop, then wait for your drop) and just send it.

It's obviously easier said than done but you'll get it!

 

[a_burger]

They don't really wait up for each other, we just meet at the bottom.

this is the problem, I learn most of my new tricks when I'm just riding with friends and we bullshit each other in between features and tell each other to try new stuff

 

[The.Fish]

just dig yourself into a giant hole on newschoolers and say you are gonna post yourself trying something. That way you get massive hate if you don't try it. Worked for me this weekend lol.

 

[Auzy]

just dig yourself into a giant hole on newschoolers and say you are gonna post yourself trying something. That way you get massive hate if you don't try it. Worked for me this weekend lol.

Logged in just to reply to this omens because it made me laugh. But I agree I always tell my friends I'm gonna do something and hype them up for it because to me peer pressure has a greater influence to get me to do things than self motivation.

 

[djikstra]

Plan out what you want to do while on the lift and commit to it there.

This is what I do, fear will never leave you in this sport but we can thankfully reason around it with practice. I look at all the variables, consider my abilities and make a decision based off of what I know whether it means bail or send it. After that rational decision though you have to force yourself to stick to it. Learn from it too, if you were scared and stomped remember it next time you're scared, if you break your leg, remember that next time you think you can do it too.

 

[Erikaaa]

caffeine. it hypes you up. I usually find myself more ready and stoked to hit shit once ive got that stimulant kick going

 

[Mr.Bishop]

This is what I do, fear will never leave you in this sport but we can thankfully reason around it with practice.

I'd also never underestimate the importance of practise.

Want rail tricks? Build a backyard setup and session that bitch 6 hours a day for the entire summer. You'll be a rail ninja next season.

I've always been a fan of the 10,000 hour rule, where it takes 10,000 hours in anything to be a master.

LJ - How many hours you think you've done?

 

[Zennan]

I find some trick I want to try and from the start of my park run I do not stop because that gives me time to think and get scared. Just pull into the park and send it! That is always how I ended up landing a trick for the first time, sometimes I won't even land tricks I've been doing for a while because I stopped to think about it and be like wait frick this is crazy...

 

[djikstra]

I've always been a fan of the 10,000 hour rule, where it takes 10,000 hours in anything to be a master.

LJ - How many hours you think you've done?

yeah so true, we tried to do the math roughly once, even counting a whole day including chairlift time etc I think I was only at like 7,000 hours or something. Maybe Wallisch or Henrik are there

 

[Dddsz]

Want rail tricks? Build a backyard setup and session that bitch 6 hours a day for the entire summer. You'll be a rail ninja next season.

Please do this. Even in the winter, because it takes so much pressure off of you... Especially with some friends.

Yesterday I finished my backyard jump and had several friends over to session it with me. Probably the best day of my life and I learned all of the basic rail tricks.

Never touched a rail in my life before this picture. Slid it like a champ first try because I was having such a good time and had people to support me. I'm sure you could learn anything in a similar situation.

 

[Mr.Bishop]

yeah so true, we tried to do the math roughly once, even counting a whole day including chairlift time etc I think I was only at like 7,000 hours or something. Maybe Wallisch or Henrik are there

How long ago did you run the calculation?

maybe you're getting closer now. The idea with the 10,000 hour rule is that number is what it takes to become a world master.

So let's say you hit 10k this year while filming real street and you win. Boom, point proven. Hell even being in it is proof enough.

Id also argue you should be counting gym / backyard setup / tramp / whatever time too. Anything that is helping hone your craft as a skier would theoretically count.

 

[BigBobo]

just think about how sick the trick will look when you stomp it, also try to get a good group of friends so there is constantly competition on who the best skiier is.

 

[SPK_]

I watch gnarly crash edits. It might not work for everyone, but I tell myself that those guys crashed on a 30 footer doing doubles at mach 2 and they're still alive, so I shouldn't be scared to send my mediocre tricks on those tiny features and that I'll be fine anyway.

And when I'm trying sketchy things, I ask my friends to film me. So that if I ever die at least it's on tape.