Do you carve off of jumps or just go straight off???

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NIk276

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when doing spins, do you guys carve off of jumps or do you guys just go straight off??

why??

this is for the people that can do both and can spin more than a 180.

i just dont want newbs that don't have much experience answering this one. sorry.
 
regular spins past a 3 i just go straight off. for late ones, shifty 3's i carve super hard and try to take the jump from corner to corner, and for corks i carve just a little bit.
 
carve for everything, the higher the spin the less I carve, but the only time I straightshoot is when the snow is slow. speed checks sort of sketch me out on park jumps.
 
Some of both, it depends on the trick. Carving is super fun, but I like to be able to flat base stuff too, just in case the jump/condition don't allow for carving then I can still do the trick I want to.
 
do you guys recommend learning to spin off of jumps going straight off before learning to carve off?

thanks in advance
 
I learned straight off. For me it was easier and still easier to keep balanced and it's easiest to spot the landing. Just started carving off of some jumps and it is definitely a lot more fun and looks better in most situations. Once thing to remember is that you're gonna have to come in with slightly more speed, because the carve will scrub off some speed and the lip-landing distance is longer diagonally than straight across the jump.
 
yeah i first learned tricks straight off, but now i just carve most of the time, it definitely at least to me seems easier
 
I learn the tricks straight, because on days when the jumps are slow, you cant carve without casing. once I get a trick down solid i start carving into it just for fun.
 
depends on the jump and the trick, i just learned dubs today and my friend who does them told me not to carve and it actually works so i guess its dependent on the trick
 
I found it depends alot, if the speed checks are super carves in, ill carve in but i usually take off flat based cause i dont cork much haha
 
Depends, mostly go straight off spesh in bigger tricks (kinda hard to cave a sw 10 for ex). IWhen I get board and the jumps are wide I think it is fun to carve 5s and under, also lets you mess around with getting into cork 3s and 5s if you cannot do so.
 
I always carve hard as f'ck, especially when not switch. When going in switch, I carve a lot before the jump, and then carve just a lil bit when taking off. I also carve no matter what trick it is, even 180's.

I don't know why I do it, but I feel more comfortable when carving and "drifting". I think it puts a little more style in to it as well. I recommend carving!
 
They set different tricks... Normally when you carve your going to go cork, kinda the entire point of carving. Obviously when you go cork its easier to grab and spin, so I guess it's better? But if you wanna set a normal trick I don't see how you can carve and not go cork, unless you pop super had and level out which kinda takes away from the entire point of carving.
 
Depends on the trick I'm doing really. Smaller spins like 3s and corked 5s I'll carve. Anything bigger then straight.
 
Depends on the jump really. How big it is and what trick i'm doing. Carvings easier on small jumps for me but if im spinning big then ill do it on a big jump.
 
This aint true, I carve every spin i throw. Cork or not. As long as you still are keeping your weight where it should be you wont go cork. You'll go off axis if you lean back while you carve but you shouldn't lean back while carving, thats bad skiing.
 
As others have said, I only carve if I'm doing a cork. straight spins and almost all other flippy spinny's I go straight and get a good pop off a flat bass.

That being said: I've got a craving to learn how to do rodeo 5's with an opposite carve. (like carve right and do a rodeo 5 left), I'd think it would make you travel a lot so a wide landing is required... yep.
 
not sure why but i straight when doing a trick that i will land switch like a 5, but straight for ones that i will land normally
 
i carve really hard for any spins when im forward, and just do a slight carve switch, the jumps im on i like to go really big and the only way is to carve really hard so i get the extra distance across
 
this.

I find it more comfortable to just go straight for straight spins, but for my corks it's much easier to carve. Only time I'll carve on a straight spin is for a shifty 3.
 
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