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Yan_skiing

Yan_skiing

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One of my good friend is always shredding with us but he is not into jumps and rails or just the park in general, it is not because he doesn’t want to take a jump, it is just about his fear of hurting hiself..

did someone already had that kind of fear and just did something about it to remove that fear and actually works? Like a mindset or anything that could help him. No drugs lmao
 
14099576:Biffbarf said:
Peer pressure works. Take him through the park and tell him he's being a giant gaping pussy.
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Lmaoo big fax, i already told him even when he wasn’t on snow don’t worry ahaha
 
Anytime my friends call me a bitch for not doing something it makes me fired up even more to try it so...
 
Sounds like they dont really like leaving their feet a whole lot. Pick their brain a bit and find out what scares them about rails and jumps and getting hurt. Then its probably best to work on the things they feel theyre scared of because its confidence building and that'll play into the whole commitment thing when trying new tricks or features. Mental blocks suck but i dont think its helpful to shy away from them, better to face it head on but with good strategy of course.

i personally knocked myself out on a jump years ago and i didnt hit a jump for about 4 years after the fact until the last few seasons. kind of went back to the drawing board to figure out what exactly it was that spooked me about hitting jumps and started skiing outside the park a lot more, working on stuff, up until the point where confidence was back and airing stuff out more felt fine and really fun again. If you have too, its never a bad idea to go back to the basics.
 
14099587:DeebieSkeebies said:
Sounds like they dont really like leaving their feet a whole lot. Pick their brain a bit and find out what scares them about rails and jumps and getting hurt. Then its probably best to work on the things they feel theyre scared of because its confidence building and that'll play into the whole commitment thing when trying new tricks or features. Mental blocks suck but i dont think its helpful to shy away from them, better to face it head on but with good strategy of course.

i personally knocked myself out on a jump years ago and i didnt hit a jump for about 4 years after the fact until the last few seasons. kind of went back to the drawing board to figure out what exactly it was that spooked me about hitting jumps and started skiing outside the park a lot more, working on stuff, up until the point where confidence was back and airing stuff out more felt fine and really fun again. If you have too, its never a bad idea to go back to the basics.
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Damn, that’s the kind of answer I was looking for! It is true that going back to the basics to make 1 with your skis on purpose to be comfortable on jumps and stuff is the way to do it.
 
14099576:Biffbarf said:
Peer pressure works. Take him through the park and tell him he's being a giant gaping pussy.
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This x9999999. The only thing that got me to send a fully committed 360 was my friend yelling "JUST FUCKING DO IT" from the knuckle.
 
Support the guy, take it slow and build his confidence. Mak I have always found before I try something new and get jittery to count down from 3 but instead of dropping at 1 drop at 2. It helps me just send it. Also I found that skiing with people who are able to do the stuff I was nervous to do helped me just out of jealousy or envy to do a specific trick.

I hope that helps!
 
14099631:SkiGuy00 said:
Support the guy, take it slow and build his confidence. Mak I have always found before I try something new and get jittery to count down from 3 but instead of dropping at 1 drop at 2. It helps me just send it. Also I found that skiing with people who are able to do the stuff I was nervous to do helped me just out of jealousy or envy to do a specific trick.

I hope that helps!
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all true ! definitely gon' help him !
 
If it's fear of getting hurt it could be more that they don't understand what to do. Sometimes you need to break the basics right down. Don't want to hit jumps? Get him to pop over rollers, they will naturally go bigger and bigger as confidence and practice comes through then all of a sudden they are having fun and ajump seems doable. Rails start with short boxes, do 5050s, do the old shifty to get the feel etc. For all the fundamentals you can really ease into it super gently so there shouldn't be too much fear.

Oh edit if they do start doing this let them get a bunch of reps in before pushing them too much. If they don't respond to peer pressure they aren't going to if you pile on even more.

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Get another new friend to do it. Sometimes if you see someone learn it for the first time you will want to try it too. That’s pretty much how I learned most of my tricks.
 
Work on the basics! Better to be in control and look like you know what you are doing IMO. Always nail-biting when someone in there dad's snowmobiling suit bombs down the in run half-pizza'd to the park jumps even though it is pretty entertaining I will admit.

All in all have some fun!!
 
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