Hippy Killers

sklermang

sklermang

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ive been trying some lately and whenever i try my ski either pops off getting "stuffed" by the box when i try to bring it around, or i can't commit enough to bringing my leg all the way around to the other side of the box. i have watched a shitload of traveling circus and still can't seem to improve them, so i was wondering if anyone could give me tips
 
i'm still pretty new to them, but i've gotten a few. try it on a nice easy low box (though you've probably been doing this already). go nice and slow, you gotta have some confidence. basically, swing your leg around wide then behind the box. don't try to get your leg behind the box without swinging it around first. you really gotta commit to it. that's probably why your getting "stuffed." just really go for it and exaggerate it. as long as you commit you shouldn't have any problems getting it back there.
 
Practice dragging the ski youre going to lift through the snow to turn around switch and stuff. That will prepare for the same motion on a box. Try it going super slow at first and I actually like a higher flat box. I have a video of me doing a crappy one because the snow was high and my tips caught in the snow.

I think theyre pretty cool and fun since it seems like no one else does them where I live.
 
haha word, I kinda suck at them, but I find they make it ridiculously easy to do a blindside 270 out. I have had my ski come off doing them too because sometimes the tip will hit the snow or get stuck on the side of the box, but that just makes it possible to do a ski boot hippy killer to one foot stompage. Should this be called the Neocon destroyer?
 
say you are going to lift your right foot up and behind:

ski around on your left foot, lean forward and raise your right leg up/to the side, and plant your right nose right behind you and spin around. this might help you get the feeling of raising you're foot up and planting it behind you, and grabbing the snow like its the box. sorry thats all ive got. ive tried em but they're rediculous.

if you're trying to do it lifting your left foot, then just switch everything.
 
Malcome

there are a bunch of traveling circus vids. which one?

and even when he does do it... i still don't know what it is...
 
he does them i all of them. but its when you bring your back leg up behind the rail so you can like use it to spin out kind of. that was a really bad explanation so heres a pic i found of it.

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lol wOW im a fuckin retard

i was thinkin it had to do something with a hip jump... i was getting pissed off cuz he kept doing that trick with his ski in his back yard. Well now i know its a hippy killer... i've demoted myself to a nub.
 
It seems that there is one leg that is easyer to lift than the other for everyone. For me it's the right one good thing i rail with the left ski in front so I'm fine but my friend who rails with the right ski in front finds lifting the right ski easyer, so for hippy killers he rails with left foot in front. Also try those on a really easy box and hike it a lot. Then all you need to do is commit and practice because honestly there's not much that will happen if it goes wrong, the only thing is your ski will pop off. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE

ps: not responsible for injurys that may have occured by following this post
 
If you're trying to do a hippie killer, and its not really working try a different approach. most boxes are too wide for you to drag it around and behind you.

Instead, get on to the box with your left foot and your right foot tight against the righ side of the box. Don't hang it too low, or your knees will be too bent and you wont be able to support your own weight.

pop up just enough so you can slide your right foot up so it is in the normal rail position, and at the same time, drop your left foot to where your right foot was. Bendd your knee down, and you'll have one ski vert and the other on the box.

just push, look over your left should and spin.putting your tail back on the box.
 
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