How do you learn a new trick?

Sean...M

Sean...M

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Okay so i'm kind of in a rut right now. I'm not a bad skier but i'm having trouble progress. I live in Illinois and am in college so its kind of hard for me to progress because i dont get to ski a lot.
As of right now i can do switch ones, 3's, switch onto rails and land switch etc.
I've been giving it a lot of thought and was just wondering how you guys learn your new trick. Do you just go for it in the park, do you take advantage of the days where the jumps are really soft, do you build a jump in bc and and land in pow, ask peopel in the park, trampoline.. anything. I just want to hear what you guys do because i'm sick of where i am now.
Thanks guys
 
i say "man wouldnt it be cool if i could _________". then i go and do it until i get it on command
 
hey well it depends on wht kind of trick you are looking to do. wht tricks did u you have in mind?? if your trying to advance and learn 720s or spins you can practice on a tramp and then just go for it in the park . If your looking to get better at rails you can always make a bake yard set up out of pvc pipes and work on switch ups or spining on or off
 
there are some tricks i learned when i was drunk. Not recommending learning a dub flip being drunk. but for small trick it can help u lol.
 
just try it and fall until i you get it

its kind of frustrating at times but its that much better when you finally get to that day when you can stomp it over and over again no problem
 
If you can visualize it to a point where it really seems doable in your mind, you'll usually be able to get it in reality too. Other than that, jump on a trampoline, jump off a diving board, jump off cliffs into water, jump off everything you can to build air sense. If it's a particularly risky trick, you might want to try it in the BC before going to the park.
 
sack up and try it. that's the only way you're going to learn. visualize as much as u can, but you'll never know until you try. be ready to take some crash and burnage... but once you try it a few times, you'll learn from your mistakes and start stompin!
good luck, have a killer season
 
Best advice. I feel more ready to go to try new tricks this year cus I spent like 2 months learning how to do them and visualizing them, then doin them on my tramp and also into a foam pit.
 
for me i convince myself i've done it before but i'm just re learning it adn just go for it, unless its something big then i will kinda build up to it during the day and start small and just go bigger
 
Quite true

Step 1: Ask other's how they do it.

Step 2: Just fucking go for it, it'll be rad. Trust me.

Step 3: ??????

Step 4: Profit!
 
for me, one of the more important aspects to nail more and more tricks was to be solid as shit with the fundamentals, be it just 3s, simple flips, and so on. To build on that. I would certainly (as others mentioned) try to visualize the trick and its components - so how to set it, spotting, all that shit, just feel as though I'm doing it in my mind. If it was something low key, it was nice to try it on something a touch smaller or just a bit more casual, and just build up from there.

If I was going for a slightly larger spin, just would do a little add on, and make sure it was solid before moving on. Saw some younger kids just going practically from 3s to 10s without having that middle shit down and suffering from some severe crashes due to it.

Sometimes it required all the above and just a fucking send it attitude to get past any mental barriers.

Nowadays it's basically the same. I'll work up to it casually, focus on what needs to be done, and then just try it.
 
When I'm with my friends I go "I was thinking I should try a ________." And they go "Yeah, that would be sooo sick." Then they kindof hype me up and I try not to think about it too much from then on. Thinking is bad when you're learning a new trick.
 
visualize.

You should spend a lot of time imagining yourself doing whatever trick you want to do. This is what I do when I'm bored in class, and it definitly pays off. Whatever trick you want to do you should imagine it as if you are doing it, in first person, not like your watching someone else do it. Try to picture a time when you were at your mountain-how everything looked, how you felt. Then revoke the images of you doing the precursor trick. For example, if you want to learn 5's, just remember a time when you landed a good 3. Imagine riding up to the jump, and setting your spin, perfectly flat, without clipping the snow or being too jerky. Slow down the imagination video thing goign on in your head. Imagine what you did with your arms, legs, skis, etc. One of the most important things to visualize is what you are going to see as you do the trick. Sometimes this can be very hard, especially if its the first time doing a trick - like a backflip or your first 360. Imagine going off that jump, setting your spin, and seeing the woods, then the rest of the trail, and then the woods again as you come around, and then the landing. Everything you imagine about your trick should be perfect. DON"T THINK ABOUT MESSING UP.

 
Dude i live in wheaton and every once in a while i will go to a local gymnastic center and jump in the foam pits
 
When I wanted to learn inverts I was scared shitless to try them but I new I had to man up to progress my skiing.

The first thing I did was bring my skis on the trampoline and just try lincolns so I got the feeling of being upside down with skis on.

When the winter came I new the feeling of being upside down, so now it was just a matter of trying them on snow.

I waited until we got about 8 inches of snow (I live in NY), and then I shoveled all the other snow in my backyard into a huge pile of soft powdery snow on the landing of my jump.

I was still scared to try a straight backflip, so i began by leaning back and spinning and I was doing really cork 5s onto my back (into the powder).

Eventually after 2 or 3 hits, I managed to throw myself back, in the motion of an underflip, and I went completely inverted and almost got my feet under me. This was the biggest confidence boost I ever got from skiing.

Later when I moved to colorado, my friends and I built a preseason BC kicker with all the snow we got, and the confidence from knowing how to do underflips allowed me to learn backflips and cork 7/dspin 7's and rodeo's in relatively few trys...

Hope this helps a little with your jumping..!
 
you will surprised how easy new things will come to you, just take small steps and before you know it you will have some new stuff, for example take you switch ones and do them off a roller going faster, then carve them, and then try sliding around some carving switch 3,s. hit some rail's unnatty, then hit them switch unnatty
 
I gerally forcefully confuse myself into a daze where I'm like, hey, what am i doing here? oh what, that just happened, yay! works for me.
 
yeah. get it visualized... make sure you can feel the trick. then drink 2 big redbulls. and tell yourself that if you get hurt (WHICH YOU WONT!) that itll be worth it in the end.
 
commit and tell someone else to do it first. thats what i do and then i go right after they hit the lip and do it. thats how i learned to grind rails

 
go to tramps for off axis stuff and flips and perfecing spins and then go sac uo and commit to your trick on snow. nuff said
 
watch alot of ski vids, then get high, then visualize the way you need to position your feet, shoulders, waist, etc to stomp the trick. Just play out the trick as much as you can in your head and go through scenarios of why you didnt land it the first time and yadidia
 
i just kind of try the trick smaller, knowing that im going to fall. and just do so safely. then i work my confidence up and just go bigger each time till ive got it.
 
step 1- find vid of trickstep 2- watch until you pukestep 3- try on tramprepeat step three until human feces explode out your rectum. step 4- call yourself a manbitch until you try itrepeat step 4 as needed. step 5- stomp.
 
i usually just think about it for a while, and then right before the jump i randomly decide to go for it. the first try is always the key, once you try it once, youre golden.
 
If you can toss a trick on a trampoline or a diving board then just try it on snow just visualize it get the feeling for it and toss it. rails you need to really have good rail balance first and then just work your way up.
 
make sure to ski a fuckload then it's hard not to progress. when you ski a ton you just wanna get better and better and better and you just wanna learn new stuff all the time
 
I dont realy think about it. When i try to just focus on one trick i always suck. so sometimes if im learning something like a new spin. id hit up some rails for a little while. just to keep the fun in it. then usually i come back from rails, and i throw down.
 
usually i either just go for it if its an easy trick like going from a 540 to a 720, but when its a scarier trick usually my friends and I sort of have an agreement that if one friend does for example a backflip then I will have to try a trick he tells me to do for example a cork 7 ( of course it has to be a trick thats actually possible for me, so no doubles....)and then if he does his backflip then i have to my cork 7 and vice versa.
 
Just make sure that after you land it the first time, you ride away like it was nothing so anyone who's watching thinks you're awesome and have been able to do the trick forever.
 
okay well it depends on what trick you want to learn, with any trick start on the tramp.

if you want to learn corks or something there are progressions for just about any inverted or off axis spin (when going off axis i would recomend knowing how to do solid backflips on a tramp first)

then if you have acess to a water ramp they are very very very healpfull to learn some basic spins and since you cant carve the lip you have to do them perfect every time.

and last take it to snow, start with some smaller jumps with soft landings, if your trick is landing switch i wouldnt recomend landing in pow, but if it is its way less painfull to fall in pow.

also remember to not jump into your big trick right awya, stratch and start with smaller spins first .

hope that helps
 
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