How do you ride switch!?

[skiierman]

I want to see how many people ride switch differently and the different techniques they use. For me it's over the right shoulder, right ski ahead of left ski.

 

[garrett.]

backwards

 

[STAUSS]

depends what im skiing/ the speed. i switch sholders a lot for different stuff and when im carving i switch shoulders on turns depending which way im turning.

 

[poncho]

same as you skiierman.

 

[Holte]

it's gonna be a lot more useful if we keep this to a single thread. My vote is the other one.

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns3/web/forums/readthread.php?thread_id=198934&

 

[Subjekt]

when bombins straight, head over left shoulder, right ski down hill, when im turning n shit, i alternate.

 

[thedutchmayn]

i cant say i have it down good but i usually look over which ever shoulder is easiest for that angle i need to get and switch which skis in front. i dont have a defined style for myself yet but im working on it. ill take some advice from this thread for sure.

 

[LDuggan420]

the same way forwards just the other way

 

[skiierman]

No, he's asking how to ski switch, I'm asking how do you ski switch.

 

[Holte]

Oh, my bad. I look over my right shoulder with right ski forward until right before hitting a jump at which point I switch to looking over my left shoulder and my left ski forward because I spin left.

 

[Squaris]

I always look over my left. To get comfortable with high speeds when I was learning, I would just straigth line switch down the steepest part of the mountain. It was scary as hell at first but it helped me ride switch better at higher speeds. The carving switch part comes pretty easily!!

 

[ineedarealname]

skiing backwards!?

 

[gone]

amen to that broha

 

[-nija-]

What's switch?

 

[BobYohan]

i switch shoulders when im carving with LOTS of feet staggering. for hitting somthin i just look over the right and straightline with my feet pretty even.

 

[wdbo.]

i look over my right shoulder cus i spin right

 

[soulskier]

i bend my back all the way back until i can see where i'm going upside down, its so amazing, sometimes when i hit jumps i land wrong and break my spine

 

[actchill]

looking left, left foot in front of right, when i carve right i move my right foot slighty infront of left but still look left. spining switch right i look over right shoulder

 

[Phil.Green]

same....just watch eric pollard and how he switches shoulders when carving switch...

 

[Blackmer]

Are you serious?

If you are, then it's when you ski backwards

 

[BillyGoatMan]

when straight lining or into rails over left shoulder, when carving obv looking over downhill shoulder, downhill ski in front

 

[sampsihoyos]

i look over right shoulder and carve

 

[sampsihoyos]

left*

 

[WONTON]

when just going straight head over left shoulder left ski in front. Otherwise i turn my head depending on way im turning and stagger skis.

 

[hollygrove]

Are you like an owl? twisting your head 360 degrees? Damn, I'm jelous.

 

[squibble]

clever

 

[Edward.]

it doesnt matter which shoulder i look over, wen im carving backwards i always change and i get dizzy, but i have to watch out for people so i have to keep turning my head

 

[i8van]

over the left shoulder. left ski farther back than right one.

 

[-nija-]

oh RADICAL!!!

 

[LATARIANmilton]

i try to copy laurent favres style, i think he is super money at skiing switch. i dont really come close but i think hes got it down.

 

[monkeysteez]

left shoulder left ski infront shoulder width. sometimes pinned together tho if i am carvin the shit up.

 

[deleted]

i hope your joking

 

[crazyfuck]

i do the swish-swish, but backwards so it's hsiws-hsiws.

 

[mski]

by skiing backwards! I look over both shoulders when skiing switch...jumping over the right shoulder to spin.

 

[$tezzyStu]

word, my thoughs exactly

 

[issdawg]

well generally i look over my left shoulder and spin left, but otherwise i stare straight through my legs, especially if im trying a switch front

 

[hoodskiier]

like a baller

 

[RudyGarmisch]

I love keeping my stance really staggered, its so much fun to do switch turns. Check out the bonus video in TBC if you have it, theres this one guy who hits this jump switch at night... hes got the most crazy staggered stance when he rides, and it looks awesome. I look mainly over my left shoulder, helps when i do switch butter 3's.

 

[wallner_m]

backwards

 

[B.L.A.K.E]

i look between my legs to ski backwardsi bend over, naahh i switch when im turnin right i look over left and vise versa.

 

[SlickRick.]

i look over mah downhill shoulder,, inside shoulder is less steezy, and you have more blindspots

 

[linedawg]

just go

 

[timmi]

i kind of look beside my left shoulder. i hunch over and curl around. not sure if thats a good way to do it, but its how i do it.

 

[fillup]

first i do a switch 10 and then when i land i bend down and look under my legs and if im turning i use my mirros on my helmet

 

[Thomson.]

If im taking short skimpy turns ill stick to looking over my left shoulder, but when I'm taking nice wide, big carves ill switch shoulders, left turn, right should, vice-versa. And if I turn left my right ski goes behind my left ski a bit (inside ski = higher)

 

[CBROOKS]

always over the right shoulder, alternating which skis forward and such depending on the speed / how im turning.

 

[LINEskier91]

lead wit one foot like if ur going down the hill turning to ur right while ur switch look over ur right shoulderthen switch ur leading foot to left and look over left shoulder at first to slow down jut pizza

 

[l337]

I think it is the skis that matter, then you work on it

 

[freestyleskiin]

same

 

[SlickRick.]

wow dude if you ride switch u have to look over both shoulders to turn

 

[J.D.]

I look over my left shoulder. I'm a lot better at carving to my right (facing forward, left once I'm looking over the shoulder) than the other way. My skis aren't really staggered much by default.