How do you speedcheck?

Washow

Washow

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park noob here. when you're first doing an unfamiliar jump, how do you know the right speed? i've been just fucking doing it and i think i'm going a little too far and landing on the bottom part of the down slope so shit has not been so clean
 
Dude, you want your speed checks to go over. That means you have plenty of speed to carve, hit it switch, etc. It's a good thing. Usually I go straight in and do a carve hit, then go from there.
 
haha i've been hitting bigger jumps than that but i ended up with similar things. kinda go too far and like wash out at the end
 
Speed checking is just something that comes more naturally the more you hit big jumps. Usually I cruise into the jump, then hockey stop on the takeoff or on the side of the jump, and give it the best guess about where I would have landed. There's nothing really scientific about it.

Usually there's at least another person or two who have already hit the jump, and you can watch their run into it. No shame in asking what the speed is like too. But getting good at correctly giunea pigging jumps just comes with time and knowing "this is how the speed usually feels for a mellow 40 footer", "this is how it feels for a kicky 60 foot step up", etc.
 
"Speedcheck" means scrubbing some speed during your run-in, not testing the necessary speed for a kicker.
 
this! with rails i do a really short pizza movement (very unstylish i know) with bigger jumps early in the inrun i do little bit of powerslide....when i think i'm too fast closer to the jump i try to get an extra turn in! braking right before the kicker takes away so much speed that u'll be too slow very quick!
 
Well I guess I used the term wrong. I meant to ask "how do you know how fast you need to go for different sized jumps that you aren't familiar with?"
 
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