How long did it take you to learn to ski switch?

there's probably some people here who learned how to ski switch before they learned how to actually ski
 
One day, I practiced for 4 - 5 hours straight on a nice groomed run. After that I could carve quite nicely switch. It doesn't take long, you just need to know how to ski first, then practice.
 
I sucked at it for a while. One day I was waiting around for the park to open and just started skiing the groomer next to it switch over and over. I'm still not good, but I can carve just from that one day.
 
just take one day out of your week of skiing and ski switch that day on the groomers. then when you wanna get hardcore start fuckin wid it in the pow that shit is fun.
 
A day. But now I never really ski around switch so all I can do well is hit jumps. Kind of a useless skill for me.
 
haha it took me like 3 years to learn to ski switch comfortably without the backwards erect snowplow thing goin on.
 
People saying they could ski switch after a day or two are bullshiters. Going straight down a green groomer reverse snowplowing when you go to fast isnt skiing switch, thats going switch. Actually skiing switch means skis straight, carving, and going just as fast as your friends going forward. I would said for me to be what i just descibed took me a solid month or two of skiing like that to be that confedent.
 
I don't think you can keep up with me if you're skiing switch and I'm going forward. So you still can't ski switch, haha! What an old skool loser!
 
well probably a few days to learn how to carve and ski and shit switch and prolly like a week or two to learn how to actually do good switch tricks
 
like a couple of days to ski decently switch on groomers and a couple hits for jumps. I still cant on steeps though but I don't really try too much.
 
I still can't hit tables switch. I can only hit natural stuff switch. Any jump that has a takeoff facing directly downhill, I can't hit switch basicly.
 
i didnt like..go out and learn. i came off a box switch..then i learnt some switch tricks, then when carving switch kinda showed up properly i learnt that. after 3 years of skiing in the park i am now proficient switch in pretty much every condition.
 
im still trying to get used to skiiing switch on steeper shit and in pow bbut i could do it on normal runs after a couple weeks.
 
The best part of skiing switch is when you are bombing a pretty steep run (like a black that is groomed) and hit something that isnt fully groomed and you get the suprised 10 foot zero spin while trying not to crash
 
Ah yes the suprize almost death. Early season, like november, Big sky opened, and they had like 4 runs or something. So of course, the nolls and shit are really big cause of not as much snow in the lower parts. So we were hittin up this one run and we changed to another, and it had some nice rollers so i was bombin switch, of course not even noticing that the rolling i just 180d over is now falling out from me very quickly. I boost huge and land on the steepest groomed run ive ever been on and i keep riding and hit another roller and get boosted again. After almost dying again i turn around and then going straight almost die boosting another roller thing, thank god i turned out or else i woulda die switch. Great times.
 
quite a long time. i never really decided to take time and practice i just do it for like 20 meters on a run and then go back to normal. but now i can ski pretty much anything except moguls switch
 
not that long of a time...i started freeskiing and all i did was 180s on everything so i was very comfortbale switch..then i just foused on not snow plowing switch(still happens the odd time) but i can look over both my shoulders and feel very comfotable carving switch...
 
same except i gotta get better at carving looking over my left shoulder cuz that's the way i spin i learned to look over my right shoulder cuz it was for grinding
 
personally, not that long at all. i spent my first season doing 180s on everything and everything, so i was landing switch.. that REALLY helped. now i can carve both ways switch, take off and spin natty and unnatty switch, land switch yadda yadda.. it just isnt as comefortable becuase you dont have eyes in the back of your head

 
I was able to do 180's and ride switch out pretty easily, but for actual riding switch, that took a while. I used to bomb some short but steep sections at our resort just to get the feeling of going fast backwards in my head. After that I started trying to carve on medium slopes. The season before last was the year I really worked on it, and by the end (and after many attempts) I could finally land switch in powder (with my skinny 1080's no less!) and ride away carving. I still get nervous popping 180's on flat when I'm going fast, I've had bad experiences with those...
 
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