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Hi Newschoolers. New member here. How do I learn flips and spins without killing myself?

I routinely drop 15-20 foot cliffs, but never with any tricks. The best tricks I’ve done are 1’s and mute grabs, small potatoes compared to you all. I’m moving to NYC in a month or two, so any local advice would be really helpful too!

I’m also interested in rails, so any advice there would also be useful. I don’t know anyone who skis like you guys do, but I’m totally hooked and am thrilled to have found this community.
 
Watch every video on the trick you’re trying to learn so you can coach yourself. Stompit tutorials, empire tutorials, ski addiction and Bruce oldham all have good tutorials.

You’ve gotta hike rails to get good, almost none of my rail tricks are from hot lapping. Build your own rail so that you can practice off the hill.

I’m not very good at jumps but I learned all way 3s by building a small jump near my house and hiking it until I was comfortable to send on a small park jump. After that just do them on bigger jumps and add rotations.

I can’t flip yet so someone else can explain that one.
 
learn spins by starting small. start with 180s and 3s on smaller park jumps or sidehits and then work your way up. Trick tutorials can be useful but u need friends/other skiers who can tell u when you're doing something wrong (taking off too early, backseat takeoff, etc). Don't be afraid to ask people for advice, most people are happy to help and offer advice. I wouldn't start thinking about flips until you're comfortable spinning decent sized jumps. practicing backflips and flat3s on tramp will be useful for air awareness and seeing how it feels to be upside down. If u can find a jump with a super soft pow landing then that would be ideal, but otherwise a warm slushy spring day is a good opportunity.
 
sacrifice your first coffee table and the skills will come naturally

**This post was edited on Jun 23rd 2021 at 6:35:09pm
 
Just lap The Wave at snowbird a bunch and it'll come around eventually :)

But in seriousness, be progressive about learning and yeah kinda start small in terms of features but not like baby park kickers, Something a bit more reasonable, learn to build up air awarness so you're not flailing all over the place the second you leave the lip cuz you'll be dead in the water if you try tricks. And then like spins sometimes it helps to build-off of each trick, like you mentioned only doing 180s, well a 3 is just another rotation back around and you stomp it. Bigger jumps are indeed intimidating but size does help when learning something new. You want enough time to get tricks around without chucking meat. Progression parks are the best for learning anything and have a ton of low-risk but also fun rail setups to learn on.

**This post was edited on Jun 23rd 2021 at 6:34:45pm
 
I’m not the best at jumps but I can help a little with rails. Personally I feel if you’re just starting to learn it’s all about easing into it. Learn basic slides on boxes then move to tubes then to rails when comfortable.
 
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Watch every video on the trick you’re trying to learn so you can coach yourself. Stompit tutorials, empire tutorials, ski addiction and Bruce oldham all have good tutorials.

You’ve gotta hike rails to get good, almost none of my rail tricks are from hot lapping. Build your own rail so that you can practice off the hill.

I’m not very good at jumps but I learned all way 3s by building a small jump near my house and hiking it until I was comfortable to send on a small park jump. After that just do them on bigger jumps and add rotations.

I can’t flip yet so someone else can explain that one.
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OP chose gadzoom as his username, and he is now a New Yorker. Isn’t he automatically ostracized? Also, if he is truly a New Yorker why is he going to snowbird and not Alta? Sus.

Also LOL to CoachTrifes having to crowbar himself into the thread.
 
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