How to start freestyle skiing?

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SamLegierski

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Im planning to do a lot of freestyle skiing this year and im looking to progress, but i dont know were to start. Basically lets just assume i have a little background but never done any tricks, what should i do? I want to make a list of tricks i want to get down by the end of the year any suggestions?
 
go for it. best advice there is. trust your ability as a skier and huck yourself. you will be future spinning in no time.
 
While you should always start with whatever you want, good suggestion are 180's, 3's, 5's, 50/50's on rails and boxes. After getting that stuff down you can do pretty much whatever.
 
i hear the bigger the outerwear, the faster you become insta-pro. But seriously, get used to skiing freestyle terrain (jumps, pipe, boxes), become comfortable. Just try getting boxes 90 and rails 90 and jumps up to 360 with grabs maybe.
 
Hey man I'm switching over to skiing this year from snowboarding so I'm in the same boat. What I've learned from snowboarding is that you have to be able to take risks. When trying new tricks, don't think about the consequences. And at our level of skiing, the injuries won't be very serious. Start small, work your way up.

Oh, and listen to music... Always helps get me hyped!
 
^Its not really about taking risks as you said, its more about being confident on the level you are at. If you have your 180s and 360s down smooth, then its not that much of a risk to add that 180 to your spin and do a 5. But if you got sloppy 7's and you want to go for a 9, well just dont. Theres no point doing a shitty trick just so you can claim you have done it. Get confident doing basic tricks, 3s both ways with all grabs, ski a lot switch, looking over both shoulders etc.
 
Practice skiing switch a ton. Whenever you find yourself on a gently sloped trail, do it. It'll help in the park so much. Aside from that, just go for it sometimes, ski with people who are a little better than you, it's encouraging.
 
First of, find/get some friends that do free ski (preferably better than you). Skiing park alone sucks, and they can give you real life tips on the spot. Try by getting confident with the basics: skiing switch and be able to carve switch, getting very comfortable with any type of jump just by straight airing it, 50-50 some straight boxes etc... Like someone said, get comfortable with the basics. If you don't have those, you won't progress. For example, when I started, I used to grind rails only right side because it was natural. Result? I tried to progress and I still didn't teach myself to grind left side too, and that didn't bring me anywhere. Also, don't think about crashing on a 180 or 360, it seriously isn't that bad, don't think of the consequences. Not a helpful advice, but I bring a flask of vodka with me, take a shot once in a while to get the fear out. But again, that works for me so I don't recommend it at first haha. Just don't it. Can't think of much else now, hope it helps
 
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dude start with like 180s and 360s. just start like trying to ollie as high as you can off every little jump on trail or in the park. start trying to rotate yourself with good core follow through. just from gettin more and more air youll naturally want to start grabbin and shit. it all happens quick. the hard part is stayin with it and doing gnarlier and gnarlier shit without gettin hurt...butI think it starts with spinning.
 
Getting comfortable riding switch is definitely very helpful for a lot of tricks as previously mentioned, the more comfortable you are in virtually any position the easier things will come to you. Early on even throwing small 3's can lead to over-rotating and landing and immediately reverting to switch so being comfortable with doing so can save you a lot of pain and grief. One thing that I either failed to read in the above posts or has not been previously mentioned is the simple importance of learning to pop properly regardless of what trick you are doing. Learning to pop straight up without putting yourself off balance is pretty damned key. When I was first learning I had a tendancy to pop myself up and back and it often lead to my spins being inadvertantly corked in a way that I didn't know how to correct. I also had a tendancy to pop and immediately go for grabs when straight airing bigger jumps and if you start leaning into grabs before your pop is properly set royally eating shit is all but inevitable. Even now that I've learned how to pop and be patient I'm still scared shitless of straight airing big jumps because of all the times in the past I've tried to do so and had it go wrong, altogether too much time flying through the air thinking about how fucked you are and how little you can do about it. Start with the most basic building blocks on the smallest jumps you can and you can progress pretty quickly while minimizing the risk of injury.
 
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