I need help landing a 180

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chris2689

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ive been trying to land a 180 but i keep landing to far forward and then i fall does anybody konw what i can do to land strait

 
make sure you ar taking off at the lip of the jump and poping when i first started spinning i would spin too early and that puts your body in an off axis positon so you try to land at an aangle which sucks good luck
 
do them a lot off the ground...then just start doing them flatland on snow it should come natural after a while
 
When I first started doing 180s I would keep my legs too stiff, just make sure you're in a good athletic stance. Don't know if you already are but it helped me if I crouched a bit more and popped off my tails.
 
never spin off the lip. it will throw your balance off. just jump and turn your shoulders and hips and head. then spot your landing and stop turning and you'll be good to go. keep a shoulder width stance going into the jump too. its more stable
 
easiest thing is to rotate hips and look over the should back at the jump, then stare at it, this naturally makes you land straight. o yea and try to keep a kinda wide stance. dont panick when you land, if it seems like ur going too fast, ur probably not
 
Practice skiing backwards a ton so you are used to it.

Any drill you can remember from when you were learning to ski forwards can be applied to skiing backwards.

An easy way to tell if you are in balance is to just pop off flat ground. If your skis stay parallel with the ground as they are in the air, you've got the right stance.
 
if you take of backseat you land switch to far forwards, and forwards backeat. i had a huge problem with that on smaller spins last year like 3 and 5 and 7
 
i'm sorry, but a 180 isnt that hard of a trick. Throwing it big- w/ a sick garb or delayed reaction can be. But it doesnt sound like he's at that level yet.

Its like he's asking "how do i edge?" or "what are these thing in my hands called poles"....

Oh, and dont call be bitch either! Sorry, if i'm honest, i know that might intimidate you! Grow some balls....
 
Yes, because we all know you mastered your edging skills on a professional Super G course on your first attempt. This is obviously because you are too elite. Furthermore, it is a widely known fact that you never had the need to "learn" until attemping your cab 10s.

Get over yourself, and try to help new skiers out while they learn. Be supportive, and get that stick outta your ass.
 
you are probably twisting your hips tomuch to get the 180 around. try turning your upper body more, or just leading with your head. like go of the jump and TURN(dont like swing or huck, just turn) your head and shoulders the way you want to spin.

you could also try grabbing critical (right hand if you spin left; left hand if you spin right) cuz it puts your body in a good position.

doing like a shifty to late 180 is also a good way. just turn your upper body (usually to about 90 or less) and force your skis to stay pointing straight down hill
 
wow im impressed that people are so positive in this thread and not making fun of him. this is deffinatly a good sign for NS
 
its about time.

there has been a lot of good advice in this thread, but i'll throw in my two cents too. start small, do them off EVERYTHING for practice (bumps, moguls, flat ground, whatever you can pop off). on bigger ones it helps me to envision the "athletic stance" that someone else mentioned.
 
^^ yeah my god i was just noticing that..some good advice in this thread, just dont spin too much, just a slight rotation with your upper body will bring the rest of you around (depending in the size of the jump)
 
it sounds more like your not evening yourself out while your in the air and your staying corked, that happens all the time with my 9's it pisses me off!, cause then you land on your hip or thumbs!
 
if none of this stuff helps, i didt read any of it so try thinkign about popping off the lip from the back of ur binding so not from ur tails
 
okay first of all i could ski before i learned tricks and i was about 5th grade when i tried a 180 but i finnaly got it. Practice makes pefecrt. Ok now to answer your question, you are probly leaning way to far forward when you land so just try to keep equal ballance throughout the whole spin.
 
jeez somebody shove a cock in her mouth and shut this bitch up.

no reason to hate hes just asking for help
 
when you say "sick garb", do you mean cool clothing like tanner hall? cause he has cool clothing. And that kid who made the kitchen comment, he's screwed up, but you're screwed up too. I want to see the first time you ever tried a 180.
 
haha, Jibber*chick is getting torn up, and I agree with everything said about her. You make yourself look really bad making fun of someone who's still learning.
 
at the beginning, just do a hockey stop but slide all the way around so you are facing backwards, so u just feel the 180 spin. once u got that, try doing it off of complete flat going liek 2 miles an hour, and its okay if u crash, cause we all do, then do it off of small little jumps on the sides of runs. once u feel super comfortable on that, take it to the park and start small again
 
The best way:

-When you start the hill, and are on the transit hills that arn't steep, just practice jumping a 180 in the air off nothing. Then when it gets steeper, try and go switch until it's second nature to you. The key to landing backwards is not being afraid to go backwards, thats key.
 
SPOT YOUR LANDING, and visualize what you want the trick to look like through your eyes and through a spectators eyes.
 
your a fucking bitch, its a fucking 180... jump off the ground and spin jesus these noob threads are gettin to be re-god-damn-diculas

( before you say it i know i dont have many posts, thatl save you from BITCHING!)
 
Hmm, I rarely spot a 180 landing unless I'm high in the air... Anything below 10 foot landing, I just expect to land, my skis'll do the trick. But over that, yea, look before you hit the ground hard.
 
whats a "safe" grab or "safety"... i just started skiing so this isnt that dumb of a question!!!

when i learned to bust ones, i just started with the smallest tables if could find in the park and worked my way up!!! try half cabs.. half cabs freaking rock!!!! i think its way easyer to take off fakie then land that way!!!
 
haha, i hate to admit it, but the womans right. unless your going big, and need to spot your landing, dont look back. it just throws your weight to the side. look at the landing before hand and spot when you want to turn back around and what you have to watch out for, btu other than that, straightline that fucker switch. oohh and another thing, be veeeeeery comfortable skiing switch first.
 
grab with same-hand, same-ski under your binding..

Safety grab:

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i've been skiing for almost 20 years, on twins for around 6, and i STILL can't take off switch worth a damn. congratulations of learning fast. landing switch came natural to me, taking off switch never even interested me much.

side note: safety grabs are gayer than aids. i don't know why anyone does them or acknowledges them as a real grab. a few years ago anyone doing one was considered a laughing stock.
 
If your bindings c keep comeing of try tightening them a bit, work for me.(but not too much, you dont wanna break you leg of something bigger)
 
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