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learn on tramp or into water before doing into powder. doing a natural progression of tricks (like 180 to 360 to 540). other than that you just kind of got to send it, and this will most likely get rid of your mental block. got to be willing to get hurt, too.
 
This is kind of hypocritical cuz I don’t even do this but take baby steps. 90% of the time you can work your way up to a trick. The reason you feel un confident in a new trick is because you feel like you aren’t ready and don’t have any of the mechanics down. The best thing you can do is work your way up with features. Let’s say 270s on for example. You would start by doing 180s on to a big wide disco box, then move to doing 270s on to the same feature, you’d get comfortable with the rotation, balance, and muscle memory, then you can take it to a normal width box, then maybe an elevated box or a really wide low risk tube, and then eventually a handrail. I’m from a crummy 300ft mountain so I didn’t always have the plethora of features to work my way up on so I ended up never learning a lot of basic tricks because I’d get too scared and psych myself out, so I get it. But yea best thing you can do is start small and work your way up. Also stomp it tutorials has a great video showing this method and I think it’d be really helpful maybe check it out.
 
start small and work your way up. Set achievable goals for tricks that you are pretty confident you can learn in the short term.
 
If you can get yourself to try once and maybe you crash you’ll see how it’s not that bad to crash- and you can try again. Or if you’ve tried it before you can tell yourself you can always try since you’ve already tried. Little mental tricks like this always help me commit. Once you get something do it a bunch of times until you’re comfortable doing it.
 
Said this in threads multiple times but grit your teeth. Charge through the fear, let out some primal energy and just do it, even if you fall you'll get the nerves away and the second go will always go better. Its gotten me to try a bunch of stuff. Also I firmly believe a sense of peer-pressure can help too.
 
Reps and more reps. Eating shit isn't as painful as it seems (usually). Worth looking into some YouTube videos like "Stomp It Tutorials". I wish they existed when I was coming up.

Don't recommend booze. Sure, you'll feel looser and possibly more confident, but in reality your balance and awareness are compromised. I tore my ACL boozed up hitting jumps - I wasn't drunk by any means, but just enough to be too cocky.
 
By skiing with confidence!

As you get better and better at skiing, you’ll also develop a skill of knowing when you can leave your comfort zone, and when its smarter to just play it safe. Don’t attempt anything while you’re feeling apprehensive about it.. wait til you’re fired up with confidence and try to stick it on the first try.
 
Stay confident skiing all-mountain and whatever easier tricks you learn from Stomp It Tutorials.

Eventually you’ll be eager to learn the next trick and your knowledge of your own ability (you’re a beast) is gonna help break that mental block.
 
Practice more, get more time on mountain. Your body will tell you when you are ready for a trick
 
One more thought about getting reps...

I was fortunate to meet Mikaela Shiffrin in a low key setting. I apologized for bringing up skiing, but I asked her "what is the one thing I can do to improve my skiing?" Her answer truly changed how I approach every day I make a lap. She replied "You know at the end of a run, when everyone is straight-lining to the chair? I still make and finish turns until I'm going too slow to keep engaging my ski."

Even if she skied the exact same number of days as a peer, she's practiced thousands more turns than them. I still think about that whenever the skiing gets boring, whether hitting jumps or pipe. Even if it's a straight air, it's putting in the time. It's helped me enjoy bulletproof groomers and tracked out chunder...
 
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One more thought about getting reps...

I was fortunate to meet Mikaela Shiffrin in a low key setting. I apologized for bringing up skiing, but I asked her "what is the one thing I can do to improve my skiing?" Her answer truly changed how I approach every day I make a lap. She replied "You know at the end of a run, when everyone is straight-lining to the chair? I still make and finish turns until I'm going too slow to keep engaging my ski."

Even if she skied the exact same number of days as a peer, she's practiced thousands more turns than them. I still think about that whenever the skiing gets boring, whether hitting jumps or pipe. Even if it's a straight air, it's putting in the time. It's helped me enjoy bulletproof groomers and tracked out chunder...
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Damn I woulda missed out on that advice by trying to ask her out for a drink lol
 
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