Nose butters

Bumbleton

Bumbleton

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today was the first day of my season and there was only one run open and no park so i was just messing around trying butters and skiing switch and i discovered that i do not know how to do a legit nose butter. help please.
 
the only reason butters or hard to do is kuz its againts everything you learned skiing. tail buttersyou got to picture that a butter is just not a spin , the way it works, is that you want sit your self over your tails at a point were your nose are in the air (around 5"0) and there's only your heels and tails touching the snow,kind of like doing a 180 whit your toes passing over your heels, not too far away cause you still need some pop to get out of their, feel it on a flat spot w hit no speed and you'll see that their a spot on you tails where you can rotate on the snow easy. then when you have the feeling right , start switch , proceed whit a butter , and when u are at 180 whit the weight one the tails , you just need a little pop to get out of that position and use the pop of your tails to jump higher and spin more or pop on a rails...let me know if that's enough or you want some info on nose butter , which are harder
 
ya, i've got tail butters pretty much down but nose butters are killing me. I feel like i cannot get any flex whatsoever in my nose when i try nose buttering. I have Armada Ar6's if that helps.
 
you should be able to do it whit any park ski . now like the tail butter, you need to swing your lower body slightly before you upper body. you need to progresly put your weight trough out your first 90 degrees, , you should have almost all your weight on the nose at that time. at the second 90 degree, that where your upper body catches up whit the lower body and at the same time setting up the swing for the rotation and at 180 whit a little weight transfer and pop ,you are able to use the pop of the ski from the press nose. , then its just a mater of timing and spinning . now this is not a trick that you master over night ,its a hard one onto rails boxes etc hit me up if u got ? .
 
Hey I'm a super huge newb, but I wanna get better, and I think butters are really cool IMO. I was wondering though, are butters only on rails and boxes? If so, then what are the ones you do when you're just on flats? I always see guys doing them in videos and edits and whatnot, when they're just dicking around inbetween jumps and hitting features, and usually it's consecutive spins.

Sorry if I'm being confusing.

Thanks!
 
yeah those are also called butters. For example, if you nose butter off a knol and come around full 360 facing forward again that is called a nose butter 360, you can butter off jumps too! (see delorme kork nose butter seven)
 
Is most of the power going into making your skis actually flex coming from your knees like sort of digging the tips in or is it pretty much all just hucking your weight forward? I've been able to do just like wheelies and little tail butters over stumps and shit but I haven't been able to pull off a nose butter yet.
 
what skis are you on?
my friend ryan had some HEAD skis and thought he was buttering. The ski was way to stiff and he was just washing around all the time. Butters should look like you taking off from the front or back of you skis while rotating. your foot should not be flat. You should put most of the power into rotating and getting the wait over the front or back of the ski by leaning over it. ya dig CCCR
 
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