Progression

mike759

mike759

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I've been skiing for a while and can consider myself decent, but just taking up park over the past 2 years, but still terrible. I really want to progress a lot this year and was wondering if there is any general advice or techniques
 
I think about all the stress in my life so I can channel the negative energy into not caring about my personal safety. That's when I learn new things. That's when the stress goes away.
 
Jumps: If u think u can do it then u probably can.

Rails: Do them a lot, hike rails, make a backyard setup to practice on and u will improve a ton
 
13503814:btedeschi9 said:
Jumps: If u think u can do it then u probably can.

Rails: Do them a lot, hike rails, make a backyard setup to practice on and u will improve a ton
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I'm gonna build one out of pvc for the winter
 
I know I'm probably one of the least qualified to give advice on progressing, but you just need to try things. You'll feel a lot better if you tried it and failed than not trying at all. I think back to my past season and I want to punch myself for all the times I could have tried a new trick. Also try to find a friend that wants to progress, whether he is much better or much worse, it makes it much more fun to ski.
 
DO WORK. When I was 13, I was a massive gaper. Kids made fun of me in the park. It didn't feel good man. So what did their taunts cause? Well, once spring rolled around, I got a trampoline. I spent almost all free time I had on that thing. The next season, I had improved. But I was still pretty bad. I got a job and saved up a ton of money, and went to ohio dreams. Afterward I was still scared to do alot of tricks on snow, until my friend gave me advice "Don't think about it". I started progressing at an exponential rate. My rail skills weren't to good, so I built a summer setup. My style sucked, so I asked for more advice; "Just go fast and make it look cool". The kids that use to make fun of me, now I'll sometimes overhear them say to their buddies "watch this kid". I still have a lot of work to do, but I put in a little blood, sweat, and tears, into my skiing, and I got result. Remember not to work to be the best to others, but to be the best to yourself.
 
topic:mike759 said:
I've been skiing for a while and can consider myself decent, but just taking up park over the past 2 years, but still terrible. I really want to progress a lot this year and was wondering if there is any general advice or techniques
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Rails , as some already said, are 95% practice! Learn how to scissor ans use your edges for spins out. From that point progressing will be alot easier. When building your pvc rail don't build it to high off the ground , since a tube at almost ground level won't scare you too much when learning switchups.

Also , build a summer setup. I couldn't even do consistant 270's out since i got mine. Now ray charles and things aren't really an problem no more.

For your jumps, get a trampoline or find one near you and start with basic flips like lincolns, backflips, frontflips. Later try mistys , cork 7's and everything , be sure to learn everytjing both ways too. Once you got your stuff dialed on the tramp , go build a nice and poppy jump and just do a backflip like you did them on tramp, or build an flatter jump and do an frontflip.

For frontflips try to lean a bit back and put one foot a bit infront, then use the foot wich is more far behind and use it to puch you into the frontflip motion(ninja flip).

Once you got your basic flips just try to get the rest you got on tramp down... And remeber , you can't really hurt yourself in powder
 
13503882:THEDIRTYBUBBLE said:
DO WORK. When I was 13, I was a massive gaper. Kids made fun of me in the park. It didn't feel good man. So what did their taunts cause? Well, once spring rolled around, I got a trampoline. I spent almost all free time I had on that thing. The next season, I had improved. But I was still pretty bad. I got a job and saved up a ton of money, and went to ohio dreams. Afterward I was still scared to do alot of tricks on snow, until my friend gave me advice "Don't think about it". I started progressing at an exponential rate. My rail skills weren't to good, so I built a summer setup. My style sucked, so I asked for more advice; "Just go fast and make it look cool". The kids that use to make fun of me, now I'll sometimes overhear them say to their buddies "watch this kid". I still have a lot of work to do, but I put in a little blood, sweat, and tears, into my skiing, and I got result. Remember not to work to be the best to others, but to be the best to yourself.
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this is beautiful
 
13503730:Swandog7 said:
Its not as scary as you think

grow a pair

do future spins

get paid

???

profit?
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From my extensive business training I believe I can answer the "???" in your statement. You see, after you get paid, you subtract the costs, which gives you profit. I knew business school would come in handy some day!
 
13503882:THEDIRTYBUBBLE said:
DO WORK. When I was 13, I was a massive gaper. Kids made fun of me in the park. It didn't feel good man. So what did their taunts cause? Well, once spring rolled around, I got a trampoline. I spent almost all free time I had on that thing. The next season, I had improved. But I was still pretty bad. I got a job and saved up a ton of money, and went to ohio dreams. Afterward I was still scared to do alot of tricks on snow, until my friend gave me advice "Don't think about it". I started progressing at an exponential rate. My rail skills weren't to good, so I built a summer setup. My style sucked, so I asked for more advice; "Just go fast and make it look cool". The kids that use to make fun of me, now I'll sometimes overhear them say to their buddies "watch this kid". I still have a lot of work to do, but I put in a little blood, sweat, and tears, into my skiing, and I got result. Remember not to work to be the best to others, but to be the best to yourself.
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This. I put in some hard work and did unecessary stuff to get better. I met a ton of people at the start of the season,and some of them didn't even reconize me at the 3nd of the season. I had to re into duce myself to a few people at first. I've probably spent 50+ hours on my summer setup this year which has paid off. If you think about it, that's about 12 days of skiing or so depending how long you ski a day.

I learned:

Front swap

Back swap

K fed

Brittany

Some scrappy ellens

Made my backside spins look cleaner

Did some of my first unnatty slides

Also took backie to snow this summer at camp
 
topic:mike759 said:
I've been skiing for a while and can consider myself decent, but just taking up park over the past 2 years, but still terrible. I really want to progress a lot this year and was wondering if there is any general advice or techniques
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I forgot one thing

Just ski alot , like every weekend atleast 1 day , when i started doing this my progression just startes to happen.
 
New question: how do i land without as much impact on legs/feet?

I broke my foot last year from this and wanna know how to fix it
 
13527134:mike759 said:
New question: how do i land without as much impact on legs/feet?

I broke my foot last year from this and wanna know how to fix it
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Don't overshoot... You cant really take away the force from landing, the only thing you can do is absorbing the landing by not landing like a boner.
 
Don't waist your time with the double corks and 630's. Instead focus more on the amplitude aspect of skiing. What i am talking about is the LIP on followed by a BLIND 270 out of a side entrance rail.
 
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