Progression???

[Domski1856]

I’ve been skiing my entire life, mostly racing. However about two ears ago, I saw some dude throw some crazy shit off of some jumps and I decided to switch to mainly park and some freeriding. Over the past two years, I’ve taught myself rails (normal pipes and boxes but no kinks... yet), 360s, 180s, grabs, butters, etc etc basic stuff you get me? Now I’m looking to progress and start throwing my spins off of bigger jumps but when I get to the kicker I just freak out and end up straight airing or just a grab. What would you guys recommend to huck a 180/360 and take park to the next level?

Really appreciate it guys

 

[GreezyBastard]

Get a camera rolling with one bar of battery left. And full send

 

[.otto.]

Because you raced that means you have a good background on how to actually ski, and believe it or not, having forward pressure is also very important in park skiing.

think what hold most people back from progressing is simply not getting comfortable enough with the basics. When you throw your 180s and 360s are they sketch? do you land back seat? do you fully extend your body just to get the spin around.?

When I grew up racing I always remember them teaching me the athletic position and how getting back seat throws you out of whatever slalom or gs course you may be skiing. With beginners for jumps its the same thing.

If you can do a 360 taking off with forward pressure and land with forward pressure- shoulders over the knee kinda deal that your only blocker for bigger jumps is your mind. If not that work on the basics again.

 

[adamgoldband]

Go to your local trampoline place and learn corks rodeos and spins and work on developing aerial awareness and confidence with the rotations. Slowly work to doing your tricks higher and this will prepare you for bigger jumps. When you are trying it on jumps for the first time envision that you have already landed the trick(this helps immensely with confidence) then all you have to do is start sending them. Your body will be familiar with the rotations once you are in the air and you will stomp your tricks. Then It's all about repetition and practice do the tricks until you are comfortable enough to try even bigger tricks.

 

[Domski1856]

Because you raced that means you have a good background on how to actually ski, and believe it or not, having forward pressure is also very important in park skiing.

think what hold most people back from progressing is simply not getting comfortable enough with the basics. When you throw your 180s and 360s are they sketch? do you land back seat? do you fully extend your body just to get the spin around.?

When I grew up racing I always remember them teaching me the athletic position and how getting back seat throws you out of whatever slalom or gs course you may be skiing. With beginners for jumps its the same thing.

If you can do a 360 taking off with forward pressure and land with forward pressure- shoulders over the knee kinda deal that your only blocker for bigger jumps is your mind. If not that work on the basics again.

Go to your local trampoline place and learn corks rodeos and spins and work on developing aerial awareness and confidence with the rotations. Slowly work to doing your tricks higher and this will prepare you for bigger jumps. When you are trying it on jumps for the first time envision that you have already landed the trick(this helps immensely with confidence) then all you have to do is start sending them. Your body will be familiar with the rotations once you are in the air and you will stomp your tricks. Then It's all about repetition and practice do the tricks until you are comfortable enough to try even bigger tricks.

Yeah I got the basic stuff down such as shin pressure (as you guys said, thank god for a racing background), pop, and Aerial awareness and honestly, it’s just my mind that’s keeping me from doing it. I’ll just bump the tunes up, swing my balls over my shoulders, and send it

 

[DirtYStylE]

Straight air the big jump a few times. Throw a 3 on the small jump. Next lap, spin on the big jump.

This step isn't the biggest for progression. You just need to GO BIGGER RIGHT NOW. The next step of committing to inversions on those big jumps is the real milestone

 

[sethoscope]

My backstory is exactly like yours and I just started to get 3s off big jumps a week ago. My tip is to make sure you can do 180s and 3s on smaller jumps and slowly build your way up

 

[SuckMySkis]

[video]https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/892278/20180113-144130-mp4[/video]

[video]https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/892279/20180128-134426-mp4[/video]

My 3 day progression... in the 2nd i didnt have enough speed and now im doing them with nicer grabs and on bigger jumps. The things is: watch stomp it tutorials 3 times, learn it on a small one and then just send it on the big one. Same with other tricks. For flips i recommend doing in powder or water. Its a lot safer and easier.

[video]https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/892280/20180128-134426-mp4[/video]

**This post was edited on Feb 1st 2018 at 5:04:15am

 

[sui-kide]

You should definitely ski switch every time you go skiing. Maybe on the shortcut to the park (if u have that like I do), ride the whole thing on switch and learn to carve and go fast as fuck riding switch. Helps a lot especially with 5's and tricks you land switch

 

[SuckMySkis]

You should definitely ski switch every time you go skiing. Maybe on the shortcut to the park (if u have that like I do), ride the whole thing on switch and learn to carve and go fast as fuck riding switch. Helps a lot especially with 5's and tricks you land switch

Do you look over the same shoulder all the time or do you turn your head and body from turn to turn? Cuz im able looking only over my right shoulder... if opposite i get completely lost

 

[JWillySkeez]

Personally I've found that bigger jumps while they look more intimidating are actually better for learning for a few reasons, generally steeper landings for less impact, more airtime to get the trick around, more airtime to correct if you fuck up better fuck up and try and tweak out of a flip rather than land on your head. Commitment and confidence are a big thing too, I've always had trouble getting up the nerve to try stuff even if i'm certain that I can do it. Be patient dude, watch videos on how to do it and try not to think about it too much off of the hill.

 

[sui-kide]

Do you look over the same shoulder all the time or do you turn your head and body from turn to turn? Cuz im able looking only over my right shoulder... if opposite i get completely lost

Try to get comfortable looking over both shoulders. I spin to right off jumps so I look over my right shoulder too

 

[Johngreenacre]

ski switch all the time, like more often than you do forwards. Also hit every jump every run through the park, even if the conditions are shit or you want to hit the rail line next to them hit them anyway. East coast skiers suck at jumps cause they wait for the 3 days at the end of the season when they are good. hit them, hit them switch, and then trying new stuff is just way less scary. Basically hit jumps, and jumps get less scary. Also if you are trying to progress beyond upright small spins, the importance of trampoline and other drylands training can not be overstated. You should never try anything on a jump you can't already do every time in some other form. Muscle memory is the name of the game.

 

[soupcan]

I’ve been skiing my entire life, mostly racing. However about two ears ago, I saw some dude throw some crazy shit off of some jumps and I decided to switch to mainly park and some freeriding. Over the past two years, I’ve taught myself rails (normal pipes and boxes but no kinks... yet), 360s, 180s, grabs, butters, etc etc basic stuff you get me? Now I’m looking to progress and start throwing my spins off of bigger jumps but when I get to the kicker I just freak out and end up straight airing or just a grab. What would you guys recommend to huck a 180/360 and take park to the next level?

Really appreciate it guys

Backflips once you get upside down you will become a wizard and things will progress. Make a jump into some soft ish snow. send’er a few times then taker to the park. (The bigger the better with flips I’m not saying take it straight to a 60ft jump but..... don’t do mini flips they just give you the huck with minimal air awarness)