Steve stepp forward pretzel...... the fuck?

debrickshaw

debrickshaw

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i don't know what to call this thing, last thing he does at the end of the edit.... wtf? Maybe it's just me but i've never seen this before.

WHO DAT from Steve Stepp on Vimeo.
 
WHO DAT??

naaa it just was a weird way or "righting" himself or stopping his spinning motion so he could do a ride away.
 
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and yeah i noticed it too, i think it'd look sick if someone threw a pretzel 2 with the opposite foot like that

 
I have but he used his back foot front edge to pretzel forward, instead of his front foot back edge like most people would have. I had just never seen it before and thought it was pretty cool...
 
There called undergrips, you can do a bunch of different variations with them. theres one at 1:23 in this.

Sunday River 11.28-29.09 from The Gold Project on Vimeo.

i know i failed on the embed. can someone help? my browsers not working right.
 
Pat Daigle was doing those in one of his edits too.

They look pretty sick, probably because they're not something you see everyday
 
WTF? I always called them "beginners pretzels" since for a lot of people they are easier to do in the beginning. I used to always do them that way but thought it was wrong so I learned to do it also with my right foot. Lol you guys thought it was a new trick? Just watch a few edits of beginners and alot do their front 270 out and front 450 out that way.
 
i think you have to exagerate the grip a fair ammount for it to be a new trick. but its different and can be a little more challenging.
 
is this just cause you can't do them? oh yeah wallisch hasn't done one yet. sorry theyll be cool this summer if my trend predictor is right
 
wrong. im calling it undergrip. you can call it a mistake if you want but i do them on purpose all the time and there both fun and help me get away from the same cliche way of doing tricks. saying it doesnt deserve a name is like saying a tailpress deserves to be called a railslide.
 
Isn't is bad for the edges?

When you pretzel, the box pushes the edge against the core of the ski, but with the 'undergrip', it's pushing the edge away from the core?
 
all rails are bad for edges. but I dont think it would make that much of a difference unless you are riding shitty skis
 
im not gunna bother arguing a name, if your gunna do it, at least make it look proper whilst having fun. fun fact

a tailpress on skis is just a railslide the majority of the time, kids think if

their heal piece is over the edge of the rail its a press. fuck that

noise, very few people actually "press" on skis.

and to the kid above you, wallisch can go suck a fat one for all i care
 
Its freeskiing, there isnt a proper way to do it. Thats the reason I like the sport. So im gonna have fun and undergrip my shit all year long next year. Oh and steve kills it, i love how even his mess ups get people stoked.
 
I do this sometimes when pretzeling frontside stuff, I think it looks good if you exaggerate it and pull the ski up really high.. but I find all pretzels look better when the scissoring ski is exaggerated.
 
when people come up with new variations of basic tricks they re-name them. like when andy parry invented the hippy killer, isn't it just a variation of a railslide? i say this trick gets officially named something. and since curtis has been doing them for a while why not call it an undergrip?
 
my first 2 seasons in the park i couldnt balance rails properly. i was just kinda sliding along it and falling off somewhere near the end. undergrips were how i front 2'd off
 
because alot of people learning 270s like to put all there weight on there leading foot so the rail doesnt slide out from under them. if all the weight is on your front foot you cant really scissor with it so you use your back. Not bad, its fun to be able to do it both ways because you can grip really subtle with your non leading foot.
 
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