Stomping 10ft+ to (virtually) flat in the backcountry

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Im wondering if there's any tricks to this? When the landing is at a

good angle I have no issues but when it's virtually flat it's hard not

to go backseat because of the impact.. Any tips or tricks?
 
Four point and take the hit. Not sure why you would deliberately send anything more than a few feet to flat unless it's the only feature in part of a comp venue or something though.
 
it's a lot easier if you just haul ass into it. the greater your horizontal velocity is, the less impact you'll feel. but above 10ft you'll have to really really be cookin for this to work. Just pop hard on the take off so you can set up for a nice, square fourpoint landing. wearing a mouth guard and soft volleyball pads on your knees wouldnt be a bad idea either.

 
haha some good advice here, thanks. Mike Wilson doesn't seem to have a problem with it though:
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If your not landing backseat you will eat your knees

actually that happens when you land backseat too

I would just avoid flat drops from 10+ feet really...
 
yes vertical and horizontal motion are independent of each other in the basic projectile motion aspect but i know from a fuckload of experience that your landing will feel much smoother if you've carried speed into it versus just bombdropping straight down.

i assume that the reason is because your body/skis have more time to spread out the impact force as you hit because of your forward velocity. you'll hit the ground at the same vertical velocity regardless, but i can guarantee that it will feel a lot smoother if you're going fast vs a bombdrop.

 
yea taking speed into helps a lot but ive also been doing those tail landing things that candide is always doing lately. If you pull your toes up a bit so your shins are still pressuring the front of your boots, and land tail first, your skis will absorb some of the impact
 
Pretty sure that's Lover's Leap unless I'm incredibly mistaken.

1. How on earth did you get up there?

2. Why would you hit that?
 
You're blurring the line between jumping out of a building and jumping a cliff with that one mate
 
Oh wow, now the retards on this site are asking for tips on how to land off cliffs to flat... amazing.

"Yeah, so I like to ram into the sides of rails but I always hurt my knees really bad! Any advice on how to do this without getting hurt???"
 
think about how you'd move into the snow. dropping straight down vs an elongated compression due to having horizontal momentum.
 
Mike Wilson is the only person who regularly jumps 10+ feet to flat on purpose. Everyone else does it accidentally and backslaps hard or explodes.
 
OP be careful if you send it. I blasted off a cat track to flat snow and landed super backseat. This would have been fine, except the landing was really chunky ice underneath the snow, and I got my leg twisted while I had a huge load on my knee. meniscus = torn
 
10-15ft to flat is not even hard if the snow is soft enough... even without any speed. Just stomp it like a boss and walk out of your bomb hole with a smile on your face.
 
anything over 20 is a hipcheck. If you get it right the powdercloud hides the fact that you flop, and you can ride out and claim it like a stomp
 
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