Tricks that took you a long time to learn

TomDavies

TomDavies

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What tricks gave you particular trouble to learn on skis or tramp? Rodeos took so long for me. tramped for like six hours straight with no success. i have also heard that people found corks difficult to learn as well, but lets hear your stores ns.
 
Corks took me so long to learn on the tramp but now they're my easiest and best looking trick. I don't even have to think when I throw em, still never tried em on skis though. Flips scare me brah
 
Front 2s. I just couldn't get over turning my head to the right (I naturally spin left). Got a few in a row one day, promptly did a front 1, landed sideways, and knocked the wind out of myself pretty bad. Scared the shit out of me for a solid year haha

TL;DR I got the wind knocked out of me and became a quivering pussy for the next year
 
Back 270's. I can spin onto features fine but am super intimidated by back 270's and rarely land them.
 
540 took more soooo many tries. I don't know what it was but they were just insanely challenging (and fustrating). I landed 7's, flat's and corks etc within a couple tries but 540's just took weeks to learn.
 
Pretty much every somewhat difficult trick ive ever done has taken me quiet a few tries. Flat 3s took me about 25-30 tries to land, i had never done a proper one on tramp and taught myself how to do them with my only help being my dad telling me what looked wrong.

Front 450s took me a few weeks trying a couple every day.

270s on were difficult because of the fear factor, even now that i can do them each time its on a new rail i get scared to some degree.

540s took me about 15 tries, i would land with my feet too narrow and wash out or eject forward.
 
Not really a trick but it took me like a year to get the balls to hit a rail. Then another week to actually grind the whole thing.

Cork 3's on tramp. Super hard. I've been trying them all summer. No problem with rodeo 7s, flat 3's, dub fronts, dub backs, and dub mistys. But I can't do corks.
 
Fuckin back anything man, something about going blind for the first part of the rotation messes with my head. Be it blind 2 or backflip or anything like that
 
It took me forever to learn a backflip Only because I was scared of them. I ended up doing it off a diving board first. That was how I got over it
 
13076640:BROLF said:
how are those related?
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The sets on them are semi close. When people try to start learning corks they always set underflip. I can't really explain it that well. But there is a brief explanation.
 
13076661:NotThatNatural said:
The sets on them are semi close. When people try to start learning corks they always set underflip. I can't really explain it that well. But there is a brief explanation.
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Sorry meant to put tend instead of always
 
rodeo`s have always been elusive, learnt them in early 2000`s had them dialed for a couple of years then learnt corks and switch tricks and forgot rodeos. Got them back two years ago and had them dialed, forgot them last season again. Getting too old for this shit.
 
Frontflips were hard, I always got scared and turned 90 degrees when I spotted the landing, I dunno know why it kept happening. Though that was the hardest trick, it only took 5-6 attempts
 
For some reason, switch sevens were really hard for me when i was first doing switch stuff. I got the switch fives on lock pretty fast, but switch sevens took me at least a full season to learn, if not more. dunno why
 
took me quite a while to get rodeo 7s down so they actually look good etc haha, but ya that one was a bitch for some reason.
 
longest trick progression was probably getting back into bindings on a steep slope with lots of snow...Still struggle with that shit after 15 years of skiing
 
The most difficult I have had with a trick is 360's and kink rails. I think it was a confidence issue. If I am committed to a trick it seams to come around pretty easy after a few tries.
 
anyone who has thrown a cork 3 on snow will know the struggle. It took a whole day of trying them, and failing before something clicked. Although, it wasn't until the next morning when I came up and tried again that I just stomped the living fuck out of it.
 
13076864:GILLSKI said:
longest trick progression was probably getting back into bindings on a steep slope with lots of snow...Still struggle with that shit after 15 years of skiing
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Know how you feel, its all about prep work haha, get the first ski down below you and push it in real well.
 
13076927:Lucas said:
anyone who has thrown a cork 3 on snow will know the struggle. It took a whole day of trying them, and failing before something clicked. Although, it wasn't until the next morning when I came up and tried again that I just stomped the living fuck out of it.
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god at one point cork 3 was like all i threw so i got sick at them. tried them again this winter and i keep pussing out by just leaning into it and taking it to 5. pretty frustrating
 
Corks on snow. I had them dialled on tramp, but always got scared to set backwards. I just recently figured them out on snow. I learned rodeo 9 before cork 7.
 
13077192:nilszolland said:
Blind swaps
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fs swaps.

Didnt know about the early front 2 idea until a couple weeks back. Never made the connection that a switchup is a front 2 on a rail and a backswap is a blind 2 on a rail.
 
I can do every skiing flip on a tramp (rodeo,backflip,misty,bio,etc) yet i cant do a simple frontflip.... Never have never will....
 
I just keep struggling with my 540s, I can spin all the way up to 1080, but my 540 I just can't deal with them I don't know why ! Other trick that took me soo long was kfed, I hiked the same rail everyday giving it a solid 20 tries for a solid 2 weeks
 
pretty much anything but a straight air into powder, I keep trying 180's and 360's with about a 30% success rate
 
Corks eluded me for the longest time, many slams occurred before I started landing them this year. Also rail tricks in general don't come naturally to me at all.
 
13077803:mr-mcsteeze said:
540s are still taking me forever. I can cork 3 and nosebutter 5 of the knuckle but still cant 540 off of a jump
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practice riding switch. that was my problem.
 
13076864:GILLSKI said:
longest trick progression was probably getting back into bindings on a steep slope with lots of snow...Still struggle with that shit after 15 years of skiing
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PREACH.
 
13076177:ObeseBunny said:
Back 270's. I can spin onto features fine but am super intimidated by back 270's and rarely land them.
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Thats weird, the first spin on a rail I learned was a back 2 out, then a front 2, and then back 4. I can't spin onto a rail if my life depended on it though, I want to get 2 on and lip on so bad, I guess im just a pussy.
 
i cant do laid out back-flips i can do flat, cork, misty, and double rodeo's but whenever i do i back-flip my legs naturally come up to my chest so they don't look cool and laid out.
 
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