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On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 21:32:36 GMT, "Tom" allegedly wrote:
By the way, do you have any tips for 360s ?? backside i don't turn enough (most of the time i land between 270 and 360) and frontside I keep on turning after landing (i guess that the trick is as for bs180 to avoid looking down just after landing). I find backside 360s a lot easier, but maybe because I've been doing them longer. If you're not turning enough, then you need to jump bigger or spin faster... sounds obvious but a lot of people going for a 360 tend to slow as they hit the jump, and where they would go big on a straight air, then to go a lot smaller on the 3 and hence don't make it. I still make this mistake often and get a face full. You can use a bit of counter rotation as you're spotting the landing on the last 180. Frontside I find harder, and am still really getting to grips with them. With the last 180 being on the blind side, you can't use counter rotation, so the jump and spin have to be timed right to make it all come together. It's just practice practice practice. - Dave. -- The only powder to get high on, falls from the sky. http://www.vpas.org/ - Snowboarding the worlds pow pow - Securing your e-mail The Snowboard FAQ lives here - http://rssFAQ.org/ |
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Switters wrote in message . ..
On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 21:32:36 GMT, "Tom" allegedly wrote: By the way, do you have any tips for 360s ?? backside i don't turn enough (most of the time i land between 270 and 360) and frontside I keep on turning after landing (i guess that the trick is as for bs180 to avoid looking down just after landing). I find backside 360s a lot easier, but maybe because I've been doing them longer. If you're not turning enough, then you need to jump bigger or spin faster... sounds obvious but a lot of people going for a 360 tend to slow as they hit the jump, and where they would go big on a straight air, then to go a lot smaller on the 3 and hence don't make it. I still make this mistake often and get a face full. You can use a bit of counter rotation as you're spotting the landing on the last 180. Frontside I find harder, and am still really getting to grips with them. With the last 180 being on the blind side, you can't use counter rotation, so the jump and spin have to be timed right to make it all come together. It's just practice practice practice. - Dave. The key to either 360 is to lead with your head, look over your shoulder in the direction of your spin just as you are leaving the lip of the jump and try to visually spot your landing. I have always found BS to be less scary, but FS to be more forgiving of being slightly off balance or off axis. For the record I can do both, but neither well. |
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180s
"Tom" wrote in message ...
"Arvin Chang" a écrit dans le message de om... Thanks... really helpfull However, I think I'm quite confortable doing backside 180s but i don't do this "counter rotation" stuff. What i do is just be slighly on the toe side just before jumping, and then i will turn slowly in the air (the visual feedback is the ground above me) and then, as you said landing blind in order not to keep on turning after landing. Counter-rotate is maybe needed for "late 180s" ?? How large a jump are you doing? It is easy to judge for a relatively small jump, but once you go over 20-25 feet... well at least for me, I found it difficult to rotate slow enough over that long distance. This makes it easier, in addition to letting you do a "late 180" which looks nice too. It's just a style, if you can do a nice slow 180 that's cool too. By the way, do you have any tips for 360s ?? backside i don't turn enough (most of the time i land between 270 and 360) and frontside I keep on turning after landing (i guess that the trick is as for bs180 to avoid looking down just after landing). Yes exactly, with the backside you need to keep your shoulders and head turning in the air and spot the landing early so you legs have time to follow. For a frontside, you want to avoid looking down the hill too much (to turn your head/shoudlers too hard) because you will have a tendency continue to rotate. Just my perspective on things... --Arvin |
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