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Old January 11th 05, 01:45 PM
Heather
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I have never attempted the pipe before but would love to try.

Any advice for a first-timer? It just looks so hard and painful if you
fall!!

Heather

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Old January 11th 05, 05:05 PM
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There is so much to cover, but based on what you mentioned before, you
should have all the skills to start in the pipe. You should go to
groups.google.com and go to rec.skiing.snowboard and then search for
halfpipe. I have already written several long posts on it. Some quick
pointers

- On the first wall, dropping going "diagonally", the idea is to slip
down into the wall to get some speed, not fly at the lip going
horizontally and landing out in the flat.

- Everyone's bad habits come back when they are nervous. Don't break at
the waist in an effort to get low, touch the snow with your hand, or
focus on the wall itself (look pass and over the wall).

- Be patient on the wall, I see a lot of my friends doing their
hopturns way too early while they still are going up the pipe... wait
until you reach the zenith of your arc (when you STOP going up the
wall, not just when you start slowing down) and then turn. You don't
need to physically push hard on the board and swing it around. Just
twist your shoulder into the pipe and your legs/board will follow. I
want to emphasize that this is a relaxed motion and not to push hard
off the wall.

There are hundred more, but that should get you started.


Heather wrote:
I have never attempted the pipe before but would love to try.

Any advice for a first-timer? It just looks so hard and painful if

you
fall!!

Heather


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Old January 11th 05, 06:08 PM
Chris J.
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"Heather" wrote in message
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I have never attempted the pipe before but would love to try.

Any advice for a first-timer? It just looks so hard and painful if you
fall!!

Heather


The Todd Richards trick tips vol. 1 vid was pretty good at covering the
basics on jumps, rails and the half pipe.

Chris


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Old January 11th 05, 07:44 PM
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"Heather" wrote in message
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I have never attempted the pipe before but would love to try.

Any advice for a first-timer? It just looks so hard and painful if you
fall!!

Heather

Before I was taken to the pipe the first time, they had us doing little hop
turns on easy slopes. We were supposed to hop from one edge to the other,
actively turning at the moment you land. Remember to keep your body
perpendicular to the slope as you turn on the pipe.

Bob


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Old January 11th 05, 09:28 PM
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Heather wrote:

I have never attempted the pipe before but would love to try.

Any advice for a first-timer? It just looks so hard and painful if you
fall!!

Heather

Maybe you should start with cigarettes then advance to cigars before
attempting a Pipe!! ohh and don't inhale....... get in the pipe early
while its empty and just build up height slowly. Don't even think of any
aerials
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Old January 11th 05, 10:26 PM
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Chris J. wrote:
"Heather" wrote in message
oups.com...

I have never attempted the pipe before but would love to try.

Any advice for a first-timer? It just looks so hard and painful if

you
fall!!

Heather


The Todd Richards trick tips vol. 1 vid was pretty good at covering

the
basics on jumps, rails and the half pipe.

Chris


I would echo the recommendations for the Todd Richards Trick Tips
series. It presents a lot of useful information in a nice organized
manner. Nearly everythinh I tell people can be found in the DVDs.

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Old January 18th 05, 05:10 PM
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Baka Dasai wrote:

My problem is that I'm too damn good at carving across the bottom of

the
pipe, and with a well-waxed and tuned board, and a natural

inclination
to pump the transition, I end up rocketing way above the lip where I
scare myself to death.


Yes that is unusual, most people spend most of their time learning how
to carve the bottom of the pipe so they can get more air. Eventually
the "fear" will become "thrill" I hope

Strangely enough I have few problems on the backside wall (going up

on
heelside edge and coming down on toeside edge), but the frontside

wall
is a nightmare! Once I'm in the air I seem to have no way of judging
how much to rotate. I either don't rotate enough (leading to landing
with my board close to parallel to the lip, causing me to slam hard

to
the bottom of the pipe), or I rotate too much, causing me to skid
ungainly across the lip to avoid catching my toe edge and

face-planting.

That's a fairly common experience - this is only an guess, but I think
the the problem is that your are counter-rotating your shoulders with
your board just a tiny bit, which prevents you from getting a smooth
rotation so think about opening up your lead shoulder back down into
the pipe. A good exercise for this is to use your lead arm to point
back down into the wall, it will open up your shoulder and lead the
rest of your body through the rotation. You don't need to do this
forcefully, you need very little rotation (once you shoulders and hips
move together instead of against each other) to land going back down.
The rest might be practice to avoid getting "tense" when going up the
wall at such high speeds.

Hope that helps

 




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