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Any advice before attempting the pipe?
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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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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"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 |
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"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 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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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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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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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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