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hitting jumps switch

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mauii
Posts: 6166 - Karma: 32
I'm just wondering about hitting jumps and spinning switch. how do you stay balanced? which way do you spin? (your natural direction or the way that you look over your shoulder)... How do you pop going of a jump switch, etc etc. Im just wondering incase i decide i want to break some bones and give it a try.

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22 years ago
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Sybek
Posts: 79 - Karma: 11
Check out my switch 3 sequence in my pics, its a jump at blue i hit last year. I find that i prefer doing switch tricks when the takeoff is really steep, maybe cause i naturally kind of cork the whole spin and when there is a pretty smooth flat takeoff i cork too and end up landing all weird. I dunno man im still trying to get a hang of it myself.

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22 years ago
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Airspeed-X
Posts: 1255 - Karma: 14
there was a guy yesterday hittin the smaller table at blue switch doin 3's. looked pretty sick! i am going to try them as well hopefully. ill start with switch 180 mutes and if i do them ill go for the switch 3

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22 years ago
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mauii
Posts: 6166 - Karma: 32
thats my plan too, ill throw in a lil japan too :) ... (im confident, arent i!)

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22 years ago
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Sk3bUm
Posts: 2517 - Karma: 297
i haven't really messed around with taking off switch yet, but i read some where that it helps to lean backwards a little bit.. i'm not sure if it really helps or not.. just what i heard
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22 years ago
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petek
Posts: 8762 - Karma: 12
takin off switch is the easy part, and usually, ure natural side is the shoulder u look back on when riding switch. The only problem i got is landing switch on a big air or flat landing, what part of the body is supposed to absorb the impact.

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22 years ago
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CTD
Posts: 6302 - Karma: 357
just try it off smaller jumps first, its not hard once you get the hang of it. you just gotta jump and 180 so you don't lose alot of speed before the jump. u naturally pop straight up.






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22 years ago
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Lanemeyers
Posts: 5007 - Karma: 19
I love landing switch. Drop your tips and it all seems to come around. I definetly agree with staggering your skis too!

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22 years ago
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Jammu
Posts: 1796 - Karma: 328
Yeah just start with smal jumps. You just have to watch behind and it will happened almost doing nothing, and remember to crouch down or you going to spin in weird position. One last thing dont try to took of the jump too early. After all it will be easyer than regular 180.
22 years ago
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Skier711
Posts: 375 - Karma: 11
i learned the hard way not to lean forward to much because death will ensue
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Ski_Instructor_Mike
Posts: 6146 - Karma: 73
it's all about the staggared skis. otherwise you'll probably pre-turn on the takeoff and slow yourself down. just go in switch and spin a 180 in the same direction that you look putting a safety in it will help keep you all together, you'll naturally want to spin the 180 that's why a zero spin is so hard.
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22 years ago
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SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
Belive it or not, I have found switch 360s easier then normal 3s. They rotate cleaner and everything. Just come in lookming over the shoulder you spin to, and when you hit the jump, look harder, and rotate it...
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22 years ago
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Cooldude
Posts: 272 - Karma: 10
Okay this is how i go about it. Come in forward untill you have more than enough speed and are pretty much alligned with the jump (because going switch makes you loose speed and its harder to carve witch) then hope a 180 which ever way you want and then look over the shoulder on the way you are gonna spin. Even if you have to go blind for a split second on the inrun its better than on the lip for having your head on the right shoulder. For larger hits one is gonna have to lean into the lip a little to componsate for the kick. If i don't do this i often go slightly corked
22 years ago
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bigkicker
Posts: 1270 - Karma: 87
just get really good at skiing switch and it becomes natural. Boyd told me to get good at skiing switch he skied backwards a whole week.



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