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Any tips on zero spins?

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DagmarDog
Posts: 29 - Karma: 10
i bailed huge the first few tries, anybody have any tips for landing the zero spin?
Feb 19 2006 6:57PM
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D-40
Posts: 6050 - Karma: 100
dont spin
Feb 19 2006 6:58PM
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STAUSS
Posts: 8232 - Karma: 3,311
a zero spin is one of those tricks that you kinda just have to do
Feb 19 2006 6:58PM
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Polar_Bear
Posts: 133 - Karma: 10
start on smaller stuff obviously and just work ur way up.
Feb 19 2006 6:59PM
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EClay46
Posts: 2499 - Karma: 69
its not hard just scary, but try it on small jumps first
Feb 19 2006 6:59PM
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Potatoes
Posts: 1131 - Karma: 14
yep

just gotta do it until you get it down
Feb 19 2006 7:00PM
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Djphantom
Posts: 124 - Karma: 10
Put on your helmet then go up the hill. Crank your speed up before hitting the jump and jsut huck it!
Feb 19 2006 7:45PM
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Holte
Posts: 10739 - Karma: 7,814
no, no, no. he wants to LAND zeroes. It would be funny, though...
Feb 19 2006 7:50PM
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TannerCoulter.
Posts: 1713 - Karma: 111
do a 90 then come back
Feb 19 2006 7:55PM
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Djphantom
Posts: 124 - Karma: 10
OH!!!!!!!!!
Feb 19 2006 7:55PM
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easson19
Posts: 430 - Karma: 10
i usually just use the search bar when i do them
Feb 19 2006 7:55PM
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yasuda
Posts: 74 - Karma: 10
when you take off pull your feet up for balance and spot your landing by looking down between your feet. i'm sure there are better strategies than this but it works.
Feb 19 2006 7:57PM
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InfernoHits
Posts: 4755 - Karma: 192
waht I do is I try to grab a high saftey and look at my hand. When you see the ground approaching looking forward then I look back and spot the landing
Feb 19 2006 8:06PM
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*rkp*
Posts: 8198 - Karma: 257
i learned them this weekend. i just looked over my shoulder like normal, took off and in mid-air looked forward and then looked back for the landing.
Feb 19 2006 8:54PM
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a-g-b
Posts: 445 - Karma: 10
when your comming down into the landing you wanna look back up at the lip same as a 1 or a 5
Feb 19 2006 8:56PM
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skiierman
Posts: 28699 - Karma: -5,563
Come into the takeoff putting pressure on the front of your boots while getting yourself set in the best possible athletic stance. After you got that down, hit it and don't flail because you will have no need to do anything else but wait for the landing.
Feb 19 2006 10:30PM
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reggyboy
Posts: 1608 - Karma: 13
tweak out a grab and hold it so u stay steady in the air.
Feb 20 2006 12:38AM
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Jake...
Posts: 11976 - Karma: 296
the best Zero at dagmar is when you actually get air. to do a "zero" you have to be off the ground. good luck erik, you will need it. power to you
Feb 20 2006 3:28PM
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www.jib-team.net
Posts: 5 - Karma: 10
get more speed than normal, nothing helps you grab bether in the zero than some crazy speed, (speed = more air) don't worry about the landing, if you know how to land sw you can take it to the bottom. now, i don't know how many of you actually looks over your shoulder, but i like to look under mine (not totaly under, like i put my arm over my head, but i crouch so my head is at height with my shoulders, and my shoulders are pulled back, then when you reach the jump, pop, just kick of, then you can either wave you arms like crasy, or hold a safety ( the easiest ones in the start) then you just wait for the landing, somehow you know when it is comming..... then after a while you do zero's with truetail or double nose grab!

Short, pump speed, hit switch, don't spin
Feb 20 2006 4:03PM
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awsomecoolguy
Posts: 3536 - Karma: 13
i think there easyer to do with a grab
Feb 20 2006 4:07PM
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MLB
Posts: 4462 - Karma: 298
they were soo much easyer after i learnt unatural spins.
Feb 20 2006 4:32PM
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chrismoJBEATS
Posts: 5898 - Karma: 44
spot ur landin over ur shoulder
Feb 20 2006 4:34PM
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JockinJLoads
Posts: 3480 - Karma: 6
throw a shifty, make it look like your going half cab and pull it back....so nasty
Feb 20 2006 6:05PM
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ski8990
Posts: 5961 - Karma: 19
look over your unnatural shoulder so you arent tempted to spin
Feb 20 2006 6:09PM
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Gnarshred
Posts: 5670 - Karma: 18
i have trouble with them i think because i kinda lock out my knees when i ski switch. so basically any bump and im down. thats something i gotta work on, i dunno bout you.
Feb 20 2006 7:08PM
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skiierman
Posts: 28699 - Karma: -5,563
Yeah dude, I do the same thing because looking over your shoulder and doing it seems wicked sketch.
Feb 20 2006 10:55PM
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Subjekt
Posts: 1431 - Karma: 12
look under your armpit, thats what helps me alot.
Feb 20 2006 11:09PM
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RWalker
Posts: 384 - Karma: 11
i dont know. its really just you going off the jump backwards and then landing backwards. there really isnt much to it
Feb 21 2006 12:42AM
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Barmski
Posts: 4342 - Karma: 811
^ hes got it....if u get really baked its a lot easier haha cuz there is nothin to it but just make sure u are balanced coming off, balanced in the air, and dont freak out.
Feb 21 2006 5:36PM
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eastAR5
Posts: 15084 - Karma: 730
ive only done them on 20ft table but it was still real scary


wat idid was just tell myself that i was gona be spinning off switch like usual but at the last second i just tried to tuck up and waited for the ground to come
Feb 21 2006 5:56PM
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Tclif
Posts: 1559 - Karma: 19
does anyone else get the feeling that they are going to land on their face when zeroing?
Mar 20 2006 9:11PM
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Thomson.
Posts: 4634 - Karma: 227
^^^I always feel like im gonna clear the whole landing and die, but I don't (sometimes I even knuckle when I thought I was going to far.)
Mar 20 2006 9:18PM
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skiierman
Posts: 28699 - Karma: -5,563
Naw, even when I did land on my face I didn't get that feeling.
Mar 20 2006 9:21PM
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billy092
Posts: 1202 - Karma: 12
how can you huck a zero?wow
Mar 20 2006 9:30PM
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Jake...
Posts: 11976 - Karma: 296
eric your so pro now. teach me.
Mar 20 2006 10:15PM
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rockymountainmilitia
Posts: 2706 - Karma: 12
i learned stalled out switch 180s and then zeros came easy. its all about getting your trajectory right.
Mar 20 2006 11:31PM
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gaberaham
Posts: 640 - Karma: 17
if you look between your legs you will land too far forward, if you look over your shoulder you have to keep your sholders square or you will start to rotate, so you cant really see much, they are really hard, i suck at them
Mar 21 2006 1:27AM
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pwallstreet
Posts: 1627 - Karma: 41
smaller booters + more balls = better zero's

try the nopole steez too
Mar 21 2006 2:23AM
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