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Spinning suicide..

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n-o
Posts: 3457 - Karma: 41
any one do it? i spin left and look over my right shoulder riding sw.
i cant spin a good three looking over my left shoulder but i can do 7's looking over my right.
my only concern is.. will this kill me hitting bigger tables say like 70's sw?
Jan 18 2007 7:46PM
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RudyGarmisch
Posts: 25443 - Karma: 13,844
Haha, I hate looking over my right shoulder. Doing that off a jump would be death for me.
Jan 18 2007 7:47PM
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skithesprings
Posts: 9086 - Karma: 1,349
when switch which ever way im spinning i look over my outside shoulder
Jan 18 2007 7:50PM
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n-o
Posts: 3457 - Karma: 41
its weird cause i can look over both shoulder carving switch
Jan 18 2007 8:01PM
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theORANGEshovel
Posts: 857 - Karma: 99
i spin to the right but when i learned switch(im a rail rat) i learned looking over my left shoulder....well when i went to learn switch jumps i couldnt do it. Figured out that i was spinning the wrong way then at hn i learned blindside spinning switch so i lookover my left shoulder all the way up to the jump and then spin to the right but im working on spinng/looking over my right shoulder switch
Jan 18 2007 8:26PM
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Charles^stevens
Posts: 859 - Karma: 341
what you have to do is switch sholuders and get us to both so it wont matter , ima doing that this year its working pretty good so far.
Jan 18 2007 8:34PM
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Charles^stevens
Posts: 859 - Karma: 341
what you have to do is switch sholuders and get us to both so it wont matter , ima doing that this year its working pretty good so far.
Jan 18 2007 8:34PM
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KillerMonkey
Posts: 6436 - Karma: 109
Well not looking would probably considered spinning suicide unless you use the force.
Jan 18 2007 9:26PM
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Me_AlexD123
Posts: 293 - Karma: 10
I do the same thing, i cant seem to look over my left shoulder, i think there is something wrong in my neck
Jan 18 2007 10:00PM
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ski_freak86
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jea, me too. its way more natural.
Jan 18 2007 10:05PM
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1-pippin
Posts: 1741 - Karma: -2
yeah it sucks i spin left but cant look over my left shoulder well, ive only hit like 20 footers switch where im going slow enough to look over my left shoulder, im thinking for faster stuff i can ski in looking over my right, then look over my left when i get to the jump and start carving for the spin.
Jan 18 2007 10:15PM
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JGP.
Posts: 2785 - Karma: 474
weird same sorta thing with me, i spin left normally but i learned to ski switch looking mostly over my right and learned to hit jumps switch looking over my right and spinning right, like right 1. soo weird and annoying.
Jan 18 2007 10:18PM
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Mt_P0wDerJuNkIe
Posts: 1506 - Karma: 58
i use to have the same problem. i got rid of it by hitting a small table switch looking over my left shoulder and doing a 180 the first couple of times it was really akward. but after a couple its just as easy as looking the other way
Jan 18 2007 10:33PM
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aaron.ebner
Posts: 2868 - Karma: 61
did the same thing last year and i had a huge problem judging speed and ended up 20 feet too deep sometimes but this year it's changed. you just need to start doing it the right way and it'll come to ya.
Jan 18 2007 11:55PM
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AlexMartini
Posts: 2989 - Karma: 1,905
dont do that, just ski switch alot and learn to ski both ways switch
Jan 19 2007 12:25AM
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*DrewT*
Posts: 7768 - Karma: 481
I can't look over my right shoulder very well, sometimes I'll just start turning so when I'm spinning switch unnatural I spin blindside, or suicide it sounds like those are the same thing. Just always be paying attention when you're doing it or you'll end up catching an edge and crashing badly
Jan 19 2007 12:37AM
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unchyll
Posts: 4554 - Karma: 96
that happened to me too cept i was spinning right then hit a decent jump doing my first three and it scarred the shit outta me and i was afraid to do another one again until i realized it was the way i was spinning
Jan 19 2007 1:10AM
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SteezePatrol
Posts: 10281 - Karma: 36
i used to, got over it kind of
Jan 19 2007 1:11AM
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n-o
Posts: 3457 - Karma: 41
i can, thats the weird thing, i can ski into th jump switch, and do switch 3's over like a 20-25 looking over my left shoulder, but right when i go off the lip i come out of my compact stance and stiffen up abit,
it really doesnt matter as i can spin switch 7's over 30 footers looking over my right shoulder and spinning left
Jan 19 2007 8:39AM
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