Member of the Month

hi_vis360
November, 2024

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

Phobia: Please Help!!!

profile picture
JIB_NISSE
Posts: 833 - Karma: 28
i have two phobias: blind 270s off steep down rails......and blind sw ups on kinks.

please help?!  i can do a lot more technical stuff on straight rails, but am just freaked out to do these two things for some reason. i mean sw ups on kinks is alot easier than on straight rails etc...... any tips would be great. cheers!
Oct 23 2007 8:47AM
0 0
profile picture
GrAveLL
Posts: 45 - Karma: 14
Not much you can do about phobias. Happens to everyone... you just gotta do it again and again until your comfortable with the trick. After enough times itll be nothing.  
Oct 23 2007 8:53AM
0 0
profile picture
huntpip29
Posts: 135 - Karma: 10
i also have a phobia: going off large jumps
Oct 23 2007 8:56AM
0 0
profile picture
snowboardersrule
Posts: 1077 - Karma: 15
i hate that phobia. it comes and goes
Oct 23 2007 10:17AM
0 0
profile picture
MEGAZORD
Posts: 4531 - Karma: -7
Its not really a phobia, you are just scared.
Oct 23 2007 10:20AM
0 0
profile picture
anton...
Posts: 119 - Karma: 10
and i have the best cure for fear:

tell yourself to shut up and do it already!!

it always works for me whenever im hitting something i havent hit yet and getting a bit nervous...

you wont ever know what you cant do unless you try...

and conquering that fear is one of the greatest feelings that comes from skiing...

nowhere else in life can you constantly face and head on tackle fears...





Oct 23 2007 11:09AM
0 0
profile picture
Fintendo
Posts: 846 - Karma: 15
Think about hot chicks and try to get a boner.
Oct 23 2007 11:42AM
0 0
profile picture
jibsticks
Posts: 57 - Karma: 10
Technically its not a phobia. A phobia is an irrational fear of something, which means it makes no sense, youre just terrified.
You have a perfectly good reason to be scared, so it isnt a phobia.\

I call what you have the wall. You just need to get up the balls to do it once, just try it once, even if its on a tiny rail and you dont quite get there. After that, you're past the wall, and trying the rest of the times after that is easy.

Oct 23 2007 11:42AM
0 0
profile picture
Colt45er
Posts: 1650 - Karma: 336
yea, i kinda feel like i loose my balance in blindside switchups, but after practice on flat boxes and stuff it comes.  just keep practicing them on intermediate features.  you need to step your way up, keep at a level you are comfortable with, it prevents injuries and makes your skiing alot better in the long run.
Oct 23 2007 11:45AM
0 0
profile picture
moonofendor
Posts: 1484 - Karma: 14
you gotta get hurt first. not really bad, but u can't learn something new and completely get it without falling and feeling some sort of pain.
Oct 23 2007 11:53AM
0 0
profile picture
_R3iD
Posts: 443 - Karma: 18
just find a small rail do then u would most likely bail and it would hurt then ur not affraid of it
Oct 24 2007 10:48AM
0 0
profile picture
Kazabazua
Posts: 3529 - Karma: 1,128
just stop being such a pussy and spin it, if you fall you'll be like why was i scared of that again? the easier one of the two is bs switchups on kinks though just do it up, you'll get it first/second try i guarantee it. and the blindside 270 out of STEEP downrails it depends how steep it is but throw it a little before you normally would cause you'll clear more of the rail.
Oct 24 2007 8:50PM
0 0
profile picture
General_Shredgnar
Posts: 3024 - Karma: 34
Yeah just work yourself up. If your afraid push yourself. Be like, time to man up, then grab your balls, sa Im not gonna get that badly hur if I fall, and thenjust charge. Inspiring music is very helpful, or redbull. or both. Nothing redbull cant do.  
Oct 24 2007 11:01PM
0 0
profile picture
crazyfuck
Posts: 5968 - Karma: -7
now that would just suck.
Oct 24 2007 11:07PM
0 0
profile picture
Jwalk
Posts: 4647 - Karma: 134
You just gotta stare it down and tell your self what your gonna do over and over in your head and the just hit it and you might not land it and as long as the bail wasnt big  you'll probably really want to land it
Oct 24 2007 11:22PM
0 0
profile picture
BigJew
Posts: 6974 - Karma: 79
I have a horrible fear or not making it onto rails. I'm terrified of rails have a big gap on so I usually go way too fast and do some crazy end bonk and die.
Oct 24 2007 11:27PM
0 0
profile picture
doublexl
Posts: 8407 - Karma: 27
thats cause 270z on hanrails are fuckin scary.
Oct 24 2007 11:43PM
0 0
profile picture
shishkababy
Posts: 114 - Karma: 112
i have a phobia of nutting myself
it goes beyond skiing, like when im just chilling im always worried about hitting my nuts
one time i got shot in the nuts by a paintball and they turned blue, but not from paint
Oct 24 2007 11:55PM
0 0
profile picture
wdbo.
Posts: 4935 - Karma: 173
buy some vagisil, apply liberally.
Oct 25 2007 12:47AM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-5)