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Tail Grab Question

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B-Har406
Posts: 2484 - Karma: 6
    Just a question for the people of NS, when you grab tail, is it with your right hand to your right ski? Or your left hand to your left ski? Which is easier for you?
Feb 27 2008 12:05AM
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Fish_Sandwich.
Posts: 9108 - Karma: 16
Right hand right ski.  My right hand is way more useful anyway.
Feb 27 2008 12:44AM
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carbon.pulse
Posts: 3348 - Karma: 22
right hand right ski
Feb 27 2008 12:45AM
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ajax
Posts: 2852 - Karma: 1,245
righty right ski
Feb 27 2008 1:08AM
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skier_boy26
Posts: 11295 - Karma: 502
depends on what im going for.

but right hand right ski came easier back in the day
Feb 27 2008 1:16AM
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readiculous
Posts: 880 - Karma: 28

righty tighty

Feb 27 2008 1:22AM
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zesty_buddy
Posts: 880 - Karma: 28
tighty righty
Feb 27 2008 1:23AM
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Stan_Darsh
Posts: 3057 - Karma: 185
left to left
Feb 27 2008 2:59AM
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mmallender.
Posts: 5805 - Karma: 936
obviously left to right and right to left...



at the same time! lol
Feb 27 2008 3:04AM
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NicoChile
Posts: 690 - Karma: 199
right to right aaaiiight
Feb 27 2008 3:07AM
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DwreckRoy
Posts: 434 - Karma: 2,156
Depends on which way I'm spinning. So if I'm spinning right, I grab left to left to allow my right arm to lead my spin. Spinning left, grab right to right to let my left arm lead. Werd up.
Feb 27 2008 12:27PM
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ShadyHillGroup
Posts: 2881 - Karma: 213
thats about 10x harder than spining to the left and grabbing your left tail, and spinning to the right and grabbing your right tail...something tells me you've never actually done a true tail either way
Feb 27 2008 1:18PM
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Shorton
Posts: 2889 - Karma: 13
right right =]
Feb 27 2008 1:19PM
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Bab.
Posts: 766 - Karma: 22
left to left. i spin left and just look over my shoulder and its  alot easier to see your grab this way
Feb 27 2008 1:27PM
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Stan_Darsh
Posts: 3057 - Karma: 185
yeah im the same
Feb 27 2008 3:01PM
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mr_aj_johnson
Posts: 59 - Karma: 10
spin left grab right hand to right ski.
Opposite grabs are always the best
Feb 27 2008 3:08PM
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Lemuel
Posts: 14490 - Karma: 10,634
i think your the one whos never done a true tail grab. look at what you just wrote, its alot harder to grab tail leading. ive never seen anyone spin left and grab left. trailing hand is alot easier to grab with trailing tail
Feb 27 2008 3:10PM
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ShadyHillGroup
Posts: 2881 - Karma: 213
you've never seen someone grab leading tail? look in my pictures i just recently posted one, just search tail in the pictures section the majority of them are leading tail grabs...where have you been, spinning left and grabing right is alot harder...nuff said
Feb 27 2008 3:23PM
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jason...
Posts: 9006 - Karma: 780
righty tighty lefty loosey
Feb 27 2008 3:40PM
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colin13
Posts: 2201 - Karma: 216
no way, leading tail is way easier because you can spot it.
Feb 27 2008 4:08PM
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bigwhite.steeze
Posts: 8227 - Karma: 1,030
wtf are you talking about? Neil.'s right.
if you spin left, most people grab left hand left ski tail because it will put some resistance and make your tips cross alot easier. You've obvioulsy not seen many people do tail grabs.

to prove it go try what your syaing next time you spin with tails. you'll realise
Feb 27 2008 4:12PM
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BvK
Posts: 868 - Karma: 11
i agree, i never have gotten true tail, but your strategy has more logic
Feb 27 2008 4:13PM
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atomic1824
Posts: 358 - Karma: 290

Good Question:  To me it seems like when I watch videos it is a toss up for which is more common/natural between people doing leading and trailing tail grabs.  I struggled with this for a while and kept trying both, in a leading (Spin L - L to L) the tail is right there near the hand that leads the spin so it's easier/quicker to grab, but I've found that in bigger jumps with more time it tweaks better for me to grab my trailing tail and then "pull it around" with me as my trailing hand completes the spin.  Keep trying them both watch it on video and decide yourself.

Feb 27 2008 5:53PM
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CamBrowne
Posts: 1830 - Karma: 99
when spiining left it is easyer to grab your left ski with your left hand becasue your head is already looking to the left so u can keep spining while looking at your tip of ski
Feb 27 2008 6:07PM
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Klick_2_klaim
Posts: 3396 - Karma: 25
oh grow up. god!
Feb 27 2008 6:19PM
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comeatmebro
Posts: 10720 - Karma: 66
i spin left and grabbing left ski with left hand is a lot easier, but lately i have been spinning left and grab right hand with right ski. i think it looks a lot better than leading...
Feb 27 2008 6:27PM
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slashquatch
Posts: 874 - Karma: 17
left to left and spin left and im a lefty who woulda thunk it
Feb 27 2008 8:44PM
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eheath
Posts: 61604 - Karma: 123,113
I do both, i enjoy left on left which would be leading tail.
Feb 27 2008 8:45PM
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nicholls
Posts: 47 - Karma: 10
i wish i could tail grab...
Feb 27 2008 9:04PM
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Lineskiah11
Posts: 2029 - Karma: 21

right on right...

Feb 27 2008 9:22PM
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styl.tweakit
Posts: 198 - Karma: 14

if i grab right hand right ski on a leftside spin and pull it sets me cork and i love it.
but if i spin rightside i would grab left hand left ski for anything over a 3

Feb 27 2008 10:29PM
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mmallender.
Posts: 5805 - Karma: 936
sarcasm...
Feb 28 2008 2:54AM
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Hairmetaler
Posts: 1200 - Karma: 15
right to right
Feb 28 2008 7:24AM
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shredwards
Posts: 417 - Karma: 68

jeah totally agree, plus the leading tail is easier to tweak for me and makes it look a lot steezier.

Feb 28 2008 12:13PM
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-dAvE-
Posts: 677 - Karma: 74
right graber to right shred stick! haha!
Feb 28 2008 12:24PM
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