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krystoff
Posts: 228 - Karma: 19
i went to park city and was stoked to water ramp, turns out i totally blow, at the water ramps. now my question to you is... how valuable is the skill of water ramping? should i take it with a grain of salt, and know that i'm not THAT bad on real snow jumps? or should i take another wack at it? or should i kill myself (it was that bad).
Jul 29 2009 9:31PM
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sirskizalot
Posts: 4370 - Karma: 161

It doesnt matter if your 'good' at water ramps, they just help for learning new tricks.

Jul 29 2009 9:32PM
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lechef
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water ramp are kind of weird at first, you gotta go a few time to get used to them and actually appreciate them
Jul 29 2009 9:40PM
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Marissa.M
Posts: 450 - Karma: 61
Sounds like it was your first time or you don't do it a lot? Just relax. It was a new experience and you will get better. It just takes practice and confidence. I hear they can be tricky to spin off of but I don't know for sure because I haven't done them yet. I don't think anybody is bad because everybody is learning. Even the pros. So you're fine and stop stressing.
Jul 29 2009 9:41PM
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Kgallacher
Posts: 736 - Karma: 471
yaaa keep tryin
when i first went i got sucked under the water and almost under the stairs till someone pulled me out
and I didnt want to do it again
i went the next summer and when i was doing corks i was sliping off the lips and what not
just takes practice
Jul 29 2009 9:52PM
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erickbrettson
Posts: 335 - Karma: 64
it took me a whole season to get good at ramps, and if you can do your trick on ramps good, then your going to be even better on snow
Jul 29 2009 10:39PM
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krystoff
Posts: 228 - Karma: 19
werd that was also another hidden question in my OP, was the correlation betwixt snow and ramps. but thanks all for the input, sorry for my escapade of attention whoring, but i was just curious what others thought on the topic. anyway, the tramps at the olympic park are sooooo epic, i guess it was a good day overall.
Jul 29 2009 10:58PM
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Ian.Ham
Posts: 1688 - Karma: 1,154
how are you bad at water ramps? they are like the exact same as regular jumps
Jul 29 2009 11:15PM
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panojibber
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Ramps are the hardest way to do tricks. This therefore makes them good training.

Don't worry too much if you suck at ramps, but if you can get some instruction and figure out whats wrong it will help you on snow. And then you can learn crazy shit like doubles once you've got the basics down.
Jul 30 2009 11:41AM
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Mr.Huck
Posts: 6096 - Karma: 14,902
Details:  What about the water ramp experience didn't work?  What were you having problems with?  Anything you can offer up is helpful to me and my efforts to build the best water ramp facility anywhere.
Jul 30 2009 12:09PM
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krystoff
Posts: 228 - Karma: 19
that's what she said!
Jul 30 2009 1:40PM
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Download-My-Apps
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I was very frustrated on the ramps at first, especially since I wasn't on a freestyle team and had tons of bad habits. I was disapointed that I wasn't learning new tricks every jump, but slowly its made me a much better skier, not so much on learning insane tricks but more correcting my bad habits and giving me much more air awareness.
Jul 30 2009 7:26PM
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PSiekierski
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just keep at it, ull get better.
Jul 30 2009 7:57PM
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merrick
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yeah man keep at it, improves airsense, its just hard to get used to not using edges.
Jul 31 2009 2:38AM
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nick_GAPER
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i feel that water ramps help a lot for me
Jul 31 2009 8:54AM
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heFF
Posts: 5786 - Karma: 4,456
just give it time man it takes awhile to get used to water ramps i've been fortunate enough to be able to water ramp a lot and i get to train at an awesoome facility only an hour away from me (ohio dreams)

when i first started on water ramps it was strictly to get upside down awareness and maybe try to learn a rodeo...my first time was in whistler and it was hell hhaa never wanted to do it again ate shit, lost skis, broke skis ,etc...

this past week though we've been ramping a lot and being comfortable on teh ramps helps so much...i've learned a couple dubs and a few other tricks so definately give it another shot you'll see more progression i think each time
Jul 31 2009 9:34AM
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Ryan*
Posts: 1827 - Karma: 1,195
water ramps are pretty sketch, they're hard to set stuff off of and it's easy to get whipped on the transitions.  They're helpful but they take some getting used to.  It's not the end of the world if you aren't great at them, and chances are if you go a few more times you'll get more used to them
Jul 31 2009 10:50AM
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RoadRash_Skier
Posts: 457 - Karma: 44
it's normal to feel weerd on water ramp the first time. Even henrik harlaut was scare the first time he it them in Qc.
Jul 31 2009 1:02PM
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heFF
Posts: 5786 - Karma: 4,456
water ramps second half of video...just keep working on them they get very comfortable
Courtesy of Newschoolers.com
Jul 31 2009 1:14PM
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Billiards.
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I feel like you just get comfortable with them after you just force yourself to. It takes time, but they also suck because you get use to going strait into jumps where as on snow you should be carving your balls off cuz thats the illinest way to do it.
Jul 31 2009 5:43PM
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Download-My-Apps
Posts: 5069 - Karma: 1,017
Yah man ramps have for sure grown on me, hell I'll probably ramp tomorrow. Stoked to learn new stuff.
Jul 31 2009 5:56PM
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Alex_G
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i was cork 7ing water rams when i could barely 360 a 30 foot table im the opposite haha
Jul 31 2009 6:14PM
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