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Easier to learn off the knuckle of a table jump, or on a mini jump (small like 5 foot table)?
Do these need a lot of speed and air or can they be thrown with only a small amount of speed, on a small jump/table?
Sad thing is i havtn been skiing since my last post......
yea i know my life sucks
but im hoping to try it out this weekend if i can manage to find someone who wants to go ski park ( i ahve a couple local hills all within the same distance but only one has a decent park, its hard convinching my ski buddies who dont ski park to go to that hill because the all mountain is shit)
This is what im hoping to do, but yes another ski less week has come and gone and it doesnt look any better for this upcoming weekend due to exams on monday tuesday and wednesday.
fuck
me
this
sucks
im literally depressed that i have been out a whopping total of twice all year and skied probably 2-3 runs of park.
Tried it today on a roller. Landed on my back twice but got closer on the second time but got a lot of shinbang.
It really needs a lot of pop and needs to be thrown super-hard. Like the first 3/4 of the spin went so quickly then the last 1/4 seemed so slow. I'm looking to try them again but my shin was killing me.
Its not as scary as I thought. Not close to as scary as backflips, and landing on my back didn't hurt.
If I throw them harder and really pop off my ski, I think I got it
Ok, so i finally (its been a long wait) got out to the hill today and i was not going to let this chance pass me to try my frontflip. I was with a friend who didnt ski park so we just skied groomers all day and then hit the baby park at the bottom of the hill before getting on the lift again ( i convinced him to go in and he tried some small boxes and stuff)
anyway, i kept looking at the jumps in the big park and i really wanted to hit them but for the sake of my friend i held back from doing so all day. We went in the lodge and my dad was coming in 15 min and it was bothering me that i didnt even hit a jump all day, let alone try a front. So i said fuck this, told him we were going up to the park and i was going to try a frontflip.
I didnt have a park pass yet so i had to sneak in but that wasnt an issue, i hit the jump to get a speed check and stuff, it was a really akward, the knoll of the jump was above the lip( the lip was reallly steep too) It was basically a step-up but i am still unsure to weather it was intended to be so or that was a result of bad jump shaping. It wasnt the ideal jump id try a front off of ( bigger than i would like(25-30ft), high akward landing, steep lip) but the only other jump was a 40ft kicker, and that wasnt an option.
I straight aired it, it felt alright, i hiked back up to where i needed speed from, stodd there for a min or 2 izing it and pysching my self up to do it. Then i just went for it, landed it first time. Had some cheers from people on the lift aswell as my friend and some others in the park, felt pretty good about it.
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I just got them the other day, needs a shitload of pop, air time, and needs to be thrown HARD
and congrats to the kid above me thats awesome. Landing a new trick feels amazing.
