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Danoo
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Ok, so I am a pretty new to park, but I have been skiing for about 6 years. (I'm 17) I've just gotten my first park skis and I wondering how to progress up to a 360 and potential a backflip/frontflip. I am a really accomplished all mountain skier IMO xD. I'm just getting bored with the usual stuff.

I was wondering how to progress up to these relatively difficult tricks. I've heard that a 360 is more difficult than a backflip on the right jump. So in what order should I work on progressing in the park. I was thinking starting with boxes and skiing switch, moving up to rails, and then on to 180's, backflips, 360's, and then finally front flips.

Does that seem about right? Is that even doable in a single season? I am getting 3 days of lessons with a pro at either Vail or Beaver Creek and other than that I ski about 27 days a year. Thanks.
Jan 8 2011 2:53PM
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brakes
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its doable if you are a proficient skiier who already has good air awareness, but I would recommend going for a 360 before a backflip.
Jan 8 2011 3:04PM
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_DUSTY_
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Going from doing 180's to 360's tends to be very difficult due to the mental barrier, not how technical the trick is. You should definitely learn 360's simply because after learning to do them it is really easy to learn 540's and 720's with the right size jump.

For learning backflips you should first have them dialled on tramps, trust me I first tried a backflip on ski's without every doing one and landed on my head. It's the same with any other invert pretty much since they are much more risky than spins.

And finally it is completely possible to learn all of this in a year, flips and spins tend to be tricks that you can learn fairly quickly as long as you commit to the trick.
Jan 8 2011 6:40PM
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Danoo
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Okay, I'll learn a 360 first. Lol, I actually tought myself how to do a running frontflip in three days so I'll try that afterwards. It seems more straight forward than a backflip, literally. Thanks

Jan 10 2011 2:39PM
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clark.
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I learned 3s before 1s and then 5s just came around naturally. 3s are definitely easier to learn first because you don't get in the habit of looking back at the lip.
Jan 10 2011 2:47PM
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cooper.fry
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Start hitting fat boxes and maybe some smallish rails. progress up from small to medium jumps, 180 and then to a 360. In time the skills will come, practice is the only thing that helps.
Jan 10 2011 3:14PM
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Elmo.
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i got in that habit and it was a bad one to break took me practically a whole year to 3 no lie. but now i can 3 any jump under a 30 and 5 liek 20's so after u get a 3 down u progress so much faster
Jan 10 2011 3:15PM
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