Member of the Month

partyandBS
December, 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!

540 help

profile picture
Big_Willy
Posts: 2865 - Karma: 6
I wanna start throwin some 5s on the big table at my resort this year. Problem is, sometimes I tend to underotate and land parallel to the fall line. If I do this like over a 30ft table will you break both your legs or can you tumble out of it? Basically, will underotating end your season off a big table?
Sep 8 2001 11:47PM
0 0
profile picture
yellowsnow4u
Posts: 3283 - Karma: 15
Can you do them on a smaller table? I wouldn't do them on a bigger one until you can. Peace.

-matt

'I know a guy named Pedro who looks like a monkey.'
Sep 8 2001 11:51PM
0 0
profile picture
WillBallin
Posts: 1683 - Karma: 68
not necessarilly... plus it is soooo much easier to spin over a big table... u should be ok on a 30 ftr but u never know u can break something just falling... all depends how u fall

member of the crazed posting bros
Member of the white hoodie revolution
Sep 8 2001 11:51PM
0 0
profile picture
Bluehillskier
Posts: 375 - Karma: 14
Just pop a little harder and keep looking around for the landing using your shoulders and hips to keep you spinning. Hope that helps.
Sep 8 2001 11:54PM
0 0
profile picture
Drail
Posts: 14033 - Karma: 10,205
you could always be under rotating becuase you keep looking over your sholder for the landing. I know everyone always says to keep looking at the landing as you spin the last 180, but when you get to like 450 look between your legs at the snow or down beside your leg......
because looking right over your shoulder might cause you to stall your rotation.

going off of a huge table and landing perpendicular to the landing can do some serious damage if you land wrong like whiplash, broken wrist, broken hip, separated sholder, hitting your head, etc..
Darry Hunt
[T.V.] 'It's 10 O'clock. Do You know where Your Kids Are?'
[Homer] 'I TOLD YOU YESTERDAY, NO!!!!!'
Sep 9 2001 12:29AM
0 0
profile picture
ESB
Posts: 9274 - Karma: 10,653
like mike said, you might be landing sideways cause you're still trying to spot your landing. Half the time I land fives completely blind, its just something you've got to get used to to get completely backwards and have limited vision. To get ready for big tables, just do it so much off little jumps, on a tramp, or just doing it in your shoes in your backyard, that it's completely natural.


=I'm down with the flippy spinny thing.=
Sep 9 2001 12:37AM
0 0
profile picture
gordo
Posts: 1323 - Karma: 31
when you under rotate you probably wouldnt break your legs...just maybe a nice little concusion...but it really just depends on how you fall
'go big, go bigger, and go bigger then everybody' mike metzger
Sep 9 2001 2:46AM
0 0
profile picture
Machete
Posts: 71 - Karma: 11
oh man i did some nasty 450s this year, haha. but i broke man shoulder/arm on a 30 ft jump....... but then again it was a gap so i think on a table you'll survive.

~chris


'If the bible has taught us one thing and nothing else - and it hasn't - its that guys should stick to guy sports and girls should stick to girl sports, like foxy boxing and hot oil wrestling and such and such' - homer simpson
Sep 9 2001 9:15AM
0 0
profile picture
AppSkier
Posts: 4797 - Karma: 86
at least you guys get to land in powder. not slush that got frozen over and will cut through your skin if you touch it. its some scary stuff....
-member of bluetorch revolution
-Leader of overpriced ski revoluton
Sep 9 2001 10:39AM
0 0
profile picture
Drail
Posts: 14033 - Karma: 10,205
what are ya talking about? i don't land in powder, i land in Ontario.
Darry Hunt
[T.V.] 'It's 10 O'clock. Do You know where Your Kids Are?'
[Homer] 'I TOLD YOU YESTERDAY, NO!!!!!'
Sep 9 2001 1:34PM
0 0
profile picture
yellowsnow4u
Posts: 3283 - Karma: 15
Okay I'm on the west coast and last season although maybe not so bad for peeps on the East coast it sucked for us. Grouse mountain, vertical 4300ft had just gotten like 150cm of fresh. It was amazing for a local mountain to get so much in a day. Then the very next day the mountain got like 30mm of rain! For the next month the whole mountian was a solid piece of ice. Very, very painful.

-matt

'I know a guy named Pedro who looks like a monkey.'
Sep 9 2001 1:45PM
0 0
profile picture
Big_Willy
Posts: 2865 - Karma: 6
I can totally grease them on skates. At HN I tried a couple over the small table and only landed it once (very last jump of the session, then the diggers shut the jump down). I know the feeling but its kinda hard over a small table with not much air, kept landing 450, mad crotch sprains.
Sep 9 2001 8:09PM
0 0
profile picture
WillBallin
Posts: 1683 - Karma: 68
on big tables its a lot easier cuz its mouch more in the head than on spins on tiny tables

member of the crazed posting bros
Member of the white hoodie revolution
Sep 9 2001 8:12PM
0 0
profile picture
Drail
Posts: 14033 - Karma: 10,205
when you get good at spinning you can do 540's with only like a foot of air
Darry Hunt
[T.V.] 'It's 10 O'clock. Do You know where Your Kids Are?'
[Homer] 'I TOLD YOU YESTERDAY, NO!!!!!'
Sep 9 2001 9:21PM
0 0
profile picture
Big_Willy
Posts: 2865 - Karma: 6
With my skates on I can do them almost just jumping from the flat ground, but skiing I really have to prewind and explode.
Sep 9 2001 10:12PM
0 0
profile picture
sniche
Posts: 493 - Karma: 37
haha. 5's
Jul 26 2012 8:15PM
0 0
profile picture
daannnnieel
Posts: 5163 - Karma: 4,293
why the fuck did you bump this?
Jul 26 2012 8:39PM
0 0
profile picture
EASTIE21
Posts: 278 - Karma: 21
Not sure why the bump needed to happen. However, now I am missing table jumps. They were so much fun.
Jul 26 2012 8:43PM
0 0
profile picture
daannnnieel
Posts: 5163 - Karma: 4,293
I didn't ski when they were made.
Jul 26 2012 8:44PM
0 0
profile picture
Baloo
Posts: 565 - Karma: 23
when you get them just make sure you do lean back a little you dont want to wash out
Jul 26 2012 11:10PM
0 0
profile picture
daannnnieel
Posts: 5163 - Karma: 4,293
you do realize this thread is 11 years old, right? He probably knows how to 5 by now.
Jul 26 2012 11:58PM
0 0
profile picture
Emma_Watson
Posts: 4491 - Karma: 6,799
shut up
Jul 27 2012 12:01AM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-5)