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tvd2202Did you do a dub backflip in pow yet? If not i'd definetly recommend you to try it there before. The jump should be bih enough if it really is kinda poppy
theabortionatorHonestly I'd go the other way these days. Park jumps are built much better than they used to be and you can find a lot of variety.
IMO it's less sketchy to throw one off a park jump that you're comfy on than hucking it off some random booter in the pow. If not saying you cant build a nice jump or find a big wind lip, just that park jumps aren't really sketchy.
The try it in powder idea works better with singles imo.
Also if you're trying a double you already are, or at least should be pretty damn comfy
IF you can lay out a big backy on something 40-45 and feel comfy on the jump, you can definitely float it like you would off of something maybe 20 feet.
Don't lock your eyes on the ground. Definitely visualize it first. Make sure you can see it. Figure out based on the air time how hard to think you have to huck it. Make sure you commit. If you haven't done dubs on anything else it's a weird feeling. You're you're peaking/starting to come down as you dip in for the second.
Also with doing it on a big park jump you can open up or tuck in if needed. On a smaller jump you're 100% tuck, whatever you throw on the takeoff is the speed you're spinning.
I would try and land in the sweet spot. Give yourself some room to clear the knuckle. The first double I threw I just under rotated and cased and clipped my nose on the knuckle then went flipping down the landing. It scared the piss out of me. I'd give yourself a little room. That said I wouldn't try and take it super deep. 45 is plenty big to float a dub back. Sometimes it's hard to judge the rotation if you're going super deep, also you're dropping that much farther out of the sky. If you want to lay it out more than you think you can on that jump maybe find a slightly bigger or poppier jump. If it's just about catching the knuckle just go with enough speed to get into the sweet spot. Give yourself a little cushion to come a little short or a little long.
If you have backies dialed as fuck you have the skills you need to throw a dub. You just need the right jump, the balls, the tunes, and just hope for the best.
I would recommend doing it when you're feeling good, have plenty of sleep, not super late in the day, and when the parks looking good.
A warm day when the suns out and the snows decent would be ideal but if you're feeling it and the conditions aren't totally shit it's doable.
Idk. Best of luck. Get a couple people to film it so you have some footy of it. Maybe try it with a friend.
If you toss one bump this thread with the story and a video.
Again, good luck.