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Help with front 2 out?

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HenryDiG
Posts: 3 - Karma: 18
I plan on trying to learn front 2 outs this weekend but I have no idea how to start. I can barely manage to rotate enough to land front ways (I usually just get off the rail switch because it's easier).

My natural grind is right ski forward and my natural spin is to the left, which is blindside. I can easily do blind 2s and I've done blind 4s but I just can't seem to rotate the opposite way. Any tips?
Mar 6 2017 11:12AM
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ItsFen
Posts: 183 - Karma: 960
Spread your legs out when on the rail. Grip rail with the inside edge of your right foot, push of that edge. Don't just try to throw your body. But the most important thing is to keep your legs spread.
Mar 6 2017 11:15AM
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spushkin
Posts: 50 - Karma: 68
Get on the feature. Stay looking at the end of the rail, when you get relatively close to the end and you feel locked in, angle your front ski down by pushing on your heel lightly. Do this in the last couple feet of the rail. This will straighten you out.

After doing that, just being around the last 180. Just new practicing, if you can't bring the rotation around make a video of yourself in slow mo and see what you're doing wrong, that's helps me sometimes find little errors.
Mar 6 2017 11:36AM
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brockmoules
Posts: 68 - Karma: 175
Stay slightly crouched when you land on the rail. Make sure that you drop your heel comfortably, and explode up and spin. You should be jumping mostly off of your trailing foot, while your front foot scissors. Lastly, send it like you're going to spin 180 degrees more than you are (e.g. if you're going for a 270 off, spin it like a 450 off). Good luck!
Mar 6 2017 1:15PM
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Malcolm
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Dig your right heel in. Once you're comfortable getting off forwards, front 270 will be super easy.
Mar 6 2017 1:40PM
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TACO-DOG.exe
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get really really good at spinning right 180's off of little jumps or side booters. once you train your body to be comfortable with that then you just have to work on popping off the rail correctly. when you get your pop off the rail down then the spin will come naturally.
Mar 6 2017 1:45PM
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Malcolm
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.Dadget really really good at spinning right 180's off of little jumps or side booters. once you train your body to be comfortable with that then you just have to work on popping off the rail correctly. when you get your pop off the rail down then the spin will come naturally.


I was going to update my comment to say exactly this.
Mar 6 2017 1:51PM
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The.Fish
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Just don't set your edge too early, otherwise you will hear the doink and go crazy.
Mar 6 2017 3:26PM
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JichelMusten
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https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/754362/How-to-spin-off-of-rails-on-skis--pedaling-
Mar 6 2017 4:12PM
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Jems
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Some things I tell people it to put pressure on their right or left heel (depends on which foot forward). Basically push your right heel on the rail to land forwards. This is just to not land switch. Anyway before I learned the front spin I was perplexed on how the fuck you used your ski to spin.
Mar 7 2017 11:15AM
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