Weight affects buttering?

Buttering is all technique and anyone no matter what weight can do it but ...

Weight does affect it a lot, ligher people have less strength overall. Having light skis help A LOT for that, what skis are you rocking?

**This post was edited on Sep 20th 2019 at 9:59:05pm

I'm currenty on Sir Francis Bacon Shorty's

ReiI'm currenty on Sir Francis Bacon Shorty's

lol

It's definitely a factor, I weigh ~130 pounds and skis other people call buttery feel pretty stiff to me. The weight of the skis is irrelevant, they just have to be flexy enough. Ski boot fit is also really important, if your getting a lot of heel lift butters are fucking impossible

**This post was edited on Sep 20th 2019 at 10:23:08pm

Round your edges

The main factors of being able to do a solid butter are:
-your weight
-the flex of the skis
-the fit/flex of your boots
you don’t have to weigh a lot of be able to butter, a lot of it is in the technique of launching yourself over the tips of your skis and pushing all your weight into the tongues of your boots and into the noses of your skis. Then a bit of leg strength to flex your legs and bring yours heels close to your butt and pushing you feet back. If your boots don’t fit right or aren’t tight enough, your heel will slip up in the boot and you feet won’t be stable enough to really press. Obviously, having a flexy ski will help with this, but it can be done even with a stiff ski, again it’s all in the technique. Watch so pro skiers do butters and watch in slomo so you can see exactly how they move their bodies to be able to put all that energy into the tips of their skis.

You for sure will be ably to butter. it just takes a lot of practice. Ease in, spending plenty of time doing 'manuals' and nose presses to get familiar with how your skis flex. Being able to do 360s is also a key part of learning butters because just touching your tips on the ground while doing your 3 over a roller will help you figure out the timing for your butter.

Yeah

Just abnormally bend the tips on ur skis all the time and in no time you'll butter like a proooo

Honestly, weight has a pretty significant effect. I picked up trail running and generally did more exercise over the spring and consequently lost in the region of 8kgs of blubber that I had apparently been carrying around (despite the name). Riding the same skis in the same sizes as before, I can definitely feel a big difference in how easily I can get over the tips/tails weighing 61kg vs nearly 70.

However, as TRVP mentioned, it is more about technique than anything else though. So once you get that, and figure out how your skis flex, it shouldn't be a problem. While I don't find it as easy to do butter tricks as I did, especially on longer skis, I can still do everything I did before. In your case, pretty much every ski is going to feel stiff, so it's going to take a decent amount of work to figure it out. What size skis and what skis are you riding?

You could try just standing still in your skis and leaning forward way over the tips of your skis (you can do this on a carpet at home tbh). Make sure you do your boots up tight. If by doing that you can lift your tails off the snow/rug, you got this. If your tails don't even budge:

- Are your heels lifting out of your boots? If so, your boots are probably too big, which is going to make buttering crazy difficult.

- If your heels are locked down tight but you still can't flex the ski at all/lift the tails by leaning way forward, it's going to be pretty hard for you to butter on those skis, especially when learning. Of course, it's still possible but you're making it harder for yourself.

ReiI'm a very small girl- 5ft and I weigh pretty light (around 106Ibs)

Does being this light affect how I butter?

I don't know if my skis are not flexible enough, or I'm just too light, but I want to know if I'll be able to do sexy butters someday.

just lean like micheal jackson every chance you get. You'll spend a solid week eating shit and then figure it out and you'll be steezy.

find a knuckle and spin a 3 but keep ur tips on the ground
300 iq

Honestly feel like the taller you are the easier because you can throw the weight that you have over the front of your skis more

You're definitely going to have to work harder for it, but 100lbs is more than enough to flex a ski. Most people when they're learning butters think that they're throwing their weight as hard as they can when in reality they're only going like 25 percent.

Try this for reference: while clicked in on flat, without moving, start to lean forward slowly until you eventually flex the ski and fall forward towards your face. Dont stop until you're literally in a pushup type position with your noses down and your hands on the ground. That'll give you an idea of where your weight needs to be to get the ski flexing. Good luck and keep working at it!

It's all about technique, you've just got to get comfortable with the weight transfer. Cheers!

Never had boots comfortable enough to even wanna try.. maybe someday