Unnatural On Rails

ScootSkiLyfeAlright guys when I started skiing, I never learned how to hit rails unnatural. It was never something that occurred to me as being important to up my ski game (duh). Now, whenever I am in the park I am almost too embarrassed to attempt to get better at it, because I feel like I look stupid. I guess I should just get over it and try to learn unnatural.

Any tips? Am I the only one who seemed to skip the step of learning unnatural slides?

funkynuggzwhen I first started hitting rails I was right foot foward. and learned blind2 since I spin left. I couldnt do foward 270 cause I never really tried to spin right. so I started to slide everything left foot foward and got comfy enough to spin 270 off since spinning left was natural for me. now it feels more natural sliding left foot foward. but I'll hit rails left foot foward and then hit the next rail right foot foward and jus alternate. after getting comfy sliding both ways it was next to start learning blind2 both ways. then learning forward 270 both ways. so I went for a whole week and every lil bump or anything I would spin to my right. once you learn how to slide both ways, you get to learn how to use all 4 edges on your skis. then the final thing to learn is to master all 8. but spinning to the right for the first time does feel so sketchy. but the way I learned how to spin unatty 270 on a rails, I'd do unatty 180 over the rails just to make sure I had enough clearance. I'd 180 and shifty and lock into it and hold that postion and watch the end of the rail and land switch or come off foward. takes a few falls to get those butterflies out of ya

lil.Boyei actually don't find it very unnatural anymore, i just do it at a higher speed than what i am comfortable with, and something in my brain just does it like it was natural

Corey_O132Honestly this might sound stupid, but try mentally picturing yourself doing it. If you ski on the weekend when you have free time, like most people, just take some time each day and think about how it feels to hit a rail, and then do the same thing for unnatural. Then go try it when you go skiing again.

this is what helped me a lot. Came back after a week of doing this and was able to do unnatural K-Fed, FS Front 2, and BS Front 2 within a half hour of starting to hit it unnatty

Corey_O132Honestly this might sound stupid, but try mentally picturing yourself doing it. If you ski on the weekend when you have free time, like most people, just take some time each day and think about how it feels to hit a rail, and then do the same thing for unnatural. Then go try it when you go skiing again.

this is what helped me a lot. Came back after a week of doing this and was able to do unnatural K-Fed, FS Front 2, and BS Front 2 within a half hour of starting to hit it unnatty

BLandzI natty slide rails RF forward but I skate regs so I just pretend im on a skateboard. Helps me a lot but I still find I gotta keep a tad bit more pressure on my front foot when unnat or else ill slip out backwards but that might just be me.

**This post was edited on Nov 7th 2019 at 8:48:10pm

ScootSkiLyfeYea I always slip out unnatural. I get on that bitch and next time I know I’m on my ass

skiguy04Try fakie on