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Lack of Natural Right Spinners

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g_lectrolyte
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Only noteworthy skiers I’m aware of who spin right is like:
Torin Yater-Wallace
Sam Zahner
B-Mack

those are literally the only ones I can think of and as someone who naturally spins to the right I feel like we are under-represented. Post up your favorite skiers who spin right or clips or whatever
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abar.
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siver voll literally only ever spins right
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Quaggy
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Does "foot dominance" play a role in this or is it just how you started to learn park?
I've got a dominant right foot but spin to the left, perhaps left foot dominance naturally spins right?
Talkin' out my ass but... interesting OP
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Pakanaka
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ReturnToMonkey
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QuaggyDoes "foot dominance" play a role in this or is it just how you started to learn park?
I've got a dominant right foot but spin to the left, perhaps left foot dominance naturally spins right?
Talkin' out my ass but... interesting OP

I think when you're spinning left, you push off the jump more with your right leg, so that's probably part of the reason for natural left spinners being more common, as natural right footedness is more common.
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DesertStix
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Was literally just telling this to someone trying to learn spins and asking why most people spin left nat. I know I push off my dominant leg which is right.
ReturnToMonkeyI think when you're spinning left, you push off the jump more with your right leg, so that's probably part of the reason for natural left spinners being more common, as natural right footedness is more common.
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switchlip2
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I spin naturally left but right switch
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gravel
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natty foot doesn’t have anything to do with it. everyone’s different and has weird combos of spin and sw spin and foot forward grinds, i don’t think there is any rhyme or reason.
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Skibumsmith
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Jems
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people who are slide and spin the same direction can eat a dick fuck all of you idc what you think
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g_lectrolyte
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gravelnatty foot doesn’t have anything to do with it. everyone’s different and has weird combos of spin and sw spin and foot forward grinds, i don’t think there is any rhyme or reason.

Me neither, it probably comes down to just the way your brain works.
Jemspeople who are slide and spin the same direction can eat a dick fuck all of you idc what you think


I spin right and slide rails right foot forward naturally. Cannot tell u why. I’m goofy on any kind of board.
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ReturnToMonkey
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gravelnatty foot doesn’t have anything to do with it. everyone’s different and has weird combos of spin and sw spin and foot forward grinds, i don’t think there is any rhyme or reason.


From a physiological and psychological standpoint, there very much is a reason for people being naturally better at one way or the other, whether it is you've spent your whole life putting more weight on the left/right leg or maybe have spent more time turning left or right on skis due to the fall line of your home mountain. I think all those things are factors. There may not be one single reason but there are many causes for our bodies to prefer one motion over another just from muscle memory and asymmetrical development. From an analytical standpoint, it makes sense and may not be important at all but at I at least think it's cool to ponder.
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ReturnToMonkey
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Using this as a follow-up to above
switchlip2I spin naturally left but right switch

I am this way too, and I am fairly positive it's because when I first started learning spinning, it was always a left 180, which leaves me looking forward over my right shoulder, so I always skied switch over the right and never practiced to the left. Therefore when I started hitting jumps and rails switch, I was forced to go right due to not wanting to do a blender.

This may not be the case for everybody who spins left forward, right switch naturally but they have to have some sort of equally valid reasoning.
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PeteMahn
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I know this thread is about people who Naturally spin right so I should start a new thread for this; but there's skier's who can spin right/ Unnatural so well it's extremely difficult to tell which direction is natural for them. This is very seldom and rare but one of the greatest examples of this is Tom Warnick. In the edit Below at 1:38 Warnick stomps one of the sickest right 9's ever done in my opinion. This is un natural which is crazy, that being said he's one of the few skier's who doesn't have a natural vs unnatural way of spinning. I would also put Seamus Flannagan on that list as the right 7 he laced at Superunknown was flawless.

The shot is at 1:38.
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deathcookie
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Here's my question: Why do people feel more comfortable sliding rails right foot forward when that is essentially sliding a rail goofy-footed?
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jompcock
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Most right handed people I know spin left, and vice versa for left handed folks. I know some that are the opposite but in my experience they are the minority. The dominant hand is usually the one that reaches foreword to set the spin and counter the angle of the jump.
deathcookieHere's my question: Why do people feel more comfortable sliding rails right foot forward when that is essentially sliding a rail goofy-footed?

I think sliding rails, most of your weight is on the front foot, where on a board you're driving the carve a bit more with the back foot. That's a total guess cause I suck at snowboarding and am not that good at skating but I do feel like rails require a lot more weight on the front foot than a board.
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ReturnToMonkey
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deathcookieHere's my question: Why do people feel more comfortable sliding rails right foot forward when that is essentially sliding a rail goofy-footed?

Left 90 degree spin onto the rail when first learning. I know for me, it's the getting on, not being on that makes left foot forward harder. If I get there through a back swap, it's much easier to keep my balance.
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g_lectrolyte
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Also this thread would be garbage if I didn’t post Jon Brogan

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/755361/JON-BROGAN-TRANSFIXED-EDIT
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Biffbarf
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gravelnatty foot doesn’t have anything to do with it. everyone’s different and has weird combos of spin and sw spin and foot forward grinds, i don’t think there is any rhyme or reason.


I think hand/leg dominance plays a huge role. I skate regular to push with my dominant foot and spin left so that when I land my dominant foot sets the edge. Watch how many people with do a 270 left then revert right because they're favoring their dominant foot.
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DesertStix
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Fax
BiffbarfI think hand/leg dominance plays a huge role. I skate regular to push with my dominant foot and spin left so that when I land my dominant foot sets the edge. Watch how many people with do a 270 left then revert right because they're favoring their dominant foot.
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asparagus
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g_lectrolyteAlso this thread would be garbage if I didn’t post Jon Brogan

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/755361/JON-BROGAN-TRANSFIXED-EDIT


Good decision
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deathcookie
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ReturnToMonkeyLeft 90 degree spin onto the rail when first learning. I know for me, it's the getting on, not being on that makes left foot forward harder. If I get there through a back swap, it's much easier to keep my balance.


Is this a thing for other people? Once they are on a rail, post swap, does sliding left foot forward feel easier?
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Jems
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imagine how op you could get at skiing if you tried sliding both ways equally as soon as you started learning rails
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.bo.
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Jemsimagine how op you could get at skiing if you tried sliding both ways equally as soon as you started learning rails


This
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sullivano*b
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i had a homie that spun right natty but he doesn't ski anymore. it made the one game of slvsh we played very difficult, that was 2 years ago when we could only do 180°s tho so shit game either way
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gravel
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BiffbarfI think hand/leg dominance plays a huge role. I skate regular to push with my dominant foot and spin left so that when I land my dominant foot sets the edge. Watch how many people with do a 270 left then revert right because they're favoring their dominant foot.


i am right handed, i spin right, i grind right foot, i skate regular

my friend ethan is right handed, spins left, spins sw right, grinds right foot, skates regular

my friend kai is left handed, spins right, grinds left foot, idk skate

you could pick out so many different variations. so i still think dominant hand specifically doesn’t have a lot to do with it. it might have some overlap more with one direction than the other but not enough for that to be the only reason.
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nmwninjart
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Im another one of those confused body right spinners.
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DesertStix
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I skate goofy to control the board with my dominant foot/leg 🤷‍♂️
BiffbarfI think hand/leg dominance plays a huge role. I skate regular to push with my dominant foot and spin left so that when I land my dominant foot sets the edge. Watch how many people with do a 270 left then revert right because they're favoring their dominant foot.
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Darc
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Also i think you guys missed Vini Ca$h


https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/750941/Vincent-Gagnier-wins-gold-in-GoPro-Ski-Big-Air
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Biffbarf
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DesertStixI skate goofy to control the board with my dominant foot/leg 🤷‍♂️


There's a reason it's called goofy
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CT_CREW
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don't forget the peoples champ, nick goepper
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asparagus
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Jemsimagine how op you could get at skiing if you tried sliding both ways equally as soon as you started learning rails


I actually did this. I still suck at rails, don’t even have all 8 but once I learn something natural I can basically learn it unnatural straight away.
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TRVP_ANGEL
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im right here
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vibe.crudo
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Right spinning skiers spin faster. Do not research this, trust me.
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