What types of things do skiboarders in general need to have/work on/progress in to be considered a rail tech and/or an air tech?
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if i knew, i would be good in the park.
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Personally, skating helped me get more comfortable on rails and boxes. Skating definitely helped me balance more. Even though I mostly did small soul grinds with an small occasional frontside, this definitely helped with balance. Last season, I didn't really feel comfortable doing much of anything, whereas this year I definitely felt much more comfortable. I don't really know how to describe it...but hitting rails and boxes seemed almost more "instinctive" than it had previously, before I had skated.I Ski 4 Smitty.
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Originally posted by Branden View Postspinning both ways off rails or jumps.
To add to that, I think the varied grabs as well. We started to see more of that over the past few years, but it's still lacking. Ideally, all riders would have 6 or 7 different grabs regularly displayed.
Originally posted by Branden View Postspinning on rails (not boxes) needs to be more common
Something I see as key is something Matt Hein and I had an in-depth discussion about a few weeks ago. We are skiboarders. We don't use poles. We have our hands free with plenty of opportunities. We need to take advantage of the short length and use of everything we have around us, including our bodies and boards. It's not just about progression, but it's really about the technical aspect of what we are doing. The Junk Show Team really focused on that this year with use of types of grinds (tail presses and one-footed switch-ups), hand placement (hand drag grinding and unique grabs for backslides, fastslides, makios, etc…), using features in unique ways (side hitting the kickers of jumps and deck-to-deck flips and spins), working the shortness of our boards to our advantage (med-spins onto rails/boxes and buttering off jumps), etc… Just examples of stuff we've been working on, but there is a world of stuff we haven't even touched upon. Get into that technical zone.I'm a snollerblader.
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Originally posted by LugeDude View PostTalking about rails i have a pair of the old orange salmon snowblades, and is it me that i catch a edge and kill myself on rails, or is it them?
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you can detune your snow blade edges under where your bindings are located using a file so they won't catch.
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