Carving Off of Jumps???

its just like turning on regular hill except off the jump

you can learn to carve off of jumps by just carving but not spinning and going from the right side of the lip to the left side of the lander... that may be confusing but try to picture it, thats how i learned

its the same as carving on the hill but off a jump, so learn to do  that first because its easier.in the turn bring your uphill ski forward a little depending on how hard the turn is. keep your shins parallel and bring both knees in towards the slope while bringing your shoulder left or right depending on the turn. thats for on the hill just so you can get a feel for carving before learning it on jumps

Carving off jumps is so much better... I love carving off and floating 180's

aight. thanks guys.

carve hard

Carving looks so much better especially on corks and blunt 5's. Basically it's just like turning on a hill, but if you don't want to do a cork do not drop your shoulder as you start the carve or you will initiate a cork.

This is why kids need to learn the basics before they go into the park. If your carving proper, your not getting any spray, you're riding the edge of your ski. But like everyone else said, carving off a jump is just like carving on the hill normally.

i've been skiing my whole life but im new to park. so i think i have the basics down.

basically like racers. when the go around a gate or whatever kind of race they are doing they leen to what ever side they are turning and turn . do the same on the jump

Yeah. When you flex the ski and ride your edge, you're carving. If your edge slides out at all, you're just scrubbing speed.

ohhh. all this time i thought the word "carving" meant sliding out and turning.

Please dont talk if you dont know, ive been racing for 9 or more years and its not about leaning.

carve but stay on your edge, you dont want to lose speed.

it looks like racers turn by leaning to me.

Move to Mammoth haha.

hahaa whatt??

dont carve to hard at first, depending on the jump, that will throw u back seat if ur not corking. once u get it it makes all spins easier and sicker.

Well that's not how you carve a turn

Everyone knows that carving off the lip is the coolest way to straight air, too.

Truth. Montage knows what skiing should like...and not too many other people have a fucking clue.

Racers try and lean out of the turn over the outside ski so they can get more pressure and angles.

So when you carve, when exactly do you pop?

at the end of the lip

well first you want to get yourself some racing skis, so you can carve. when this is accomplished, to get the carve smooth and clean you must turn sideways in the air whilst also pulling a mctwist 900. before you land though you must spin another 347 degrees, no more, no less. when this is accomplished you have successfully completed the "carving off jump" manuever you speak of.

Its pretty pathetic kids cant actually ski well and only ride the park. Fuck most kids arent even that good at park anyways. Its really sad when your on the hill see some kid kill it in the park and looks just pathetic riding down the hill because he cant carve and has terrible form

its a good thing at first but for me it became bad cause i started to carve too much and once i landed off the side of the jump, no good

You're gonna want some extra speed because you will be traveling a longer distance while decreasing your speed by carving. The harder you carve the better it looks.

at like 1:25 theres a shot of me carvin a three off a decent sized jump http://vimeo.com/19649688

sorry the first half is us pulling a gaper day due to bad weather.

threads for vids of clean carved spins

wow that was really funny.

thanks for that vid bro. that was sick

Carving off a jump is one of the best feelings you can have skiing in the park. Learn it once and you'll never stop doing it. I don't think I've hit a jump flat-based in about three years.

For the uninitiated, "carving" means riding the edges of your skis so that the sidecut is making the turn for you. This is the much cooler alternative to pressing downhill with your tails, scuffing a bit of snow, and "manually" making a turn. Carving is awesome (see, racers know something after all), and as far as I know, didn't really exist on skis until ski manufacturers figured out how to make a parabolic sidecut, i.e. fatter tips and tails and narrower in the middle of the ski.

So much for the theory, let's take it to practice.

Step 1: Go find a nice green or blue run at your hill (not too steep). Take that run and carve all the way down it - no scuff turns the whole way! You want to keep your skis constantly on edge and find the right moment to switch seamlessly from one edge to the other. When you look back up the hill you should see a perfect double-S track the whole way down - no scuffed out spots from skidding a turn.

Step 2: Go find your favorite jump in the park, and drop in a bit higher than you normally do. But instead of skidding a bit to control your speed, try carving instead. Two big carves coming into a jump mean about the same thing as one skidding speed check (and it looks better too).

Step 3: If you're carving coming into the jump, you can just keep carving right off the lip. Here's what I do. I spin to the right, so I usually carve to the right coming off the lip (you can also carve opposite to your spin, but I won't get into that here). When I'm about 50 ft from the jump, I try to be as far RIGHT on the inrun as possible. That sets me up to carve a huge "C", to the left and then to the right again as I come off the lip. I'm usually within a foot of the left side of the jump as I enter the transition, so that when I carve right again coming off the lip, I'm still going to hit the landing and not fly somewhere off the landing to the right.


A few other important points:
- When you carve hard, you're going to travel sideways a lot, so you have to make sure you're still going to hit the landing! This is why if you're carving left, you should carve from the far right side of the jump, and vice versa. A buddy of mine carved too hard on a dope cork 5 last summer at Timberline and went switch straight into the rocks.

- When you carve off a jump, you have to have more speed than usual. This is because you're not traveling straight across to the landing, but rather on a diagonal, which means a longer distance to the landing. This leads to the next two points:

- Yes, you have to go faster when you carve a jump, but you can also control your speed with the carve. If you notice you're going too fast, you can carve harder, transferring more of your motion to the side and not straight down the hill, so you still hit landing.

- Yes, you travel on a diagonal to the landing, which is actually one of my favorite parts about carving. Since you're traveling diagonally across the jump, you actually have MORE landing than just jumping straight. Simple geometric principle which means that once you get carving down, you'll be spending a lot more time in the sweet spot and lot less time knuckling or overshooting.

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/content/viewvideo/id/345766/member_id/1143/
In this video at 1:07 you can see a carve right 360 into a carve left 360. And at 3:02, if you want to get into the technical shit, you can see a switch opposite carve.


Sorry for the carving diatribe. I'm just a huge fan and want to share the love with the world.

That was well explained. K+

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