Should you look at your grabs?

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Should you look at your grabs?

Pac2

Posts: 794 - Karma: 2,859

Mar 23 2015 3:48PM

So sometimes when I go off jumps my eyes are really set on the landing and I don't look at my grabs all the time like for blunt and stale I usually never look at them but even when I safety sometimes I feel like I don't look at where my hand should go. So should I be looking at my grabs? Even for the ones that are behind me like blunt and stale?

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chicknfriedsteak

Posts: 984 - Karma: 4,691

Mar 23 2015 4:20PM

if you can grab your ski without looking already then now, if you can't then look at your ski every time you do it tell it comes naturally, if you are spinning in the direction you are reaching well then you can always look if you need to.

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Holte

Posts: 10730 - Karma: 7,744

Mar 23 2015 4:30PM

Nah.

Grabbing is mostly muscle memory. It's usually fine to look at your ski when you're learning a new grab when you're just straight airing, but it's pretty easy to mess up a rotation by looking at your ski instead of looking for the rotation point or landing.

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Cyanicenine

Posts: 966 - Karma: 2,296

Mar 23 2015 5:05PM

I literally just swipe at the air and hope I contact my ski and eventually the successful grabs just become muscle memory, like someone else said. Seems like looking at your skis/turning your head could cause unintentional rotation. Front of the binding grabs you can sort of catch in your periphery. Grabs like Japan are pretty much impossible to spot. Maybe I'm doing it wrong though.

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