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I've been skiing for years, but this year I bought myself some afterbangs and committed to actually improving. So this weekend I went out to the hill, I chose a flat rail and thought "I'm going to get at least one good hit on that by the end of the day if it kills me." After hiking it like 25 times I finally got 2 good hits, but no consistency. It got to a point where I was so tired and worked that I was actually getting worse so I stopped. The next day I did the same with a different rail but I was also very inconsistent there. I had nobody to coach me so I didn't know what I was doing wrong. I need some tips for hitting rails and also basic spins off jumps. Advice is welcome
If you see someone else that looks like they know what they are doing on that feature, just ask them for advice. People are more than willing to help a solid majority of the time. But one of the main things for jumps is shin pressure and making sure you actually pop.
You can look up Jake Muller ski tutorials. He posts videos on basics like how to slide rails all the way up to tricks like 270s on. He also has videos on 360 and a bunch of other tricks.
If you're having trouble making it all the way to the end of the rail make sure youre popping hard and rotating a full 90 degrees. You need to be completely sideways on rails to keep your balance. Watch this video to start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olnPpHv69fM
Same thing happens to me just got front 450s and kfeds this week and the first day I learned them I was getting around almost every time and was really consistent but I went a ton this week and hiked a lot and by today I got like 1 kfed after about 10 try's, granted there isn't really a good learning feature in the park, no straight on tube or anything the one I learned on has no lip and you literally have to hop on the side, but my legs were just so tired and I wasn't really putting in a lot of effort even though I felt like I was there was no spring in anything i did, sometimes you just have to give it a break and come back when your feeling up to par. This happens to me in skateboarding also, sometimes I learn a new trick and just get really tired and rest for a day or so and when I come back i start landing it a lot more. As far as sliding rails goes hop on whatever feels most comfortable from the side or straight on and make sure your front should is fully inline with the rail and your head is looking down at the feature. Don't get discouraged give it a break and come back to another time. And when you just learn something it may be difficult like when I first got 270s out they were hard for me but now it's like idk how I couldn't do them before, just takes time and the more rails you slide the better you'll get and the more advanced tricks you learn the easier the easy ones will get.
I agree with asking a fellow park skier if someone asked me I would be more than happy to help out. Make sure you have a solid pop and commit to the 90 fully for some really really helpful tutorials jake muller is the one https://www.youtube.com/user/mullski10
CubanatorsYou can look up Jake Muller ski tutorials. He posts videos on basics like how to slide rails all the way up to tricks like 270s on. He also has videos on 360 and a bunch of other tricks.
If you're having trouble making it all the way to the end of the rail make sure youre popping hard and rotating a full 90 degrees. You need to be completely sideways on rails to keep your balance. Watch this video to start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olnPpHv69fM
I was just going to bring up Jake Muller. He helped me a lot and I think he has really good content
I would recommend going to SkiTutorials.com, a website by our own Jake Muller. There's tons of awesome videos to teach you how to do most basic tricks
Also, feel free to ask anyone who seems to know what they are doing. They'll be happy to help. If they aren't, then tell them to go to hell and ask another guy
3) keep your shoulders closed or parallel to the rail , I see too many people do this:
4) be patient onto the rail, don't rush your feet onto the rail, its how you die on lower lips. Also be over the lip before you start turning your skis
5) Sometimes things aren't as scary as they seem. Next season you'll probably come back to a feature and say, wow I can't believe I was afraid of this rail or whatever
I just hit my first metal rails yesterday so I will say what I did to learn. If you aren't passed the slipping out stage then you want to find a box to slide on. It eliminates the complications of a thin rail and is soley for learning to balance your weight and doing spins if you are advanced. Once you get done with learning not to slip out or catch your edges then you want to find a flat bar, not a round hand rail or tube. Just approach the rail and pretend its a box. You may come off early but thats okay. You will learn to balance your weight in front of you and behind you along with your sides which you learned with the box. The final step in my opinion would be to use your front ski's edge to get a grip on the outside of the rail. This is hard to learn on boxes. Then to come out just drop your heel a little and you will magically be straight and not 90. I was very surprised last night how sensitive pedaling is and how little force it takes.
I'm not saying you shouldn't ask for advice but two weeks ago a kid asked me how to rodeo 5 so I talked him through it. He put it down first try and then I told him I've never done one. Point is, ask for help. A lot of people like giving advice.
Great recommendations. I was actually hitting boxes for the first time this past weekend, I always thought I wouldn't like rails of any sort, but it turns out I'd like to master them. Also, biggest thing (for me at least) is overcoming the fear of what other people may think of you as you tackle a feature in the park and fully, mentally committing to hit the feature.
Blue_FishGreat recommendations. I was actually hitting boxes for the first time this past weekend, I always thought I wouldn't like rails of any sort, but it turns out I'd like to master them. Also, biggest thing (for me at least) is overcoming the fear of what other people may think of you as you tackle a feature in the park and fully, mentally committing to hit the feature.
Whenever I fall or slip on a rail I just laugh it off if people react. My hill's average skill level is very low so the most anybody can do is a 270 maybe. Average kid is scared to 5050 so idk if that is the case at your hill, I hope you have taken some nasty hits already because you learn how to make your fall less painful once you know you are going to fall. Like for example yesterday I slipped out on a flat bar and the entire left went OOOOOOO. I just laughed it off and had a smile on my face the rest of the run. I understand the frustration of repetitive slipping out but thats when you go up to somebody and ask them to watch you and give you advice.
I did take some serious hits, especially early on. The skill level was mostly low, except for a crew that was really good, but judging by the weed smell, too high to care. Some gapers were laughing at me from the drop in on this rail, but stopped when one of them tried to hit it and smacked his head on the rail. His helmet split in half and ski patrol had so take him in the sled. I'm not good at all at this point so being laughed at is just part of ths experience.
best way to improve is to just do it over and over again until your good at that and just go for new tricks and try and push yourself it can take a day or many years to perfect tricks