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DeakleMatter
Posts: 335 - Karma: 10
what is skiing or landing backseat?
Dec 8 2005 7:18PM
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Ice-Is-Scary
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when you are leaning back, a.k.a how every jibber skis powder
Dec 8 2005 7:19PM
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DeakleMatter
Posts: 335 - Karma: 10
when is it bad?
Dec 8 2005 7:20PM
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Antoine.
Posts: 1269 - Karma: 6
backseat isn't good. u don't have as much balance
Dec 8 2005 7:21PM
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Ice-Is-Scary
Posts: 0 - Karma: 87
when it looks like you are sitting in an invisible chair as you are skiing
Dec 8 2005 7:21PM
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sexy_skier_babii
Posts: 2490 - Karma: 15
its just not good skiing. you want to be forward
Dec 8 2005 7:21PM
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jetski
Posts: 375 - Karma: 10
haha. You mean my centre mounted Publics aren't going to rip in the pow?
Dec 8 2005 7:22PM
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Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
because u can get raped by ur bindings
Dec 8 2005 7:24PM
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guillermolongjon2
Posts: 648 - Karma: 10
center mount doesnt mean that u have to ski in the backseat
Dec 8 2005 7:25PM
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dan1080
Posts: 1293 - Karma: 913
back seat is bad ski form!
Dec 8 2005 7:26PM
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4frntSkier
Posts: 4008 - Karma: 143
it hurts to land backseet on hard snow
Dec 8 2005 7:26PM
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guillermolongjon2
Posts: 648 - Karma: 10
thank you sir
Dec 8 2005 7:27PM
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Tclif
Posts: 1559 - Karma: 19
what is skiing>?>??> haha , anyhow backseat, when your landing backseat skiing backseat, your going to be leaning far back, not good, you loose balance and are out of contorl and may crash, backseat is just how it sounds ur falling backwards.
Dec 8 2005 7:28PM
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Ice-Is-Scary
Posts: 0 - Karma: 87
Wait, you don't get control from the tails of your skis?
Dec 8 2005 7:29PM
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Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
no u get them from ur edges and a thing called skill
Dec 8 2005 7:33PM
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GotamaBCshredder
Posts: 5062 - Karma: 424
i don't know how much edges really do in POW, but I ride a little back seat in pow, but within reason, I lose correctness and go with the comfort
Dec 8 2005 7:36PM
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mordy07
Posts: 32 - Karma: 10
Skiing too far back is also a great way to tear your ACL. A lot of knee injuries in skiing occur because people get too far back on their skis, they lose control, their skis go two different directions, and POP! there goes your ACL.
Dec 8 2005 7:39PM
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PurpleSkier
Posts: 5634 - Karma: 311
Just watch mike wilson ride. That's the definition of backseat.
Dec 8 2005 7:40PM
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GotamaBCshredder
Posts: 5062 - Karma: 424
haha yeah lol
Dec 8 2005 7:41PM
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lineskier129
Posts: 318 - Karma: 10
ya it does
Dec 8 2005 10:38PM
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Stan_Darsh
Posts: 3057 - Karma: 185
it hurts like a bitch when you land in the backseeat and smash your calf or bash your shina dn it makes my legs sore if i ski in the backseat to i dont do it
Dec 8 2005 10:40PM
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cLyOnS_45
Posts: 1072 - Karma: 10
so if your riding switch is it front seat? must be.
Dec 8 2005 10:40PM
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BobYohan
Posts: 3001 - Karma: 375
puts alot of stress on the shins if you land/crash leaning back.
Dec 8 2005 10:41PM
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eheath
Posts: 61138 - Karma: 118,614
In powder it does!
Dec 8 2005 10:44PM
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PurpleSkier
Posts: 5634 - Karma: 311
My PE's are center mounted and I don't ski backseat.
Dec 8 2005 10:45PM
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eheath
Posts: 61138 - Karma: 118,614
u cant serious say u dont lean back when u ski powder.
Dec 8 2005 10:45PM
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jetski
Posts: 375 - Karma: 10
OK Whatever you say. Lets go ski some pow in the mountains and then tell me you don't need to lean back to ski pow on centre mounted sticks. Unless its a 210 fat ski!



Which makes me think that would be so sick for ripping things backwards! 210 cm 145mm tip 110 waist 125mm tail.
Dec 8 2005 10:48PM
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PurpleSkier
Posts: 5634 - Karma: 311
I can be serious. Leaning back, and riding backseat on your tails are different. Most of the time though, I keep a stacked body position, and am not leaning back, off of drops I land so that my tips don't sink. Other than that, you're dead wrong.
Dec 8 2005 10:53PM
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Govey
Posts: 65 - Karma: 14
just keep your chest forward and point your body with your shoulders and chin...you'll make it down the bowls without riding in the backseat...
Dec 8 2005 10:58PM
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Ice-Is-Scary
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yeah im sure you can lean forward on center mounted park skis, were not talking about 2 inches of pow here
Dec 9 2005 2:33AM
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dorikin
Posts: 1914 - Karma: 16
I really don't like all this "correct" ski form business. I just ski, seriously. When I ski pow, sometimes I lean back and just plow it out, sometimes I have normal body position. It's all about going with the flow.
Dec 9 2005 3:36AM
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reggyboy
Posts: 1608 - Karma: 13
landing backseat means u get shitbang which = bruises and that = not being able to ski leaning forward they way it should be done as well
Dec 9 2005 3:59AM
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steevner
Posts: 4502 - Karma: 47
landing backseat also means u could possibly get a binding up the ass
Dec 9 2005 8:22AM
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yellav
Posts: 10056 - Karma: 1,217
you are ignorant.
Dec 9 2005 8:31AM
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PurpleSkier
Posts: 5634 - Karma: 311
You probably just can't ski very well.
Dec 9 2005 11:14AM
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sethpistol02
Posts: 390 - Karma: 10
haha^
Dec 9 2005 12:07PM
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cab_D
Posts: 1602 - Karma: 51
you will find that u'll lean forward a little too much from a drop into deep pow and then front flip on the landing. happened the other day. fucking anoying.
Dec 9 2005 1:25PM
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GotamaBCshredder
Posts: 5062 - Karma: 424
thats weird I know both you and ice, and you both shred, so yeah peace out fold, and valley lu what?
Dec 11 2005 10:13PM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
its safer then frontseat ill tell you that much
Dec 11 2005 10:41PM
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forfun
Posts: 4916 - Karma: 66
i coulnt tell if it he was skiing backseat or if it was just the angle of the shot in TBC...
Dec 11 2005 10:46PM
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crzyskier311xxx
Posts: 515 - Karma: 12
i always seem to land backseat whenever i am hitting kickers....r u suppose to lean foraward when landing or what?
Dec 12 2005 12:08AM
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TWoods
Posts: 10014 - Karma: 8,385
I don't know what all of youa re talkign about skiing backseat in the pow. Just go faster, and you ski just like anywhere else. It is hard to prevent tip dive on more centered skis if you are going slow, but it is still bad form.
Dec 12 2005 12:11AM
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MNS
Posts: 5386 - Karma: 3,241
when i ride pow im definetly not real foward that much im probably i little backseat
Dec 12 2005 12:14AM
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GotamaBCshredder
Posts: 5062 - Karma: 424
I ride a bit back seat in the pow for sure, not a ton but a bit, I don't know what I'm talking about?

And you on;y land backseat on BC booters into pow.
Dec 12 2005 2:43AM
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feezy
Posts: 2022 - Karma: 23
when you land you should land on your boots. well, that area of the ski.
people jam their tails down, and thats shitty form kids.
if you come up short thats a different story, but you should land centered over your skis... wight wise i mean.
Dec 12 2005 3:14AM
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feezy
Posts: 2022 - Karma: 23
weight*
Dec 12 2005 3:14AM
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PurpleSkier
Posts: 5634 - Karma: 311
Haha, you def didn't watch close enough. Hahaha. It's not just one shot, it's every shot. The kid can't even land his "signature" trick cleanly. Watch his whole segment, the reason he eats shit off that huge step down, and flails like a motherfucker is because he's skiing totally backseat, he lands it on his back. All the other jumps, look at the flex of his skis, and how his tails are the only part making contact with the snow, he's barely landing shit.
Dec 12 2005 11:03AM
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JAYTRON
Posts: 2373 - Karma: 16
and it causes a shitload of acl injuries
Dec 12 2005 12:12PM
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BillyGoteMan
Posts: 1983 - Karma: 12
yeah did anyone see mikey wilsons fall from last year, fuckin brutal
Dec 12 2005 12:36PM
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feezy
Posts: 2022 - Karma: 23
i think skiing backseat is what saves mr. wilson though.
when overshoots huge shit his tails suck up all the impact.
Dec 12 2005 1:02PM
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crazyfuck
Posts: 5968 - Karma: -7
keep your hands forward and you'll be fine. sure, you might think it doesn't look as steezy or whatever, but it's good form and the people who actually matter will realize this when they see it.
Dec 12 2005 1:08PM
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