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I am now on my second year skiing park, and I was wondering if I’m in a good place. I can currently do a 180 on flat and a jump, a flat rail, most tubes, shifties, and a f2 off flat tubes.
I wouldn’t compare progression, as it can vary for everyone.
I really would recommend trying out some unnaty tricks that you have. Start with the spins then rails, it really just helps your overall air and rail awareness. Also mix in a few grabs too.
also focus on trying to straight slide everything your park has. Tbh I think it is a lil wack if someone has a ton of swaps in their bag but can only ride a flat tube.
pretty solid bag. something i really wished I had locked in when I was newer was getting all of the basics right. work on you switch skiing. learn to set your edges properly. if you lock in your basic fundamentals, then everything will come so much easier and faster. plus your tricks will just look so much better.
What I tell people, is find inspiration or someone that you like riding style. See what they do, and have fun, for me I like pushing myself to be better. Some fun stuff I like is hand drags and safety slides where you put your hand on the rail or grab your ski. Front swaps are a good start, back swaps I found to be easier but each their own. Back2 out is a crucial trick too. If you feel comfortable try some lip ons maybe. Lots of cool tricks but just have fun and keep pushing yourself! I truly believe 90% of park skiing is confidence. Best of luck broski and post some updates here too
your rail progression is way ahead of jump progression. next tricks to learn would probably be 360 and backflip if your local has decent jumps and b2, fs on rails. but still a good bag of tricks!
Hell yea dude that's solid, as others said don't worry too much about comparing your progress to others or what you're "supposed" to be doing. It's -free- skiing after all, If you're having fun and steadily learning new stuff then you're winning.
Working on switch and unnat on smaller features early, as others have said, is excellent advice. You're also in a great spot to start learning a bunch of new tricks. If you have the f2 you can start working on blind two and front swaps, then back swaps. If you want to add more flavour to your rail game you can try lip slides, 5050s on tubes, safety slides, handdrags, etc. You can also work your way up to bigger rails and kinks/elbows etc. so you aren't confined to the flat tube.
For jumps you can start working on 3s then incorporating some grab variations once they start to feel comfy.
**This post was edited on Jan 10th 2025 at 12:10:37pm
Any skiing is a good place, and you are there. Keep at it and keep having fun. Watch clips, watch what they do and how they do it. Visualize yourself doing it, commit. Good luck and keep progressing.
if i was starting off again I'd wanna do everything both ways. Doing stuff un-nat is scary but it helps so much down the line. Learning to slide rails both ways, and F2s/B2s/Front Swaps/Back Swaps both ways open up everything
im gonna chirp in here, I'm also on year two of park skiing and can lip or reg on to any feature. b2 and f2 out of most features. switch lip and tails onto tubes. I can nugget and 50 shotgun rails and tubes. I don't have any un nat slides or swaps and can barely 360 and a mean 180 but only on small jumps. Is my progression skewed to far towards rails and not having swaps also?