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👌 Nice

Great awareness, great instincts and body control to try to counter rotate to align the board.

🏡 At home / off snow


On the floor at home, get very familiar with that back arm motion for setting the axis.


Or / after: on a trampoline or diving board, practice that wildcat rotation. Really using the back arm and bringing it in front of your chest. You'll also get to practice the head movements for spotting the landing.

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❄️ When riding

Dial it back and really nail down singles. Get super comfortable, build good habits. ⤷ You’ll feel less “time dilation” and feel like there’s more time in the air for spotting that landing. ⤷ You will know how to adapt better in the air and be able to bring the same thing to doubles when you’re more ready. One mid-air thing I'd recommend keep working on is just to really bring the board into the body and get even smaller.
Doubles have much higher consequences, so we really want to have the fundamentals on lock before really starting to send doubles.

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💪 Improvements since last time

A bit more stacked on takeoff and making a big effort to pop as hard as you can off the takeoff. You are going bigger and getting more amplitude as a result (but do watch out for trees!) Awesome.

⚡️ Continue...

Remember to continue working on the timing of the downwards push of the pop and push the board into the curvature of the ramp. Boost even bigger.

Remember to avoid hunching the spine on the pop! This will help you get even more stacked.

✋ Feel, don't look

You're having a difficult time spotting the landing because your eyes are staring at the toe edge and looking for the indy grab. Feel for the grab, just like how you’d feel the pedals of your car. ⤷ Your head is free to actually look for the landing.

I suspect part of the reason why you are looking for the grab is because you are doing the "stiffy" — with the legs straight, the board is so far away and you'd need to visually aim your hand just to reach the board. ⤷ If you really think about pulling the board into your body and flexing the knees to bring in the lower legs, and not purely relying on folding at the waist, it will be much easier to get the grab and you won't need to look for it.

🤏 Get smaller

As a continuation of the previous point, flex the core and get small.

Like you mentioned, smaller means you rotate faster, giving you more time to spot the landing. This will feel like you have way more airtime. It's as you hypothesized, it's about having a bigger difference in rotational speed between "tucked mode" and "opened up mode". And the faster you can react and transition into either mode, the more adaptive & precise your flip will be. AKA the faster you can get small, the faster you can potentially flip, giving you more time to spot the landing and open up early.This is how the pros seem to be able to nail these first try and look effortless doing it.

⤷ This is how you can spot the landing earlier and actually time your opening up. You'll get that rotational control you’re looking for.

🏡 At home

Work the core muscles. Simulate the tuck & grab with tuck jumps on the floor, bringing the knees all the way up. Get the tuck motion to be as fast as possible.

❄️ On snow

Practice grabbing and just getting as small as possible while doing it. Whenever straightairing, grab. Get those reps in. Feel the grab, don't look!

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👍 Hell yeah

You are riding in with intent and commitment. Especially when learning to go upside down, the mental game is so important. Good stuff.

🏡 Try at home

Practice the motion of the hips and feel the timing. Get comfortable with the feeling of using the hips generate flip. You're already somewhat doing it, let's nail down the follow through.

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💭 What to think about when riding


- More stacked on takeoff: push the hips a little more towards your toe side. (Careful not to overcorrect.) Your hips should be directly above the middle of the board.

- Pop instead of letting the jump kick you.
- When popping, think about “pushing the board down into the jump and flattening the feet”. Remember that your pop starts well before you reach the lip

- Aim to pop as hard as you can everywhere. This practice trains your body to read and time the lip, adapting over time. When flipping, this gives you the instinctual understanding of the interplay between pop timing / amount & your rate of flipping.

- Push with the hips to flip, not the head.

- Really crane the neck midair to spot the landing earlier.


- Eyes forward till you are fully off the lip.

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🦛 All in the hips!

All the points below are centred around hip positioning!

🏡 Try at home

Try and feel the difference in your ability to rotate the upper body when stacked vs hips folded. You’ll see that you’ll have a much easier time with the former position. Stand on the floor in your riding stance and simulate being stacked over the board vs having a fold at the waist when standing. To simulate folding at the waist AKA “sitting down” over the edge of the board, just bend forward when you are standing (since you don't have the centrifugal force of a carve to maintain the dynamic balance in that position).

💭 To focus on when riding


1. Look towards the corner of the jump instead of straight off the lip. This is a trick to help with timing the opening / rotation of the shoulders, getting the hips over the board, and reducing edge angle. 2. Actively check your hip position relative to your heel edge.

3. On the setup carve, your first toe side turn is going to determine your heel side takeoff carve. Get your toe side carve to be way less aggressive and your heel side carve will mirror it.

4. On approach to the jump, get your hips over the board from the get go. Stand up a bit taller, think “do less”, keep the knees loose.

🎯 Target indicators


- Hip position: is it over the board? Even on the run in?

- Setup carve: is your toe side carve super chill?

- Edge angle: is it as subtle as possible while maintaining grip?

- Upper body mobility: do you feel free to spin the upper body?

- Pop & ease of grab: do you feel like your legs are free to retract and extend?

- Travel: how much lateral travel is there in the air?

Continue the progress with your next session here.