- Stop being so cautious in general
- Hit the jumps on Northlands dependably (20ft + )
- Start doing street-style boxes and rails
- Learn 360's
- And although this won't mean anything to anyone who doesn't know Seymour, hit Devil's Drop.
Back Lips
Backflips
Proline at Lake Louise
Comfortable turns on Double blacks rather that turn, turn stop, turn, stop, turn turn
Spin L Jumps
Dont get injured
720's
That's my end of season goal list. Not expecting to have this down fast.
Mine are to be more confident at and perfect 3's, get better at buttering and get as much riding in as possible.
Also, hit Powder Mountain in Utah while it gets slammed with powder like we did the year before last.
Lastly, get the kids out as much as possible and especially to get my 7 year old better at riding so he can start to join Dad and his 8 year old brother on our Father/Son guy trips to Copper.
We'll have to compare notes at the end of the season to see how we did
Having a consistent 360 was my goal last season that did not happen. I think it's because I have weak 180's and don't ride switch. I hate riding switch and always go for pop if I see some thing to hit. I have plenty of height directionally but if I do a 180 or 360 I barely leave the ground. I think I have skipped a necessary step and need to dial out 180's before attempting more 360's.
Small goals
Become super solid at freeriding (no edge catches, etc)
Learn rails & boxes, at least 50/50's
Grabs & 180's off kickers
No injuries
I'm basically a novice/intermediate rider, but I think these goals should be within reason, since I'll be going to the mountain every other weekend this entire season.
Some more ambitious goals would be:
Learn 360's
Learn boardslides and lipslides
Learn to spin onto (or off of) of rails & boxes
clear the knuckle on a 20 foot jump (I have a ridiculous fear of overshooting)
basic grabs
legit boardslides instead of my pathetic pivot zeaches
ollie-on (aka street-style) jibs
180 off jibs and larger jumps
3s off rollers, at least one direction
achieve equal speed when riding switch
moguls (don't ask me why) :cheeky4:
The only thing I care about at this point is making what Nivek and I are about to do with the site a huge fucking success. All I'm going to say is Youtube channel, 200 plus snowboard reviews, and Top Gear UK. You figure it out.
100+days - only 98 to go, tomorow and friday should even have a little fresh on there for a nice 4days for the first week!
not get injured - me like and concur
better 360's and 1's, I can do em, but they are shitty.
oh and well its not really a personal goal, but I do take it personally....SOME FUCKING SNOW WOULD BE NICE....its snowing now but I mean actual winter, big goal....
Get least 50 days on my board.
Go faster.
Not fall down.
Improve my toeside turns so I can do steeper stuff.
Do that beautiful line on Mt. Francis that I look at every day on the way home from work.
3's off good sized kickers
downrails....180 on/off
frontflips
Hit those wedge jumps, all you Mt High riders know what im sayin
Hit up Mammoth, Sierra-at-Tahoe and Big Bear... along with the obvious Mt High which i have a SP to
dont hurt myself.. right now I'm 0 for 2.
Goal 2: Consistently land small kickers and ollies without washing out.
Goal 3: Put 1 & 2 together and learn 180's, possibly on bigger jumps
Goal 4: De-synthesize myself from my fear of speeds >40km/h and steeps. Learn better speed control in steep areas.
I think I'm more prepared this year than last. Jump squats, lunges, calf raises, Stairmasters for 15 mins every two days... all these fancy workout routines just so I can achieve all my goals for this year.
100+ days, get my 3's and 5's off the big jumps, learn 7's, learn some advanced jibbing, front and back flips, find all the best trees in CO!! On and off mountain
This will be my 2nd "Full" season riding! (...hopefully this time there will be some Snow!!) Having said that, My goals this season are:
1. Ride somewhere,.. anywhere with POW!!
2. Ride MORE POW!! :laugh:
3. Figure out how to remain upright and still riding after getting any air off
small features. (...more than my "one inch ollie" from last year)
4. Equal speed & carving while switch! (...I can do local blues switch, top to
bottom, just not quite as fast or controlled)
5. I got forward & reverse buttering spins pretty well down before I even knew that it Was "buttering". So this season I would like to get some of the other buttering moves mastered!!
6. Spend my vacation this Jan. @ Big Sky!!! (...More POW Please!!!)
...Wow reading this now, seems like lofty goals for a 50 something "NoooB"!
Oh Yeah,... and beat my 30+ days riding from last years shitty season!!!
Praying for a better winter so I can ride more. Depending upon my fking knee maybe get back to doing spins more comfortably and ride switch a bit more. Oh and continue to charge.
- take front boards to down rails, been doing em on my skateboard so I'm ready.
- front & back lips
- clean up my 3's off larger jumps
- 5's front and back
- get more flexible so stalefish and melon grabs aren't such a pain.
- find some pow, last year kinda sucked for that... need my fix.
Bumping this, lets see where people are at with their goals. Don't forget to go after them!
- haven't ridden any rails yet so no on the first two but front boards are locked down and I'm doing 270 to front board/back lip on boxes.
- yes! My 3's are getting super clean FS & BS, no more openning up early and easily over rotating with my knees still sucked up.
- haven't tried yet, I really want to try some 5's this weekend.
- yes! stales are easy for me now.
- sadly no... I bought a house in Nov thats being built and I'm saving all my cash for it now but I will get one trip to the mountains in a few weeks - praying for pow.
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