Hacky sack for eye-foot coordination.. - Snowboarding Forum

seant46 · 05-08-2010, 03:59 PM

Does anyone here play hacky sack and have you seen it improve your snowboarding as far a eye-foot coordination goes? (I'm thinking it would help jibbers the most trying to grind skinny round rails)
Since i don't skate as much anymore i was thinking of some activities to do that can help me get better at shredding so i thought I'd give hacky a try.

linvillegorge · 05-08-2010, 09:33 PM

Well, I don't know, but the best hacker I ever personally knew had one eye. How he did it, I have no idea since without binocular vision your depth perception is all out of whack.

AlexS · 05-09-2010, 05:32 PM

Personally i don't see how much it could help because (at least to me) i don't see how the two are related. But hacky sack as a substitute for skating isn't close to as good, as it really only focuses on one small thing

fredericp64 · 05-09-2010, 08:53 PM

Other than slightly improving your balance (which you probably already have due to your past skating experience) I don't think it will do too much (for snowboarding).

I'd get a balance board or something like that, try to jump/reverse jump and land back on it.

In terms of improving eye-foot coordination, I'd put hacky sack in the same category as dance dance revolution lol.

05-08-2010, 03:59 PM	#1 (permalink)
seant46 Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 730	Hacky sack for eye-foot coordination.. Does anyone here play hacky sack and have you seen it improve your snowboarding as far a eye-foot coordination goes? (I'm thinking it would help jibbers the most trying to grind skinny round rails) Since i don't skate as much anymore i was thinking of some activities to do that can help me get better at shredding so i thought I'd give hacky a try.

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05-08-2010, 09:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
linvillegorge Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Evergreen, CO Posts: 4,499	Well, I don't know, but the best hacker I ever personally knew had one eye. How he did it, I have no idea since without binocular vision your depth perception is all out of whack.

05-09-2010, 05:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
AlexS Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: MICH Posts: 280	Personally i don't see how much it could help because (at least to me) i don't see how the two are related. But hacky sack as a substitute for skating isn't close to as good, as it really only focuses on one small thing

05-09-2010, 08:53 PM	#4 (permalink)
fredericp64 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: An igloo in Canada Posts: 531	Other than slightly improving your balance (which you probably already have due to your past skating experience) I don't think it will do too much (for snowboarding). I'd get a balance board or something like that, try to jump/reverse jump and land back on it. In terms of improving eye-foot coordination, I'd put hacky sack in the same category as dance dance revolution lol.