Aramail

This is my first real season snowboarding. I bought a season pass and haven't looked back. The first day I could barely link turns, and now I'm bombing black diamonds and popping clean little indy's and nosegrab's. I try to focus on just having a good time while snowboarding, smoke a lot of weed, hang out and bs with the buddies, not take it to serious. However, I've started to plateua a little and need some advice:

I can do FS 180's off of the corners of spines or natural features, but I cant BS 180 for the life of me. It feels awkward and I have trouble even making my body commit to it.

I ride single black diamonds easily, but am still a little intimidated by the double black diamonds.

I can hit boxes/rails strait, but I want to learn to hit them with body/board spinning keeping your momentum forward. I've done it on accident a few times, but cant seem to do it on purpose.

If I ride onto a box 50-50, I can kick off my tail and do a nose slide, but I cant ollie right into a noseslide for somereason.

And 360's are impossible for some reason. My board is a little long (159) but I just cant get it to spin at any sort of reasonable pace.

The only mountain I ride is Bear Mtn in southern california, how much harder are the runs at mammoth/tahoe?

Any advice is appreciated, thanks.

PaoloSmythe

starting to plateau?

it sounds to me like you have plenty of 'ambition projects' to carry on working on!

as for committing your body to a backside..... your body will never go where your mind cannot first imagine.

VISUALISE!

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Snowolf

Learning plataues are something we all face. This month`s AASI newsletter has an entire article about the "intermediate Plataue" Basically it is something you just work through. Do not stress too much and just ride. Keep trying to do the new maneuvers but don`t get overly frustrated that you feel that your are not improving fast enough. It will come and you will have breakthrough moments.

As for the BS 180, mechanically, they are easier because in a BS 180, you naturally close your upper body to spin. What screws people up is the turning your back down the hill as you pop off the ground. It is just counter intuitive. To help with this, try finding some little ridges or bumps that run down the slope. Traverse more across the slope on your toe edge and as you hit these features, do the BS 180. What this does is it takes away that freaky feeling of being pointed down the run and turning your back downhill. Now you feel as though you are turning uphill and you land switch on your heel edge, traversing the slope.

Also, you can try going into these switch and then landing regular; for some people this is easier. I don`t find it so personaly, but everyone is different and a lot of people report it to be easier. Just keep at it and you will get across this plataue!

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PaoloSmythe

i like the freaky feeling!

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Snowolf

I felt pretty freaky last week after slamming down 3 Ice Ax ales then going riding.... I crashed once and don`t even remember exactly why or how...

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Aramail

intoxication and snowboarding is fun, though my weapon of choice is herb not brew. Ill have to drink a couple before I go riding again

joeydzzle

my friend has the custom brews so when we ride with him we can pop the top of our bottles off with his bindings.

for your 360s. try widening ur stance if you think ur board is a little long. I seems to have a faster spin when i widen my stance