Mine would be nervous, I wanted to go last season but the snow came so late.. this year it should be better.. but being a newbie I feel like I will be sticking out falling so many times.. I want to take lessons for sure.
I only started boarding in Febuary and to start with, my progression was through the roof... Then it happened!
I was learning 180's and it was all going well until I messed up my set-up...
My board ended up in front of me like I was doing 1/4 of a back flip and I landed on the knuckle on my side braking 3 ribs...
Since then, I am having a hellish time to make my 180's and have been pulling out like doing a massive fakie!
I have nightmares of an arid desert winter and a tumbleweed blows by...
i'm standing there holding my board and a tear drops from my eye like
that old "don't litter" indian commercial.
I haven't had a serious wipe out in nearly ten years. So now I'm totally paranoid. Just talking about it makes me feel jinxed. I love to high-speed bomb it downhill...but since my foot surgery, I'm kind of freaked about over-doing it, so I hold back. I am fucking old (54), and one good fall could be the end of my riding. But I still hit up the diamonds at Kirkwood and Jay Peak. I just don't get much air anymore.
I've already blown my knee and broke a wrist. Neither of them snowboarding, but skateboarding...... so i guess that's where my biggest limitations come from. The fear of re-blowing that knee is what makes me set my own limits.
Anybody have advice for flips? I want to learn how to be comfortable with flips. (rodeo/trampoline-style backflip)
I can land about 3/4 backflips when practicing on a tramp, but I know I don't naturally tuck on the trampoline, which I was told you always have to do on a board.
When on a board, I think I could get the rotation of the flip. Except, I don't know how I'd do with adjusting for the angle of the landing. What I mean is... I feel like I'd be flipping at the angle of the jump itself, while not being able to position myself in the air for the landing.
I'm planning on doing a lot of airbag practice this season before I balls up and commit to a real flip. But... an airbag is a flat 90 degree landing... not a 40 degree or whatever landing from a jump.
Does this adjustment come naturally? Or do you have to practice to make up for that extra leveling-out rotation?
I have a second idea. I have a friend who is big into moto X, and he said he'd loan me a neck brace and helmet from his moto x suit if I were to start flipping.
Will this save my neck if I land head down on a groomed run?
This would really make me feel invincible if I had that along with me.
hell no bro....just wait till we get a nice amount of snow, find a hill, grab your shovel and some friends and pile up a shit load of snow and build a jump....
spend the day workin' on the timing and stuff there then take it to the resort...
you'll be glad you did, it'll give you better understanding and the basic skills to try it without a pow landing.
you're young and think you're invincible.....but you're not
just cuz you have a neck brace and a helmet doesn't mean another part of your body couldn't get thrashed. Not tryin' to scare you, just want you to be safe and progress the SMART way.
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