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Offline loulouxx88

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What Tricks should I be trying as a beginner?
« on: October 05, 2011, 10:34:43 AM »
I'm new to snowboarding and got into it primarily because I am always blown away by the tricks they pull off.  AS a newbie, what should I be doing / learning first?  I'd love to be able to someday pull off some of the snowboard tricks in this video

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Re: What Tricks should I be trying as a beginner?
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2011, 09:02:03 PM »
Hi loulouxx88!

Welcome to the site first of all!

As far as starting out a freestyle career, the first thing you should learn is the fundamentals. Boring I know, but if you can lock in riding switch for a reasonable distance, and your basic ollie, it will make life easier for you in the long run. If you can ride switch for 4-5 linked turns, that will set you up great for 180's. You should be able to ride away clean from one of the easiest spin tricks in snowboarding. And ollie, you'll use that on almost every trick you learn from this point on.

Try using an ollie to jump cracks, dips, drops, etc on your local resort. Anything you can find to jump over, ollie over. There are plenty of tips on youtube on the ollie, I can't even sort them out. Almost every one of them are right, you just need to find the technique that works for you. After you learn the ollie on flat ground, you need to learn how to apply the "pop" of the ollie on a booter in the beginner park. All of us started there. And for good reason! The kicker in the beginner park is almost zero consequence. Its pretty much set up to learn how to "pop" on.

Once you get your pop off the jump right, try grabs. Grabbing your board keeps you stable in the air. Or at least thats how the judges at the x-games, and most instructors see it. From there move to spins! Just make sure you are comfortable in the air in the beginner park. That is the most important step. When people try to dial in their tricks, they will try to do them in the park below them because they are used to them. So an intermediate uses the beginner park, and the advance use the intermediate park. Some resorts have 4 parks, especially the bigger mountains. I know Stowe has 4, beginner, intermediate, advanced, and whatever. They rate them in 180, 360, 720, 900. The jumps in the 900 park at Stowe are like the jumps that you see in pro videos. Just as a referance point.

So as a break down:
Learn switch
Learn ollies
Learn grabs
Learn 180's

and so forth.

Happy learning! And please post your progression as you learn it!

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Re: What Tricks should I be trying as a beginner?
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2011, 04:43:16 PM »
That's great advice Travis!  Also I hear people say "Know your limits, but always push them."

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Re: What Tricks should I be trying as a beginner?
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2011, 09:49:21 AM »
i'm a newbie and reading this makes me want to try them all! i'll definitely take note of this! thanks man!
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