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Freestyle tricks that help general skiing technique
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

I had a great experience in UCPA Flaine when the instructor started teaching us nose press 180s (sometimes called nose butter 180s I think) as a way to improve our weight distribution for turns on steeps and bumps. It seemed to work really well.

It also worked as a way to get my son to flex his boots a bit more in general skiing. For some reason a nose press 180 sounds a lot more appealing to a 10 year old than the usual technique stuff.

Are there any other tricks that can be used in a similar way to improve general technique?
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Think bottom line is that good technique is fundamental to all freestyle - without it you're really not going to have that stable platform to launch off into stuff which deliberately makes you unstable and then successfully correct it on landing. Even the basic flatland stuff like ollies and 180s require you to be able to shift the centre of balance fore and aft to put spring into your ski or board to help spring up, and winding up into a rotation, to landing and riding out switch.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Richard_Sideways wrote:
Think bottom line is that good technique is fundamental to all freestyle - without it you're really not going to have that stable platform to launch off into stuff which deliberately makes you unstable and then successfully correct it on landing. Even the basic flatland stuff like ollies and 180s require you to be able to shift the centre of balance fore and aft to put spring into your ski or board to help spring up, and winding up into a rotation, to landing and riding out switch.
Agreed and probably explains why my 360s fail in a way other skiers find hilarious Smile
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