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A great way to improve your toeside carving contro

A great way to improve your toeside carving control and balance is to challenge yourself to jump out of a toeside carve, do a frontside 180, and land in another toeside carve.

1. Warm up with drills from our videos on carving and 180s.
3. On flat ground jump off your toes, and try to land on your toes. You can still use your ankle joint to absorb the landing, but if you flex them too much you’ll land flat instead of on your toes.
4. On some gentle green terrain, drop into the fall line to pick up a little speed, and then do a toeside carve across the hill. Flex your ankles, knees, and hips, and jump. Just like with other 180s we’ve practiced, rotate your shoulders open towards the nose, and then as you pop bring the board around by tightening your core.
5. As you land switch, put the toes down first, and lock into a switch toeside carve, flexing your knees and hips to absorb. Make sure you’re getting the 180 all the way around though, as under-rotating and landing on your toes will catch the edge.
6. In a carve, we’re relying on the forces generated through your momentum and edge angle to hold your body up. As you get more comfortable, more speed and more pop will make them easier.
7. Once you’ve got them on lock forward to switch, try them switch to forward, and then start linking them together!

Save this post so you can watch it while you’re out riding! Let me know if you’re having trouble with bumps and DM a video if you want feedback. Comment below what other trick tips you’d like us to add, and tag your friends!

#snowpros #tricktiptuesday #carving

Trick Tip Tuesday continues through the summer! Ch

Trick Tip Tuesday continues through the summer! Check out this compilation of our tricks and tips from the past winter! You can find the full videos on YouTube (link in bio) and also at each of our Instagram pages.
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Typical closing weekend shenanigans ❤️

Typical closing weekend shenanigans ❤️

Rule #1 (as explained by Sophie): if Emma hits a j

Rule #1 (as explained by Sophie): if Emma hits a jump and lands, then she can try it too.

Rule #2: we jump over as many trees as we can

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Dropping into last-day-of-March pow. What will Apr

Dropping into last-day-of-March pow. What will April bring?

We can use the skills from previous trick tips to

We can use the skills from previous trick tips to learn aired 360s over rollers!

Make sure you’re dialed with the rotation and pop from the ollie 180 video. The carved heel edge takeoff is key for creating a platform to pop, and will be important in later videos as we start taking these off jumps.

1. Warm up with frontside 180s. From a toeside carve, roll to the heels, and then pop a frontside 180 off the tail.

2. Our next step is a frontside 270, landing on the toe edge and sliding out to a 360. This requires more rotational energy, so we want to pre-wind our shoulders the opposite direction of the spin. Rapidly unwind, turning your head to look over your lead shoulder in the direction of the spin as you pop. The timing of your rotational movements with your pop is key, and may take a few tries.

3. As you unwind and pop, tighten your core and pull your knees up. Then extend your legs to land, flexing to absorb the landing. Really focus on keeping your shoulders level with the terrain.

4. Landing on the toes to feather and lock into a landing is an important skill for many tricks. The key is to use your ankle joint (in addition to your knees and hips) to absorb while continuing to pivot the snowboard around to finish the spin. Then quickly increase your edge angle to stop rotation. This should give you confidence about your ability to land even if you under-rotate your spin, and is also the skill you’ll use to lock spins in and stop the rotation.

5. Now you’re ready to take it to a 360. Find a small roller that will give you some extra air time. It’s important to time the rotation and the pop as you hit the apex of the roller. Add a little more energy to your prewind, unwind, and pop and then pull your hips and legs all the way around. Land on the toe edge and lock the edge into the snow to stop your rotation! Explore different rollers and side hits, and cat-tracks to develop comfort and skills with your spins!

Save this post so you can watch it when you’re out working on your 360s. Let us know how your 360s are coming along, and comment below with other trick tips you’d like is to film. Tag your friends that want to get better!

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The backside boardslide is usually the first board

The backside boardslide is usually the first boardslide snowboarders will learn. Once you’re comfortable with 50-50s (a straight slide over a box), the backside boardslide is a great next trick to learn. With our first backside boardslides, we’ll start in a 50-50 and then pivot our board sideways into a boardslide. Once we’re comfortable with that move we can start jumping directly into a boardslide.

Step 1: On flat ground try sliding the snowboard underneath your body. Do your best to keep your upper body still and use your legs to pivot the board underneath you. You should feel the twist in your core as your hips move with your legs to approach 90 degrees separation from your shoulders.

Step 2: Next, we’ll do this same movement while sliding on snow. Drop in straight like you’re going to ride right over a box, and then use your legs to turn the snowboard underneath you. Focus on keeping a very light heelside edge in the snow. We don’t want our toe edge to catch in the snow, but we also don’t want to slip out over our heels when we get on a box.

Step 3: In the park, warm up with a couple of 50-50s and make sure you’re comfortable with your speed and the way the box is sliding. You want to feel totally balanced on the box with equal weight on both feet and with a totally flat board. When you’re ready, approach the box just like you do for your 50-50. On the box, look ahead and keep your lead shoulder pointed at the end of the box while sliding the board sideways underneath your upper body. Unlike the on-snow warm-up you can’t use your heelside edge here. Keep the board flat and pull your legs underneath your upper body to start bringing the board sideways.

Step 4: As you get comfortable with pivoting on the box, you can add a hop at takeoff to land on the box in a boardslide. The key is landing with a totally flat board and weight equally balanced between both feet. You can also practice this outside of the park before bringing it to a box.

Once you have the backside boardslide mastered on a box, you’re ready to take it to other features! Just like with the box, it is helpful to get 50-50s dialed on any box or rail before trying a boardslide on it!

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A great way to improve your toeside carving control and balance is to challenge yourself to jump out of a toeside carve, do a frontside 180, and land in another toeside carve.

1. Warm up with drills from our videos on carving and 180s.
2. On flat ground jump off your toes, and try to land on your toes. You can still use your ankle joint to absorb the landing, but if you flex them too much you’ll land flat instead of on your toes.
3. On some gentle green terrain, drop into the fall line to pick up a little speed, and then do a toeside carve across the hill. Flex your ankles, knees, and hips, and jump. Just like with other 180s we’ve practiced, rotate your shoulders open towards the nose, and then as you pop bring the board around by tightening your core.
4. As you land switch, put the toes down first, and lock into a switch toeside carve, flexing your knees and hips to absorb. Make sure you’re getting the 180 all the way around though, as under-rotating and landing on your toes will catch the edge.
5. In a carve, we’re relying on the forces generated through your momentum and edge angle to hold your body up. As you get more comfortable, more speed and more pop will make them easier.
6. Once you’ve got them on lock forward to switch, try them switch to forward, and then start linking them together!

Save this post so you can watch it while you’re out riding! Let me know if you’re having trouble with bumps and DM a video if you want feedback. Comment below what other trick tips you’d like us to add, and tag your friends!

#snowpros #tricktiptuesday #carving

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One of our most received requests for tips has been around how to ride and survive bumps and moguls. The key to better bump riding is independent flex and extension in your front and back legs. With a little work on flexion and extension to absorb, you can quickly improve your bump riding!

1. Start with your board off and laying next to you. Step over the board by pulling your front leg up, over, and down, followed by your back leg.
2. Now try this same movement with your board on in the flats. This is similar to an ollie, but your goal isn’t to pop, it’s to move your legs independently.
3. Try again with a little movement. You’re focusing on bringing the nose off the ground, setting it back down as you bring the tail off the ground. Again, it’s not about popping, but training the skill of moving your legs independently. This skill will help us absorb.
4. Look for some small bumps on the side of a run you can roll over. Practice this same movement, timing the flex and extension with riding over the bump. Keep your shoulders and hips lined up over the snowboard to allow your knees and hips to fully flex and absorb.
5. When you’re feeling comfortable with the movement, take it into some bumps in a traverse. Feel how you’re able to flex and extend to absorb the bumps and roll over them.
6. As you develop skill with timing your flex and extension to absorb the bumps, you’ll find you can begin working on turning between the bumps. We’ll focus on that in a future video!

Save this post so you can watch it while you’re out riding! Let me know if you’re having trouble with bumps and DM a video if you want feedback. Comment below what other trick tips you’d like us to add, and tag your friends!

#bumps #snowboard #tricktip #moguls

Intro to Bumps - Snowboard Trick Tip

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This trick uses skills we’ve previously worked on in presses, 180s, and 360s (watch those videos for a refresh). We’ll start with a frontside 180 into a press, followed by a switch backside 180 out.

Because this takes off and lands twice with a rotation, descriptions can get a little confusing. I’ll be using your forward direction stance and the true nose of the board.

1. You’re going to start with a basic frontside 180, but rather than landing stacked over the board, focus on landing with weight over your nose by flexing that ankle, knee, and hip more. Notice the difference in this video between landing a standard 180 and riding out switch compared to landing in a press with weight over the front foot.

2. When you feel comfortable with the spin and landing in a press, add more spin to the takeoff. This should feel very similar to the 360 over a roller we worked on a few weeks ago.

3. Land in the press and allow your upper body to continue rotating past the 180. Watch how my shoulders and arms continue the rotation while my eyes stay locked on to a point just up hill from the nose stalling the rotation.

4. As your shoulders come around towards the 360 rotation, you should feel tension in your core. This is your cue to pull up on your back foot and extend off your lead leg, popping off the nose.

5. When your board leaves the snow, use that core tension to unwind and allow the snowboard to spin back into alignment with your shoulders.

6. Flex your ankles, knees, and hips to land and lock in on the toe edge just like we practiced with 360s.

You can play with these on flat ground, but where they really get fun is timing them of small rollers and side hits!

Save this post so you can watch it when you’re out riding. Let us know how yours are coming along and tag us in videos if you want feedback!

Frontside 360 Nose Butter / 180 Press 180 Out Snowboarding Trick Tip

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In my last video we worked on airing 360s over rollers. Today we’re going to take those same movements to jumps!

Make sure you’re dialed with the rotation and pop from the ollie 180 video. The carved heel edge takeoff is key for creating a platform to pop, and will be important in later videos as we start taking these off jumps.

1. Warm up with frontside 180s. From a toeside carve, roll to the heels, and then pop a frontside 180 off the tail.

2. Our next step is a frontside 270, landing on the toe edge and sliding out to a 360. This requires more rotational energy, so we want to pre-wind our shoulders the opposite direction of the spin. Rapidly unwind, turning your head to look over your lead shoulder in the direction of the spin as you pop. The timing of your rotational movements with your pop is key, and may take a few tries.

3. As you unwind and pop, tighten your core and pull your knees up. Then extend your legs to land, flexing to absorb the landing. Really focus on keeping your shoulders level with the terrain.

4. Landing on the toes to feather and lock into a landing is an important skill for many tricks. The key is to use your ankle joint (in addition to your knees and hips) to absorb while continuing to pivot the snowboard around to finish the spin. Then quickly increase your edge angle to stop rotation. This should give you confidence about your ability to land even if you under-rotate your spin, and is also the skill you’ll use to lock spins in and stop the rotation.

5. Now you’re ready to take it to a 360. Find a small roller that will give you some extra air time. It’s important to time the rotation and the pop as you hit the apex of the roller. Add a little more energy to your prewind, unwind, and pop and then pull your hips and legs all the way around. Land on the toe edge and lock the edge into the snow to stop your rotation! Explore different rollers and side hits, and cat-tracks to develop comfort and skills with your spins!

Save this post so you can watch it when you’re out working on your 360s. Let us know how your 360s are coming along, and comment below with other trick tips you’d like is to film. Tag your friends that want to get better!

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Learn Frontside 360s Over Jumps on your Snowboard

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We can use the skills from previous trick tips to learn aired 360s over rollers!

Make sure you’re dialed with the rotation and pop from the ollie 180 video. The carved heel edge takeoff is key for creating a platform to pop, and will be important in later videos as we start taking these off jumps.

1. Warm up with frontside 180s. From a toeside carve, roll to the heels, and then pop a frontside 180 off the tail.

2. Our next step is a frontside 270, landing on the toe edge and sliding out to a 360. This requires more rotational energy, so we want to pre-wind our shoulders the opposite direction of the spin. Rapidly unwind, turning your head to look over your lead shoulder in the direction of the spin as you pop. The timing of your rotational movements with your pop is key, and may take a few tries.

3. As you unwind and pop, tighten your core and pull your knees up. Then extend your legs to land, flexing to absorb the landing. Really focus on keeping your shoulders level with the terrain.

4. Landing on the toes to feather and lock into a landing is an important skill for many tricks. The key is to use your ankle joint (in addition to your knees and hips) to absorb while continuing to pivot the snowboard around to finish the spin. Then quickly increase your edge angle to stop rotation. This should give you confidence about your ability to land even if you under-rotate your spin, and is also the skill you’ll use to lock spins in and stop the rotation.

5. Now you’re ready to take it to a 360. Find a small roller that will give you some extra air time. It’s important to time the rotation and the pop as you hit the apex of the roller. Add a little more energy to your prewind, unwind, and pop and then pull your hips and legs all the way around. Land on the toe edge and lock the edge into the snow to stop your rotation! Explore different rollers and side hits, and cat-tracks to develop comfort and skills with your spins!

Save this post so you can watch it when you’re out working on your 360s. Let us know how your 360s are coming along, and comment below with other trick tips you’d like is to film. Tag your friends that want to get better!

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Learn a Frontside 360 Over a Roller on your Snowboard

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The backside boardslide is usually the first boardslide snowboarders will learn. Once you’re comfortable with 50-50s (a straight slide over a box), the backside boardslide is a great next trick to learn. With our first backside boardslides, we’ll start in a 50-50 and then pivot our board sideways into a boardslide. Once we’re comfortable with that move we can start jumping directly into a boardslide.

Step 1: On flat ground try sliding the snowboard underneath your body. Do your best to keep your upper body still and use your legs to pivot the board underneath you. You should feel the twist in your core as your hips move with your legs to approach 90 degrees separation from your shoulders.

Step 2: Next, we’ll do this same movement while sliding on snow. Drop in straight like you’re going to ride right over a box, and then use your legs to turn the snowboard underneath you. Focus on keeping a very light heelside edge in the snow. We don’t want our toe edge to catch in the snow, but we also don’t want to slip out over our heels when we get on a box.

Step 3: In the park, warm up with a couple of 50-50s and make sure you’re comfortable with your speed and the way the box is sliding. You want to feel totally balanced on the box with equal weight on both feet and with a totally flat board. When you’re ready, approach the box just like you do for your 50-50. On the box, look ahead and keep your lead shoulder pointed at the end of the box while sliding the board sideways underneath your upper body. Unlike the on-snow warm-up you can’t use your heelside edge here. Keep the board flat and pull your legs underneath your upper body to start bringing the board sideways.

Step 4: As you get comfortable with pivoting on the box, you can add a hop at takeoff to land on the box in a boardslide. The key is landing with a totally flat board and weight equally balanced between both feet. You can also practice this outside of the park before bringing it to a box.

Once you have the backside boardslide mastered on a box, you’re ready to take it to other features! Just like with the box, it is helpful to get 50-50s dialed on any box or rail before trying a boardslide on it!

#snowboardlesson #snowboarding #snowboard #boardslide #tricktip #improve #snow #tricktip

Learn How to Backside Boardslide on a Snowboard

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Everyone loves a clean toeside eurocarve, and this has been one of the most requested videos since we started posting trick tips!

Before trying these, it’s vital that you understand how to carve (check our videos for help there)!

1. In a flat area, lie down on your toe edge, and feel how you can reduce the tilt of the snowboard by flexing your ankles. Find the maximum amount of tilt you can use before your toes hit the snow. This is the position you’ll be in during a toeside eurocarve.

2. The secret to the toeside eurocarve is the finish of the heelside turn. You need to be extending your legs as you steer the carve across the fall line on your heelside. Quickly flex down, dropping your center of mass towards the board before rolling over to the toe edge. This is important, as we want to be on our toes in a flexed position while it’s still the downhill edge!

3. Now that you’re starting your toeside carve with your body on the snow, you want to extend your knees and hips, pushing your body away from your board while keeping the toe edge locked in the carve. Again, fine tune the board’s tilt through ankle flexion. For the first few tries, we’re going to focus on getting into the carve. Don’t worry about standing back up. This should be done at low speed until you get the feel of it.

4. Extending through the turn generates forces pushing your body back towards the snowboard. To stand back up at the finish, the key is to collapse your ankle, knee, and hip joints at the right time, allowing those forces to push you up and over the board.

5. Begin adding more speed. Speed increases the amount of forces you’re dealing with, so you’ll find it easier to hold yourself up through the carve and easier to stand back up at the end.

There is no one way to eurocarve! You can experiment with different body angles and hand placement, or try putting two hands on the snow. You can also explore different terrain like rollers and banked walls!

Save this post and let me know if you’re having trouble with your eurocarves! Tag or DM a video if you want feedback. Comment below what other trick tips you’d like us to add, and share with your friends!

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One of our most received requests for tips has been around how to ride and survive bumps and moguls. The key to better bump riding is independent flex and extension in your front and back legs. With a little work on flexion and extension to absorb, you can quickly improve your bump riding!1. Start with your board off and laying next to you. Step over the board by pulling your front leg up, over, and down, followed by your back leg. 2. Now try this same movement with your board on in the flats. This is similar to an ollie, but your goal isn’t to pop, it’s to move your legs independently. 3. Try again with a little movement. You’re focusing on bringing the nose off the ground, setting it back down as you bring the tail off the ground. Again, it’s not about popping, but training the skill of moving your legs independently. This skill will help us absorb.4. Look for some small bumps on the side of a run you can roll over. Practice this same movement, timing the flex and extension with riding over the bump. Keep your shoulders and hips lined up over the snowboard to allow your knees and hips to fully flex and absorb.5. When you’re feeling comfortable with the movement, take it into some bumps in a traverse. Feel how you’re able to flex and extend to absorb the bumps and roll over them. 6. As you develop skill with timing your flex and extension to absorb the bumps, you’ll find you can begin working on turning between the bumps. We’ll focus on that in a future video!Save this post so you can watch it while you’re out riding! Let me know if you’re having trouble with bumps and DM a video if you want feedback. Comment below what other trick tips you’d like us to add, and tag your friends!#snowpros #tricktiptuesday #bumps #moguls ... See MoreSee Less

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A great way to improve your toeside carving contro

A great way to improve your toeside carving control and balance is to challenge yourself to jump out of a toeside carve, do a frontside 180, and land in another toeside carve.

1. Warm up with drills from our videos on carving and 180s.
3. On flat ground jump off your toes, and try to land on your toes. You can still use your ankle joint to absorb the landing, but if you flex them too much you’ll land flat instead of on your toes.
4. On some gentle green terrain, drop into the fall line to pick up a little speed, and then do a toeside carve across the hill. Flex your ankles, knees, and hips, and jump. Just like with other 180s we’ve practiced, rotate your shoulders open towards the nose, and then as you pop bring the board around by tightening your core.
5. As you land switch, put the toes down first, and lock into a switch toeside carve, flexing your knees and hips to absorb. Make sure you’re getting the 180 all the way around though, as under-rotating and landing on your toes will catch the edge.
6. In a carve, we’re relying on the forces generated through your momentum and edge angle to hold your body up. As you get more comfortable, more speed and more pop will make them easier.
7. Once you’ve got them on lock forward to switch, try them switch to forward, and then start linking them together!

Save this post so you can watch it while you’re out riding! Let me know if you’re having trouble with bumps and DM a video if you want feedback. Comment below what other trick tips you’d like us to add, and tag your friends!

#snowpros #tricktiptuesday #carving

Trick Tip Tuesday continues through the summer! Ch

Trick Tip Tuesday continues through the summer! Check out this compilation of our tricks and tips from the past winter! You can find the full videos on YouTube (link in bio) and also at each of our Instagram pages.
@slippery_slopes
@lyndseysnowboards
@livewntr
@tmacri1

Typical closing weekend shenanigans ❤️

Typical closing weekend shenanigans ❤️

Rule #1 (as explained by Sophie): if Emma hits a j

Rule #1 (as explained by Sophie): if Emma hits a jump and lands, then she can try it too.

Rule #2: we jump over as many trees as we can

📸: @christelle_rm

#vail #snowboardlessons #kidscansnowboard #ridingisthereason

Dropping into last-day-of-March pow. What will Apr

Dropping into last-day-of-March pow. What will April bring?

We can use the skills from previous trick tips to

We can use the skills from previous trick tips to learn aired 360s over rollers!

Make sure you’re dialed with the rotation and pop from the ollie 180 video. The carved heel edge takeoff is key for creating a platform to pop, and will be important in later videos as we start taking these off jumps.

1. Warm up with frontside 180s. From a toeside carve, roll to the heels, and then pop a frontside 180 off the tail.

2. Our next step is a frontside 270, landing on the toe edge and sliding out to a 360. This requires more rotational energy, so we want to pre-wind our shoulders the opposite direction of the spin. Rapidly unwind, turning your head to look over your lead shoulder in the direction of the spin as you pop. The timing of your rotational movements with your pop is key, and may take a few tries.

3. As you unwind and pop, tighten your core and pull your knees up. Then extend your legs to land, flexing to absorb the landing. Really focus on keeping your shoulders level with the terrain.

4. Landing on the toes to feather and lock into a landing is an important skill for many tricks. The key is to use your ankle joint (in addition to your knees and hips) to absorb while continuing to pivot the snowboard around to finish the spin. Then quickly increase your edge angle to stop rotation. This should give you confidence about your ability to land even if you under-rotate your spin, and is also the skill you’ll use to lock spins in and stop the rotation.

5. Now you’re ready to take it to a 360. Find a small roller that will give you some extra air time. It’s important to time the rotation and the pop as you hit the apex of the roller. Add a little more energy to your prewind, unwind, and pop and then pull your hips and legs all the way around. Land on the toe edge and lock the edge into the snow to stop your rotation! Explore different rollers and side hits, and cat-tracks to develop comfort and skills with your spins!

Save this post so you can watch it when you’re out working on your 360s. Let us know how your 360s are coming along, and comment below with other trick tips you’d like is to film. Tag your friends that want to get better!

Only a few days left to register for National Acad

Only a few days left to register for National Academy + Rider Rally.

Don’t miss out on one of the most fun events of the year!

📸: @lindaguerrettephoto

The backside boardslide is usually the first board

The backside boardslide is usually the first boardslide snowboarders will learn. Once you’re comfortable with 50-50s (a straight slide over a box), the backside boardslide is a great next trick to learn. With our first backside boardslides, we’ll start in a 50-50 and then pivot our board sideways into a boardslide. Once we’re comfortable with that move we can start jumping directly into a boardslide.

Step 1: On flat ground try sliding the snowboard underneath your body. Do your best to keep your upper body still and use your legs to pivot the board underneath you. You should feel the twist in your core as your hips move with your legs to approach 90 degrees separation from your shoulders.

Step 2: Next, we’ll do this same movement while sliding on snow. Drop in straight like you’re going to ride right over a box, and then use your legs to turn the snowboard underneath you. Focus on keeping a very light heelside edge in the snow. We don’t want our toe edge to catch in the snow, but we also don’t want to slip out over our heels when we get on a box.

Step 3: In the park, warm up with a couple of 50-50s and make sure you’re comfortable with your speed and the way the box is sliding. You want to feel totally balanced on the box with equal weight on both feet and with a totally flat board. When you’re ready, approach the box just like you do for your 50-50. On the box, look ahead and keep your lead shoulder pointed at the end of the box while sliding the board sideways underneath your upper body. Unlike the on-snow warm-up you can’t use your heelside edge here. Keep the board flat and pull your legs underneath your upper body to start bringing the board sideways.

Step 4: As you get comfortable with pivoting on the box, you can add a hop at takeoff to land on the box in a boardslide. The key is landing with a totally flat board and weight equally balanced between both feet. You can also practice this outside of the park before bringing it to a box.

Once you have the backside boardslide mastered on a box, you’re ready to take it to other features! Just like with the box, it is helpful to get 50-50s dialed on any box or rail before trying a boardslide on it!

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