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WNTR Ski & Snowboard Training: Snowsports instruction, adventures, and life on snow!

We can use the skills from our video on Ollies to style out a frontside 180!

First, make sure you have your Ollie on lock. You should also be comfortable with basic switch riding before working on 180s. Rewatch the Ollie video, and make sure you’re dialed with the movement over the tail to spring into the air. On flat terrain, warm up with a couple of ollies, popping into the air and landing flat with both feet.

1. For the 180, we’re going to add rotation from the shoulders and then hips. The timing of this movement is key! The movement begins just like an Ollie, flexing down and shifting towards the tail. However, when you begin to extend and spring off the tail, you’ll also start rotating your chest towards the board’s nose (counter clockwise for regular riders, clockwise for goofy riders). Think about bringing your rear hand to the nose of the board - when you land the 180 that will now be your front hand riding switch.

2. The moment you reach full extension you need to tighten your core (imagine getting punched in the stomach) and pull your hips back into alignment with your shoulders. You can also think about pulling your rear knee and foot around to your shoulder with your hips.

3. Just like with the Ollie, as you pop into the air, pull your knees up to bring the board further off the snow. Extend your legs to land with both feet simultaneously, flexing to absorb the landing. Really focus on maintaining a parallel relationship between your shoulders and the terrain.

4. Once you’re feeling comfortable with the timing of the pop and rotation, it’s time to take it down a gentle slope. The big difference is when you land you’ll now be sliding switch. Flex down as you land and commit to riding it out switch with equal flexion in your front and rear knees and ankles!

Experiment with your Ollie 180s by timing them off bumps, rollers, cat-tracks, and other terrain features!

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Learning to steer your snowboard with your lead knee is a crucial step to smoother turns and more efficient riding! If you’re looking for one tip to help unlock the whole mountain, this is it! <br /><br />1. With your board off, draw a boot-sized C in the snow (goofy riders, draw a backwards C). Step on the C with your lead foot and trace the shape. <br /><br />2. Drive your knee over your toes by allowing your ankle to flex, collapsing the ankle. You should feel your shin pushing into the tongue of your boot and pressure on your toes. Move your knee out to pressure the outside of your boot, and then flex back to move pressure to the heels. <br /><br />3. Repeat this in reverse: roll your knee out to the edge of the boot and then across to the toes, collapsing your ankle again to press the top of the C.<br /><br />4. Now in a fresh patch of snow, see if you can leave a C-shaped mark just using your boot!<br /><br />5. Time to try this movement on some green terrain! From the toe edge, with your knee over the toes and the ankle collapsed, drive your lead knee towards the nose and feel the pressure on your foot move from the toes to the outside of your foot. As you make this move with the knee, look where you want to go, and allow the snowboard to steer into the fall-line. Roll back to the heels just like you practiced.<br /><br />6. From the heels, roll the knee out towards the nose, and then forward to the toes collapsing the ankle. Look across the hill, and gently reach your lead hand over the toe edge as you allow the board to pivot across to finish the turn.<br /><br />7. Now link them together, keep the focus on driving the front knee through the turn. As you get comfortable with this movement you’ll find the snowboard is doing the work for you! <br /><br />Front knee steering unlocks snowboarding, minimizing the amount of movement it takes to steer the snowboard, and allowing for efficient turns that will keep you riding all day long! As you explore the movement, you’ll find it will improve your riding in steeps, bumps, and trees too!<br /><br />If you like this post, hit Save so you can watch it next time you’re out riding. Comment below what other trick tips you’d like is to film, and tag your friends that want to get better!<br /><br />#snowboard #snowboarding #adventure #explore #findyouradventure #liveoutdoors #winter #snow #welcometowinter #burton #burtonsnowboards #anonoptics #hestragloves #purlwax #phoozy #getspot #wherewillsnowboardingtakeyou #lifelonglearning #creatingadventures #snowboardinstructor #skiinstructor #snowboardlessons #creatingadventures #wntr #snowpros #ridingisthereason #tricktip #snowboardtricktip #sbtricktip #tricktiptuesday #snow

For this spin combo we’ll be using upper/lower body separation and spinning a flatland frontside 180 followed by a switch “bad ollie” and a switch backside 180.

1. Warm up by spinning some flatland frontside 180s using upper body rotation to start and scissoring your legs to bring the 180 around. Then put it together with a switch backside 180 to complete the sequence into a 360.
2. Next, work on your switch “bad ollie.” In our ollie trick tip we worked on landing with a clean two-footed landing. For a “bad ollie,” you want to take off on from the tail like normal, but land on the nose. This move is essential to giving the full trick it’s stalled out late switch backside 180 style.
3. Now put them together. It helps to sequence them out for your first couple of tries. Rotate the frontside 180 with you upper body, scissor the legs around to switch, pop the switch bad ollie, and then complete the trick with the switch backside 180.
4. Now that you have the framework for the whole trick, start adjusting the timing of the movements to blend them together. Use the upper body rotation to start the spin, but also to get your shoulders ready for the switch bad ollie.
5. As the board comes around through the first 180 you should already be starting the movements for your switch ollie.
6. Continue the rotation of your shoulders through the bad ollie so that by the time the nose is hitting the snow to land the switch bad ollie your shoulders are already halfway through the second 180.
7. Scissor your legs to finish out the switch backside 180 and come back into alignment to finish the trick as a full 360.

Flatland spins, butters, and jumps are a great way to practice edge control, balance, and spin awareness. You can combo all sorts of other movements into and out of this basic trick to put your own style on it!

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A tripod is a fun flatland move to add to your bag of tricks. <br /><br />For this variation of the tripod, we’ll be turning toeside and flexing over the nose of the snowboard. Most directional snowboards have softer noses, and as a result, this tripod can be easier to learn.<br /><br />1. Warm up by moving over the nose and tail of your snowboard. Hit up our videos on nose presses and tail presses for some drills to start with. <br />2. On flat ground, flex your front ankle, knee and hip, and lean over the nose of your snowboard. Put your hands on either side of the snowboard and tighten your core like you’re doing a pushup while you lift the tail off the snow. The balance gets easier when you’re moving, but trying this on flat ground will give you an idea of the arm and core strength necessary to hold a tripod.<br />3. On some gentle, groomed terrain, make a toeside turn all the way back up the hill. Just as you’re about to stop, go into the tripod just like you practiced. As gravity takes hold, allow the snowboard to start to slide down the hill, dragging your hands in the snow.<br />4. To get out of the tripod, pull your rear knee back towards your chest, bringing the toe edge back into contact with the snow. Straighten out the board and stand up to keep moving. <br />5. Once you’re comfortable with the movement of getting into the tripod, you can make the turn smaller and smaller until you’re turning and popping up into the tripod. Explore flex and extension of your legs to change where your tripod is sliding!<br /><br />One last pro-tip: Note how I tuck my chin so that I can still look downhill while in the tripod!<br /><br />There are many variations of tripods, as well as ways to get in and out of tripods. Try them over your tail, or try spins or butters into or out of the tripod to increase your repertoire!<br /><br />If you like this post, hit Save so you can watch it next time you’re out riding. Comment below what other trick tips you’d like is to film, and tag your friends that want to get better!

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