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frontside (start with this) and backside, try it switch too. Combining
180s and presses gives you a tasty-sounding butter-nose roll, where
the nose of the board stays in contact with the snow.
Next, take it to the park. Most ski areas feature terrain parks
with rails, boxes, lips, gap jumps and random objects to slide on.
Get your "straight airs" dialed, then try for an indy grab—flex
your knees and grab your heelside edge before releasing and
landing. Now look for a flat box and go for a 50/50 (straight) slide.
Remember you cannot edge or turn on the box so line up your
approach carefully.
Grabs add style to any aerial trick, and there are many styles of
grab (Indy, Japan, Mute, Nose, Tail, Stalefish, Roast Beef, Two-
handed, Double, etc.). Grabs show control and are harder than
they sound.
Time to take it up a notch. Try a frontside "shifty" where you
catch air, crank the nose of the board around then straighten out
for your landing. Take this to the box and do a back boardslide,
which is basically a shifty while sliding across the box, bringing it
back to straight for the landing. Time for a "3" or 360 spin. Find an
open slope and aim for a front 360. Sick!
Stomp these 10 tricks and you will have an excellent start on
advanced snowboarding. Now go shred.
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