tricks
LEVEL 1
MUTE The rider raises both knees, reaches their right hand over the front of their boards in front of the binding and grabs the left edge of the left board pulling both boards up toward the right side of their body. TIP: Once you have your board in hand, yank on it to really tweak it out with style.
MUTE CROSS The rider raises both knees, reaches their right hand over the front of their boards in front of the binding and grabs the left edge of the left board pulling both boards up toward the right side of their body while crossing the tips of the boards. TIP: Pull your left board up to really get a good cross.
SAFETY The rider raises both knees up toward their chest and grabs the center of the left edge of the left board under the binding with their left hand. TIP: Stay in a real tight position, try to focus on keeping your feet together, not crossed, so you are in a tight ball, don't let go.
STIFFY Rider extends both of their legs straight while grabbing the right edge of their right board in front of their binding with their right hand. TIP: Kick both legs out hard.
CROSS STIFFY Rider extends both of their legs straight while grabbing the right edge of their right skiboard in front of their binding with their left hand. TIP: Lean way over your tips to grab and tweak it toward your right side to make it look styled out.
ROCKET Rider extends both of their legs straight while grabbing the right tip of their right board with their right hand. TIP: Stretch way out over your tips and hold it as long as possible.
CROSS ROCKET The rider extends both of their legs straight while grabbing the rip of their right board with their left hand. TIP: Tweak it out toward your left side to make it look cool.
FLYING FISH The rider bends their left knee up toward their chest and extends their right leg straight while grabbing the right edge of their right board in front of the binding with their right hand. TIP: Stretch your arm out over your right board like your sitting on the floor touching your toe.
CROSS FLYING FISH The rider bends their left knee up toward their chest and extends their right leg straight while grabbing the right edge of their right board in front of the binding with their left hand. TIP: Tweak your tight leg to the left side with your arm for maximum style points.
STALE The rider extends their right leg out straight towrd the right side of their body while tucking their left leg underneath. They reach under the base of their left board to grab the center of the left edge of their left skiboard. TIP: You should be in the same position as sliding into home base.
JAPAN The rider extends their right leg out toward the right side of their body while tucking their left leg underneath. They reach their right hand behind their right leg to grab their left edge of their left board in front of the binding. TIP: It is easier to do if you are in a tighter tuck like position.
PARALLEL The rider bends both knees up toward chest, reaches over their left thigh using their right hand to grab the center of the left edge of the left board. TIP: You have to get in a tight ball to reach your arm over your thigh.
TAIL GRAB The rider bends both knees and grabs tail of their right board with their right hand keeping their boots together. TIP: Sit back and bend your knees to keep balance, keep your boards parallel to the ground.
CRITICAL The rider bends both knees and grabs left edge of the tail of their right board with their right hand while crossing their tips and pulling the tail toward their body. TIP: Rotate your upper body toward the tail you are grabbing for style and ease.
LEAN The rider arches their back toward the left side of their body and grabs the left edge of their left board with their left hand. TIP: Really the best if performed on a quarter pipe wall.
GRIND The rider approaches the left side of a handrail then jumps and turns clockwise 90 degrees so the boards land perpendicular to the length of the rail. Rider then slides the length of the rail. TIP: Make sure the rail is directly under your boots and you look at the end of the rail while sliding to help stay centered. Keep your boards both slightly angeld the same way so you are actually grinding on your up hill edges to reduce the chance of catching your downhill edges on the rail.
LEVEL 2
180 The rider hits the jump forward and rotates 180 degrees on a vertical axis and lands backwards. TIP: After yo ucan land it add different grabs for maximum respect and style.
360 LIU-KANG The rider spins 360 and grabs liu-kang from 90-270 completes the 360 to land forward. TIP: Begin the grab only after you have already started your spin.
360 JAPAN The rider spins 180, stalls the spin to grab stale then completes the 360 to land forward. TIP: You have to stop your spinning at 180 to get a good grab.
360 SAFETY The rider spins 360 while grabbing safety. TIP: Once you leave the jump, grab safety and try not to move a muscle until you are ready to land.
LIU KANG 180 The rider spins 180and once facing back up hill, extends their right leg straight and bends their left knee up toward their chest while grabbing the left edge of their left board under their binding with their left hand. TIP: First spin 180, then stop and bone out your leg toward the jump.
FAKIE 180 SAFETY The rider hits the jump fakie, spins 180 while grabbing safety. TIP: While approaching a jump fakie, scissor your feet so your back foot is on the side that you will be spinning toward. Barely wind up, just spin real slow, you will come around easily if you keep your head looking down the hill.
FAKIE 360 LIU KANG The rider hits the jump fakie and spins 360 stopping at 180 or 360 degrees to bone out a liu kang. TIP: Swing your arms in the direction you are spinning as you leave the jump and keep your head spinning until you are facing up hill again. Scissor your feet when you land for better balance and try not to drag your hands by standing up.
540 LIU KANG The rider hits the jump forward and rotates 180 degrees then kicks out a liu kang and completes the 540-degree rotation. TIP: The key is to stop at 180 to throw the liu kang, it is real hard to do it while you are rotating.
720 SAFETY The rider hits the jump forward and rotates 720 degrees while grabbing safety and lands forward. TIP: Keep your head spinning, your body will follow, when you are ready to stop spinning, open your arms and legs.
FRONT FLIP SAFETY The rider hits the jump forward and performs a 360-degree forward flip becoming inverted and lands forward. TIP: First do flips without the grab and tuck your head real hard and wing your arms down, make sure you are in the air before flipping.
BACK FLIP The rider hits the jump forward and performs a 360-degree backward flip becoming inverted and lands forward. TIP: Swing your arms upward as you leave the ground and keep your head looking back until you are right side up again.
BACKSLIDE The rider approaches the rail from the left side and jumps 90 degrees clockwise to land onto the rail with their right foot only. The rider slides the rail on their right foot only while bending their left leg and grabbing their left edge of their left board with their left hand. TIP: Be very gentle when landing on the land with one foot, keep your right leg flexed to help balance.
FRONTSLIDE The rider approaches the rail from the left side and jumps 90 degrees clockwise to land onto the rail with their left foot only. The rider slides the rail on their left foot only while bending their right leg and grabbing their right edge of their right board with their right hand. TIP: Keep your board slightly angled so you are only grinding on your uphill edge to keep from catching an edge.
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