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Should I buy park skis or use my BC freeride skis to learn tricks?

 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
So, I wanna learn how to do some tricks when I'm freeriding in the backcountry. I already do small cliff drops and jumps quite comfortably, but would like to add some 360s and backflips to the mix. My idea is to start practicing in the park and on airbags. So my question is - should I buy twin tip park skis and practice with them and then transfer my skills to my freeride skis? Or should I just go with my freeride skis to the park and start practicing with them straight away? I'm asking because I can get my hans on a pair of park skis with bindings quite cheap and I'm considering buying them.

The skis I'm using for off piste and freeriding are Black Crows Atris, Animas and K2 Catamarans.

Any thoughts?
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Yep, buy them else you'll never know Very Happy

More seriously, it's always impressive when someone of high experience CAN use the "wrong" specification kit to do something that's considered out of range.

Fine ski choice you've got there anyway, but going on your own assessment the park ski would likely help in specifically learning within that arena.

I'd see the fundamental difference of park ski v your existing as having more ideal torsional characteristics, in that the tip and tail rates ramp in a more accommodating way for off axis landing etc. Rather than hooking you into a particularly engaging and maybe severe turning phase, they'll give you a more extended malleable phase when landing less than ideal "geometry " from rotating etc.

In essence, a good example just seems to want to get back underneath you even if you completely hash the landing. Rather than high edge grip dissapearing off at whichever angle they've landed at.
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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?
Hi, and thanks for the input!

I might just save the cash and take my Atris to the park and start learning with them. I feel they are versatile enough to learn simple stuff in the park.
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