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skimottaret,
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this is purely a professional necessity as i am getting ready for our autumn skills clinics where we are going to offer some basic freestyle and i just noticed you have booked ahead, lucky you
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This had already gone through my mind. No worries - your demo-ing will be so dire/funny/painful/terminal (delete as appropriate) that nobody will feel inclined to follow your example! 
Er, what was that about a wind-up...?
This thread is useless without pictures of all of you in your sitting rooms/places of work.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yup - look at dancers... their gaze leads their bodies.
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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?
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I just did a 360 in the living room without a wind up
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I think this whole thing is a wind up. And you're not a fat b@rstard, are you arv? I shall get my son in law to try it, when he gets home from the pub.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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pam w, not fat 
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I did my first 360 off piste and managed to pull it off pretty cleanly, then started building back country kickers and just playing around with whats possible, doing it with a powder landing is really fun as if you land a bit badly it doesn't hurt and if you go off too big its a soft transition. I can't say I've done any on hard pack but I'm aiming to get to the freestyle session's nights with the K2's once I get them, want to get good at rails to..
I wouldn't advise just starting off with 180's like other people I have a friend who started off learning 180's and now hes struggling so much to extend that because its become natural for him... get some and go for the full shazam!
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have just tried, in the kitchen whilst the Kenwood Chef was whisking up the meringue. In Crocs, I could do 270 the first time I tried. With a bit of practice and trainers I could do 360 I think - but not tonight as the lodger goes to bed early! I'm not fat, but I am old and have no intention of trying it on skis. Fastman had an impressive little trick - a 180 from standing, seemed completely effortless the way he did it and an easy way of turning round. I can't get anywhere close. 
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Oh, alright then. 
270 or perhaps a bit more, first go, in socks. I'm old AND fat AND unfit. But like you, pam w, I have zero intention of trying this on skis.
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Hurtle, we'd better stick to 180s and land them switch then. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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pam w, after you, ma'am! 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Hurtle, girls will be girls
will get the trainers on and have a proper go next week, gotta stick a dryland 360 !!!
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You know it makes sense.
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skimottaret, I cannot believe that you've got grown women jumping around like idiots all over England. I've never heard anything so ridiculous. 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Hurtle, usually just have em jumping at Hemel, but am happy to expand into new territories !
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Poster: A snowHead
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So how does this 270 thing work then?
My simple mind says - land sideways to direction of travel and... WHUMMP: you've got all the ingredients needed for a helmet thread.
I'm liking what I'm hearing here, but some explanations bout this would be useful.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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JimW, ummmm, that's kinda the point. It doesn't, so best avoided. If you can't manage the rotation whilst stood still you're pretty unlikely to manage it on skis...
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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?
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JimW, it is a good idea to look for natural features at the edge of a piste, so that with a ~270 rotation you are going to land with the slope.
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So how does this 270 thing work then?
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It doesn't - unless you land on a rail, then it's quite impressive.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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People who can do 360s - can you do them in both directions?
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beanie1, only one. I have a really 'natural' way to spin (to my left) and the other is hard to force and looks even messier.
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can you do them in both directions?
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I was thinking about this in bed last night... my blood racing from all this leaping around in the kitchen. I can only rotate to the left, really. On a snowboard I would ride regular. Is there a connection? I would be surprised if many untrained folk could rotate equally well in both directions, though I suppose the freestyle people have to?
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pam w, I've just been trying them on dry land. My natural tendency is to rotate to the right, and when thinking it through I didn't think I'd be able to do it to the left. Pleased to report I can!
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beanie1, goofy snowboarder?
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pam w, not sure - I've only done it twice and different each time. About 10 years in between the two goes, so can't compare.
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I was wondering whether there was a relationship between the preferred direction of spin and preferred front foot on a snowboard/skateboard/scooter. Whilst googling I came across this "spinning girl" illusion..... which way does she spin for you? http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=27
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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pam w, I always spin anti-clockwise, in trampolining you're taught to always spin the same way so I find it really hard to overcome this without serious concentration. I board goofy though. I guess I'm not an ambiturner
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Swirly, do freestyle specialists always spin the same way?
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You know it makes sense.
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pam w, no, certainly snowboarders spin both ways hence there being four separate 1080s possible in the half pipe.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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well I've drunk too much wine and eaten too much asparagus to go spinning round the kitchen tonight.....
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Poster: A snowHead
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| pam w wrote: |
| well I've drunk too much wine and eaten too much asparagus to go spinning round the kitchen tonight..... |
Helluva way to do an instant redecoration job... if red and green are the colours that float your boat
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I have only ever landed 360s on dryslope, only tried once on snow. If you are going to learn on dryslope though use some clothes and gloves that you don't mind destroying.
On the spinning I only ever spin left, the one time I tried spinning right I got confused as I came up to the lip, didn't really spin, and fell flat on my face. I also am a regular boarder and am sure that the two things are linked.
Swirly, I was under the impression that snowboarders found it just as hard as skiers to spin in the unnatural direction. I can't see any reason why one should be easier than the other anyway.
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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?
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rambotion, most likely they do but if you wanted to be avle to put a world class run down the pipe a year or so ago you had to be able to do a 1080 in each direction off each edge.
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pam w, Swirly,
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do freestyle specialists always spin the same way?
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In the good old days ski freestylers usually spin the same way, even if it was inverted jumps etc with rotations and inverted jumps.
For a good old twister (360) just spin using a good push, carve from your leading ski rotate your arms and shoulders while your head, as said above, look where you are going to land.
Or you could just go for a vertical 360!! example = http://vimeo.com/10520488
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm waiting for the airbag to return to xscape so i can learn backflips 
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| pam w wrote: |
| I was wondering whether there was a relationship between the preferred direction of spin and preferred front foot on a snowboard/skateboard/scooter. Whilst googling I came across this "spinning girl" illusion..... which way does she spin for you? http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=27 |
Pretty sure that's right, I could only spin towards the left (so leading with the right foot), and on the rare occasions that I board I take a goofy stance (that is right foot forwards, right?).
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Great, skimottaret, now it's not just in the UK that people are jumping up and down like loons - mostly wearing completely unsuitable footwear - in their sitting rooms and places of work. How long before the first wipeout? And will it be recorded on YouTube?
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The thing is, the nature of the rotation is very different off a jump, with skis (or a snowboard) isn't it? To do a 360 in yer slippers you need a fast rotation - but off a jump the 360 will take a lot longer, and there's more inertia to overcome.
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Never tried on skis but from my skating days I found that the spin itself is easier when moving forward as you have longer in the air to complete it. Also the ramp will help of course. Landing with planks tied to your feet is a different thing though 
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