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Newton's Law requires you have enough air to do inverted tricks. As Frosty said, start out with some off-axis tricks to get yourself oriented to not being inline with the pipe.Nosegrabs help with this. If you can throw 360°s then pull your nose in, lean back, kick out after have revolution and try to land backside.To totally go inverted you will really need to be able to throw 540°s with relative ease. From there you can work on McTwists and such moves.REMEMBER, you will go where your head goes. Always lead with your head and your body will follow. Being inverted doesn't allow you to “kick” your board around if you are short so make sure you have enough air to complete the trick.The reason to start off-axis… it hurts a LOT less to land on your side than on your noggin.Zelohttp://www.zelo.com<If you are coming from a skateboarding environment remember the rules are reversed for rail slides.In skateboarding, you have a very quick (depending on slope) deceleration in speed. When snowboarding it is like hitting a piece of ice… you are going to feel as if you are actually going faster than you are.Start out with small rails close to the ground. You ARE going to wipe out A LOT. Get the feel of it. Keep your body and weight centered on the rail and shoulders square to the pipe. Coming off the rail you will want to move your butt down and tuck for stability. Keep your arms out to start and then when you get your balance you can bring them in.When you get good enough you can go rail to fakie (what a RUSH!) by moving your head behind you as if you are looking at your back and allowing your board to swing around with you. There is no jumping required as in skateboardi
Remember to stay on your edge. You are going to have to carve harder in deeper snow and you are going to FEEL like you have less control than what you actually do (it is a feeling of “sliding out”) if you are used to boarding on ice.Other than having specific problems you are having the best advice is to practice and practice some more. Get used to the difference in feel between one slope to another and it will become instictive.Zelohttp://www.zelo.comhttp://www.bestmorocco.com
It depends on what you are having a problem with. More than likely it is mental more than anything else. Everything is backwards, hence the reason it is harder.Do not think front/back or left/right but rather focus on heal/toe. Also, people have a tendancy to lean the wrong way (lean backwards) when they are riding switch. Remember to keep your weight balanced and towards the rear (carving setup) and ride a green slope all the way down fakie a few times. This will train your brain where your body should be positioned.When you feel comfortable then you will want to work on switching to fakie, again on a gentle slope. You should notice you will not have to think about frontside/backside… you will do it instinctively. The most difficult think about riding switch (fakie is not normally used in snowboarding) is looking over your shoulder and therefore not as easy to see. AgaFrostyRider has a lot of good points.A couple other things to keep in mind…1. You WILL fall. Do not feel embarassed about this. Everyone starts out at the same place and we have all been there. Lift operators are used to this and know what to do when there is a situation (something more than just falling).2. Be prepared to dismount the lift. Front foot forward in your binding and back foot ready to push on a snowboard, knees bent and ready to push with poles with skis.3. The landing will be FLAT. There will be no reason to be scared of running out of control, in fact quite the opposite is true so be ready to push when you get off.4. Keep your head up and look for a target where you will want to stop. It should only be about 10 feet ahead of where you get off. Better to fall there than right at the ski chair itself.5. Most importantly don't be afraid. There is very
