What should you do when you’re on the slopes, trying to land a new trick/technique and for some reason it just isn’t working. You’re falling over and over and things just aren’t clicking. Well, I’ll tell you what you shouldn’t do.
Don’t keep mindlessly throwing yourself at the trick.
I’ve seen it many times before where a rider just keeps throwing themselves at a certain trick when really what they should be doing is taking a step back and doing things a little differently.
Wait.. why shouldn’t you just keep trying?
If things aren’t clicking, there’s a reason for it. There’s a difference between a trick that you’re close to landing and a trick that just isn’t clicking and that’s what people need to realize.
If something isn’t clicking after many tries, it’s because something is missing or wrong with your technique. You wouldn’t keep trying to type on a computer with a broken keyboard, so don’t try to execute tricks with broken technique.
What you should do to land that trick:
1) Figure out what you’re doing wrong
Take a breather and think through the trick. Figure out what’s wrong with what you’re doing. Where are you failing? What’s causing you to crash?
Find out which area is causing you to crash so that you can fix it.
2) What you can do to fix it?
Now you know what’s wrong with your technique. That means your next step is to fix it.
Ask yourself, what can you do to figure out how to fill that gap that’s missing in your current technique?
3) Try the trick again
So you took a step back, looked at what was wrong, tried to fix what was wrong and now your next step is to put it back into your technique and try the trick again.
Measure your results and see if it’s better or worse. If it’s worse, repeat the process and try again.
Snowboarding is all about fixing the little things. You won’t land a 360 on your first attempt.
Snowboarders don’t learn a new trick by getting it right the first time. We learn that new trick by trying it many different ways until we figure out what works.
- Jed
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