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hermy1291
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 Posted: Jul 31, 2006 7:06 am Post subject: ts w2w |
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| I have my hs w2w down. I can do it every time but cant get my ts w2w down. I can get like a food of air. I need some help on my ts. Any tips for me? |
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jpminter
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Joined: 28 Jun 2005
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City: Richmond, VA
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| Posted: Jul 31, 2006 7:15 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | When learning heelside everyone talks about progressive edge and standing tall. The exact same principles apply to toeside. The biggest thing I find people have trouble with is doing a true progressive edge toeside. The word progressive means consistently changing, and so the strength of your edge should be changing throughout the whole cut. Many people who are not comfortable with TS generally start off their cut toeside then about 10 or 15 feet from the wake they stop the progression and just hold the same edge strength through the wake. The problem with this is that once the progression of edge strength stops the line tension begins to decrease because all you are really doing is just coasting into the wake. So my biggest suggestion is to take a smaller maybe 15-20 cut but focus on having that edge strength increasing the whole time. There is a large misconception that as long as you don’t flatten off and hold your edge that you are doing a progressive edge, this is not true, it has to remain getting stronger the closer you are to the wake. You can hold your edge at a certain strength without flattening off, so tell me what is progressive about that?, nothing. The point I am stressing is in order to get good pop you need line tension and to get line tension you need a proper PROGRESSIVE edge. Now as for standing tall it is a little different than heelside. When doing it heelside you are already square with the boat so in its basic principle you are extending you legs while riding up the wake. With toeside it is difficult to ride in with a bent knee approach and straiten your legs to stand tall. It can be done this way but is much harder. It is best to cut in with a tall standing approach. This will save you from having to properly time the extension of your legs while riding up the wake, and contending with the handle at you back hips and the thousand other things you have to deal with when jumping toeside. Instead of trying to stand up from a bent position to tall while riding up the wake approach the wake in a tall position and think about driving your hips straight up to the sky as you are riding up. This will force you to load you rear foot as you ride up the wake and will promote the proper mechanics of standing tall at the peak of the wake. Overall try to work on a proper progressive edge and using your hips and trying to lift them to the sky at the wake. If these two things are done properly, and providing the rest of the basic mechanics are in tact, you should be able to get plenty of pop on your toeside edge |
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Darin
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| Posted: Jul 31, 2006 8:41 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks. |
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absplatty
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Joined: 23 Dec 2005
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City: onsted
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| Posted: Jul 31, 2006 10:40 am Post subject: |
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 WOW
that was an awesome explanation man
i'm stoked about riding today after work now
its so hot in the midwest right now! |
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Ride DH
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Joined: 10 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Jul 31, 2006 10:59 am Post subject: |
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| yea that explanation was pretty chill |
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KduB11
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| Posted: Aug 01, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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funk dat by sagat
all i have to say bra, all i have to say.
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hyperlite58
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| Posted: Aug 03, 2006 11:37 am Post subject: |
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| thanks dude for the tips...i finally understand what i have ben doing wrong |
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aceofdimondz
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2006 11:15 am Post subject: |
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yeah that was pretty good. another thing i'd add is try to twist your hips towards the wake with the handle on your leed hip but pushed towards your butt a bit to help you get in position. it's a tip my coach have me and it really helped me stay on edge. "resist the untwist"! but most importantly use a prgressive edge as explained above.
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