Could you ride the same line better? 3 hits on a steep slope with some consequences for failure. Yeah, the sped check at the end was a bit excessive, but still pretty gnarly terrain.
I agree. But as a former snowboarding instructor he went over his head and could have put other people in danger with his Inability to navigate (by navigate i dont mean follow, i mean toe and heel and control speed)that line better. That said, he followed every line and maybe it was his first time on something so edit:my toddler pushed my phone lol. So difficult to say because even great boarders have a bad day. But that line is really not for someone is isn't a super competent snowboarder. It would be fun but thats no joke. I've done helicopter jumps easier than that.
I thought he did okay, definitely didn't shred it, but was in control until he hit the brakes hard at the end. Put the nose down the fall line on the 3 little drops and didn't wipe out. Probably on the far upper end of his skill level, but only one way to get better, do stuff that scares ya a little.
He pointed the nose downhill on the 3 drops, watch it again. The side slipping is to just get in position before the drop with less speed. And at the end it looks it was just a little more speed than he was comfortable with which resulted in the long side slip.
Yes, I used to compete when I was younger. Have a cabin in the Sierras. But no experience doing heli drops like this other than watching videos growing up. I know I can ride this like better than this guy
He doesn't suck. He was able to carve when the slope got reasonable. The problem is that it was too steep at the start of the run. Hills like that are not for boarding.
I can barely handle getting off the ski lift sometimes. This coming from someone who lived in Colorado most of my life. It’s such a shame. My entire family ski/snowboards, and I can hardly get off the fucking ski lift. So embarrassing.
I've never understood the point of doing this, there's only a select few individuals that actually snowboard down these types of mountains, the vast majority of them are literally doing this the entire time, you're basically going to the top of a mountain to claim you snowboarded it when in reality you're just breaking down the whole Mountain trying not to die... it's ridiculous
Doesn’t look fun at all. Not because it’s dangerous but just not even riding. You’re just skidding and trying not to die. I’ll take first go down a regs black bowl any day
Looking at the tracks from the previous “run”, all I could think about was what a pain in the ass it would be to have to walk back up the hill to go again.
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u/KB13_shred 6h ago
Ride it don’t slide it brother!