Foot Placement ?

[Habitat]

Hey, i just bought a snowskate..pretty fun

and i wanna learn some of the basics ollie, kickflip and that stuff, but i cant seem to find a good foot placement for my back foot..

Ive been skateboarding for 4+ years so i can do these tricks on a skateboard.

help would be appreciated!


Thanks

[Pat Junor]

back foot? it's just like a skateboarding man; unless you got one of those snowskates where the nose and tail are steep as shit than it's gonna be very very very difficult to do anything while moving.

[dariswashere]

back foot? it's just like a skateboarding man; unless you got one of those snowskates where the nose and tail are steep as shit than it's gonna be very very very difficult to do anything while moving.

yeah dudes, P-at's right shit wont work with one of those snowskates. get an ambition, then try it. if not good enough, buy extreme grip. problem has to be solved.

[Habitat]

yeah its pretty steep..

i just bought what they had in my skateshop

some santa cruz

[Smagical]

I actually find it different then skateboarding, although i dont skateboard too much, so im no expert on that. But i find rear foot placement is almost the single most important part of snowskating. For a lot of tricks when i skateboard i have the rear foot kind of "in" the tail, not all the way back. On a snowskate, however, for almost every trick, i have my rear foot on the very tip of the tail, actually on top of the tail. This actually makes the trick pop, because unlike skateboarding there is no gap between the tail and the ground, and the pop is more of a rolling pop than a snappy pop like skateboarding. So my advice would be practice getting that rear foot on the very tip every time you throw down, so it becomes natural. You will probably do the splits a few times, but it'll come, and then you wont have to think about it. Sorry if this is confusing, but i hope it helps.

[Pat Junor]

Yeah I agree with Phil but the thing is with those boards with the steep nose/tail, you'll be doing the splits 95% of the time haha

[Smagical]

Yeah for sure Pat...on those boards there really isnt a right way to place your feet or skate them. They are just wrong and should have never been made. One of the biggest detriments to snowskatings growth is the production of non-functional snowskates. If everyone tried snowskating for the first time with an ambition and X grip or snowskate shoes, they would probably keep doing it.

[white]

yeah i started snowskating with one of those plastic premiers that have a 90 degree angle as an excuse for a nose and tail. With those boards and similar ones i find the problem is not the angle of the tail but the fact that the top of it (where i put my foot) is SUPER slippery like OMFG.. so to fix the problem i took a saw and cut 1 cm grooves perpendicular to the tail on the top of it, so that my foot would not slide from side to side.

Once you begin to require a wood board, i would recommend that you buy a premier, the shape of premier boards are the best out of all the companies and will make any one coming from skateboarding feel at home.

The only problem with a premeir board is that they will break easy and you need to get snowboard wax to keep them moving fast. If you want a board that doesn't break, has more control and is consistently fast get an ambition, Unfortunately i don't believe ambitions have any concave

Side note: I wish that there was a company that used ambitions base and premiers shape and icons grip. That for me and probably many others would be the perfect board.

[Eryic]

Side note: I wish that there was a company that used ambitions base and premiers shape and icons grip. That for me and probably many others would be the perfect board.

Yeah I know a friend who will only ride premiers because of their shape and feel, even if it's way slower... it would be interesting to have an ambition with a premier sidecut shape.

[Alex Blais]

Sidecuts only make boards not ride straight. There is a big difference in the control you have on an Ambition and with a Premier, and it's not just because of the grooves. I think it's the tail shape and overall size he liked more! Although Ambition's new shape since last year is very similar.