with Stefan Kar lsson
How to Snowboarding Backside Air (Method). Like frontside’s, the backside air is a move you learn from day one, and spend the rest of your life refining and pushing. The Method air is basically a backside air with extra tweak – old school, but a timeless expression of style. Christian Hosoi perfected them in the eighties on a skateboard, Jamie Lynn did the same on snow in the nineties...and as soon as you’re getting some
- Getting the line right in the flat bottom is the key to doing this trick right, so you don’t need to turn once you’re on the transition.
- Head up the transition flat on your base, knees bent, with some weight on the heel edge.
- If the pipe wall is not steep (under-vert), you need to ollie more off the lip. If it is close to vertical, just ride out without popping.
- As the board leaves the lip, lean back a little, lift the nose and let the board come to your hand – don’t go to the board.
- Grab the backside edge with your leading hand. I f it feels right, tweak it out by pulling the board in with your hand, and pushing out the back foot.
- Spot your landing. Pull your board back in underneath you, release the grab, and extend your legs to meet the top of the transition.
- Land flat based with weight over your toe edge, and ride away clean.
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