with Lisa Fi lzmoser
How to Snowboarding Frontside Airs, The best thing about frontside airs is that they’re such an easy trick to learn, and once you’ve got them, you spend the rest of your life finding new ways to do them, new places to try them, and new heights to take them. Here, we
Snowboarding Trick : Frontside Airs
- Decide your line on the flat bottom, and stick with it. Aim to leave the pipe at around 45° from vertical.
- Approach the frontside wall with as much speed as you feel happy with.
- Ride up the wall, weight over your toe edge, gradually becoming more flat on your base, and focus on the lip.
- As you leave the pipe, pop a small ollie, turn your head and shoulders to face down the pipe, and pull your feet up in front of you.
- Grab frontside, and straighten out your front leg.
- Holding the tweak, start looking down at the lip, and get ready for re-entry.
- Pull your front leg back in, and touch down on the pipe wall. Aim to land just below the lip.
- Ride out flat-based, then quickly transfer to your heel-edge, ready to line up for the backside wall...
