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This Trick Tip is to help clarify the name of this grab. Formerly known as the Mute Grab now renamed the Weddle Grab. Tony Hawk renamed it with the permission of the original skater who created it Chris Weddle. Chris was deaf and therefore people called it the mute grab as he didn’t speak often.

This is a fun grab and is best done whilst doing a frontside shifty. This grab is where you grab your toe side edge with your lead hand between the feet. It’s best done whilst doing a frontside shifty as this allows you to bone or poke it out a bit more to show ownership of the grab.

First get it’s a good idea to get comfortable with a few other more simple grabs when jumping so warm up with an Indy or frontside grab and a melon grab.

Then try doing a few frontside shifties as well off the jumps that you are comfortable on.

Then try sitting down on your butt and try simply grabbing the Weddle grab from the seated position. Take notice how much you are flexing to be able to get that grab.

Finally it’s time to get that grab off the jump. Once your comfortable with the grab try grabbing it closer to your front foot so you can extend your rear leg as you are grabbing Weddle in that frontside shifty. This will help add some style!

This trick tip is on a familiar task that we use to help teach people how to ride bumps better, the dolphin turn.

To start off focus on just getting the feeling of the movement without move on a bit of flat snow. Try doing an ollie but instead of landing on two feet you will be wanting to land on the front foot. Look to do this more with utilizing independent flexing and extending of your legs by retracting them.

Then try it whilst moving on a flat base down the fall-line.

Then do it on either edge in a traverse. Now you are getting used to jumping and landing on an edge.

Finally try it off of the tail of the old edge and land on the nose of the new edge.

This movement is the one we want to master to get good at riding the moguls.

Hitting jumps in the terrain park for the first time is exciting and can be scary if you don’t know what to do. Here is a trick tip to make sure you feel comfortable and own the air versus just riding through it.

First thing is to understand how to P.O.P (Projection of primary) ideally we want to use both our upper body and lower body to get the momentum going and doing an Ollie. Get comfortable doing this in the flats not moving.

Then practice doing it whilst moving on a green groomed trail. Look to challenge yourself by timing it to takeoff at a specific point as if it was the lip of a jump. Use a line in the snow or a shadow.

Then look to use a little roller so that you can feel the difference in the pitch of the hill to time your Ollie.

Finally it’s time to take it to a small park jump. Making sure you are aware of the speed needed. Look to get a solid P.O.P off the tail at the lip of the jump. Then pull your legs up so you are small and balanced in the air. Finally extend your legs to absorb that landing.

Once you are comfortable we can start adding lots of tricks. Stay tuned for some more trick tips to see some of the favorite grabs.

This weeks trick tip is all about locking in that grab when hitting jumps. First make sure you are comfortable hitting jumps and getting some good pop off of them.

Once you are comfortable with this start with getting aware of the different grabs by trying them without moving to lock in the placement and feeling of the grabs.

Then try hitting the jumps and instead of fully doing the grab at first you can simply just go for a quick touch.

Once you are comfy with this it’s time to go ahead and lock in those grabs!! Once you feel you are getting them we’ll try to tweak them as well and pulling and pushing against whilst grabbing to show more comfort with the grab. Enjoy and continue to try all the different grabs.

The Chip Shot is a fun trick where you basically kick the tail of your board into the snow using your toe side edge.

Fist start on the flats with no board on working through the movements of jumping up and quickly extending your rear leg to kick your back foot toe into the snow and then pulling it up to then land on two feet.

Now try the same movement without sliding but with the board on. Remember we are trying to add a bit of rotation when we do it to be able to get the toe side edge of the tail into the snow. Beware that you will have to rotate back to straighten the board back out before landing.

Now try just sliding straight on some mellow terrain to practice just a tail tap with no rotation.

Then try doing a subtle speed check whilst sliding again in the flats be rotating just the lower body against a stable upper body creating separation. Only do this so you rotate to your heel side like seen in the video.

Now try the full move whilst traversing across the hill on your toe side edge. Putting it all together both the hop with the rear leg extension and the rotation and kick that rear tail toe edge into the snow like seen in the video.

Finally try doing whilst traveling straight down the hill.

Here is another fun trick for trick tip Tuesday! This one is called a Frontside nose butter to pretzel 270 out.

First with your board off try the movement. Standing on your front leg and then kicking your rear leg out to the side so your chest is pointed down the hill whilst your hold your shoulders and front arm pointed down the hill as well. Then you are going to pop off this leg rotating 270 degrees backside so you land switch as seen in the video.

Then on an easy groomer try locking in that frontside nose butter sliding and then try to just pull it back also as seen in the video.

Then try doing the same move except this time hoping into the butter and then loading up that front leg to then pop out back so your board lands back pointed down the hill also shown in the video.

Now it’s time to try the full trick. To make sure you get the full rotation out make sure you use some counter rotation in your upper body through your spine to be able to rotate against the lower body. It’s also a good idea to quickly rotate your lower body with a scissoring move of your legs.

Once you master this trick try it off of rollers and you can even then try it on a box or rail.

This is a Mashup of all the videos that posted by myself and my teammates throughout the 2021/22 Winter Season. More to come throughout the summer.

The Half-Cab is a trick made famous by a famous legendary Skater named Steve Caballero.

This trick is a variation of a few trick tips that we have done before. The frontside nose roll and a frontside 180. However this trick is always done from a switch stance.

It’s important you are comfortable riding switch first.

Then start by riding across the trail switch on your heel side edge and try lifting the switch tail of the board as you shift your weight forward.

Once you are comfortable with that it’s time to add some rotation through the hips and spine. You will want to rotate frontside. Do this whilst adding more pressure to that switch nose and therefore doing a switch nose roll landing on your toes.

Finally it’s time to put it all today with a little bit more intensity to be able to spring off that switch nose.

Once you are comfy with these try them off rollers and other fun features.

Stay tuned to see how this gets progressed into a Cab 3.

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