Show serious style with a backside 180!
The backside 180 is a hefty snowboarding manoeuvre that's guaranteed to impress. It's a good idea to be familiar with the terrain, so take a practice run or two down the slope, to familiarize yourself with how the jumps there feel. Once you're comfortable, make your final approach towards a jump you feel good about, and flatten the board down to build speed.
An ollie right around the end of the jump can get you that little bit of extra air, and then start to twist. Ideally, you'll want to twist 180 degrees around your backside. Keeping your knees bent, and eyes centreed between them to watch your landing point, you can come down softly in the snow after the jump. Voila! That's how you serve up a fresh backside!
A "backside" spin just means that you turned your backside downhill first, so a frontside 180 just goes the opposite way. Now you've just doubled your arsenal of learned tricks, get out there and tear it up!
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