Today we're going to learn how to hand drag on skis.
This is a really fun trick, but it's a little tricky and I suggest we start out practising
this trick in normal shoes or maybe ski boots too, it's definitely easier in shoes.
Find yourself a nice flat surface.
It's sort of like weird cartwheel this trick.
Stand neutral and you have to sort of pop backwards and put your hands just behind you
and get your legs a little in front of you.
It's a little strange but let's have a look.
To do the hand drag on flat ground.
Imagine yourself that you are carving to the right, wind up to the right, then you start
carving the other way after you start carving you start to unwind as well.
As I pop off the ground I look where I am going to put my hands land there.
Then you have to put quite a lot of force onto your hands so you pop of the hands and
come up onto your feet again.
This is very important on skis as well.
Imagine you come in with a carve, carve the other way and then.... ahh.
And off course when you do it on snow it's important that you get the timing right so
you put the hands down just on the top of the knuckle.
You don't need to get your legs so high up but it's of course cooler if you do but you
don't need to.
You can actually go something like this, looks silly but it's really what you would do.
Something like that.
Practise a couple of times on flat ground like this and then lets take it to snow now.
Step 2 let's find a good roller.
It should have a fairly steep inrun and also a fairly steep landing so you don't have to
hit it at that much speed and also gives you enough time to put your hands down then add
some pressure onto them then pop off.
If it looks like this, a fairly flat in run you have to lean down a lot in order to touch
the snow which is difficult.
And also when it's flat like this your hands are gonna touch the snow for such a short
time not giving you enough pressure off your hands to pop back to your feet.
So an ideal one should look something like this and have a soft landing or one of these
weird shaped things are pretty good to get started.
Because you can send you skis to the side.
Step 3 warm up.
Do first a lazy boy hand drag.
Just sit down drag your hand pop around. It's pretty much like a 180.
Then go to that good roller we were looking at!
Not like this it's to hard.
Send you feet up in the air and down with your hand.
You must have a lot of pressure on your hand in order to get the skis down otherwise you
will not land on your feet.
Let's do the hand drag 3´s on snow then!
If you have jump that looks like this try it on it and then do it on the good roller.
This is good because you can carve up and leave your skis on the side of the top.
This makes it very easy to get the hands down.
Try to lift the noses of the skis up because they can get stuck.
Then push of hard when you are in the push up position a then your legs going to come
down because if you don't push hard they don't come down naturally on this trick.
Now when you hit the good roller.
Come in carving and come in carving pretty hard like this.
It helps a lot to get the chest pointing down.
As you carve for the final carve you have to wind up some rotation then you start setting
it off when you are skiing straight forwards.
Pop of the ground and I send my chest downwards and the skis I try to get in front of the
hands.
That's important in order to get into that sort of push up position.
Also when I pop off I try to time the hands so they touch just before the top of the roller
and if you use poles point them towards the sides but rather DO NOT USE POLES!
It's quite a big risk of hurting yourself.
As you see in this point of view perspective you come in carving.
Carve pretty hard, pop off, down with the hands and around.
It is an awesome trick it is so much fun!
So let's look at some common mistakes like this.
Here's a couple ones in the same attempt.
First of all he is riding a roller that is too flat then sends his body straight to the
side instead of backwards.
Backwards sets off a nicer rotation and then he shoves the noses into the ground.
He could have fixed that by lifting up the feet by using the hamstrings.
Landing on your hip is off course not cool and that could have been fixed by more pressure
on the hands and pop off the hands harder.
With all this in mind do like we talked about before come in carving pretty hard wind up
and do this on a good roller, start the rotation in the middle of the carve and send off
pretty hard that chest down and behind you feet and try to get the skis in front of your
body so you get into that nice push up position.
Where you push off from the hands and then onto your feet.
Once you got it you can learn hand drag 5´s, do it over fun nipples things like this.
Remember the latter is fairly tricky and you can crash a lot learning it.
Any how I wish you the best of luck and have a lot of fun learning the hand drag 360´s.
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