Hi, this is Jens at Stomp It Tutorials.
Today we are going to have a look at how to tail butter on skis.
On my how to nose butter video.
I got a lot of comments on it, can I do with this ski or that ski and I thought I'd answer
this question straight away when it comes to this.
It is easier with a soft (flex) ski.
Even if you have a stiff carving ski that would sort of be easier than a stiff twin
tip ski since the tail is really short.
Anyways soft skis make it easier.
You see how much I am hanging, hanging here to get them like a decimeter of the ground.
This really really hurt there.
This is pretty much the position you have to be in to tail butter a völkl wall.
You can jump a little bit and then like get onto the tails higher up and it's a little
less painful.
Let's look at how to do it.
When you get started we will start doing like a switch skid around 180 and then slowly start
buttering more and more.
Step 1.
Find a flat spot and start riding slowly backward.
I like to have a little bit of wind up.
That was great.
Go like this and then just a little sw 180.
Really cool right.
You start skidding, lean a little bit back.
Wind up a bit of rotation, start skidding, lean back onto the tails and then pop off
them like a tiny ollie 180.
So it's important that you carve in and allow the carve to become a skidded switch turn.
Use the wind-up, swing those arms, lean back a lot.
At about 180 you pull those arms in close to your body to speed up the rotation.
You put more and more weight onto those tails and then off.
Just do it slowly and I'm sure you will get the hang of this pretty fast.
So that's step 1, slow switch skidded turn with a little bit of tail butter in it.
180 or 360 you know, move towards 360 pretty fast since its more fun and way cooler.
Once you've done it on the flat.
Find a nice little roller.
It can be tiny like this first thing here.
Now when we've done that.
Once we've done that let us do the switch tail butter 360 over a small roller.
I think its important like here that you continue the rotation throughout the switch tail butter
360.
You carve in.
You go from a carve to a skidded turn and really lean back and lift those toes up so
you're bending the skis.
At 180 pull those arms in and pop hard of the tails.
This is important to send yourself up towards standing again.
Look here in detail.
I'm pushing up from the tails and this helps me land perpendicular to the landing.
This is very important when you want to do switch tail butter 270 onto a down rail like
in this case.
Because you have to move from the tail and forwards.
But for a tail butter cork never mind.
The tails are going to flop away underneath you.
So to do nicer switch tail butter 3s and 5s in the beginning just find a steeper roller
like this one.
Carve in and keep your skis pretty close together.
All the way around.
Because this is really important since the inside ski or the right one, in this case,
can really get stuck and create all kinds of problem.
That's why I want you to carve in, start skidding and keep those feet close together.
When you do a tail butter 5 I suggest that in the beginning pop hard off the tails just
like we were doing before.
That helps to uncork it or like pop/tilt forwards faster.
Really avoid what I am doing here.
Left foot just skids away, luckily I had enough pop that I could get the feet close together
again.
Cause I could have caught an edge so bad on my right foot.
That's why I want you to carve in, keep them feet close together all the way around and
you reduce the risk of catching an edge a lot and if you catch an edge on a big roller
like this on you would be in trouble.
When I do a tail butter cork I just set it really hard like backward onto my tails and
I allow them to butter really to the tips.
And then just give in to the cork and enjoy it.
Well, I am not going to say too much about the tail butter cork today you get to figure
some stuff out yourself.
But eh yea if you learn it good luck with that it's so much fun.
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