Cross-stepping

[Anonymous]

I found out last night that I can't cross-step for crap. I can cross-step but I can't carve while cross-stepped. My friend is going into deep carves and cross-stepping and he barely rides. I try it and I eat it. Very humbling. So now I have something to focus on for awhile. I'll drag out the big flat SMA and work on cross-stepping and walking the board in general. I thought I was better than this. First I lost my vert skills. Now I can't cross-step. Very humbled.

[Directive0]

I found out last night that I can't cross-step for crap. I can cross-step but I can't carve while cross-stepped. My friend is going into deep carves and cross-stepping and he barely rides. I try it and I eat it. Very humbling. So now I have something to focus on for awhile. I'll drag out the big flat SMA and work on cross-stepping and walking the board in general. I thought I was better than this. First I lost my vert skills. Now I can't cross-step. Very humbled.

what about your "signin-in" skills? Ever gonna get those back ?

[sniffleless]

You knew whoit was. Why should I sign in? My post count is doing fine. You keep that up and I'll take back my Q statement from the other thread.

[Mellow Out]

I find it is easiest to do a frontside carve while taking a cross step up the board and then shuffling back on the backside carve. On Chris Chaput's website he does the same stuff on his ski in the video section.

[daniel]

i prefer the backside, i find that if i bail on the frontside...well i eat it face first

[doctor worm]

i recomend working on your balance with an indo board. my friend has one and it really helped with my boardwalking.

[daniel]

hey i remeber those we tried that a few years ago, but after we tried olleing it one to many times, the pipe snaped...couldnt be bothered to replace it. but they are awesome manual and balance trainers

[doctor worm]

yeah
i have heard of people replacing theirs with comprable diameter pvc pipe. in like 1/4 inch thick or more. u should revive yours.

[daniel]

meh...i could do that, but i need the money, but yeah its well worth it...my friend and i put a football in the pipe to give it a little more strenght...seems to work ok...untill the prick snapped it. you got one working?

[doctor worm]

nah im saving up to buy one. i might make my own though.

[Brayden]

just get a foot of 4inch abs from the hardware store, wrap it with duct tape, and grab an old deck, there you got a balance board.

[wombat boarder]

all you need is a plank or an old deck and then a two litre bottle full of water.

[Longbord1]

i think what it is is that ur board could be concave because my concave board is alsmot impossible to corsstep on

[wombat boarder]

ey? concave does not make it impossible, you just need some length. 48'' of concave is fine

[carveasy]

sorry for being a newb, but what is cros-stepping?

[L3aping L3m0n]

basicly when you are riding you walk up and down the board and do all this fancy stuff. Someone post a movie

[george]

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