The topic of learning something on your weak side as soon as you have it down on your strong side was a thread veer the other day. I think it's an importanat step.

They stuck a Object D' Art smack dab in my local kite run. In turn I can only take a short run and jump on my strong side. Yesterday was at GP and finally had enough wind for jumping. I never did get my timing back on my weak side.

Crazy, I could even get some decent height on occasion but consistantly sent the kite too far. Enough time to turn it into a transition jump but that was almost never my intension. Not once did I manage to jump and ride away in the same direction on that side. It was a short day but I see I have some work to do .

I guess my lesson is . Don't just learn it on your weak side as well but keep using that side or you are likely to lose it!

Seems like even my reflex memories are getting shorter with age ! :smug:

Great tip!! It usually takes me a bit of thinking through before I try even the most basic moves on my weak side. I practice tricks (basic moves to most) on my weak side lots, but somethings still feel awkward after lots practice. If I don't ride for a while, I'm back at square one for a little bit.

symmetry , got to go both ways! nice BR

Some of my weak side stuff is the result of old injury. The biomechanics just aren't there to move certain ways.:dunno:

I do try jumping to my weak side and I think (for me) a lot of it is psychological. When I try jumping to my left I do fine. Muscle memory kicks in and I feel perfectly comfortable at fairly decent hight. If I jump the other way however It all goes to hell. I stiffen up, lose my balance and rotational control and am about as graceful as a fish on a hook even at only 12 inches off the ice.

My reason for thinking it's mostly or all in my head is last season, at the start, I was out cruising one of the first soft snow days and I started jumping. Not big but big enough and smooth. Then I realized that I was jumping to my weak side (forgot which side was strong side) and it all went to hell. Each jump after got progressively worse.

So I started jumping the other way and it was fine. I'm a little retarded I think.

Sometimes, the conditions determine what works which way ... on the water with waves, chop and whatnot. I have to think hard now about which was is my 'strong' side cos it's muddled in my head. Carving transitions & toe-side for BOTH directions are how I remember and what I need to work on

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Originally posted by Feyd If I jump the other way however It all goes to hell. I stiffen up, lose my balance and rotational control and am about as graceful as a fish on a hook even at only 12 inches off the ice.

To heck with jumping ! I just have to get on " hardwater " ice and a clinch up ! Even having prepaired last year and getting my straight edge skis sharpened I found myself unreasonably nervous? Kind of crazy and frustrating having come from a hockey background ?

Fortunatley we don't have long between freeze up and snow !