• How to 180 Safety Grab
• How To 360 A Cliff Drop
• How to Wallride To Fakie Rock With Omar Otte

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180 Safety Grab With Rorey Silva

"Make sure you've already cleared the jump once that day so you don't stack it. Also, make sure you don't get too excited, because you'll spin 90 or 270 and break your head." - Rory 1. You'll be going off flat, so don't set any kind of edge. All your spin is going to come from your hips. 2. Begin your spin instantly so you can get all the way around. Start to set the grab to your side, which will actually be facing downhill now that you're beginning to rotate. The grab sets the 180.

3. Grab! If you freak out doing a 180, you can hopefully flutter your way back to normal. But don't! With your head remaining still, look at your landing and keep your body spinning. 5. Put your weight on the balls of your feet as you land. If your weight is on your toes, you'll put your hands down. If you're on your heels too far, you'll slap your back. 6. Pretty much any grab is doable once you learn the safety. Just look around the ski and grab different places.

360 Safety Grab Off A Cliff With Anthony Boronowski

Doing a 360 unnatural is exactly the same as doing it natural, so don not panic. Throw this the same way you would if it were your natural direction. -Anthony 1. Approach the cliff with your weight forward and centered. 2. On the takeoff, don not rush the trick or you will over-rotate 34&5. Set your spin, reach

down, and hold that grab for as long as possible. 6. Spot your landing and prepare your landing gear. 7. Stomp that landing.

Wallride To Fakie Rock With Omar Otte

By FREEZE Magazine

Having your weight centered on wallrides means you are constantly adjusting between your toes and your heels. The stall is more toes, the fakie drop in is more heels. -Omar 1. Approach the wall in your B-boy stance, meaning gorilla steez for all you new-school punks: knees bent, arms forward, like you are going to hit a mogul kicker. Ha!

2.3. Once your ski tips hit the wall, you have to make sure you are centered or you will end up doing a body slide across the wall like Omizzle sliding into home with your girlfriend! 4.5. After getting the first steps down, you will approach the top of the wall. You have to be on point, so don not be straight rolling too fast or you are going over the back

too slow and you will not be able to stall on top. 6.7. Assuming you have the right amount of speed, you will stall on top and ready to drop back in fakie. This is a little weird at first. Make sure your weight is centered, and it is all about committing. If you look over your shoulder, you will do a 90-degree faceplant. Give a little pop off the top.

8. Keep your shoulders and head looking straight ahead, and you will ride away smooth.

Not Your Normal High School

It’s not your normal high school. While most kids are moping around the mall, ditching classes and wondering which illicit keggers they’re going to hit next weekend, the students at the Carrabasset Valley Academy (CVA) are ripping turns around gates, going huge in the pipe and taking advantage of a sweet skate park featuring the largest indoor bowl in Maine. Private high schools that offer unique programs are nothing new. They abound on the eastern seaboard, where well-heeled students are cloistered from the unwashed masses. But even the most jaded observer would have to admit that CVA is different. "We were the first in the country to have a freeride program," says Ron DiGravio Carrabassett Academy’s Director of Marketing and Communications. "There’s 20 to 25 kids in the full-time program." In addition to whipping up and coming pipe and park stars into shape, the academy also has a red hot mogul program. It’s so good, in fact, that it was just named the best in the nation by the USSA. "We had six kids at nationals," admits DiGravio. "And three of them finished in the top ten." Results are great, but they don’t come without a lot of hard work. "The kids are psyched and push each other all the time," says DiGravio. "That goes a long way." The facilities on hand also help out a bit. In addition to the aforementioned skate park, which absolutely rips, there are trampolines with harness rigging, an indoor rock climbing wall, and a multipurpose court with running track along with weight training and aerobic facilities. In other words, it’s a world-class funhouse.

Finally, there are the programs and staff. CVA's ALPS program (Alpine Leadership Pursuits for Skiers and Snowboarders) combines the college preparatory academics of CVA with teaching of outdoor skills critical to big-mountain and backcountry skiing around the world. Led by Sam Punderson, an educator with 15 years of backcountry ski experience and the former Program and Athletic Director at the Academy at Adventure Quest, an independent secondary school in Brownsville, Vermont with a focus on international travel and adventure sports, the ALPS program also includes two trips to alpine regions around the world such as New Zealand; LaGrave, France; British Columbia; Canada; or Alaska.

Punderson is joined by Glenn Eddy who anchors the freestyle program. Eddy a graduate of Dartmouth College, has a JD from the Boston University School of Law. And is a former U.S. Ski Team member and World Cup competitor. The Eastern Freestyle chairman for the past ten years and the Eastern and National coaches chairman, Glenn is also Level II USSCA certified as well as a Level II examiner and USSCA Freestyle technical director.

With individuals like Eddy and Punderson leading the charge, it’s no wonder that CVA alumni include folks like Bode Miller, Kirsten Clark, Brenda Petzold, Emily Cook, and Boyd Easley.

But lest we forget, CVA is still a school. And, while athletics play a main role in the educational opportunities offered there, it isn’t all fun and games. When DiGravio says that, "our track record for college placement is awesome," you can tell he is fully stoked. Because, ultimately, getting an education is what going to school is all about, even if you do have the best skate park in Maine waiting for you when class is over.