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BS Rodeo 540.
BSロデオ540
バックサイドの斜め後方回転540
How to
Step by step[Mandatory] Wear a helmet and back protector.
Always drill this into an airbag landing first and only move to a medium-to-large kicker once the motion feels automatic. A Backside Rodeo has a long blind phase where you cannot see the landing, so build the habit of spinning without sight in a safe place first.
Prerequisites: a Backflip you can consistently rotate all the way around, and a BS360 you can reliably spin in the air.
This trick is a backward flip with a backside (BS360) twist layered onto it, producing a diagonal rotation. If either spin is shaky on its own, you will end up doing only one of them in the air.
Approach on the same line as a BS360: straight into the lip and at a steady medium speed.
Too little speed leaves you short and landing on your back, so keep enough pace that you never stall.
Just before the lip, set up with both knees slightly bent (around 120 to 130 degrees) and your weight biased toward the heel (heelside) edge.
Because you rotate toward your back over the heelside, starting slightly on the heels lets you flow into the spin cleanly.
At the top of the lip, pop off both feet at once and launch straight up first.
At the same moment, pull your back-foot shoulder (the shoulder above your rear foot) back and diagonally behind you, and tuck your chin to send your head backward. This shoulder pull plus head drop is what creates the backflip and the backside twist in one motion.
Right after you leave the lip (0.3 to 0.5 seconds), pull both knees to your chest and wrap your arms in tight to make yourself compact.
Your spin speed is fixed the instant you pop and cannot be added to in the air. The tighter you pull your limbs in, the faster you rotate on that same momentum.
From here is the long blind phase until the landing appears.
Keep your eyes tracking the backside direction your pulled shoulder faces, and judge how far you have rotated by feel: "halfway" then "almost there." Lifting your head early stops the rotation, so keep your head sent backward until you can see.
The moment the landing (the snow) enters your sightline, extend your tucked knees and arms all at once to stop the spin.
Land switch stance (riding the opposite direction), keep your weight over the center of the board, and absorb the impact with both knees.
Tips & common mistakes
In the app — learn while you logPicture it as a straight backflip tilted slightly toward your back: a diagonal rotation. An FS Rodeo tilts the opposite way, so the shoulder you pull and the direction you look are mirror-reversed. Remembering it as "opposite shoulder, opposite gaze" keeps the two from getting confused.
Fear stops you from sending the shoulder and head toward your back, so you never enter the rotation → your body is resisting the backward fall itself. On the airbag, drill only the motion of "pull the back-foot shoulder while falling toward your back" until you can commit to it without seeing the landing.
The rest of the tips, fixes for each mistake, and what to try next are in the app — learn them while you log. Intermediate+ tricks are for Members.
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