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Cab.

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Difficulty
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Type
Prerequisite
01

How to

Step by step
  1. Approach the jump in switch stance (your non-usual foot forward).

    In switch, what is normally your front foot becomes your back foot. Keep your speed at a controlled, comfortable level at first, and aim your eyes at the spot where you want to land.

  2. Just before the lip, bend both knees to about 110-120 degrees into a crouch, keeping your weight centered evenly over the arches of both feet.

    At the same time, wind only your shoulder line back toward the tail by about 20-30 degrees and pull both arms the same way to load up. This wind-up is your stored rotation. Keep your hips and both feet facing forward for now.

  3. As you pop off the lip, snap the wound-up shoulders all at once toward your toe side (frontside, the way your vision opens up).

    In switch your popping foot is what is normally your back foot, so load your weight onto it and stomp straight down through the tail even though it is your less-familiar foot. Match the moment you extend the knees and unweight with the moment you turn the shoulders, and the board lifts cleanly. Your spin speed is set the instant you leave the lip, you cannot add to it in the air.

  4. In the air the hips follow the shoulders, and the feet follow the hips.

    Pull both knees up toward your chest to make your body compact, which speeds up the spin for the same amount of momentum. Send your eyes ahead to the new direction of travel and lead the rotation with your head.

  5. Once the board has turned 180 degrees back to regular stance, stop the turning shoulder to keep from over-rotating.

    Catch the snow on a flat base, tilted neither to the toe edge nor the heel edge.

  6. On touchdown, bend both knees deep again to about 110 degrees to absorb the impact, shift a little weight onto your regular front foot (your usual front foot), and ride away.

02

Tips & common mistakes

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Tips

Cab is the mirror image of an FS180. An FS180 starts regular and lands switch, while a cab starts switch and lands regular. The spin direction (toe side, forward) and the body movement are identical, so if you can do an FS180, think of it as just swapping which stance you take off and land in.

COMMON MISTAKE

You wobble on the switch approach and the takeoff is unstable -> the root cause is being unaccustomed to switch riding itself -> first drill straight switch runs and falling-leaf on flats and mellow slopes until you can enter the jump at a steady speed.

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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