How to do The First 10 Grabs in

You want to level up your straight airs or your spins? It's time to learn some grabs. In today's video we're going to cover the top 10 grabs to learn on skis. So before you even try any grabs you want to make sure you have the right stance and the right position in the air. So you want to ride up and you want to pop and then wait till you're balanced and then you're going to tuck your knees almost gymnastics style and then you're going to bring the grab to you. Don't reach for the grab you're going to have a lot more success if you do it this way. So the first grab we're going to learn is a safety grab. Safety grab is right under your boot or right in front of the binding and it's called safety grab because it's the safest one to do. So we're going to do one here, pop, lift my knees up and bring the grab to me. Safety grab is super chill that's why it's number one. As the list goes on we're going to get to harder and harder grabs. All right so the second trick we're going to learn is a mute grab. A mute grab is opposite hand opposite ski right in front of the binding right here and this is one of my favorite grabs to tweak and to tweak a grab all you need to do is shift your weight back and crank the ski to your back then with your other hand poke it out because you're going to get knocked off balance from tweaking it to your back so the other hand is going to come up to balance you. So we'll get a mute grab here, tweak it. That has got to be one of my favorite grabs to straight air with and it's one of the most fun to tweak too. So the third grab we're gonna learn is Japan. Japan is opposite hand opposite ski but behind your leg like this. Japan looks super sick in like a flat spin or rodeo. So the fourth grab to learn on skis is going to be tail or blunt. The difference between tail and blunt, tail is right here on somewhere on the edge and blunt is all the way capped. Bonus points if you cross it. Blunt definitely looks cooler but when you're just learning tail is just fine. This grab is a little weird in a straight air. On like safety or mute you want to tuck your knees up but on this one you almost want to tilt your legs back and bring the grab up too. I don't love doing that grab in a straight air. It's one of my personal favorites in a cork seven or in threes it looks pretty dope too. So the fifth grab to learn on skis is going to be a truck driver. Truck driver is like dubbed safety like right in front of the binding right here. The higher you reach up the better it's gonna look. So that's truck driver pretty chill pretty mellow trick. Cool in a cork three I guess. All right so the sixth grab we're gonna learn on skis is gonna be critical. Critical is opposite hand opposite ski kind of like mute but on the other side and unlike mute we don't cross this one. That one is an absolute classic in like a rodeo five. The seventh grab we're gonna learn on skis is a nose grab. It's all the way on your end of your ski right here. If you have trouble grabbing it you can do this weird hack where you grab your ski with one hand and then you pull it towards you and grab nose with your other hand. It's kind of a weird hack but it totally works if you struggle grabbing nose. That is one of my personal favorites especially with 180s or 360s it's so fun. So the eighth grab to learn on skis is gonna be dove nose. Just like what we did last time except you're gonna reach your other hand over and grab nose as well. This trick is super fun in straight airs. So the ninth grab to learn on skis is gonna be double Japan. So you're gonna go opposite hand opposite ski behind your leg and then the other hand you're gonna go in front of your binding on the same side. That grab is super fun especially with a 180. It just feels right. So the 10th grab to learn on skis is going to be stalefisher cuban. It's like tail except you reach around and grab your opposite ski. This is stale and then cuban is cap. That grab is pretty fun and it's really going to test how far you can reach over because you really have to reach around your body to grab that one. And if you're doing a spin it will really speed up your rotation. So most tutorials would end here but I'm going to take it a step further. I'm going to show you how to grab in spins and also explain the difference between lead and trailing grabs. So a trailing grab is when you grab with the opposite hand in the direction you're spinning. So let's say I spin left. Trailing grab would be with my right hand. Now a lead grab is when you grab with your leading hand. So if you're spinning left your lead hand is left. So I'd grab with my left hand. And then to grab with a spin the rule of thumb is you want to grab halfway through the spin. So like on a 360 I'm going to reach for the grab at 180. On a 720 I'll reach at 360 and then on switch tricks like a switch 5 I'm going to reach at about switch 2. So I'm going to do a three mute here. Remember to grab at 180 and be super patient. If you reach for the grab too early it's going to mess up your set and you're probably going to get knocked off balance a little bit. If this video helped you leave a like and a comment. And if you can already do grabs and want to learn some spins click this video up here. Peace.