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Landing As you land any jump absorb impact by flexing
with your hips, knees and ankles. The 2 important factors to landing any spin
are learning where to spot your landing and using your edges to stop rotational momentum
once you connect with the snow. A frontside 180 has an open landing which
never leaves your sight throughout the trick. As you connect with the ground, grip the snow
to stop your spin using either your heel or toe edge.
A front 3 uses a blind landing which helps to stop you from over rotating your 360s.
You can actually see the landing of this trick pretty much the whole time while you're flying
through the air making front 3s one of the most common tricks and a favorite among many
riders. As you connect with the snow, stop your rotational
momentum by griping with your toe edge. Landing slightly on you toe edge is how you make a
front 3s landing look effortless and clean. If you don't grip the snow with your toe edge
you'll probably revert which is when you continue rotating, sliding around as you land. It's
very common to revert or slide out when learning front 3s.
For a front 5 the landing is spotted after you've spun a full 360 in a similar fashion
to the 180 with an open landing. You can grip the snow with either your heel edge or toe
edge depending on how much rotation you have. Anything slightly less than a 540, land with
your heel edge, or for anything slightly more then than a 540, grip with your toes.
A front 7 landing is spotted in the same place as the front 5 however your rotation continues
adding another 180 onto the trick and putting down a blind landing. Grip with your toe edge
as you connect with the snow in the exact same fashion as your frontside 3s. It's very
common to revert or slide out on the landing of a front 7. Using a toe edge grip is the
way to kill any remaining rotation. Using the correct edge to land is critical
and it can save you some bad slams. When learning bigger spins you'll have attempts
where you're going to come up short on your rotation. If you make sure to always land
on your uphill edge then you'll usually be able to slide the rest of trick and hopefully
ride away safely.