How to 180 onto a Box - Snowboard Trick Tips

Whats up Guys? Welcome to your online snowboard camp! Today we’re going to work on  how to 180, on and off a box. This trick is stylish and allot of fun. Couple skills you want to have  before trying this trick, are front and back 180’s, 50/50’s, and board slides. A new skill you will learn in this trick,  is how to twist a 180( Or skate style 180). The difference between a skate style 180 and a regular 180 is skate style you twist your upper body in the direction you want to 180. Then untwist your legs and snowboard underneath you. Keeping your upper body and lower body separated. If you twist your upper body and jump, your legs and snowboard will want to follow.. The reason we don’t want to rotate the 180 is because if you rotate your spin. You’ll keep spinning. By twisting its stops your spin at  180 degrees. Practice twisting 180’s on the snow before you take it to the park. On your ride in, you want your snowboard to be headed straight towards the center of the box. This will line you up to stay on the box until the end. You want your upper body to be twisted facing towards the box. Next you want to get a little bit onto your heel edge. Popping off your heels will help your toe edge clear the front of the box. As you pop untwist your legs underneath your and land 180 on the box with your board flat. Once your on the box start twisting your upper body back .  As you come off the box you want to  untwist your legs to land the 180. Bend your knees to absorb the landing, and ride away clean. Once your comfortable with this trick, you can add variations to it. Adding a tail or nose press. And stepping it up to a more advanced rails or doing the trick switch. Have fun with this trick, and I’ll see ya in the park!