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Indy Grab
aka Indy Air
Indy–
The Indy Grab is a grab on your toe
edge with your trailing hand between your bindings. If an
Indy is done with a spin then it has to be a backside spin.
If you are spinning frontside and grab Indy you have really
just done a Frontside grab.
The Indy
is a good starting point for a grab and for getting air. Doing
a grab or adding a grab in a more complicated trick helps
to stabilize yourself in the air and makes you look like you
know what you are doing.
HOW-TO
Like any other time you are going
to get air start off with some speed and head straight for
your jump.
When you
get to the transition of the jump start your ollie so that
by the time you hit the lip of the jump you are olling off
the top of it.
As you
feel yourself becoming air born make sure to pull your legs
up by bending your knees. You don’t want to bend over,
that will totally discombobulate you in the air and you will
probably end up crashing.
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Reach down
with the hand that is closest to the tail of your board and
firmly grab the toe edge of your board between you bindings.
With your other hand reach straight into the air. You are
using your front hand as a counter balance.
Hold on
tight because you want to tweak your grab. This refers to
extending one leg as much as possible (trying to make it straight)
while still holding on. This is big points in the style game.
It is also important to hold that grab for as long as possible.
However,
make sure that after you have passed the apex of your jump
you start to look for the exact spot you are going to be landing
and stare hard at it. You want to spot your landing.
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Hold on
to that board as long as you can. When you do let go keep
your legs bent up until that last second. Right as the ground
rapidly approaches extend your legs and stomp your board down
onto the landing. Make sure the board is coming down completely
flat. This will help you keep from falling. Make sure you
absorb as much of the impact as you can in your knees. After
you land start a toeside turn to keep yourself from butt checking.
Well done,
one down and one million to go.
- Lakes
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Gear
Stuff to keep you riding day in and dayout.
Snowboard
Helmets
Snowboard Hip
Pads
Goggles
& Lens
Learning Aids
These books and vids can also help you master
all sorts of niftytricks.
Todd
Richards' Trick Tips, Vol. 1: Park and Pipe Basics
Todd
Richards' Trick Tips, Vol. 2: Park and Pipe, The Next Level
Learn To Snowboard DVD - Boarding Skool
The Illustrated Guide To Snowboarding
Snowboarding
Skills: The Back-To-Basics Essentials for All Levels
Snowboarder's
Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to Snowboarding
(Sick)
: A Cultural History of Snowboarding
Blower
: Snowboarding Inside Out
Lost
in Transition
Learn the lingo
Learn what all those things they are saying
really mean
Rainbow Rail -arched rail
Air -getting you and your board completely air borne
Edge -metal edges that run along either side of your snowboard
Avalanche -when a layer of snow is weak and can't support the weight of the snow that has fallen
Comp -gathering of riders to find out who is the best among them
Battleship -rail that angles up then flattens out then angles down again
Helmet -protect a snowboarder's head
Backcountry -places you would go where not a lot of others do
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