MillerLight60

Really the only people that you will find hard booting at Shasta a majority of the time are the high school racers and coaches. But they only ever come out January and February on Sundays and Mondays.

In the coming days/weeks I will attempt to locate, download and publish any videos I can find of me riding to give a better idea of my ability in an effort to clear up any unintentionally misconstrued first Impressions. Thank you for understanding.

I apologize for the far between and few responses as I am not on a computer most of the week. That being said I have gone to multiple summer camps at Mt.Hood working with Mike Jennings on racing techniques. I have watched almost 20 hours worth of instructional videos on YouTube on carving and riding in general. I even had the opportunity to ride with Robby Burns for a day and raced against him about a week or two before he went to china. I do understand how any confusion may have arose making it appear as though I am a very inexperienced rider do to the poor quality of riding and just sheer lack of content in the videos I posted to the forums. As was pointed out by @bobdea yes I have been riding for 8 years but for the first 3 years I did approximately 10 days a year with no coaching just figuring everything out on my own. This did indeed lead to a lot of bad habits like swinging my back foot when turning instead of using appropriate board weighting. The following 4 years I was in high school but lived almost 2 hours from the hill so still only had the ability to put it 15 to 20 or so days a year. So while yes I have been riding for 8 years I will admit that a lot of those years were wasted and in some areas of my riding hindered progress. I was not attempting to use this forum as a way to show off or had any ill intentions but instead trying to get some alternate feedback. I have watched every video of my own riding frame by frame and it is very easy to get tunnel vision when watching personal content that you end up making excuses to yourself as to why what happened happened. I was only seeking a different point of view. I hope this is able to clear everything up.

Thank you everyone for the feedback really helped me to realize how much room I actually have to grow as a rider.

Ive been Hard booting since 2014. Started in 6th grade and just graduated high school last year.

I wasn't able to get most of my better runs filmed this year but this should do for now until I can get some.

My goal is USASA then on to NORAM and hopefully the Olympics.

I would probably say more on the line of racing tips or just anything that you may notice in my riding that should be fixed. I will see if I can find additional videos of my riding and upload them here for more context of my riding style/form.

If anybody has any feedback or riding tips they would be greatly appreciated.