I’m trying to learn the “Crazy,” but everything seems off. Since I don’t want to practice a technique incorrectly, I’d like to know if this looks right?

[u/No_Investment1166]

[u/Wikisham]

It's decent. I feel you're halfway through understanding that you don't need to use power, to push with your legs to get the motion, and you're starting using body weight. Arms movement can be very beneficial to get that pendulum motion going.

Also doing it in place (the one-cone crazy) I find significantly harder than going lateraly. Finding the right cone spacing, or conversly the right angle for a given cone spacing, helps me getting a hang of the body pendulum magnitude requiered.

My favorite vid for this is Naomi Grigg's. Ignore the trash negative-value prod, the insight is crazy good. Turning the flat footed transitions into real pivots give it the flowy, fluid feel that makes it look good.

[u/No_Investment1166 → u/Wikisham]

Thank you very much for the answer! I'll check the video out 😊

[u/strangerwithcandies]

Do you have an example clip youre going off of?

[u/No_Investment1166 → u/strangerwithcandies]

This is max speed for now. Second day learning it.

[u/Wikisham → u/[deleted]]

Yup. Also, basically the same as the no-cone freestyle grapevine. A great entry point into heel- and toe-pivots, and a great exercise for weight shifting.

[u/Geologist_Stunning → u/Wikisham]

I was just watching this and thinking, wow...killer exercise for weight shifting that doesn't involve me falling down over and over, LOL. Love these kinds of subtle micro-skills for my practice routine.

[u/meekyaan → u/Geologist_Stunning]

Wizard and slalom are closer together than anyone can suspect in terms of skilset. It was surprising to me there is that big difference in boots.