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Trick

Tuck Knee

Rear arm passes outside the knee to the toe edge; knees are tucked.

HOW TO DO IT

Tuck Knee — Rear-hand Version

Rear arm passes outside the rear knee to toe-edge contact between bindings, with tucked legs. The source adds a nose-down/board-behind styling direction.

Preparation and setting

Use comfortable stationary positioning or the appropriate supervised training-board context first. For any snow application, an independently controlled take-off, flight and landing must already exist; this card does not prescribe a new jump size or trajectory.

Execution / application sequence

  1. Establish the selected contact in comfortable positioning before changing airborne demand.
  2. Locate the outside-rear-knee reach with a compact board.
  3. Keep the described toe-edge contact.
  4. Explore a small knee/board styling change, then return..
  5. For a technically reviewed snow application, preserve the established take-off, take the hold only after departure, then release and recover board alignment before contact.

Learning and practice

Learn contact, route and modest styling as separate tasks. Rehearse the return as deliberately as the hold. Add a short contact to a familiar controlled air only after the specific version has been technically reviewed; shorten or omit the hold if landing organization becomes rushed.

Errors, limits and corrections

Generic knee bending does not establish the hand route. Excessive board tilt compromises recovery; reduce the tweak.

Observable checks

The intended hand, contact zone and route are distinguishable; styling is modest and recoverable; the hold is deliberately released before landing.

SOURCE-BACKED DETAIL

Characteristics

Record type
named grab and knee position
Demonstrator
Jared Elston
Grab hand
rear hand
Reach route
rear arm outside the rear knee
Edge
toe edge
Contact position
between the bindings
Front leg
tucked
Rear leg
tucked
Board orientation
nose directed downward; grabbed board moved behind rider in source wording

01

Additional teaching summary — coaching review required

The source emphasizes reaching outside the knee, tucking the legs, directing the nose downward, and moving the grabbed board behind the rider. Its informal directional wording is treated as a board-orientation cue, not a compass direction.

02

Additional editorial review notes

Preserve the specific hand route; do not reduce the record to generic knee flexion.