One good way of doing this is by using a skateboard as a tool.
You will have to move your center of gravity over you back foot.
I like to do this by showing the hip to the side and slightly bending the body.
When doing some other spin variations it is not ideal.
Try balancing just standing still on a skateboard like this.
Start rolling on the flat on one foot.
Pay attention to the shape of my body.
The hip is moved back so I am nicely balanced over my back foot.
Notice that I am leaning a bit forwards/downhill to stay balanced on this down rail.
Pretend this is a short and wide box like the first photo.
On a wide box the balance backwards and forwards is sort of automatically taken care of by the ski.
First times you try this you definitely rather want to lean a bit to much forwards than backwards.
Rotate 90A on to the box and also verify you land with the ski completely flat against the box.
Having you hands a bit wide helps slowing down the rotation.
If you have to, use a bit of counterrotation to adjust your rotation so you land nicely backwards.
If Gary here did not counterrotate he would have landed crooked which isnA t smooth.
To backslide a whole box or rail you must in general lean back more than you think.
Then you push down the back foot onto the rail.
This is very important to make it maintain good balance and control.
If you jump too high and you drop onto you back foot you will loose some balance sand control.
venture to land on the back foot with the leg slightly bent.
Landing on the edge of the box like this is not cool!
Rotating to slow, also not cool!
Set of just enough rotation to do a perfect 90A rotation onto the box or rail!
Land on the box at 90A spin with the ski completely flat on top of the box.
The chicken foot is a way more common problem than crashing on your hip.
This can be very frustrating but almost never painful.
Lean a tiny bit more back/uphill next time!
If this happens lean more forwards.
With lots of practise you will find the sweet spot where you get a nice balance.
Good luck learning this awesome tricks.
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