BACKSIDE 180

1. Gain Speed 

2. Place your feet in the standard ollie position
(though you may want to put your front foot a tad
closer to the nose of your board until you feel
completely comftorable with the trick..) 

3. Perform a clean ollie. 

4. Immediately upon takeoff, you'll need to start your
backward rotation, keeping in mind that the speed of
your rotation need to be adjusted to suit the purpose
of your backside 180. For example: if you're just
doing a quickie to turn yourself from regular to fakie,
you'll need to turn quickly, but if you're backside
180ing a big gap, you'll want to rotate slowly, so you
don't over-rotate. 

5. To rotate correctly and retain balance for landing,
your entire body must turn. Explanation of how to
turn is wasted breath - for everyone the process is
different. 

6. When you land, try hard to get all four wheels to
land at once. Your weight should be centered over
your board - over weighting your nose or tail upon
landing could prove to be disastrous. Your shoulders
should be in line with your board, your arms raised
for balance. 

7. Remember to absorb the shock of landing with
your knees, not the lower back. And if you're
backside 180ing off of something high, to avoid
deck-breakage, land with your feet directly over the
trucks. 

8. You've landed, you're now going fakie, or
backward, or switch, or whatever.