| TRICK TIPS |
| Back by popular demand, you want em i put em up, learn new tricks and piss off wannabes. |
| The Ollie |
| Place your feet as followed: Back foot on the tail and the front in the middle of your board. With the back foot quickly pop your foot down and snap it back up. At the same time you are popping you should be Dragging your front foot up the board. As soon as your front foot reaches the front truck you need to but your back foot on the back trucks and push down. The ground is coming so bend your knees. The key word is DRAG you have to drag your foot up a lot of people just slam their for as soon as they pop but you need to DRAG. Usually what happens is you learn to slam your foot down as soon as you pop I can't say enough about this because almost everyone slams. YOU NEED TO DRAG!! Another thing that happens but not as much and this bad habit can be easily fixed. When you pop sometimes your board doesn't get in the air because you didn't snap you foot back up. You need to put your foot back as quick as possible. From hear I can't tell you much more you have to practice, practice, practice. If your still slamming your foot not DRAGGING then you probably know that I feel like I am talking to a brick wall or lamp post. You need to DRAG. If you want to get a higher Ollie then you have to pop quicker and DRAG higher on your board. Start small Ollie hockey sticks around 8 sticks is usually a deck high so from their on you need to stack decks cause it is easier to put a deck up then to put 8 hockey sticks stacked up. I good thing to start doing is Ollie stairs. Like 3 sets and 5's and stuff like that try to Ollie of high drop offs and don't be afraid. Try it if you have a chance that you could possibly land the worst thing is not to try. |
| KICKFLIP |
| It is better to learn tricks moving so take a little push so your moving a bit then setup in your stance. I like you have my front foot half way into the board and right about middle, my back foot is usually setup like an Ollie. Make sure you are comfortable with your stance if you are falling over all the time move your front foot more into the board. Ok now you have your stance, pop down and start dragging your front foot up like an Ollie and drag until you reach your bolts. The only difference about this drag and your Ollie drag is that you foot drags on and angle until it falls of the edge and spins the board. Remember to pop really hard and really flick the board out with your foot, it helps your board spin. Once you have practiced the spinning and can spin a full kickflip almost directly under your feet (not in front, be sure not to kick the board in front of you when you spin it) the you should now practice catching the board with both feet. This is where most people have trouble, getting both their feet onto the board. You want to really pop your board hard then tuck up. When you hear all those other people saying to you look down see the grip tape? then catch the board! They are right there just to lazy to help you. One of the best things to do is try to focus less on spinning the board and more on landing with two feet. So just try to spin half a kickflip and try to catch and land it with both of your feet. When you can do that then don't change how you pop or drag just flick a little harder so you can get the full kickflip around. It is pretty hard to land both of your feet if you board is spinning up and down but this is hard to control when you go off a ramp (I'm not just making excuses for the pictures having the board spin up and down. What? I'm not!). To help the board spin level with the ground have your front foot up a bit on the board and not so much back. Just move it up till the board spins level, another thing is lean forward when you pop and drag or put some more weight on your front foot. If you have tried spinning the board half a kickflip and landing it and did that for a while and it didn't help then you can do something else. First practice spinning the board and having Only your back foot land and your front foot to the side of the board. Then try the same thing except have only your front foot land and your back foot on the side of the board. Do this for a while and then try your kickflips, it should help. |
| POP SHOVE-IT |
| Ok first you have to learn to spin the board the easiest way to do this is to stand on the ground and have the board ahead of you then you want to take your back foot put it on the far end of the tail the kick your leg towards your body and the board should spin a 180. Practice this until you think your spinning is good. Then you have to get on the board and try to spin it by doing the same thing kicking your foot toward you body and the board should spin after you can spin while standing on the board you have to land you front foot. Spin the board (like always) and catch it with only your front foot. After you have mastered that (you guessed it) you learn to catch the board with only your back foot. Then keep practicing until you can finally land both feet good luck! IMPORTANT TIPS: 1. Learn this trick while moving. (go at a speed you are comfortable with) 2. when you are going to spin the board lean into the turn then spin it while turning. 3.always keep the board under your feet. If it goes to the left so do you. 4. PRACTICE A LOT! |
| Once you have mastered the basic tricks, try to make your own up, or ride switch, this is where you skate the other way around, left foot front instead of right foot, this is like learning to ride again, or try nollie, the same as regular but front foot on the nose and back foot in the middle. Then learn the above tricks again REMEMBER:Skatin is supposed to be fun, if you can't do a trick, don't get angry, just try it again, or give up. The choice is yours. |