Trick Tips

^Your probably leaning too far backwards making the board go forward and you will go backwards. If your goofy, lean to the right while doing fakie (other way around for regular).

Now for the Varial Heels, they are much harder and different than Varial Kicks. Make sure you're comfortable with FS Shuv Its and Heelflips.

FS Shuv It: Tip of your toe on the end of the tail, front foot hanging over the deck (like you'd make a heelflip). Jump up and swing your back foot forward making the deck go backwards and voila. FS Shuv It.

Heelflip: Well you know the deal.

Combine them and you're there. But yes, doing a FS Shuv It and flipping at the same time is a bitch at the beginning. Personally I find Switch Varial Heels easier to flip.

seeing as no one else is willing to give me a real answer to this question, I'll ask you. can you tell me how to kickflip? I can flip the board around well, get my right foot on the board but cant get anyfurther from there and im goofy footed...

ok I just tryed a bord slide I got on the rail ok but my board just came out when I landed on it and my back hurts like fuck and I have have a huge cut on my arm can any one help me out

ditto

your probably leaning too far back. it's like when you land a trick and you shoot out. you need to keep your body over the board and this just takes time to get used to.make sure u land with the middle of your board on the rail or wherever's comfortable around that area. that will allow you to distribute your weight a lot better, get some good speed and just put your weight foreward and over the board and you'll be fine





Nuggeto I wrote something about kickflips in bambam's topic

To add to sam's point, also try doing it right so u land it....tht will help alot. Also u can take that tip onto alot of other tricks.

Yeah,

ollie land on the rail and land... That's it dumbed down a bit Image file not present in the recovered backup

and if that fails shout and throw your board around so the idiots around you think that you can do it normally and are just having a bad day. I swear that's all koston had to do Image file not present in the recovered backup

boardslide on rails:
- start on flat bars.. lean for ward.
- if you can do this, try it on things that slighty go down.. you need to get the feeling for this..
- try sliding on things that are low but get close to handrails .. if you can slide these you can practically do handrails.. you just need to do it..

thanks for the tips guys might go try tommorow

Let us know how it goes

can do
but well im still to pussy to try it again help me with this
ok when I do pop shove its I normally land with both feet towards the front??? and it FUCKS ME UP

Watch your bolts? I dunno just try to pop it more like keepin your back foot straight or something, I never had that problem though... keep upright n just watch your bolts as they come round, sorry not much help

hey better then nothing

I need to learn tre flips. I got 260 shove its and varial kickflips dialled but dunno the tre flip technique. ne help?

Place your back foot on the far side of your tail and your front foot somewhere in the middle of the board. You are gonna have to play around with your front foot position because that is where everyone's flipping style becomes unique. Get some speed and scoop your back tail real hard so you get the 360 board spin. Practice doing those and once you can get your board to spin 360, you can start concentrating on making the board do a flip while its going 360. Give it a little flick and not too much, or it will overspin and you might land primo. The whole motion looks kinda like a scissorkick. Just remember the whole key to treflips is scoop. It also helps to swing your weight from left to right as you flip.

nice one thanks man. I saw some kid pulling them down the 6 set at st.pauls and got jealous.

yeah im having trouble with the kickflip, I landed the pop-shuvit but I screw that up like always... With the kickflip sometimes my foot gets caught on the end and just moves the board fowards. Other times ill hit it in the air. And sometimes it will just be retarded... Any tips? And if u answered this shit before sry theres 10 pages I dont feel like searching through them. As for the pop-shuvit I will sometimes land it but then the board will shoot out fomr under me and ill bust my ass. other timesthe board just stops when I land on it and I fall. Any tips on either trick will be appreciated... thx

Bro basic first tricks like these are fucking hard to explain it's litterally a matter of trial and error. One day it'll just click and you'll get it.

One thing I could suggest though is if your having trouble with shooting out as you land a pop shove it's cause you're not landing solidly enough, you're probably underconfident and not putting enough weight into the landing. Make sure you land bolts, and you land with your full weight into the board. Keep your body weight over your feet. As you land truck bolts it gives you a wide center of balance and means that shooting out will be harder to do. Then it's just a matter of getting used to that.


As for your kickflips being inconsistent. Experiment with all different possitions when learning. Make sure you rememebr what happens when you put your feet where. If you're getting a good spin, watch the board come up to you, and as you see those bolts fucking slam it down.






Lemme know how it goes mate, in here or in the new shit thread. (if it's even there, I'm sure it is). Lemme know if that helped. Good luck and keep rolling.

Banned.

Says the guy giving out tips who's never skated before in his life...

So? Its what he wanted to know?

By all means post your expert opinion.

Ok I will.

GOOD.

Quite.

thx chorus, ill try that. And I know im under confident I seen videos of what ppl might to, and I do almost exactly as they show. Like spreading my feet out and landing weird. But also I have anger problems, so when I dont get anywhere near close in 3 trys... I flip out and throw the board. But thx for your opinion. ill keep trying

Cool. Like I said in the early days it's a lot of trail and error as you're gettin used to how the board works and shit like that, try not to get angry at it though mate cause it's the same as anything and will just cloud your judgement and make it worse. keep at it though mate.

how long have u been skating for... this is one of my main reasons for getting pissed. I've been at it for almost a year and the most I can do is a low ollie, a primo flip, a casper spin to a flip... and thats it, all bs stuff and some bonelesses like 180 and fingerflip and beanplant

Yeah mate, took me the good side of 10 months to get kickflips landed everynow and again. You'll find though mate you'll learn in plateaus. You'll be waiting and trying new shit for fucking ages then all of a sudden you get loads of shit at once, It's sticking through the shit stages where you're getting nothing that's hard.

I've been skating for about 4 years now, but I had to stop for a year after my op, only do it for fun now really, not going big anymore.

thx man, most of your tips worked, I resorted to my first, well second instinct when my friend told me what to flick with. which part. and then I tried a diff wa. now im back to the old way, and I alnded a few. sadly I broke the board in half, and instead of po shuvits I just do shuvits cause its easier and I dont care.

I need some tips on how to ollie.