Last new trick you learned

[Kitto]

Texas plants, unfortunately nothing like grosso though.  If only.

[myles.]

bs bigspins

[catfish]

my shoes are fucked so i have been learning heelflips and varial heels, varials aren't too hard but heelflips always go fucking sideways on me!

[Tufty]

my shoes are fucked so i have been learning heelflips and varial heels, varials aren't too hard but heelflips always go fucking sideways on me!

Keep your shoulders parallel to your board during the trick. I was a heelfliper when i was a kid now i do both but i prefer flips because i can see the board. I do the heelflips kind of blindly.

[FUSE]

switch bs 5050 on a curb.  a little embarrassed how stoked i got, but that was a breakthrough for my board control.

best trick i got recently was switchflip, by far.  i've been trying those fuckers on and off for like fifteen years, so the first one i rolled away from was seriously a spiritual experience.  landed 6 of them in 2009, 2 in 2010 and none in 2011 cause I was kinda rehabbing.  i'm gonna break myself off this year trying #9 and #10.

anybody have some good tips for switch heel?  if you learned it when you were in your 30's, that might be even more relevant in my case.  cheers.

[VictoriousOG]

I'm finally able to do 3 shuvs, not consistently though.

[BuddyPal]

got my dylan rieder on by learning impossibles, now i just need cool hair, button down shirt, and a face sculpted by the gods

[Probably A Robot]

Backside bonelesses. I could do them for awhile already to tail or disaster but now I can finally jump back in, and now that's all I want to do. The whole concept of jumping back on to the board took so long for my mind to grasp it's almost embarrassing, especially considering how easy they were as soon as I did it a couple times. Next up, beanplants. Then time for russian bonelesses.

[Josh McLaughlin]

switch bs 5050 on a curb.?  a little embarrassed how stoked i got, but that was a breakthrough for my board control.

best trick i got recently was switchflip, by far.?  i've been trying those fuckers on and off for like fifteen years, so the first one i rolled away from was seriously a spiritual experience.?  landed 6 of them in 2009, 2 in 2010 and none in 2011 cause I was kinda rehabbing.?  i'm gonna break myself off this year trying #9 and #10.

anybody have some good tips for switch heel??  if you learned it when you were in your 30's, that might be even more relevant in my case.?  cheers.

Not sure if its the best tip but its worked pretty well for me. When Im bending my knees down to pop and about to come back up I swing both of my arms up behind me and past my head into the air, and proceed on fliking the heelflip. It should feel like a pretty smooth motion though. Not sure if it works for everyone or if just by swinging my arms I am distracting myself from doing something wrong. Anyways, good luck. Its a fun one.

[Zurg]

switch back tails. i did a few on boxes recently, but i finally got one on a concrete ledge yesterday. so hyped

[Upgrayedd]

Texas plants, unfortunately nothing like grosso though.  If only.

I just learned those too. Except i did them on a bank. The cloest qp's near me are shitty metal ones. And i'll be damned if im gonna learn foot plants on those janky things.

[Strike A Pose]

switch bs 5050 on a curb.  a little embarrassed how stoked i got, but that was a breakthrough for my board control.

best trick i got recently was switchflip, by far.  i've been trying those fuckers on and off for like fifteen years, so the first one i rolled away from was seriously a spiritual experience.  landed 6 of them in 2009, 2 in 2010 and none in 2011 cause I was kinda rehabbing.  i'm gonna break myself off this year trying #9 and #10.

anybody have some good tips for switch heel?  if you learned it when you were in your 30's, that might be even more relevant in my case.  cheers.

It sounds stupid, but I try to focus on jumping straight up as soon as I pop the board.  I know a lot of people have trouble keeping their shoulders parallel to the deck (including me) on that trick, so just try to stay centered before anything else.

Of course putting your pop foot on the heel-side pocket of the tail will cause the board to react faster. Just experiment with front foot placement while stationary on flatground and figure out what works best and go for it.

[finknoos]

fakie pop shuvs down stuff. always hated going straight fakie/switch down things, feels weird as fuck.

[Kitto]

Texas plants, unfortunately nothing like grosso though.  If only.

I just learned those too. Except i did them on a bank. The cloest qp's near me are shitty metal ones. And i'll be damned if im gonna learn foot plants on those janky things.

I want to get a nice hop in now rather than a faint hearted step

[Upgrayedd]

Texas plants, unfortunately nothing like grosso though.  If only.

I just learned those too. Except i did them on a bank. The cloest qp's near me are shitty metal ones. And i'll be damned if im gonna learn foot plants on those janky things.

I want to get a nice hop in now rather than a faint hearted step

foot plants are so dope when done properly. i love dorking around with them.

[FUSE]

appreciate the feedback josh and strike.  i tried the arms back thing but it wasn't working out.  i can see how that could get you to time it right though.  i'm definitely jumping the gun; need to wait a little longer before i flick i think.

the heel pocket for the pop foot is a good tip too.  before i read your tip i started gorilla gripping my board with my flip foot and thinking one-foot ollie.  that was actually working out.  might put the pop foot more in that heel pocket like your saying.  it looks like if i do that, think one-foot, then get the pop foot out of the way, i might be there.  of course i might be hopeless on this one.  big ups on the help out though dudes.

[Strike A Pose]

appreciate the feedback josh and strike.  i tried the arms back thing but it wasn't working out.  i can see how that could get you to time it right though.  i'm definitely jumping the gun; need to wait a little longer before i flick i think.

the heel pocket for the pop foot is a good tip too.  before i read your tip i started gorilla gripping my board with my flip foot and thinking one-foot ollie.  that was actually working out.  might put the pop foot more in that heel pocket like your saying.  it looks like if i do that, think one-foot, then get the pop foot out of the way, i might be there.  of course i might be hopeless on this one.  big ups on the help out though dudes.

+That arm flailing advice was some retarded poser shit btw.


Just make sure you are trying to flick your heel straight out over the nose of the deck instead of karate kicking forward too much. I think that hanging too much of your toe off the deck can cause wild kicks that cause the board to rocket instead of flip.

I would just practice them in the grass or on some carpeting until you figure out how to flick them consistently.

[TONY!]

bs 50-50 pop shuv body varial out. woot!

[dank scorpio]

anybody have some good tips for switch heel??  if you learned it when you were in your 30's, that might be even more relevant in my case.?  cheers.

just barely hang your toes off. like an inch or so. think of it as a switch ollie...then flick.

[baconeggandcheese]

bs 360 no comply. Now i am working on the fs. So much fun trick.

I can do the frontside ones but not even come close to backside ones.  I love that trick though, congrats!  Any tips?  It looks like you have to take your front foot off and plant it way infront and to your toe side so your board can get through your legs right?  And it always kinda looks like you pop your tail and take your foot off at almost the exact same time?  Shit confuses me.

[Strike A Pose]

Creepin' up on some varial heels.

I can do them stationary with regularity.

I'm on and off while rolling, but I'm making progress.

[myrrh]

Fakie 360 flip.

Also had a no comply session the other day:
fs 360 no comply
fakie fs 360 no comply
nollie bs 360 no comply
fs bigspin no comply
cabbalerial no comply
fs 360 shuv no comply

[Nanda Zinger]

FS Slappy 180 out. Used to flounder around just taking em out normal.

[BraveUlysses]

Tried to learn wallies today but I kept accidentally olleing over the ledge I was trying em on. It was weird, I would try so hard not to ollie buy next thing I know I'm in the air. It's like as a skater I've been trained to ollie when approaching an obstacle not bash into it so my brain just tells my body to ollie even though that's not what I want to do.

[The Muffin Man]

Got my first bs 180 the other day. It was horrible, but I'll take it. I literally cannot figure out how to do them well.

[needlejuice]

Varial heel. Did them now and then, but now they're suddenly pretty consistent.

I yearn to be able to do this trick. I can do em switch but regular varial heels are the bane of my existence

dude for the longest time i never thought id  be able to do that trick. i have trouble w heels in general but var heels i barely understood the rotation. then all of a sudden one day just fucking around changing the way i bent down to pop em it came to.  gotapoint that back leg inward great tip for front shoves as well



recenetly i learned to actually land popped back bigspins pretty consistent and just landed my first switch backbig the same day

[chockfullofthat]

half cab backside 50-50's and half cab backside 5-0's 

So much fun and not too hard to do with some speed.

[victor333]

Got my first bs 180 the other day. It was horrible, but I'll take it. I literally cannot figure out how to do them well.

practice, practice, practice. I don't setup my feet in the ollie position; I put my front foot a little closer to the front bolts.

Having good pop shuvs helps, too. A lot of people say you should look at your back foot, but I don't think I do. Whatever helps, just stick with it.



Learned varial heels about a month ago. Still really sketchy for me. I have to hang a lot of toe off (almost half of my foot), and my front foot is also pretty close to the back bolts. Reminds me of kids who do treflips with their feet really close together. Whatever, though, still pretty happy

[Fanu]

On a mission from hell to learn switch flips.
I'll make sure to let ya'll know when I get it.
My friend's on a mission from the very deepest depths of hell to learn switch tre so I'm in a good company.

[BIGFLIPSALLDAY]

I dont know what these tricks are called but i just call them a nollie big ass heel and a big flip back 3,Its just a nollie big heel but the board does a 540 and my body does a 360 and the same for the bigflip.what the fuck are those called?