Why does Keelan Dadd skate his boards backwards

[iKobrakai]

Seriuosly, none of you knows why the bigger end is in the back.........? No, still nothing?

[victor333]

I do this shit to when I skate switch, and on FS shuvs, varial heels, hardflips and impossibles. I need that extra little pop on those

Does it really give you more pop, though, or is it just in your head? I would think that if it really did give you more pop, then everyone would be doing it.

[LOU.502]

for me, it has mostly to do with my trucks. my back truck is tighter than my front truck, so im pretty picky about which way my board is facing. i pop off the tail for regular and fakie, and the nose for nollie and switch. when i do a trick where the board spins 180 under me (hardflip, bs bigspin...) i pop off the nose so the board ends up under my feet the "right way", especially down gaps and stuff. it's probably all mental, but i feel like i'm more "stable" and have better board control with that tighter truck under my right foot and the slightly looser truck under my left foot, no matter what direction i'm rolling.

[sebastian]

more importantly, why doesn't he take the price tags off of his hats?

[Ruftbeir]

The self proclaimed "switch king" also has boards that are symmetrical.



I too skate backwards, learned it wrong and now I'm used to it. Skating the normal way feels weird. I really had the worst group of friends to start skating with, since we all skated backwards and pushed mongo

It was great.

[cant stop]

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I only pop with the tail when I skate regular, switch, nollie and even fakie I pop with the nose.
This summer I gonna start skate fakie with my tail, but it's gonna be hard after 14 years.

[close]

Same. Feels better somehow.

[close]

I flip flop when it comes to fakie, it really depends what I'm doing. I pop fakie off the tail for tricks like fakie nosegrind or half cab crooks, but a lot of fakie flip tricks I pop off the nose...

Yeah, I pop with my tail when I do switch nosegrinds and crooks. But for a switch 5-0 I pop with the nose.

[TheNAC]

more importantly, why doesn't he take the price tags off of his hats?

[93tilinfinity]

Is this a serious question? Did you just start skating? Are we gonna get into the whole "There is no nollie 1/2 cab, or a such thing as a full-cab, no such thing as blind-side, and when your back is to the curb it's backside?" I wish I could focus your board.

[TheNAC]

Is this a serious question? Did you just start skating? Are we gonna get into the whole "There is no nollie 1/2 cab, or a such thing as a full-cab, no such thing as blind-side, and when your back is to the curb it's backside?" I wish I could focus your board.

Yeah dude, me too. Can I mail it to you so you can focus it?

[Bertie]

my right foot never strays from the tail.
the amount of you skating backwards is weird.

[bumpnrun]

pop off tail - normal, fakie
pop off nose - switch, nollie

Sometimes I'll get fussy with big spins and have to pop them off the nose

[boyan]

Can't answer that question because I'm still confused as why he leaves the tag on his hats.

[Box of Frogs]

pop off tail - normal, fakie
pop off nose - switch, nollie

Sometimes I'll get fussy with big spins and have to pop them off the nose

Shove-its is the only exceptions, they go both ways (ha)