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any advice on how to get my switch skating on par with my regular skating? ankle injury has forced me to skate switch for a while, and i just realized how much i suck at skating switch.... for instance:
pushing mongo, going switch
not being able to acid drop off tiny curbs
wack sw 180s
my switch ollies are semi decent, but the control just isant there....
thanks in advance...
just ride switch everywhere, like *everywhere*. start throwing your board down switch, push to the liquor store switch, everything. and when you're doing tricks where you land switch/fakie, don't immediately turn back around. force yourself to take at least one good, hard switch push, then do another switch trick. also, pay attention to what your shoulders are doing on regular tricks, and try to do that on switch ones. practice being able to switch ollie with your shoulders open, without turning a 180, like you can regular.
and don't be embarrassed at how doofy everything looks at first. a month of skating switch all the time will do wonders.
yeah thats the hardest part, like the natural tendency to just want to skate regular.... my switch push is horrible, all unstable and cross footed....
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^^ he has very nice tre flips, does everyone have a friend with really good 360 flips because I know I do and every town seems to have one tre flip guy
heh, i've got the nollie tre friend. wish i could do 3 flips like ^^ that guy, those were caught so cleanly.
on another note, can anyone tell me the secret to getting my front shuvs to *not* flip over? how do people do those well-popped, perfectly flat ones? is the levelling more in the front foot or back?
i wrote a trick tip on fs shoves in previous pages of this thread, but im semi drunk so ill type it again....
foot positioning is key:
front foot in a heel flip like position, toes hanging off the board slightly, behind the bolts
back foot, heel side corner of the tail....
shove and front foot does nothing, it has to remain flat, and the front foot is to catch the board... after board is caught with front foot bring your back foot on and there you have it....
remember to keep your front foot flat so it doesnt flip....