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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: ThatOneGuy on January 31, 2010, 02:23:24 PM
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Post the tricks that still give you trouble to this day.
Varial heels don't make sense to me, the same goes for fs nose slides.
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frontside pop shuvits. but ive got them perfect switch
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when i was young i never learnt the months, till this day i have alot of trouble
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Nollie and switch heels. I can do regular and fakie ones real big. But not the popular way.
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frontside pop shuvits. but ive got them perfect switch
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Wow... Where to start...
I can't do any heelflips whatsoever; regular, nollie, fakie, or switch. I've got decent varial heels and fakie varial heels though, but that's it for the heelflip department.
Switch flips and nollie flips. I think I've only landed two or three switch flips ever.
Switch front pops, can't do those too good at all either
I didn't know how to do regular pop shuv-its for the longest time either; I never bothered to learn em when I was starting out and whenever I'd try them they'd always go primo, I know how to do em now though but for the longest time I couldn't do em.
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I can't hardflip at all, and my pop shuv its are awful.
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tre flips. I've been trying them for as long as I can remember and I've only landed 3 in my life (on a single day 4 years ago). They just do not work and they're like the holy grail in my skating life. If I ever get to learn them, I can die a happy man
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tre flips. I've been trying them for as long as I can remember and I've only landed 3 in my life (on a single day 4 years ago). They just do not work and they're like the holy grail in my skating life. If I ever get to learn them, I can die a happy man
Oh man, I forgot about tre flips. I can't do those to save my life either. I just can't figure out how they work.
Other simple shit that I can't do that I forgot to list:
Backside bigspins. I always end up spinning them too hard and they go primo
A bunch of grind and slide tricks. I have a pretty decent amount of frontside grind tricks, but I suck at backside grind tricks. I think it's just safe to say that I'm not very good at grinds/ledge skating at all.
I'm also really terrible at tranny. Never really bothered to learn how to skate it when I was growing up because I didn't have much access to parks.
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oh yeah, i can't bs 5050 or bs 5-o mid-ledge. or any other bs tricks that involve the tail.
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tons of shit on street
on tranny back smith grinds seem long overdue
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i just dont skate switch. i never feel like practicing it,but i get really stoked when i see a nice switch flip. that is baiscally the only trick i have never done (and sw 3 flip, sw bs flip, sw hardflip, etc.)
i am pretty sure i can do every single trick mentioned in this thread first try or within a few at least, which is funny cause i kind of went out of my way to learn all that stuff. i felt like i shouldnt move on to harder tricks until i had every single basic one. its all about finding the right spots to learn things on.
except 3 flips. i suck at them badly, but i can do them pretty much every try when i am on defense in a game of skate. any other time i just dont have the motivation to go for it.
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Switch and nollie heels have a homing missile aimed at my gooch. I pretty much learned the basic tricks that I put off for some reason, front boards and back 180s. I just started trying back feebles, they don't seem very hard, I'll prolly get'm when the weather gets nicer. I always just skated frontside, even on transtion, like a dummy :(. I can't get back smiths on tranny to grind and I can't back disaster.
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frontside pop shuvits. but ive got them perfect switch
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Heelflips
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tre flips and regular heelflip variations.
regular crooks
smith grinds frontside or backside.
would say front tail, but after years of trying I finally got them down a few weeks ago
a year ago I couldnt do shit on transition besides drop in until I kicked myself in the ass about it, now I don't completely suck at it.
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Frontside flips.
I have done them nollie, switch, and fakie. Regular ones still baffle me. My feet do everything wrong.
nosemanuals too. I've done them, but don't have them, and feel like by now I really should. Its mostly just the fact that manual pads bore me pretty quickly. Maybe if I learned nose manuals better I'd like them more.
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bs noseslides
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Frontside flips.
I have done them nollie, switch, and fakie. Regular ones still baffle me. My feet do everything wrong.
nosemanuals too. I've done them, but don't have them, and feel like by now I really should. Its mostly just the fact that manual pads bore me pretty quickly. Maybe if I learned nose manuals better I'd like them more.
are you referring to nollie bs flips? because nollie fs flip is a whole different trick, and it's actually a lot easier than a nollie bs flip. i'm with you on fs flips though. i've had them at various points in my life, but the last time i had them was years ago, lost them due to an injury.
same with kickflips recently. about two months ago i was nosemanualling this high wooden manual pad (not to rub it in or anything) and i was going against the floor boards which slowed me down and by the time i got to the end, i tried to pop out but just nosedived to my ankle. haven't been able to do any tricks that involve flicking with my left foot since.
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^Same shit happened to me. Hurt my ankle really bad once and now whenever I sprain my right ankle I can't do kickflips for like a month or two. So I have a pretty shit fs flip, too.
Never learnt back noseslides, but I can do nollie noseslides and nollie heel noseslides. I guess I could do one but I can't really remember ever landing one except on accident trying crooks.
Can't sw back 180.
Can't reg varial heel.
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never landed any kind of switch flip in my life. still struggle w/ tre's, tail slides, nose mannys/grinds/slides, and any type of blunt. but what I'm most bummed about is never forcing myself to learn grabs or no-comply's. oh, the shame.
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Frontside flips.
I have done them nollie, switch, and fakie. Regular ones still baffle me. My feet do everything wrong.
nosemanuals too. I've done them, but don't have them, and feel like by now I really should. Its mostly just the fact that manual pads bore me pretty quickly. Maybe if I learned nose manuals better I'd like them more.
same with kickflips recently. about two months ago i was nosemanualling this high wooden manual pad (not to rub it in or anything) and i was going against the floor boards which slowed me down and by the time i got to the end, i tried to pop out but just nosedived to my ankle. haven't been able to do any tricks that involve (http://i50.tinypic.com/eg26x4.jpg)ing with my left foot since.
Yeah, nollie b/s flips. I've done them both ways though.
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Frontside flips.
I have done them nollie, switch, and fakie. Regular ones still baffle me. My feet do everything wrong.
Absolutely the same, its only the regular ones that are impossible for me.
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Also I don't think I'll ever do a back feeble in my life. Even though I'm not dying to learn them, it's just everyone else says they're easy.
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frontside flips, noseslides, and 360 flips will be the death of me.
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I can't throw down. As in I can't run and throw the board down and jump on it. I just never ever learned. I always put my board down...then kick it...then run and jump on it. I'm just not overly coordinated when I'm not skateboarding. It's essentially the only thing I'm at least sorta good at.
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I can't throw down. As in I can't run and throw the board down and jump on it. I just never ever learned. I always put my board down...then kick it...then run and jump on it. I'm just not overly coordinated when I'm not skateboarding. It's essentially the only thing I'm at least sorta good at.
I assume at least once you've kicked your board with your toe and tripped over (or almost) trying to get on? It's happened to me when doing that, must be funny for anyone watching.
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Too many to list
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I can't throw down. As in I can't run and throw the board down and jump on it. I just never ever learned. I always put my board down...then kick it...then run and jump on it. I'm just not overly coordinated when I'm not skateboarding. It's essentially the only thing I'm at least sorta good at.
lol really??? u are a tranny guy you should be able to do these into quarters!!
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I can't throw down. As in I can't run and throw the board down and jump on it. I just never ever learned. I always put my board down...then kick it...then run and jump on it. I'm just not overly coordinated when I'm not skateboarding. It's essentially the only thing I'm at least sorta good at.
damn, that's like the easiest way to get speed for anything. you could probably learn the way i did, when i started trying it, essentially i just ran and did a low caveman onto my board and just allowed it to progress on its own into just a normal throw down.
i mentioned that i can't do any bs grinds other than crooks or if i get onto them straight on, but i didn't say that can't bs ollie. like ollie backside. if i approach a curb bs and i'm cruising, i have to 180 up it or ollie and make a super sharp turn.
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bs feebles on rails
nollie bigspins on flatground. I can do them on tranny, and down/over stuff though i just can't for the life of me do one on regular ol flatground. I get a letter in skate every time on those
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front shuvits and back 180's are the epitome of simple tricks i suck at, even though I can do hardflips, varial heels, backside flips and backside heel flips. aside from that there's a bunch of tricks I can do fakie and switch, but not nollie or regular, such as tre flips, big spins both ways, and bigspin heel flips
tricks r wierd
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I can't throw down. As in I can't run and throw the board down and jump on it. I just never ever learned. I always put my board down...then kick it...then run and jump on it. I'm just not overly coordinated when I'm not skateboarding. It's essentially the only thing I'm at least sorta good at.
i mentioned that i can't do any bs grinds other than crooks or if i get onto them straight on, but i didn't say that can't bs ollie. like ollie backside. if i approach a curb bs and i'm cruising, i have to 180 up it or ollie and make a super sharp turn.
come on man that shit is easy. people like you are the worst to skate with you are cruising down some primo hill at top speed you cant even ollie up the fucking curb? jesus. my friend chad is like all you guys he can do all these sick tricks like bs flips, bigspin flips, nollie ggrinds, all this shit, but he cant even do basic shit like ollie up a curb backside. its not fucking hard just try it for more than 2 seconds.
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Can't do nollie flips or switch flips. Can't even come close.
Can do the heelflip version of both, but the kickflip motion with that back foot just feels so awkward. It makes me look ridiculous to even try it.
Not sure if it counts as "simple shit" but I've been trying back 360s forever and still can't get farther than what is basically a back 180 with a 180 degree pivot...
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The entire 360 rotation is in your upper body. Bring your shoulders around first, then your waist, then your board.
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Frontside Tailslides. I always just tap the tail and can't get it to slide. So frustrating
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Frontside Tailslides. I always just tap the tail and can't get it to slide. So frustrating
after four years of skating I just learned these a month ago. I would always get in before but never slide or slip off the ledge immediately. I tried hauling ass on a few and got it, It helped me lean a bit more back than if I hit it slower, and once I got everything locked in It just clicked. thats just what worked for me...
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oh yea, fs flips, and back tails
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frontside slappys, i got em all day backside, but for some reason i can't get my back truck up onto it frontside.
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front noseslides
turning backside for flip tricks feels really uncomfortable. i can do backside flips and backheels, but they feel awkward so i rarely ever try them
i landed my first hardflip almost four years ago. in those four years i've landed maybe ten at the most, and every time i hail mary them. i can do them switch, but never regular
inward heels make no sense either. i've done them fakie, switch, and nollie but never regular
i can't do back disasters
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nollie front 180s still elude me along with
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Frontside Tailslides. I always just tap the tail and can't get it to slide. So frustrating
after four years of skating I just learned these a month ago. I would always get in before but never slide or slip off the ledge immediately. I tried hauling ass on a few and got it, It helped me lean a bit more back than if I hit it slower, and once I got everything locked in It just clicked. thats just what worked for me...
Thanks for the tip mate. Will give it a go
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front noseslides
turning backside for flip tricks feels really uncomfortable. i can do backside flips and backheels, but they feel awkward so i rarely ever try them
i landed my first hardflip almost four years ago. in those four years i've landed maybe ten at the most, and every time i hail mary them. i can do them switch, but never regular
inward heels make no sense either. i've done them fakie, switch, and nollie but never regular
i can't do back disasters
I know what you mean. I can only do them regular and fakie, but fakie is so much easier and I can pop it higher.
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I can only nollie back bigspin on banks, I really don't try the trick much cuz everyone and there grandma seems to do them. Also, for some reason I can't bs krooked grind I can't get it super krooked and sideways, its always like a crappy nosegrind.
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I mob flip, but can switch flip fairly well. It's annoying sometimes, but I'm comfortable with it.
Backside flips are mobbed too.
Over the years I've done every 180 flip trick besides frontside heel, just can't figure them out.
I usually don't try hardflips because I think they'll be illusioned if I land it, and I can't bring myself to settle for that.
Frontside bigspins.. never.
Crooked grind/nose grinds, I haven't tried nosegrinds all that much over the years but crooked just never worked for me. I taught a friend of mine how to do them though. ???
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I mob flip, but can switch flip fairly well. It's annoying sometimes, but I'm comfortable with it.
Backside flips are mobbed too.
Over the years I've done every 180 flip trick besides frontside heel, just can't figure them out.
I usually don't try hardflips because I think they'll be illusioned if I land it, and I can't bring myself to settle for that.
Frontside bigspins.. never.
Crooked grind/nose grinds, I haven't tried nosegrinds all that much over the years but crooked just never worked for me. I taught a friend of mine how to do them though. ???
put your back foot in the front 180 position, and your front foot way up there, like over the bolts with your toes hanging off, so that you can feel the ball of your foot chilling on the edge, pop, scoop and start turning like you're doing a 180, and at about 90 degrees, and instead of flicking off the end of your board like you usually would, physically roll the board over with your front foot and then get it out of the way, and then hope for the best.
also, when you're popping and scooping, you wanna sort focus on hucking the board forward in the direction you're going, or else it'll just fizzle out and you'll land 2 feet ahead of your board that's just spinning awkwardly on the ground
hope that makes sense, it seems like a weird tip, but it's one of few tricks I feel I understand well enough to give tips on
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bs 180's i learn only a couple months ago..its weird i can do backside tricks but just never thought to learn bs 180s
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I mob flip, but can switch flip fairly well. It's annoying sometimes, but I'm comfortable with it.
Backside flips are mobbed too.
Over the years I've done every 180 flip trick besides frontside heel, just can't figure them out.
I usually don't try hardflips because I think they'll be illusioned if I land it, and I can't bring myself to settle for that.
Frontside bigspins.. never.
Crooked grind/nose grinds, I haven't tried nosegrinds all that much over the years but crooked just never worked for me. I taught a friend of mine how to do them though. ???
put your back foot in the front 180 position, and your front foot way up there, like over the bolts with your toes hanging off, so that you can feel the ball of your foot chilling on the edge, pop, scoop and start turning like you're doing a 180, and at about 90 degrees, and instead of (http://i50.tinypic.com/eg26x4.jpg)ing off the end of your board like you usually would, physically roll the board over with your front foot and then get it out of the way, and then hope for the best.
also, when you're popping and scooping, you wanna sort focus on hucking the board forward in the direction you're going, or else it'll just fizzle out and you'll land 2 feet ahead of your board that's just spinning awkwardly on the ground
hope that makes sense, it seems like a weird tip, but it's one of few tricks I feel I understand well enough to give tips on
No hahaha I understood actually. Thanks a bunch! I'll give it a shot when it's above 30 degrees & not windy.
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frontside slappys, i got em all day backside, but for some reason i can't get my back truck up onto it frontside.
me too and i've been skating since the 80s so it's really sad.
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I can't throw down. As in I can't run and throw the board down and jump on it. I just never ever learned. I always put my board down...then kick it...then run and jump on it. I'm just not overly coordinated when I'm not skateboarding. It's essentially the only thing I'm at least sorta good at.
i mentioned that i can't do any bs grinds other than crooks or if i get onto them straight on, but i didn't say that can't bs ollie. like ollie backside. if i approach a curb bs and i'm cruising, i have to 180 up it or ollie and make a super sharp turn.
come on man that shit is easy. people like you are the worst to skate with you are cruising down some primo hill at top speed you cant even ollie up the fucking curb? jesus. my friend chad is like all you guys he can do all these sick tricks like bs flips, bigspin flips, nollie ggrinds, all this shit, but he cant even do basic shit like ollie up a curb backside. its not fucking hard just try it for more than 2 seconds.
haha i know i hate that i can't do it. it didn't come easy to me when i started and i never bothered to learn it. it's too late for me now.
it's funny that you mention bombing a hill and not being able to ollie up a curb backside because about a year ago i was bombing a hill on the way to a skate spot with my camera bag around my neck when i thought i'd go for an ollie up the curb backside. don't know what i was thinking, but it was a terrible decision. i ollied 90 and fell forward onto my cameras and broke one of them. i also fucked up my arm pretty badly. such a disgracing moment.
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I can't throw down. As in I can't run and throw the board down and jump on it. I just never ever learned. I always put my board down...then kick it...then run and jump on it. I'm just not overly coordinated when I'm not skateboarding. It's essentially the only thing I'm at least sorta good at.
I'd honestly rather stand on the deck of a bowl and jump in and land on my board then try to run and throw down on flat ground.
I assume at least once you've kicked your board with your toe and tripped over (or almost) trying to get on? It's happened to me when doing that, must be funny for anyone watching.
Ugh...so many times. It's the worst.
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I can halfcab flip, bigflip, fakie bigflip, but i've never landed a backside flip. and i apparently i can kickflip front board, too. i love backside flips to death but they don't love me back.
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Frontside Tailslides. I always just tap the tail and can't get it to slide. So frustrating
after four years of skating I just learned these a month ago. I would always get in before but never slide or slip off the ledge immediately. I tried hauling ass on a few and got it, It helped me lean a bit more back than if I hit it slower, and once I got everything locked in It just clicked. thats just what worked for me...
Thanks for the tip mate. Will give it a go
I had this problem too for a while. What worked for me was to think of the trick as throwing my feet in front of me to do it. I kind of try to keep my upper body back when I do the ollie and throw my feet in front of me a bit. Also, if you bring your front foot in towards the tail, that helps too for some reason.
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Frontside Tailslides. I always just tap the tail and can't get it to slide. So frustrating
after four years of skating I just learned these a month ago. I would always get in before but never slide or slip off the ledge immediately. I tried hauling ass on a few and got it, It helped me lean a bit more back than if I hit it slower, and once I got everything locked in It just clicked. thats just what worked for me...
Thanks for the tip mate. Will give it a go
Speed is definitely key, it's just scary at first getting yourself to lean back a little. A new board also makes them easier I think, it feels like you've got more tail to lean on.
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Tricks that I can NEVER get.
tre flip
b/s & f/s bigspins
no-comply
hardflip
varial heel
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I can't throw down. As in I can't run and throw the board down and jump on it. I just never ever learned. I always put my board down...then kick it...then run and jump on it. I'm just not overly coordinated when I'm not skateboarding. It's essentially the only thing I'm at least sorta good at.
i mentioned that i can't do any bs grinds other than crooks or if i get onto them straight on, but i didn't say that can't bs ollie. like ollie backside. if i approach a curb bs and i'm cruising, i have to 180 up it or ollie and make a super sharp turn.
come on man that shit is easy. people like you are the worst to skate with you are cruising down some primo hill at top speed you cant even ollie up the fucking curb? jesus. my friend chad is like all you guys he can do all these sick tricks like bs flips, bigspin flips, nollie ggrinds, all this shit, but he cant even do basic shit like ollie up a curb backside. its not fucking hard just try it for more than 2 seconds.
it's funny that you mention bombing a hill and not being able to ollie up a curb backside because about a year ago i was bombing a hill on the way to a skate spot with my camera bag around my neck when i thought i'd go for an ollie up the curb backside. don't know what i was thinking, but it was a terrible decision. i ollied 90 and fell forward onto my cameras and broke one of them. i also fucked up my arm pretty badly. such a disgracing moment.
oh fuck i am always super scared about doing that stuff i have came hella close to breaking stuff lots of times. to be honest i used to have the hardest time with that as well i could never ollie up curbs backside. i just got really good at bs 5050s, i learned them when i was on mushrooms i just needed that expansion of mind to get onto the rail that way. i learned them on a 1 stair rail like we put a flat bar down a curb so it forced you to grind the entire thing and helps you slide and get your weight on properly. i actually got the best at bs 5050 coming straight onto a ledge. that is the easiest way to learn it, i built a box where you could ollie onto the ledge straight on. then it was jsut a progression from there.
side story once on the way to school or work or something i had my lunch in my bag and i got stuck on an ollie my wheel bit into the crack right when i landed just ollieing a sketchy sidewalk and i slammed onto my back and spagghetti and orange juice spilled out everywhere i jst said fuck it left my backpack with all the fucked up lunch in it and went on my way,.
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i didn't learn kickflips for the longest time. just never tried
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Backside noseslides scare the shit out of me
Same! A buddy of mine used to do them slappy pretty far & I couldn't even do that. The way the arms position just make it look like you're falling backwards. No thank you.
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the key to a backside noseslide (that is the forward facing one) is ollie far out to the ledge/rail that way your momentum will stay forward. if you try and jam your nose in at the soonest possible moment you always stick.
dont put your feet like you normally ollie put your front foot like right on the bolts or at least just over the bottom 2.
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the key to a backside noseslide (that is the forward facing one) is ollie far out to the ledge/rail that way your momentum will stay forward. if you try and jam your nose in at the soonest possible moment you always stick.
dont put your feet like you normally ollie put your front foot like right on the bolts or at least just over the bottom 2.
I never really thought of that but its true.
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the key to a backside noseslide (that is the forward facing one) is ollie far out to the ledge/rail that way your momentum will stay forward. if you try and jam your nose in at the soonest possible moment you always stick.
dont put your feet like you normally ollie put your front foot like right on the bolts or at least just over the bottom 2.
i started off doing slappy noseslides on red curbs when i first stated skating, i learned to slide them pretty far. this helped me learn how to balance the trick well, and when i started adding the ollie to it, it was really similar in approach and everything else. i actually learned a lot of tricks on red curbs when i started out skating, like fs 5050s, fs 5-os, front tails, front noseslides, nollie noseslides, switch tailslides, some others that i can't think of right now.Expand Quote
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I can't throw down. As in I can't run and throw the board down and jump on it. I just never ever learned. I always put my board down...then kick it...then run and jump on it. I'm just not overly coordinated when I'm not skateboarding. It's essentially the only thing I'm at least sorta good at.
i mentioned that i can't do any bs grinds other than crooks or if i get onto them straight on, but i didn't say that can't bs ollie. like ollie backside. if i approach a curb bs and i'm cruising, i have to 180 up it or ollie and make a super sharp turn.
come on man that shit is easy. people like you are the worst to skate with you are cruising down some primo hill at top speed you cant even ollie up the fucking curb? jesus. my friend chad is like all you guys he can do all these sick tricks like bs flips, bigspin flips, nollie ggrinds, all this shit, but he cant even do basic shit like ollie up a curb backside. its not fucking hard just try it for more than 2 seconds.
it's funny that you mention bombing a hill and not being able to ollie up a curb backside because about a year ago i was bombing a hill on the way to a skate spot with my camera bag around my neck when i thought i'd go for an ollie up the curb backside. don't know what i was thinking, but it was a terrible decision. i ollied 90 and fell forward onto my cameras and broke one of them. i also fucked up my arm pretty badly. such a disgracing moment.
oh fuck i am always super scared about doing that stuff i have came hella close to breaking stuff lots of times. to be honest i used to have the hardest time with that as well i could never ollie up curbs backside. i just got really good at bs 5050s, i learned them when i was on mushrooms i just needed that expansion of mind to get onto the rail that way. i learned them on a 1 stair rail like we put a flat bar down a curb so it forced you to grind the entire thing and helps you slide and get your weight on properly. i actually got the best at bs 5050 coming straight onto a ledge. that is the easiest way to learn it, i built a box where you could ollie onto the ledge straight on. then it was jsut a progression from there.
side story once on the way to school or work or something i had my lunch in my bag and i got stuck on an ollie my wheel bit into the crack right when i landed just ollieing a sketchy sidewalk and i slammed onto my back and spagghetti and orange juice spilled out everywhere i jst said fuck it left my backpack with all the fucked up lunch in it and went on my way,.
yeah for the longest i've been able to do bs 5050s, bs 5-os, and bs nosegrinds that way, and i can sometimes do bs nosegrinds mid ledge if i get into crook first and then tweak it back, but i've never been able to progress into doing them mid ledge. in games of skate on ledges i've been able to pull off the 5050 and 5-0 though.
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yeah i learned them slappy too actually, i remember i wanted to do them the ollie way but i kept sticking and i wasnt too stoked. i was trying to ollie in on a curb. my friend would fly as fast as he could and slappy noseslide for like 4 feet so i said fuck it ill learn it like that and then i stepped to the real ledge and learned it pretty easy after that.
for me its bs tailslide is the one i can never get although i wouldnt call that "simple" id say its kind of a intermediate level trick, same with bs lipslides. i have done bs lipslides on some small things same with bs tail but i need to get the long slide down like justin strubing.
i wish i cuold do wallrides and rock to fakies better. i wish i could do fs wallride or switch wallride. fuck man i dont think there is a single person on here who could do switch wall ride there are probably less than 10 people on the planet who can do them on the level of jake johnson.
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yeah i learned them slappy too actually, i remember i wanted to do them the ollie way but i kept sticking and i wasnt too stoked. i was trying to ollie in on a curb. my friend would fly as fast as he could and slappy noseslide for like 4 feet so i said fuck it ill learn it like that and then i stepped to the real ledge and learned it pretty easy after that.
same with me. when i first started ollieing into noseslides on like legit curbs, i would pop too hard and jam it in and just come out to fakie without sliding. then i learned that it really is just like a slappy; you barely ollie and then pull yourself up into the noseslide. if you pop it high and then slam it down you'll pretty much always stick. for some reason this doesn't really apply to tailslides (to fakie anyway, if you try to go back to regular on a high popped tailslide, you'll just stick and come back out without sliding).
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Since we're getting some good tips on back noseslides and front tails, who can help me with backtails? I dedicated a whole session to learning those and had them for awhile, now they're completely gone. I try ollie way too high I think, and just kick it out like a bitch and it half looks like i'm trying kickflip backtails.
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Since we're getting some good tips on back noseslides and front tails, who can help me with backtails? I dedicated a whole session to learning those and had them for awhile, now they're completely gone. I try ollie way too high I think, and just kick it out like a bitch and it half looks like i'm trying kickflip backtails.
I learned just a couple years ago. What really helped me was NOT coming on an angle at all. Skate parallel to the ledge. That way when you get your tail on you won't jam it in and stick. And obviously commitment is the other big thing. It's a blind trick...so it's all by feeling. You just gotta stick your tail in there and trust your gonna get on good. Lean right back on it.
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i can do them on a mini ramp not bad i found thetrick was to ollie back farther onto the deck than you initially think but maybe thats just me
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sw big spin
but i got sw big flip
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sw big spin
Uh yeah, real simple.
For some reason I find regular back 180°s difficult. Tips appreciated.
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Uh yeah, real simple.
For some reason I find regular back 180°s difficult. Tips appreciated.
Just cheat and do an ollie to a quick back revert. They're easier to do that way and a lot of people do em like that, including I.
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Uh yeah, real simple.
For some reason I find regular back 180°s difficult. Tips appreciated.
I had force myself to learn those, i prefer most tricks frontside. I found that putting both my feet at a 45 degree angle with my back foot in the concave helped keep the board under me. Then just focus on swinging your right arm (left if your goofy) and your shoulders to help complete the 180. There super fun if you can pop em high.
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switch flips/nollie flips
switch heels/nollie heels
varial heels
hardlips
any halfcab to stall on transition
any flip trick on transition
the list could really go on for pages
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Uh yeah, real simple.
For some reason I find regular back 180°s difficult. Tips appreciated.
I had force myself to learn those, i prefer most tricks frontside. I found that putting both my feet at a 45 degree angle with my back foot in the concave helped keep the board under me. Then just focus on swinging your right arm (left if your goofy) and your shoulders to help complete the 180. There super fun if you can pop em high.
And don't worry about going fast or popping high at first. In fact, you may want to land back wheels first by a split second. It just takes time. It took me so long to get back 180s but now they're one of my favorite tricks to do. I feel more comfortable with them than my front 180s most of the time and I'm starting to get them down well enough to do them over distances. They look/feel good once you learn to pop them quickly after a set up ollie too.
Edit: Oh yeah-I cannot do any flip tricks, along with a shit ton of other things.
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i wish i could do fs wallride or switch wallride. fuck man i dont think there is a single person on here who could do switch wall ride there are probably less than 10 people on the planet who can do them on the level of jake johnson.
I was trying these at an indoor park last night on a little steep ramp cutout. its absolutely fucked. I could never imagine doing it on an actual wall. also, dont know what the deal is, but Ive never been able to get anywhere close to back wallrides but Ive done a decent amount of frontside ones, it always seemed easier to bash up the wall.
Edit: Oh yeah-I cannot do any flip tricks, along with a shit ton of other things.
with the exception of shit kickflips and maybe nollie/switch heels, I will never be able to land any flip tricks ever...
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i am so proud of my switch heels and so ashamed of my switch flips..its a bummer...
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i read somewhere that mr. mariano said a mini ramp to him, is just a bank to ledge
is this a reasonable approach?
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^That's pretty crazy. According to Colin McKay, Guy was the first person EVER to switch crook in a vert ramp back to switch. I guess in his head he was just skating a HUUUUGE bank to ledge.
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i read somewhere that mr. mariano said a mini ramp to him, is just a bank to ledge
is this a reasonable approach?
hah! when i was a kid, I would ollie from a foot below the coping to every stall/grind trick
it was so fucking kooky and weird, i just had serious lulls imagining an adult mariano utilizing this technique on a 4ft miniramp
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Also I don't think I'll ever do a back feeble in my life. Even though I'm not dying to learn them, it's just everyone else says they're easy.
Same here, but i never ever skate rails.
I can't do a lot of grinds.
no crookeds, smiths, bs tails, feebles
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Anyone have any tips for frontside tailslides?
pretty lengthy, here's what i came up with.
i'd say put your back foot on the edge of the tail a little behind you, and your front foot close to your back bolts with your toes hanging off the edge slightly. when you pop, go 90 and try not to get very higher than the ledge but keep your weight distributed to your back foot. the balance is the hard part, because if you lean too much backwards, you'll slip out, and if you lean too much forward, you'll get thrown or just stick and come back to regular without sliding, same as if you pop it too high. you've got to figure out your balance for yourself, and a key factor is how well the ledge slides too, because you can get away with leaning a little too far back if the ledge isn't waxed all that much, and if it's waxed to hell, then you can lean a little too forward with no issues. i typically come parallel to the ledge if i'm going to fakie, and at a slight angle if i'm going to regular, but on ledges sloped down/hubbas, i always come at an angle, and i typically come out to fakie because it's easier. coming out to regular is as simple as just dropping out of it and leaning forward. coming out to fakie takes a little more effort to make sure that you don't roll back into the ledge. you should lean a little back and shift your back foot foward and your front foot backwards (more emphasis on the back foot though). if you lean too much forward coming out to fakie, you'll probably roll back into the ledge. that's all i can think of on front tails, don't know if it'll help you any.
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i read somewhere that mr. mariano said a mini ramp to him, is just a bank to ledge
is this a reasonable approach?
hah! when i was a kid, I would ollie from a foot below the coping to every stall/grind trick
it was so fucking kooky and weird, i just had serious lulls imagining an adult mariano utilizing this technique on a 4ft miniramp
i just remember him explaining this as his approach, i could be wrong
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it's not that i can't do them regs, but switch shuvs are way easier. if i'm doing them regs i'm praying the board doesn't start to rotate like a varial flip. the same goes for switch tre's being easier than regs which has always bothered me. it was comforting to find out mariano has (or had) a the same thing going on with tre flips.
edit: oh, and anything like a kickflip into a slide/grind i'd sooner land switch than regs. i don't know why some tricks are like that, it's not like i skate switch more, not even close.
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bs 180 the trick is learn how to powersldie 180 that way really well then its a matter of just learning how to ollie with it the way you turn your shoulders shoudl be identical... i used to try and do my bs 180s all gay like ollie late 180 like what commericial dallas is talking about... dont do those... they dont teach you shit and they look horrible, and is a really easy way for you to roll your ankle.
do like a bs powerslide 180 and then just start learning to ollie with it... you will realize you actually need to slow down your spin the higher you ollie... i started out doing 270s and shit and realized soon after i could do bs 360s really easy as they are the exact same as a 360 powerslide... the way you turn your shoulders, everything, its the exact same; in fact id say the ollie version is easier once you figure it out.
same thing for bs bigspins. start out by doing them the powerslide way like real low on the ground, then start building your shoveit up so try and do the full 360 shove and land backwards but maintain that same bs powerslide-style arms/shoulders. i swear thats the reason half my freinds cant do bs bigspins its because they try too hard to pop the shoveit and the thing is they are just not letting the trick coast, not relaxing their bodies in the air... not letting the trick go full 360, they always get caught 270.
360 tricks man... they are the shit... you jsut gotta wind up and let your body go with it. i had the biggest difficulty with these for the longest time and i didnt even realize i had the power in my grasp the entire time.
as for the trick that i suck at ultimately its 360 flip and inward heel i dont think i will ever have those over stuff / down gaps. they just seem so weird.
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nosemanuals of any kind, crooked grinds, frontside smiths
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nosemanuals of any kind
Same. I did a 180 switch manual by accident when I was 15, it remains the best manual trick i've ever done haha.
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nollie heels...fucking cannot pop it for my life
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flip tricks in general. im fine without them im still having the time of my life doing this shit.
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Since we're getting some good tips on back noseslides and front tails, who can help me with backtails? I dedicated a whole session to learning those and had them for awhile, now they're completely gone. I try ollie way too high I think, and just kick it out like a bitch and it half looks like i'm trying kickflip backtails.
i used to have so much trouble with them. The way i figured it out, it's all about having decent speed, and ollieing higher than the ledge. i just ollie a good bit over it, then turn, and just push down hard as fuck on the tail. also practice looking over your shoulder.
tricks i cant do: pop shove its, heelflips, and kickflips. or front 5-0's that trick is fucking gay. i didnt care to learn any of those but kickflips when i first started, just because pop shove its didnt seem cool, heelflips were scary, and front 5-0s were just hard, i suck at manuals too though. kickflips i just sorta stopped doing when i learned hardflips, and its bit me in the ass ever since. i broke my ankle last november and havent really skated since then, but i'm buying a new complete saturday, and a pair of blazer highs for my weak ass ankle, so my goal is to re-learn every trick.
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i think a shove it was the first trick i ever did. id say they are easier than ollies by a long shot.
Same. I did a 180 switch manual by accident when I was 15, it remains the best manual trick i've ever done haha.
those are actually pretty hard. i have seen a lot of people do sw 180 to reg manual, but rare to see the opposite. the craziest fucking trick is 180 to fakie nosemanual. the switch version seems like it might be easier on that one just because youd be more used to the nosemanual. fakie nose manuals are fucking ridiculous probably one of the hardest tricks in skating next to switch wallrides.
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Since we're getting some good tips on back noseslides and front tails, who can help me with backtails? I dedicated a whole session to learning those and had them for awhile, now they're completely gone. I try ollie way too high I think, and just kick it out like a bitch and it half looks like i'm trying kickflip backtails.
tricks i cant do: pop shove its, heelflips, and kickflips. or front 5-0's that trick is fucking gay. i didnt care to learn any of those but kickflips when i first started, just because pop shove its didnt seem cool, heelflips were scary, and front 5-0s were just hard, i suck at manuals too though. kickflips i just sorta stopped doing when i learned hardflips, and its bit me in the ass ever since. i broke my ankle last november and havent really skated since then, but i'm buying a new complete saturday, and a pair of blazer highs for my weak ass ankle, so my goal is to re-learn every trick.
MAN...This is hands down the funnest trick in the world!! Once you learn to lock into them you can just sit on them for days.
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I never learned heelflips or anything switch.
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backside noseslides. I haven't bothered for years, but maybe tomorrow I'll try and eek a few out. I am much more comfortable doing frontside flip tricks switch than regular, I hate regular frontside flips but switch is not a problem. I just learned smith grinds the other day. That's kind of ludicrous, I've done more nollie flip noseslides than frontside smiths in my life. kinda wish I wasn't so concerned with getting good when I was younger and just had fun with more fundamental tricks. my lack of tranny skills frequently embarrasses me, especially these days when people are so well-rounded.
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no-comply 180's. they look so damn good too...
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I'm the opposite, I can never do straight no complys. Front 180s no complys are no problem though.
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I'm the opposite, I can never do straight no complys. Front 180s no complys are no problem though.
I don't think there's anything simple about that trick at all, they're so fucking hard to get off the ground, I just don't get it. 180 no comply is one of my favourite tricks to do on flat though, so much fun.
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Since we're getting some good tips on back noseslides and front tails, who can help me with backtails? I dedicated a whole session to learning those and had them for awhile, now they're completely gone. I try ollie way too high I think, and just kick it out like a bitch and it half looks like i'm trying kickflip backtails.
tricks i cant do: pop shove its, heelflips, and kickflips. or front 5-0's that trick is fucking gay. i didnt care to learn any of those but kickflips when i first started, just because pop shove its didnt seem cool, heelflips were scary, and front 5-0s were just hard, i suck at manuals too though. kickflips i just sorta stopped doing when i learned hardflips, and its bit me in the ass ever since. i broke my ankle last november and havent really skated since then, but i'm buying a new complete saturday, and a pair of blazer highs for my weak ass ankle, so my goal is to re-learn every trick.
MAN...This is hands down the funnest trick in the world!! Once you learn to lock into them you can just sit on them for days.
i prefer all things backside :-X ;)
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oh and i think i might be the only person ever who's better at regular no comply's than 180 no comply's
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Proper, on top of the coping backside grinds on tranny. I'm working on it though.
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oh and i think i might be the only person ever who's better at regular no comply's than 180 no comply's
so you've never heard of ray barbee?
backtails on street are a nightmare for me. i'll try it out every once in a while and give it a bunch of fake attempts before i commit. i always land on my chest and almost hit my face every time. used to do backlips too, but i haven't tried one in a long time. back smiths are either a first try hail mary, or a "not today" trick. dunno why
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i think a shove it was the first trick i ever did. id say they are easier than ollies by a long shot.
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Same. I did a 180 switch manual by accident when I was 15, it remains the best manual trick i've ever done haha.
those are actually pretty hard. i have seen a lot of people do sw 180 to reg manual, but rare to see the opposite. the craziest fucking trick is 180 to fakie nosemanual. the switch version seems like it might be easier on that one just because youd be more used to the nosemanual. fakie nose manuals are fucking ridiculous probably one of the hardest tricks in skating next to switch wallrides.
haha those are the same tricks. a fakie nosemanual is a switch manual. you mean 180 fakie manual, which actually is really hard. i've gotten close to doing a switch nose manual on a curb pad messing around, i may try to actually learn those.
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I haven't learned nose/tail stalls on mini ramps/tranny. Haven't tried them either.
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oh and i think i might be the only person ever who's better at regular no comply's than 180 no comply's with the exception of ray barbee*
backtails on street are a nightmare for me. i'll try it out every once in a while and give it a bunch of fake attempts before i commit. i always land on my chest and almost hit my face every time. used to do backlips too, but i haven't tried one in a long time. back smiths are either a first try hail mary, or a "not today" trick. dunno why
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I've been trying to relearn bs 50-50's since the weather's finaly starting to clear up.
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I'm the opposite, I can never do straight no complys. Front 180s no complys are no problem though.
I don't think there's anything simple about that trick at all, they're so fucking hard to get off the ground, I just don't get it. 180 no comply is one of my favourite tricks to do on flat though, so much fun.
As much as I want to learn straight no-complys, every time I see one done, it looks so awkward that I'm kind of happy I just have 43's and no-comply front/pop shoves.
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I've never been able to do pressure flips, although they're probably not worth learning anyway
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theres nothing simple about pressure flips, fuck that trick
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bs tails and smiths on ledges. just about anyting backside i feel i look like a silly goose
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bs tails and smiths on ledges. just about anyting backside i feel i look like a silly goose
though my advice might suck since i'm not good at back smiths, i will give it a try anyways. i always try and ride up to the ledge as parallel as possible, try and pop into a back 5-0 that goes slightly in front of you compared to standing directly over it, and the trick will guide itself basically. there is something about doing that trick on ledges and rails that feels unlike anything else in skating. one of a few tricks that make me feel happy/stoked afterwards
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no-comply 180's. they look so damn good too...
I usually do this in a scooping motion. I think of my front leg as the thing that holds it together--it needs to be stable, like a tree trunk. I firmly root it, then I do a strong scoop on my back foot and rotate my body and my board follows. Once my back foot is lower than my front leg's knee I begin to bring the front leg back to ride away switch. Hope this helps, advice over the internet and without hand gestures is difficult for me.
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Fucking frontside flips! I hate it!
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this is REALLY simple--i can't do lipslides on street. when i was a kid i'd always break boards trying them, so i never learned. nollie lips, etc, are a different story, but regular lipslides, frontside and backside, are the death of me. every once in a while i'll want to try to learn them, but i never end up trying.
i feel like i'm at a point in my life where i don't try to learn anything new--it's more fun just to do the tricks i know how to do, and cruise. i got really hurt last year--i broke my pelvis--and though i'm technically 100%, i still take an incredibly long time to warm up, i'm still really stiff, and i've definitely regressed skill-wise (street, not tranny. i'm fine on a ramp.). so, before the accident, where i'd do a kickflip back tail, i'm definitely happy with a regular back tail now.
what i'm trying to say is that the simple tricks i never learned--lipslides, frontside flips, noseblunts--i don't plan on learning any time soon.
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I did 4 pop shove its today, like 4 really good pop shove its. this re-learning to skateboard thing is turning out to be fun.
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nollie cabs
full cabs
bs 180-fuck that trick i can get it occasionaly but it is never good or clean in anyway
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pivot fakie
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nollie cabs
full cabs
bs 180-fuck that trick i can get it occasionaly but it is never good or clean in anyway
whenever I'm forced to do this trick (playing skate with friends), I end up doing a halfcab to nose manny for about 3 ft before pivoting around. luckily it's so entertaining I never get a letter for it
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frontside pop shuvits. but ive got them perfect switch
story of my life
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I can't manual for the life of me. I can't heelflip either but i've learned every other heelflip trick like bs heels,fs heels, big heels, and varial heels.
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I haven't learned nose/tail stalls on mini ramps/tranny. Haven't tried them either.
The only way I can do nosestalls on tranny is by fooling myself. I have to drop in switch on a mini ramp, do a switch rock to fakie, and then come back like its a switch tail tap. When I just go for them regular, I always do a nollie pop tart.
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I just realized this last night on a solo sesh, I cannot fronstside slappy a curb.
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frontside pop shuvits. but ive got them switch
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Anyone have any tips for frontside tailslides?
I have problems with this trick too, it comes and goes.
But umm... if the problem is its not sliding (hitting the wheels first and whatnot) i slightly put more of my back foot on the tail for the ollie.
And try to only turn your lower body and keep your shoulders parallel, just like a bs tail.
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Anyone have any tips for frontside tailslides?
But umm... if the problem is its not sliding (hitting the wheels first and whatnot) i slightly put more of my back foot on the tail for the ollie.
And try to only turn your lower body and keep your shoulders parallel, just like a bs tail.
Yeah. With front tails I either have my tail barely on or get into a lipslide. Tips?
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Anyone have any tips for frontside tailslides?
But umm... if the problem is its not sliding (hitting the wheels first and whatnot) i slightly put more of my back foot on the tail for the ollie.
And try to only turn your lower body and keep your shoulders parallel, just like a bs tail.
Never had the lipslide problem but...
I quess you could try ollieing way higher than the ledge and then smacking the tail on.
Might be hard to slide at first, but should get you more comfortable with the trick.
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I can't pop fs nollies for shit... half cabs either
k-grind pop out
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I can't pop fs nollies for shit... half cabs either
Seriously one of the funnest nollie tricks out there. Just make sure your back foot is angled correctly and sliding to your tail so that the board stays leveled, bring your shoulders and arms around and roll away with a bigass smile on your face.
Your gonna wanna look forward towards your nose but still try to keep your shoulders parallel to your board before you pop.
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I can't pop fs nollies for shit... half cabs either
Seriously one of the funnest nollie tricks out there.
I'm quite sure nollie bs flips are way more fun... or pretty much any nollie kickflip trick. Thanks for the tip though
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I can't pop fs nollies for shit... half cabs either
Seriously one of the funnest nollie tricks out there.
for me personally fs nollies are a lot funner, probably because you can do them a lot faster and up/over things. for me to even do a nollie bs flip takes mass concentration and ill end up just pivoting half of it.
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Front blunts on ledges or transitions have just never worked for me.
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^ man!
I've front blunted many a skatepark handrail in my youth, but never once a ledge.
When you say on tranny, do you mean sliding? I've done the stalling front blunt things on tranny before. I've found it helps to come at the coping backside a little bit instead of straight-on, it feels like you're ali-ooping, which oddly enough, makes it easier. I think that's the reason bs bluntslide fs reverts are so much more common than fs bluntslides back to regular on tranny. In fact, I can't think of a single instance where someone's slid a front blunt on tranny and popped back in, turning frontside back to regular ???
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I just realized this last night on a solo sesh, I cannot fronstside slappy a curb.
i have tried and tried. just can't get it.
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^ man!
I've front blunted many a skatepark handrail in my youth, but never once a ledge.
When you say on tranny, do you mean sliding? I've done the stalling front blunt things on tranny before. I've found it helps to come at the coping backside a little bit instead of straight-on, it feels like you're ali-ooping, which oddly enough, makes it easier. I think that's the reason bs bluntslide fs reverts are so much more common than fs bluntslides back to regular on tranny. In fact, I can't think of a single instance where someone's slid a front blunt on tranny and popped back in, turning frontside back to regular ???
I'm pretty sure Emmanuel Guzman does one at Washington Street in Prevent this Tragedy. Also Cards at Burnside in Fucktards but thats kind of into a bank.
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Heelflips and back tails on tranny.
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In fact, I can't think of a single instance where someone's slid a front blunt on tranny and popped back in, turning frontside back to regular ???
sumio date does one in the slave video on the o-side ditch...
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i cant backside bigspin! i get so frustrated with this trick i can pop em good and land on em but i cant roll with my board and always step off. help me out
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no complys, certain people can pull those off and make em look good, im not one of those dudes.
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Nollie/Sw fuckin heelflips man, after all these years I still cant quite figure them out! and also fs bluntslides.
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I have absolutely no idea how to fs 5-0 grind on tranny! Sooooo frustrating!
Never understood hardflips either.
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I have absolutely no idea how to fs 5-0 grind on tranny! Sooooo frustrating!
Never understood hardflips either.
Fs 5-0s on tranny is actually really easy, it`s all about weight placement, just keep pressure on your back heel, try to get your weight on top of the coping/surface not leaning back to much. sometimes its easier popping a small ollie into it, depending on the curves.
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I just realized this last night on a solo sesh, I cannot fronstside slappy a curb.
don't forget to go front truck first, just put your front foot on bolts and focus on that.
i can't do regular noseslides on ledges or tranny. ive done kickflip and nollie noselide on ledges before but when i do them regular i do some half-assed slappy thing. on tranny i can do the andy roy ollie nosestall fakies but when i try to slide them i just stick.
i also cant bs bigspin for shit.
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Fs 5-0s on tranny is actually really easy, it`s all about weight placement, just keep pressure on your back heel, try to get your weight on top of the coping/surface not leaning back to much. sometimes its easier popping a small ollie into it, depending on the curves.
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you really shouldnt be popping ollies into your fs 5-0s, even little ones..
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plain ol' reg heelflips, can do inwards, varial heels and bs heels and all switch heel variations except silly things like lazer flips. But I simply cannot make a reg heelflip look/feel good at all :(
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frontside pop shuvits. but ive got them switch
This seems to be a common occurrence. I can't front shuv regular either. That is a trick I would love to be able to pop. Heelflips too, in fact a lot of tricks where the board goes behind you...
I can nollie, but I don't have my timing down so I can't do it up or down shit.
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Anyone have any tips for frontside tailslides?
But umm... if the problem is its not sliding (hitting the wheels first and whatnot) i slightly put more of my back foot on the tail for the ollie.
And try to only turn your lower body and keep your shoulders parallel, just like a bs tail.
I quess you could try ollieing way higher than the ledge and then smacking the tail on.
Might be hard to slide at first, but should get you more comfortable with the trick.
i don't know if this really helps or not, ut i always have then better the faster i go
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The wallie is a trick that has alluded me long enough.
I'm sure I can do them!
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Frontside tails just clicked for me a few months ago and they've been super easy ever since. As for wallies, I'd learn them on something slanted and with an end at first instead of a full on wall. Really, it's just a matter of pushing up against the wall and sucking your knees up.
Nollie heels are the worst trick ever.
and maybe imagine its a quarterpipe, as if you were pumping up some super steep tranny and riding off to the side of the ramp or up and over the top.
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Anyone have any tips for frontside tailslides?
But umm... if the problem is its not sliding (hitting the wheels first and whatnot) i slightly put more of my back foot on the tail for the ollie.
And try to only turn your lower body and keep your shoulders parallel, just like a bs tail.
Okay, it's easy. Ride at a slight angle to the ledge, front foot should have toes and heel hanging off and be just under bolts, back foot is all toes, heel off, foot angled slightly with toes pointing more to the tail, heel in, this is for the scoop. Pop that ollie, but you don't really spin yourself, more like scoop with the back foot, your shoulders should follow and you'll have that 90 degree turn going on, you definitely gotta have your shoulders parallel with your feet, but concentrate on getting your back foot on top the ledge, it's important to get your weight on the obstacle, slide, turn out either way you want (I personally feel back to regs looks more stylish) and roll away. Go fast, like really fast. Hope this is clear enough.
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Switch back 180's are pretty hard for me. Also, I will probably never hardflip, not that I'm concerned about the trick anyways.
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never had good front 360's
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backside nose slide
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backside nose slide
Slammed really, really hard on this when i was younger and hit my head and refused to try them ever again because it still scares me to hit my head like that.
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i can now scratch nollie heels off the list of tricks i thought i'd never learn. now for nollie flips...
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backside nose slide
I don't understand them either. B/s 50-50s on anything I cannot do, I really want to learn how to do them on transition though any tips appreciated.
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i cant back 50-50, but i can back tail and back smith
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i cant back 50-50, but i can back tail and back smith
That trick is all mental. You just have to get used to the idea of ollieing backwards.
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b/s 360
nollie 360 flip
b/s smith grind (can't quite get that front truck down)
and the simplest of simple tricks that kids that started yesterday can do, axle stall
why the fuck is tranny so hard for me? no pun intended
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why the fuck is tranny so hard for me? no pun intended
Me too, I used to be able to axle stall and rock to fakie but i cant do that shit now and dont feel like i ever will. i see people who have just started and can do that shit but not me though, ever.
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im shocked after reading the amount of SIMPLE stuff, that people cant do, although i hate inward heels, they look gross and remind me of pressure flops. i would rather have a good varial heel.
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I rolled fakie up to a flat bar recently and suddenly realised I'd neglected to learn half cab boardslides. Obviously not a hard trick, just never learned them.
Heelflips too. Can't get my head around them. The ones I make feel like shit.
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i will die not having varial heelflips learned. ive landed 3 in my 7 years of skating and i am considering suicide.
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Inward Heels and BS noseslides
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made me think of this thread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
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had regular heelflips for 2 months... about 9 years ago
since then I can barely land them on skate games (but I can do pretty nice nollie heelflips, dunno how)
50-50 on rails, I killed myself too many times trying it when I was a kid
frontside noseslides
and any blunt (fs or bs) on ledges or rails, tried them for a while, but then I just give up and now I just make them on miniramps
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When I first started skating I could do almost every kind of heel flip but couldn't land a kick flip in 5 tries. I don't skate switch anymore unless it's relevant to the trick I want to do on a ledge or something in a line. Switch just isn't fun and I don't film anything anymore.
I can't hard flip and I can't do front side flips (I can do them fakie or switch but not regular). When I started skating people didn't do hard flips that often.
I'm more into finding new spots to do the same tricks on then learning new tricks these days, so there's probably a lot of simple shit kids do that I can't do, but most basic flips that have been around for a while I can land on first or second try.
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frontside pop shuvits. but ive got them switch
I can nollie, but I don't have my timing down so I can't do it up or down shit.
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as silly as it sounds, flip your board around and do front shove its off the nose. My friend told me this, and I thought it was just a mental thing for him, but for some reason when I pop front shove its off my nose (not nollie, just riding the board backwards) it works every time.
i will die not having varial heelflips learned. ive landed 3 in my 7 years of skating and i am considering suicide.
That's more than I've done in 17. Switch heel varials is a different story though
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I friend told me the secret to front shoves is to think about clicking your heels after the ollie.. you don't but mentally it worked for me..
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I wouldn't consider it simple, but the amount of time ive used trying switch front heels is amazing. Im not even close and its starting to bug me.
Also a couple of years ago the backfoot flip was reaaaally hot around here. I always thought that trick looked the worst but wanted to be able to do them just for fun. I have never done a real one. I tried for such a long time and felt super awkward trying them in front of others
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I wouldn't consider it simple, but the amount of time ive used trying switch front heels is amazing. Im not even close and its starting to bug me.
Also a couple of years ago the backfoot flip was reaaaally hot around here. I always thought that trick looked the worst but wanted to be able to do them just for fun. I have never done a real one. I tried for such a long time and felt super awkward trying them in front of others
Several years ago, my buddy tried to do a backfoot flip once. The board rocket up towards his nuts, he stopped it, and then he never tried them again.
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Tail stalls on the mini are fucking my head royally. I can't nut up to them.
Really close to heelflips and rarely kickflips. I pop them proper and high, but I can't get my back foot on. HORRIBLE habit. Time to man up.
For some reason, I'm closer to Half-cab flips than reg BS flips, too.
BS 180s are the bane of my existence, as well. I was reading earlier tips and I think I'll try those tomorrow.
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for me its simple shit i could once do but now i cant. like all sorts of basic ledge tricks. also i cant grind for long on tranny, it seems really easy the way those little kids do it.
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tranny
and switch back 180s
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Backside slappies. Frontside ones were always easier.
Backside kickflips....most tricks involving backside 180s/ollies like 50-50s, etc. Might have to knuckle down and go learn them at a curb spot already.
No complies.
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Backside slappies. Frontside ones were always easier.
i'm the opposite. what would you say is the trick to the frontsiders?
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Backside slappies. Frontside ones were always easier.
i'm the opposite. what would you say is the trick to the frontsiders?
I guess you could say that's a trick that's largely dependent on the angle and speed you're approaching the curb. Just haul ass and lean back and kinda do a powerslide into it and just slash that fucker. Feels good man.
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Pretty much it. There was a nice low curb I could hit frontside that was slightly downhill when I started skating so I would just carve into them everyday. Haven't done some in a while so I better go find a good curb and see if I still got them.
Somehow I must have some sort of mental block around backside tricks (except noseslides).
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For me, it's kickflips for sure. I had them alright for a couple of short periods way back in the day and then always lost them (I've been a heelflipper since day 1). I put in a sold 3 or 4 hours of flatground a couple of weeks ago and really worked on the kickflips - finally got them again.
The sickest thing about relearning tricks is that everytime I relearn something, I get it way better than I had in the first place. My kickflips right now are popped way higher and level out so nicely now...and I can finally do them without having my front foot at a major angle.
I learnt backside 50-50's by popping in mid-ledge a few years back and then promptly lost them. I was totally cheating though, I'd pop my nose on and somehow pivot my back truck on and then grind - really weird. I built a nice grind box a couple of months ago and relearned them coming straight on. I still can't pop properly into a back 50 mid-ledge, but I've been practicing ollieing backwards onto a curb and it's helping.
I never really learned much in the way of transition either. I can do axle stals on small/mellow tranny but always pussy out on anything a little bigger. On the small stuff I can do other stuff like tail stall reverts and backside 50-50 reverts, but I learned that kind of stuff on little tiny, mellow 3 foot transition. All I can do on any real transition is rock fakies - sucks.
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Good bs flips. They're going better now, but i never really had them. Fs flips too, if my deck and shoes are wrecked I might try to land one. I'd rather do fs heels.
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Ollie-ing into nose manuals.
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All heel tricks and no-complys
although ive started trying no-complies and theyre working...kinda
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back smiths, i always catch my front foot on the ledge. can't figure shit out
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front shuvs and my brain can't even process back tails in the slightest.
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frontside flips on flat, had them good switch before and on transition one can always sort of just turn 'em 90.
frontside heelflips also.
don't really consider either to be simple though. some people seem to be listing some kinda hard tricks.
popping out of crooked grinds. always ride off the end or go to fakie.
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Most flip tricks.
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FS Pop Shuvits and Kickflips.
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still cant seem to learn bs tails... I suck at skating tho
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cant seem to find a place to do real slappies. note: i live in europe
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Most backside grinds are hard for me.
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Most backside grinds are hard for me.
it feels more awkward trying to do a backside grind than trying writing with my opposite hand.
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Most backside grinds are hard for me.
Yeah it does.I'm learning on small curbs how to hit it up though and ollie'ing over rails with my backside.Basically ollie'ing backwards
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nollie fs flips and switch bs flips. just that trick is so annoying
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Varial Heels i only get like one a month for some reason...I gave up on Inward Heels cause i only see kids under 14 or adults over 26 do em i guess it skips a generation.....I think ill die before i learn how to do a proper Backside Crooked Grind i think im the only guy who never learned it as a kid, ive done plenty by accident (i back 270ed out of one from a bump to ledge on film once) but i cant do one purposefully...
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Nollie/switch kickflips, my back foot it just propperly regular, and my nollies fucked - they only look nice when theres some kinda shuv in there, but im prety sure that i will never do a nollie/switch flip
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still cant seem to learn bs tails... I suck at skating tho
Thats a lie and you know it
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Ollie-ing into nose manuals.
I was just thinking that. I learned those lil nose pivot shits on a quarter pipe, got me used to leaning toward my front...too bad i have burrsitus my knees all swollen cant skate yet...
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switch backside 180's. I've got 180's in every other stance and direction, but for some reason going backside switch feels more wrong than anything.
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Reg front shuv, its the only Shuv i can't do
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fakie pop shuv it
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fakie pop shuv it
I was just talking to someone about these yesterday. The only way I can do them is if I pop as high as I can, otherwise it does a half flip or I land primo.
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fakie pop shuv it
That was my first trick
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I was just talking to someone about these yesterday. The only way I can do them is if I pop as high as I can, otherwise it does a half flip or I land primo.
I had the exact same situation here for the longest time
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Ive been trying to learn fs tailslides forever, 9 out of 10 I dont slide.
Also regular bs bigspins with pop are impossible to me, scary to commit, and they always flip
Switch kickflip. Heel is ok, but the kickflip is a mystery to me. Can't flick that foot.
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sw fs shove-its... I hate them
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sw fs shove-its... I hate them
i found those really natural, regular fs shuvs on the other hand, i dont think ive ever done more than 1 in a day
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Nosegrinds
No matter how hard I try, I can never get out of the grind with out my back truck clipping at the end.
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180 flips, the only one i can do is halfcab flip
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whatever happened to skwisgaar skiwsgelf?
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Nosegrinds
No matter how hard I try, I can never get out of the grind with out my back truck clipping at the end.
i feel you on that but for popping out early on front nosegrinds. i'll feel like i have the pop out, but i always land down in smith/smash my truck on the ledge.
vic, do you balance them or snowplow? if you're not balancing, do it, it makes coming off the end no problem, just like a nose manny.
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still can't get out of feeble grinds. both ways. always have to come out fakie
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No matter how hard I try, I can never get out of the grind with out my back truck clipping at the end.
i feel you on that but for popping out early on front nosegrinds. i'll feel like i have the pop out, but i always land down in smith/smash my truck on the ledge.
vic, do you balance them or snowplow? if you're not balancing, do it, it makes coming off the end no problem, just like a nose manny.
It it's a bit of the both, but I aim for the balanced. And I have this same issue for nose manuals so I understand why it isn't working out for me. Lately I've been practicing pop offs from the curb by doing little nose manuals at the end of the curb.
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i cannot varial heel...ive done like 10 maybe..probably less.
switch isn't a problem, but regs wont happen
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Smith and Feeble grinds...If U put a gun to my head, I still probably wouldnt be albe to do one.. I did a switch backsmith accidently, while learning switch backtails, best feeling ever:D
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Multiple flip tricks. I never had consistency before busting my ankle, and now it's just laughable. I would say varialheels are the worst, followed by nollie flips. But I have been getting better with bs flips. A little hope that I'll figure out the rest.
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nollie heels and impossibles
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can't do any nollie flip stuff, never done a back 50 50 either.
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Anything that is switch or nollie and involves kickflip. I just can't kickflip with that foot, heels are fine though.
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nollie heels - I dont know what is but i cannot do them and if by some miracle i get one it practically rolls along the ground. I remember a time in my early days of skating when everyone in my area was doing nollie heels for some reason and i was the only one who couldn't I felt so left out :'(
bs and fs flips - seriously fuck those tricks I cannot make them work. maybe one in a bajillion but it'll be sloppy
bs 5/0's i dont know why, but they freak me out
a tonne of simple mini ramp stuff. basically my mini skills are all over the place
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never been able to fakie ollie down stuff before, ive been able to do it over stuff like hips and general bank type situations buuuut i managed to learn do do them off a 2 foot block the other day, with reasonable speed aswell
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While other people bust em out like their back boards, I've never done a bs feeble....there's something I just don't get.
Oh yeah, also, there's not really a rail to learn them on :D
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Backside noseslides, I cannot do them unless I go very slow and even then I don't slide them far. I also cannot backside crook, or hardflip. There are plenty I have probably forgot about, the list goes on.
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backside feebles, and i'm so very sad about it.
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Also have never been able to grasp feeble grinds.
nollie flips and varial heels can eat a dick
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Tre-flips. Never had, never will
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Ledge shit, as well as switch/nollie flip tricks.
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Somebody please tell me the secret to no complys so I can grow up to be that old, fat guy who does nothing but no complys and slappies
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Somebody please tell me the secret to no complys so I can grow up to be that old, fat guy who does nothing but no complys and slappies
while moving, put one foot on the ground and with the foot thats still on the board... do whatever you want and make it into a trick
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Tre-flips. Never had, never will
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Nosegrinds down hubbas. How do you come off with out nosediving into the ground?
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Damn fs flips.. I guess i would be able to do it, but im waaaaaaaay to lazy..
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Pretty much everything. I've never tried to learn tricks in all my years of skating until this year. Once the snow clears and I move to Canada, I'll be unemployed and I'm gonna spend every second on my free time skating. There's like 4 concrete parks there. I'm stoked.
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Pivot fakies, 50-50 reverts, front smith grinds all on tranny. I seem to have skipped the basics
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360 flips, I can do them sometimes, but I wouldn't say that I have learned them just because they feel that awkward under me. Frontside five-o's, same with 360 flips, they feel really awkward when I do them, I don't quite have the technique down. I've basically given up with them, too frustrating to try hard on tricks that will forever feel awkward.
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sw/nollie heels and sw/nollie flips, and any other trick that involves those tricks.
tre flips
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normal fs shuvits. seriously I can't understand those.
I feel more confortable trying fs bigspins than just shuvit
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skateboarding.
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3flips and switch back180's
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i will never land an inward heel
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been skating for fifteen years and have done maybe 10 360 flips. it sucks trying your ass off and never getting it and seeing people do them and their feet barely move.
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i will never land an inward heel
Probably a good thing. That trick rarely looks good. Nollie inward heels on the other hand....
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I didn't learn how to properly do pop shove it's till last summer, after 9 years of skating and doing them the shitty scissor kick way. Just learned nollies a couple months ago also. Plus I finnaly figured out how to do a proper high ollie, I could barely get um up curbs before about a year ago.
Heelflips have always eluded me, they always stab me in the gooch.
I dunno I guess nosemanuals, I suck at them.
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Heelflips... I land the occasional horrible one but I've been skating for 4 years and never had them solid
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Heelflips... I land the occasional horrible one but I've been skating for 4 years and never had them solid
4 years oh man your a real veteran in the game.... ::)
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DIY trick tips rule lol!
http://stillnotsponsored.com/blog/skate-tips-from-sns-members/ (http://stillnotsponsored.com/blog/skate-tips-from-sns-members/)
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Heelflips... I land the occasional horrible one but I've been skating for 4 years and never had them solid
same, and i cant do em fakie either
also i will never try regular inward heels, thats probably about it.
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nose manuals, I wish I could do them
I'll never be confident with 5-0s, and I can't tailslide. nose based grinds/slides feel better to me
hardflips
feeble grinds
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nosmanuals are easy, just keep your weight exactly over the front bolts and practice
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Tic tacs, but i got em switch pretty clean
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feebles, i know how to smith and salad and all that great shit, but idk about no feebles
could never get back lips or back tails either
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nosmanuals are easy, just keep your weight exactly over the front bolts and practice
I meant ollieing into them. It sucks, they are so much sicker looking then mannies
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Never learned me a proper nigga flip
http://www.niggaflip.com/ (http://www.niggaflip.com/)
Got them switch tho
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grinds :(
all the grindable stuff near me is about 2 foot high and my pop sucks ass, thinking about trying crooks on saterday
what do you think is the easiest grind to learn other than 50-50?
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grinds :(
all the grindable stuff near me is about 2 foot high and my pop sucks ass, thinking about trying crooks on saterday
what do you think is the easiest grind to learn other than 50-50?
5-0s are pretty easyto learn. they get really fun when you take them around curves.
Heelflips. Everytime i try it either rolls on the ground or goes verticle. A black guy that can't heelfip is pitiful
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nosmanuals are easy, just keep your weight exactly over the front bolts and practice
for some reason i can actually nose manual about twice the distance i can regular manual at almost all times.
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Well first off, it never really learned how to do flip tricks down stuff. I've ollied a 15, I've feebled a twelve, I've impossibled down a seven, but that's my go to and one of the three tricks I can actually take down stuff. Like seriously, kickflips are something I'd be stoked to take down something people would probably take it down everyday. I guess it's because I grew up trying to do stuff nobody was doing that I just didn't learn the stuff everybody knows.
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Well first off, it never really learned how to do flip tricks down stuff. I've ollied a 15, I've feebled a twelve, I've impossibled down a seven, but that's my go to and one of the three tricks I can actually take down stuff. Like seriously, kickflips are something I'd be stoked to take down something people would probably take it down everyday. I guess it's because I grew up trying to do stuff nobody was doing that I just didn't learn the stuff everybody knows.
Same here with kickflips.. I ollied some big stuff, but I only kickfliped a 7 stair, few years ago, but I was a kid. Nowdays, I cant even think of doing it. Gaps and Stairs arent for me anymore.. I can ollie, fs or bs 180, same with switch, but no flip tricks ever.
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Well first off, it never really learned how to do flip tricks down stuff. I've ollied a 15, I've feebled a twelve, I've impossibled down a seven, but that's my go to and one of the three tricks I can actually take down stuff. Like seriously, kickflips are something I'd be stoked to take down something people would probably take it down everyday. I guess it's because I grew up trying to do stuff nobody was doing that I just didn't learn the stuff everybody knows.
Same here with kickflips.. I ollied some big stuff, but I only kickfliped a 7 stair, few years ago, but I was a kid. Nowdays, I cant even think of doing it. Gaps and Stairs arent for me anymore.. I can ollie, fs or bs 180, same with switch, but no flip tricks ever.
maybe some shuvs aswell but deffinatley no flip tricks for me either
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^ Well yeah. It's not like theres a real reason (unless you think it's really fun) to jump down huge shit and hope to catch your board unless your a pro getting paid to do it. Theres a huge potential for eating shit and if you just bail and land on your feet your feet still get hurt.
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nollie heels i had them soo good a couple years back and now i cant do them for the life of me, nollie flips are were its at though!
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This is going to make me sound like a kook but i can't pump. I mean i can pump enough to get lip tricks but i can't get going fast enough to do anything sick. My tricks on tranny are fs/bs rock, front disaster, and fs 5050. All we have in my town is a mini. We used to have a bowl at an abandoned hotel but it got torn down before i could even skate it.
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Anyone have a tip for bs ollies on tranny? My board flies away or I get into a tailslide somehow. I've seen some who don't even pop and it still looks good
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Anyone have a tip for bs ollies on tranny? My board flies away or I get into a tailslide somehow. I've seen some who don't even pop and it still looks good
all id be able to say is: just after you pop bend your back knee so its barely touching the board then push down (and backside) with your front foot and itll loop the board round. i dunno i cant ever seem to explain how to do tricks
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backside 50 50.
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other than tre flips, back lips, crooks, impossibles, hardflips, nollie flips, switch flips, airing above the coping, stand up stalls on tranny and general consistancy. i got some work to do
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backside 50 50.
Just got these recently on a tiny park ledge. Roll up kinda fast on a slight angle and just try to ollie forward onto the ledge, trying to go sideways will make you stick. I guess that's a pretty shitty trick tip.
Been trying crooks forever but I always stick. Starting to think it's because I'm aiming for the middle of the truck.
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Anyone have a tip for bs ollies on tranny? My board flies away or I get into a tailslide somehow. I've seen some who don't even pop and it still looks good
Less pop, more scoop.
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For help on tricks, take a gander at the trick tip series done by the Governator.
Trick Tips with Arnold: Big Spins (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IORSHPyfEk#)
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Proper trick tip.
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can't do any nollie flip stuff, never done a back 50 50 either.
same here we should form a posse, nollie flips and back 5050 just seem to hard for me... sometimes i fell like i should force myself to take one or two days and only try bs 5050s... but after 15min it bores the fuck out of me and i start doing something else...
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Ollies, kickturns
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I can't ride fakie from tranny, well, i can but like 1 out of 10 times.
Bs ollies and fs flips are impossilbe to me..
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I can frontside crook for great distances, but anytime i try backside crook I'm stopped dead in my tracks. I have also been at war with nollie flips for approx 4-5 years. Its to the point where if some one sets one during SKATE I get extra angry and quit even if I'm winning. Its like they know my secret and did it on purpose just to spite me. Fuck you for doing that. Fuck you nollie flip
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360 flips. i know it's become a staple trick or whatever but for some reason i hate trying them so i never learned them. i don't even want to anymore because if i do somehow flip it right it's all low and i know i look unnatural as hell. maybe my brain just isn't wired for them because i can't even do them in ea skate.
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360 flips. i know it's become a staple trick or whatever but for some reason i hate trying them so i never learned them. i don't even want to anymore because if i do somehow flip it right it's all low and i know i look unnatural as hell. maybe my brain just isn't wired for them because i can't even do them in ea skate.
same, by the time that i thought about learning them i was seeing kids who could barely roll along doing them so horrably that i lost all motivation to even attempt them
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I still can't push. I just lay on my stomach and paddle with my arms. Once I get enough speed from my arm paddles I hop on the board like a surfer would for an approaching wave and shred.
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I still can't push. I just lay on my stomach and paddle with my arms. Once I get enough speed from my arm paddles I hop on the board like a surfer would for an approaching wave and shred.
totally feeling this post.
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I can frontside crook for great distances, but anytime i try backside crook I'm stopped dead in my tracks. I have also been at war with nollie flips for approx 4-5 years. Its to the point where if some one sets one during SKATE I get extra angry and quit even if I'm winning. Its like they know my secret and did it on purpose just to spite me. Fuck you for doing that. Fuck you nollie flip
Thats some little bitch shit right there
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I can frontside crook for great distances, but anytime i try backside crook I'm stopped dead in my tracks. I have also been at war with nollie flips for approx 4-5 years. Its to the point where if some one sets one during SKATE I get extra angry and quit even if I'm winning. Its like they know my secret and did it on purpose just to spite me. Fuck you for doing that. Fuck you nollie flip
Thats some little bitch shit right there
Yes it is. Im beyond the point of caring.
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I can frontside crook for great distances, but anytime i try backside crook I'm stopped dead in my tracks. I have also been at war with nollie flips for approx 4-5 years. Its to the point where if some one sets one during SKATE I get extra angry and quit even if I'm winning. Its like they know my secret and did it on purpose just to spite me. Fuck you for doing that. Fuck you nollie flip
Damn, it must be a major bummer to skate with you.
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I can frontside crook for great distances, but anytime i try backside crook I'm stopped dead in my tracks. I have also been at war with nollie flips for approx 4-5 years. Its to the point where if some one sets one during SKATE I get extra angry and quit even if I'm winning. Its like they know my secret and did it on purpose just to spite me. Fuck you for doing that. Fuck you nollie flip
nah im fun i promise haha. its just that single trick i cant stand. you gotta realize i been tryin to learn that shit for YEARS. as far as everything else i been knowin im not goin pro so i just have fun doin the tricks i do have and filmin my young homies progress.
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Nollie flips are always on and off for me, I'll have them for a week or two, then have to relearn them again, it's weird.
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I'm still trying to figure out how to make it look like I can do a trick when I know I can't. Like when the session is getting heated, and everyone is watching, I can't bail in the middle of the trick, and yet make it look like I was about to land it.
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Kickflips are the one simple flip trick that I've always had problems with! My switch and nollie flips feels more comfortable...
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Nollie flips are always on and off for me, I'll have them for a week or two, then have to relearn them again, it's weird.
Me too, same with nollie heels. To me ,it depends on a day, sometimes I can have them for a month, every day, and they feel great, and then, I play a Game Of Skate, and I cant land them to save my life.
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Frontside Flip.
They are hard as fuck for me to do.
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I can't do nollie or switch heelflips. I can do other nollie and switch heelflip tricks, but not those. I still can't do switch pop shoves, and I can't do a good backside heelflip to save my life. I can do it pressure, though.
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Hardflips.
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I can't do nollie or switch heelflips. I can do other nollie and switch heelflip tricks, but not those. I still can't do switch pop shoves, and I can't do a good backside heelflip to save my life. I can do it pressure, though.
I've never even bothered to try nollie or switch heels.
I don't enjoy heelflips very much
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this just motivated me to go learn varial heels and frontside flips without the turning 90 weight on the front truck pivot scenario
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proper axle-stalls on tranny. i?d rather stand there in feeble or smith position, i dont know, i suck.
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Nollie Heels. Can do them 180 fs or bs. Not straight away. They always want to go up my ass.
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Slappy, I don't know if it's the curbs I try them on or if I'm just doing it completely wrong.
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Frontside tailslides so damn hard.
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Nollie Heels. Can do them 180 fs or bs. Not straight away. They always want to go up my ass.
used to have to same.
what worked for me was really focusing on the pop and then the heelflip
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Full Cabs. Annoying in skate but legendary for the history. Got em' Nollie both bs and fs, but can never even get close fakie :)
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Get a good wind up, and swing that shit around. Your shoulders should already be turned 90 degrees by the time you pop.
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never bothered with tre flips because whenever i tried them id just get a "varial double flip effect" but on saterday i started flicking my back foot ina weird way that i havnt tried before and now i get the perfect flip every time, only problem is i cant get my back foot on. hopefully ill finally have them soon, it seems like tre flip is the new kickflip
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never bothered with tre flips because whenever i tried them id just get a "varial double flip effect" but on saterday i started flicking my back foot ina weird way that i havnt tried before and now i get the perfect flip every time, only problem is i cant get my back foot on. hopefully ill finally have them soon, it seems like tre flip is the new kickflip
Im gonna take your advice because i also do some kind of varial double kickflip when i try 360 flips. I still cant do backside 180s, i think i have to get more comfortable in the switch position. How long does it usually take to learn how to push switch? i feel like mongo switch has lost its nostalgia.
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i have possibly one of the worst regualr and fakie kickflips... i can tre, fs flip, variel(if that even maters) bigflip, etc. i just have a really bad rocket kickflip that i will never do down anything more than like a 4 stair... but yet i can sw flip/nollie flip very well... dont know what happened there just hard for me for some reason..
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FS Shuv will always be a bitch for me. my switch ones are just fine....
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FS Shuv will always be a bitch for me. my switch ones are just fine....
The trick too these like someone said before is think of clicking your heels together. Actually the way I learned them is by doing them fakie. Also remember that you have to slightly jump back when doing them which makes them kind of tricky.
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Back 180s and fakie bigs can suck my dick
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Anyone got any tips for bigflips?
Dont really try.
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think of it as overturning a varial flip. sounds weird but works for me.
sometimes.
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FS Shuv will always be a bitch for me. my switch ones are just fine....
The way I do it is by keeping my front foot flat whenever I scoop with my back foot.
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I can't switch backtail big spin for some reason. I can 270 out and heelflip, but big spin is hard as hell.
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I can't switch backtail big spin for some reason. I can 270 out and heelflip, but big spin is hard as hell.
yeah, that simple shit is hard as hell....
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never bothered with tre flips because whenever i tried them id just get a "varial double flip effect" but on saterday i started flicking my back foot ina weird way that i havnt tried before and now i get the perfect flip every time, only problem is i cant get my back foot on. hopefully ill finally have them soon, it seems like tre flip is the new kickflip
Im gonna take your advice because i also do some kind of varial double kickflip when i try 360 flips. I still cant do backside 180s, i think i have to get more comfortable in the switch position. How long does it usually take to learn how to push switch? i feel like mongo switch has lost its nostalgia.
Just push switch a lot. It's not that hard. I started skating switch maybe a year ago and now have a decent switch push. Though I have a stronger desire to push with my back foot than to push with the stronger foot. Switch pushing + turning is still harder but switch mongo + turning would be even more awkward for me.
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I can't switch backtail big spin for some reason. I can 270 out and heelflip, but big spin is hard as hell.
learn switch bigspin on flat first, it should be easy, then.
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fs flip and switch/nollie heelflips. Can't understand.
I can hardflip very good but fs flips NEVER
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I'm in the process of relearning everything. I probably won't bother with flip tricks for a while, but I'm taking this chance to learn things I left out (I have a lot more patience for skating now than when I was younger). Way earlier people were posting about switch wallrides. I did a switch carve at china banks ages ago. I admit it's nowhere near a proper switch wallride (not even the same ball park) and all my friends were drinking beer in the park by the time I landed it but I felt like I won the lottery when I did.
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Switch carve at China banks is nothing to sneeze at - assuming you did it over the bench, that's actually sketchier than just doing a regular switch wallride. You go on & be proud...: )
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Switch carve at China banks is nothing to sneeze at - assuming you did it over the bench, that's actually sketchier than just doing a regular switch wallride. You go on & be proud...: )
There was no bench involved.
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i'm starting to land nollie heel flips and back 50-50 grind on a (tiny) curb after 21 years of skateboarding
Never too late...
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When i first started skating i learned pop shuvits...But now that ive gotten better i really just lost them. They always go primo when i try to do them... It was like 2 years of not doing a pop shuvit and i tried it down a 4 and it went primo and i ate some shit. Fuck Pop Shuvits
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When i first started skating i learned pop shuvits...But now that ive gotten better i really just lost them. They always go primo when i try to do them... It was like 2 years of not doing a pop shuvit and i tried it down a 4 and it went primo and i ate some shit. Fuck Pop Shuvits
i had the exact same thing, spent last weekend re-learning them. i found for me the tip was to pop completley down and in the middle of the tail
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nollie/ switch flip. just when i thought i had them i tore the ligaments in that ankle and have never tried since
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Hardflips. Never learned them. Can do switch ones, nollie ones, but regular ones are the bane of my existence. Bummer since I always wanted them like Mike C.
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Hardflips. Never learned them. Can do switch ones, nollie ones, but regular ones are the bane of my existence. Bummer since I always wanted them like Mike C.
dont sweat it, i dont think ill ever be able to do any kind of hardflip or inward heel
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i'm finding i have to re-learn nearly everything after skating on and off for the past 5 years and not at all for the last 2. for some reason tailslides and backside grinds on ledges have become difficult. i'm confident i'll get everything back, it's just frustrating right now. the one flip trick that always eluded me was frontside heelflips. i used to have them switch, but never even came close regular. they might have to be a new goal for this year.
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Hardflips. Never learned them. Can do switch ones, nollie ones, but regular ones are the bane of my existence. Bummer since I always wanted them like Mike C.
I'm the same way. every once in a while I'll land a regular hardflip, but it's only when someone does it in skate.
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my backside flips are so regular. I have had frontside flips down pretty well for years, but my backside flips are like varial flips that I turn my body with. crop dusted and usually pivoted, and I almost always stop completely when I land them.
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Switch/Nollie flips. I never dedicate enough tries to them. I try like four times then just go skate something other than flat.
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I can do 'em, but a regular kickflip will never be my cup of tea.
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Varial heels
Fs bigspins
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I can do 'em, but a regular kickflip will never be my cup of tea.
THIS
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switch/nollie flip tricks
I ain't complaining though
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switch front shove
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I can do front shoves but I am so bad at them. They don't even pop sometimes. I can hardflip so much better than front shoves somehow.
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Back feebles
Used to be able to do varial flips but now I completely suck at them
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I've never gotten a back 50-50 on anything much higher than a curb. My body just spazzes out when I try. ???
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Ollies.
WAIT... Let me elaborate.
I can do ollies, it's just.... See, I learned how to ollie riding super duper tight trucks back in the day. I had them down pretty good. I remember even ollieing over a cone one time that was just a little bit under waist high (which was the highest thing I have ever ollied even to this day).
But eventually, as I kept skating through the years, my trucks got looser and looser, and as they got looser I had to kinda relearn almost all of my tricks on looser trucks, just because it was so different from riding super tight. I pretty much have all of my tricks down now on looser trucks and im pretty much too used to doing all of my tricks on looser trucks now, but one trick that continues to suffer from my change in riding looser is ollies. I can still do them, but they're so low and dragged out feeling now, as opposed to before when I used to be able to float them. The highest I can ollie right now would be about knee high, and even then I have to work for them to get them that high. If its anything over knee high I start having trouble making it over the obstacle. I can do some pretty damn high kickflips and front shoves, but for some reason I cannot pop high ollies. When I step on my friends board who has super tight trucks I can still do some super high ones, but when im back on my board they suffer again.
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Back 50-50's.
Regular 180's frontside and backside. I can do them, but not well or effortlessly...
Must put some time into getting them good.
Then... Must learn 5-0's, tailslides, and get smith grinds back.
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Fakie tail stalls on mini
I can invert
But no tail stalls
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too many, but which really bothers me not being able to do them in a good way are fs flips, fs shuvits, fs nollies (can basically do them, but somehow nollie fs 360s seem easier even..), anything with switch kickflip, tho i remember even doing them smaller gaps when i was 14, pretty weird how you can simply forget anything about a trick.. oh yeah and bs smiths and fs feebles, if i go really really fast and just jump on the rail i may grind for short time, but i simply cannot lock in
i think i pretty much fucked up on alot of basics, because i tended to pause for atleast 3 weeks every 4 months since i was 17
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lipslides scare me.
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consistent nosegrinds, crooks, nosemanuals have never panned out for me
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I'm always pretty ashamed that I can't do axle stalls consistently and I can't back 50-50 quarter pipes. I have no desire to learn them at this point either. I suck pretty hard at tranny besides some front side airs.
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I'm always pretty ashamed that I can't do axle stalls consistently and I can't back 50-50 quarter pipes. I have no desire to learn them at this point either. I suck pretty hard at tranny besides some front side airs.
Dude, I hear you. My tranny game has always looked super underdeveloped because I could never string tricks together with backside 50-50s and axle stalls. I never figured out how to sit on them with my weight back, I'd just tap both trucks on there and then come right back in.
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So just read through this last page of the thread, so far the most common things seem to be:
Ollie, kickflip, backside 50, manual, nosegrind, crooked, shuvit.
DO YOU EVEN SKATE?
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Frontside tailslides. Its impossible
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So just read through this last page of the thread, so far the most common things seem to be:
Ollie, kickflip, backside 50, manual, nosegrind, crooked, shuvit.
DO YOU EVEN SKATE?
Are you in middle school? It sounds like you get picked on a lot. I'm sure you're really good at skating though, so that's good for you
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I can do 'em, but a regular kickflip will never be my cup of tea.
THIS
I'm glad I'm not alone.
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I can do 'em, but a regular kickflip will never be my cup of tea.
THIS
I'm glad I'm not alone.
Haven't landed one in months. They feel so weird that i only do them in a game of SKATE.
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So just read through this last page of the thread, so far the most common things seem to be:
Ollie, kickflip, backside 50, manual, nosegrind, crooked, shuvit.
DO YOU EVEN SKATE?
The name of the thread is simple shit you never learned
I have never learned front 5-0's on tranny
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So just read through this last page of the thread, so far the most common things seem to be:
Ollie, kickflip, backside 50, manual, nosegrind, crooked, shuvit.
DO YOU EVEN SKATE?
The name of the thread is simple shit you never learned
I have never learned front 5-0's on tranny
I feel like that one gives a lot of people trouble. Can you do frontside pivots?
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I've always sucked at skating ledges, although that's the type of skating I respect and like to watch the most. Over the years I've lost bs 5-0s, fs tailslides, crooks. I've never been able to bs nosegrind or bs tailslide, but now I've set myself on a skate program to learn both.
On a related note, I have two tricks I wanna learn before death collects me: ss 360 flips and bs tailslides.
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i can do them but i fuck up a lot of frontside 180s. its embarrassing. I dont claim to be great but in a game of skate i'll do some tech wizardry flip flop fangdoodle flip trick but then fuck up a frontside 180. like i said embarrassing.
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So just read through this last page of the thread, so far the most common things seem to be:
Ollie, kickflip, backside 50, manual, nosegrind, crooked, shuvit.
DO YOU EVEN SKATE?
The name of the thread is simple shit you never learned
I have never learned front 5-0's on tranny
I feel like that one gives a lot of people trouble. Can you do frontside pivots?
Yea, but hitting the coping at that angle just feels weird to me and it's hard for me to commit
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My ollies are terrible. I can do it and I get up fairly high obstacles and all, but I never feel like I can control a good, solid ollie. My back foot always comes off and I feel awkward when ollieing shit. My kickflips on the other hand are much more solid. I'd much rather try a kickflip over something than try and ollie it.
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I'm always pretty ashamed that I can't do axle stalls consistently and I can't back 50-50 quarter pipes. I have no desire to learn them at this point either. I suck pretty hard at tranny besides some front side airs.
This,and bs 50-50s and 5-Os on ledges
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bs 5-0s on rails, flatbar, round or square, always flip outta them and eat shit. I dont understand how people do them so good.
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front crooked. how people do it, is beyond me!
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Everyone can hardflip. I've taken every piece of advice and I'm still clueless. The closest I've gotten recently is 360 hardflip landing with one foot. I was getting close last year, but now, oh god it's horrible.
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front crooked. how people do it, is beyond me!
Try just getting into it on the bottom stair of something. Then before you try grinding warm up with front nose slides. For me, they're super easy, like I'm more comfortable with front crook than 50-50s.
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All Bluntslides.
BS tails are the bane of my existance.
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Everyone can hardflip. I've taken every piece of advice and I'm still clueless. The closest I've gotten recently is 360 hardflip landing with one foot. I was getting close last year, but now, oh god it's horrible.
I was like that with Inward heels. Then randomly after 10 years BAM! Had them. Just keep trying
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back 5-0's. for some reason, they scare the shit out of me.
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Bs 50-50's I have no idea why
FS Flips, landed a few that felt really nice, but I can never seem to get them consistent and even trying to bail them looks shitty now.
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Bs 50-50's I have no idea why
FS Flips, landed a few that felt really nice, but I can never seem to get them consistent and even trying to bail them looks shitty now.
first: get the feel for them by learning to pop from the the front of the ledge/curb into a back 5050
next up: ollie and aim with the back truck first.
good luck
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Bs 50-50's I have no idea why
FS Flips, landed a few that felt really nice, but I can never seem to get them consistent and even trying to bail them looks shitty now.
next up: ollie and aim with the back truck first.
good luck
very good advice here
i'll try it when i'll have a correct ledge
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i can do them but i fuck up a lot of frontside 180s. its embarrassing. I dont claim to be great but in a game of skate i'll do some tech wizardry flip flop fangdoodle flip trick but then fuck up a frontside 180. like i said embarrassing.
Thank God I'm not the only one! I'll 3 flip a 10 stair before I frontside 180 a 3 set.
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Bs 50-50's I have no idea why
FS Flips, landed a few that felt really nice, but I can never seem to get them consistent and even trying to bail them looks shitty now.
next up: ollie and aim with the back truck first.
good luck
Appreciate it, I'll have to give that a try when it stops raining.
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kickflips, have never been confident with them but can do tricks that involve kickflips very easily.
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Ollies.
WAIT... Let me elaborate.
I can do ollies, it's just.... See, I learned how to ollie riding super duper tight trucks back in the day. I had them down pretty good. I remember even ollieing over a cone one time that was just a little bit under waist high (which was the highest thing I have ever ollied even to this day).
But eventually, as I kept skating through the years, my trucks got looser and looser, and as they got looser I had to kinda relearn almost all of my tricks on looser trucks, just because it was so different from riding super tight. I pretty much have all of my tricks down now on looser trucks and im pretty much too used to doing all of my tricks on looser trucks now, but one trick that continues to suffer from my change in riding looser is ollies. I can still do them, but they're so low and dragged out feeling now, as opposed to before when I used to be able to float them. The highest I can ollie right now would be about knee high, and even then I have to work for them to get them that high. If its anything over knee high I start having trouble making it over the obstacle. I can do some pretty damn high kickflips and front shoves, but for some reason I cannot pop high ollies. When I step on my friends board who has super tight trucks I can still do some super high ones, but when im back on my board they suffer again.
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aye yo im sure i rock my trucks about as loose as you and my ollies are higher then most of my tight truck rockin friends. try to get them fairly vertical and jump forward off your back foot and remember to lift that back leg as high as the front one. i also find that really thinking about and observing every motion my body is doing helps to make my ollies much more dope!!!another thing i have noticed is that the amount of pressure on your feet before the Ollie can change the outcome. but really try to breakdown every movement and dynamic involved and im sure your ollie will take you to new heights in no time! ::)lookin ass.....
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i find backside grind and slides easier. FS noseblunts are the only thing i find easier, but i can't bs noseblunt at all
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Ollies.
WAIT... Let me elaborate.
I can do ollies, it's just.... See, I learned how to ollie riding super duper tight trucks back in the day. I had them down pretty good. I remember even ollieing over a cone one time that was just a little bit under waist high (which was the highest thing I have ever ollied even to this day).
But eventually, as I kept skating through the years, my trucks got looser and looser, and as they got looser I had to kinda relearn almost all of my tricks on looser trucks, just because it was so different from riding super tight. I pretty much have all of my tricks down now on looser trucks and im pretty much too used to doing all of my tricks on looser trucks now, but one trick that continues to suffer from my change in riding looser is ollies. I can still do them, but they're so low and dragged out feeling now, as opposed to before when I used to be able to float them. The highest I can ollie right now would be about knee high, and even then I have to work for them to get them that high. If its anything over knee high I start having trouble making it over the obstacle. I can do some pretty damn high kickflips and front shoves, but for some reason I cannot pop high ollies. When I step on my friends board who has super tight trucks I can still do some super high ones, but when im back on my board they suffer again.
aye yo im sure i rock my trucks about as loose as you and my ollies are higher then most of my tight truck rockin friends. try to get them fairly vertical and jump forward off your back foot and remember to lift that back leg as high as the front one. i also find that really thinking about and observing every motion my body is doing helps to make my ollies much more dope!!!another thing i have noticed is that the amount of pressure on your feet before the Ollie can change the outcome. but really try to breakdown every movement and dynamic involved and im sure your ollie will take you to new heights in no time! ::)lookin ass.....
I dont know if it helps but try doing them as fast and hard as possible. Dont stay with bended knees too long and when you pop, bone the board forward a little bit to level your ollie out. Good luck, hope this will help, a solid ollie is like chess, easy to learn, hard to master.
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Nollie heels, and freaking feebles on handrails!
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Nose balance manouvers
Such as nose grinds and nose mannies, still trying to learn nose mannies tho but can still only go about 5 meters max
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Heelflips.
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Fs ollies. Got better switch and nollie
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Some of these tricks yall are listing like nollie heels and back tails aren't that simple.
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Some of these tricks yall are listing like nollie heels and back tails aren't that simple.
fucking nollie heels and motherfucking backtails, you meant >:(
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dont know how "simple" its considered but i cant impossible to save my life. never done one.