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My tip for impossibles:
Visualize how a bicycle crank works (facing the crank and using your hand to rotate it). Now pretend you are grabbing a pedal from the 3 O'clock position and bring it up to 12 O'clock really fast. 5:30 is where you ollie and 630 is where you push the back forward and start to bring it up.
Ollie (we're not doing bitch 360 shuvs here) now you push down and forward just slightly then complete the crank motion.
Thing is, it's not a fast trick when you first learn it...it's very slow do to the wrap motion and the wrap doesn't work like a tre flip, you have to make it wrap but making your back foot moved down, forward and up...you've all done the motion of you done them sitting down popping the tail and fucking around.
Anyone have some tips for this one? I can do them no-comply style, but as soon as I try to do one with both feet on the board, I either don't get the "wrap" and/or the board just flies crazy around.
After some research, people say to pop with your back foot down and forward(?) and to get your other leg out of the way, but I just feel like i'm flailing around.
Took me a few days to get them, stationary practicing in a driveway.
One thing to note is the front foot does nothing. At all. You just need to get it out of the way; the trick becomes super easy once you get the logic that it's all in the back foot (more so than treflips) with the wrap. If you can do them no-comply style you are really close!
Regarding my previous tip, another thing to think of when you want to wrap, by pushing forward, is to think of pushing 'through' the scoop - and let's be clear, if you have tres you have a muscle memory scoop, this is different and why people can't get them/do the shit berries version.
There are lots of how-to videos and most get it wrong. They say not to pop, use the pocket and forget to tell you to lift up (that's the bicycle crank concept), lifting up completes the wrap. It's also WAY easier if you pop it. Just go look at Ed's or Dylan's impossibles. Ollie, push down, push forward, lift up all in one motion.
This is the best video tip you can get:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sySxuRtWuswNotice how high Carlin gets them? Because he's lifting up the back foot to complete the wrap.
Jamie Thomas/Carlin/Dylan have the best of the best because they lift the wrap (vertical wrap), which is why I reference the bike crank visual, instead of how everyone else does them, which is like drawing a circle on the ground with your big toe, like Howell or Yankou (<- the worst now pop, from the pocket and spins around the front of the foot instead of wrapping).
Dylan used the pocket but still had the lift.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJL9EiLrnD0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCbwFLmPFy8Thomas at clipper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ebSFQpB-g