Nollie FS 180

[dazza]

This is one of those ones that just never works and I really want to be able to do it. Can effectively (if I practiced a bit) do all other 180s, yet when I try this one it always stops at 90 degrees and then I have to pivot.

Anyone have experience/tips overcoming this?

[elisunday]

This was/is a weird one for me too. The only time i can do them acceptably is going over something, because i think that forces me to focus on really popping and pulling up my feet, and also facing forward at the height of the nollie. So i personally would advise trying to learn it going over something, anything that makes the challenge more about the nollie pop than the 180 movement. Keep trying to pop higher with flatter nollies and your feet will gravitate toward landing straight. I think another aspect of why this method is helpful is that it encourages keeping one's shoulders facing forward before popping rather than aligned with the feet/board.

[backside_frontside]

Position your upper body facing forward with you shoulders nearly perpendicular to your feet. I put my back foot closer to my front foot than I would for a straight nollie. Carve frontside ever so slightly before you pop and pop as hard as you can.

[layzieyez]

Do you smoke weed? My friends in Savannah called this trick the pothead because only people who had a good one smoked weed.

If you don’t smoke weed, maybe do a nollie shifty (frontside). Keep working on leveling a frontside shifty until you can get the height and just follow through all the way 180.

[Pbn_jake]

Over exaggerate your shoulders

[Teethcanbesexy]

Seriously just pretend you’re grant Patterson in that thrasher contest and float them over flat ground

[ferguu]

Point your front foot toes straight forward in the direction you're goin, then as you pop pivot on the ball of your foot while turning your shoulders. The frontside carve is a good tip too. The more u carve the easier it's gonna be.

[SaySo]

What helped me was distributing more of my weight evenly. When I was first learning this, for some reason, I would put more weight over my front foot. Once I readjusted they became better. I still suck at them, but I got much more consistent and comfortable with them.

[ChuckRamone]

Start turning 180 as soon as you pop but slowly so the turn ends about when you're gonna land

[dazza]

Do you smoke weed? My friends in Savannah called this trick the pothead because only people who had a good one smoked weed.

That's hilarious. I don't smoke weed so maybe that's the problem, huh.

But seriously thanks for all the tips guys, haven't been out yet but next time i'll have a crack at it.

[Too Frank To Fred]

This is a trick I thought would allude me forever due to a body mind disconnect b/c I come from a pre-switch era...

Anyway, focussing on my back shoulder and following it around the rotation mentally opened up this trick for me. I only do them on flat but it feels good.

Weed probably helps but I wouldn't know.

[MOE SYZLAK]

front foot on the nose pocket, toes slightly pointed to the front. back foot a little in front of the back bolts towards the heel side, stand on your toes a bit. wind up before you pop and when you pop nudge it forward instead of straight down. Use your back toes to push the tail all the way around and transfer some of that weight to your back (now front foot). it should level out.

[Hubba Bo-Tep]

Watch the dude in white tee and shoes right at the beginning.  I know he's flipping but it's the same deal.

For the straight-up nollie version, shift your back foot so that the ball of your foot is in the center (width-wise).  There is no big wind up, a big wind up will just throw you off balance most of the time.  Kinda face the direction you are going and add a small final rotation in the shoulders as you come out of the crouch and into the jump.

The most important part is the direction you throw your back knee in the pop.  It's not straight up, it's up and towards the direction you are going.  Just watch the dude's back knee, he throws it towards the top of the bank.  Doing this got my Nollie FS 180s a whole lot less shitty.

[j....soy.....]

Open your shoulders, pop, and push the board in front of you.  It’s a balls of your feet trick too…. The pivot is better than over rotating it at least…..

[enjoithejunt]

I know how you feel. Nollie fs 180s are definitely the weirdest one of all the 180s, but its all in your shoulders and hips. Wind up your body, give the board a good pop and then your shoulders should guide the rest of your body, which will guide the board. Lean forward a bit too.
I can do the trick, but I don't like the way they look to me. I'd have learn how to bone them out for them to look good.

[Sedition]

I go back and forth on this one. Some days I have good ones. Other days it just looks like am doing a tiny nose wheelie into a giant pebble. On the bad days, I do bunch of half-cabs, and take careful note of how all my mechanics are working, then just try to mirror it. That usually helps me a lot. That said, lots of good advice in this thread. 

[Ok]

I go back and forth on this one. Some days I have good ones. Other days it just looks like am doing a tiny nose wheelie into a giant pebble. On the bad days, I do bunch of half-cabs, and take careful note of how all my mechanics are working, then just try to mirror it. That usually helps me a lot. That said, lots of good advice in this thread.

sadly, my half cabs are waaaaaaaaaay worse.

the nollie ones work for me, because i’m leaned further back, and i’m kind of throwing the nollie out in front of me.

[SwitchBenihana]

Push forward harder than you'd think and slightly delay pulling your front foot up. I think most people that ghost pop this one try to rotate too soon. It's easier to rotate FS so it's not the same timing and momentum as BS. Another cue is to point the front foot more than you'd think. That helps push forward and accentuate the snap.

Slow mo Jake Johnson doing them. He airfoots them a bit, but it really helps understand the timing.

I'm only good at these and normal half cabs, the other way help me god they're ugly.

[SatanicPanic]

Open your shoulders, pop, and push the board in front of you.  It’s a balls of your feet trick too…. The pivot is better than over rotating it at least…..

This is how I do them. And yeah, over-rotating on this trick feels very sketchy.

Oh and I smoke weed so maybe that's it.

[spooky electric]

i used to struggle with these but they're something i do every time i skate now, definitely ensuring the shoulders have faced forwards before/at the moment that you pop and think of the 180 as kind of late, even if it's under-rotating, you'll start to feel what it's supposed to feel like when pop, then turn.

i think also just practicing nollies that intentionally flatten at their height would help some people. i feel like they're quite hard to rocket around (and obviously wouldn't be as good anyway) and my rotation feels pretty linked to the moment you really level the board with your back foot - that's when you push that foot around to the front.