sw front big spins

[Sleazy]

i got switch front shuvs and switch front 180s both pretty locked down but for some reason i can't put them together. seems like the problem is that my switch front shuvs don't pop high enough and so i'm not able to catch them and do the final 90 degrees of rotation.

anyone got any tips on these?

[ThatOneGuy]

If you cant get the full 180 rotation then try putting your front foot back farther. Also try winding your arms up and scooping harder.

This helped when i was working on em

[Sleazy]

video got me hyped to try some more, thanks

[RightCoastBiased]

If you cant get the full 180 rotation then try putting your front foot back farther. Also try winding your arms up and scooping harder.

This helped when i was working on em

Ooooh land it THEN ride away. Now I got it.


Trick tips are the most useless shit ever.

[BriDen]

I have a really wide stance when I do them; front foot over the front bolts, back foot on the corner of the tail. I hang the heel of my back foot off much farther than for sw shuv or 180, and kick the fuck out of it right as I pop. I find that helps get the back foot around 180 much easier, so it feels like (I know it sounds cliche, but...) the board is catching up to my popping foot. If I wind up too much for it, it either flips or overspins, so my feet get around 180 before the rest of my body does. My front foot doesn't do much except catch it.

[sage]

because its a fs 360 shuv not a normal fs shuv. You aren't doing a 180 + a fs shuv you're doing a fs 360shuv and turning with it. Get the scoop on 360 shuvs and bigspins will follow.

[Sleazy]

yeah, i've been trying pop catch rotate, 360 shuv seems gnarly. hopefully they are easier to do when you spin with them.

[rawbertson.]

do sw fs shove land in nosemanny then 180 out

[Narcissus]

do sw fs shove land in nosemanny then 180 out

That's all I can do. Wish I could pop them. Flips every time if I try to pop it, though.

[FROST YOUR TIPS]

the key is in the scoop

[rawbertson.]

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do sw fs shove land in nosemanny then 180 out

[close]

That's all I can do. Wish I could pop them. Flips every time if I try to pop it, though.

so what. you should see my backside bigspins. they dont leave the ground at all and i can do them down sets. i do them over the hip at the skatepark like every day and people get psyched and i think they look like shit. then people got stoked on them because everyone does them with pop and i do it a different way. so then i learned to get psyched on it. just cause you arent doing it "the best way" doesnt mean it isnt ill. i have a weird style i kind of hunch over a lot when i skate. i have learned to accept it and it has made me a way better skater because certain trricks i was built for and most i was not so i just dont try to do the ones i was not built for so much anymore. i am a boardslide on ledges kind of cat.

[metsuri]

I can do them on smooth and slippery flat but they take so much effort, I have to use so much power so there's something wrong with the way I do them. That should be a rather effortless trick, if you have them down.

[kilgore.]

it's all in the back foot, trust.

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

i found they spin best when you put your foot in that spot between the bolts and the tail.....

[Sleazy]

stomped one but still didn't roll away on one but putting my back foot off the back corner of the tail, like in the video, and creaping my back foot back definitely helped me spin them better. so thanks

[Harold.]

Trick tips are the most useless shit ever.

I know eh, just a shitty excuse to show off how rad you are for being able to do them.

[Boston.]

it's a hail mary trick for me now. i seriously can't figure it out

[ThatOneGuy]

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Trick tips are the most useless shit ever.

[close]

I know eh, just a shitty excuse to show off how rad you are for being able to do them.

True, but they help in a way. Watching the trick done really well and mimicking the footing and timing can make it a lot easier to picture yourself landing it for the first time.

[Sleazy]

i watch them for foot placement mostly

[Choad Muskrat]

I stopped trying them, because most of the time my board will helicopter several feet away and I'm left there looking like I'm riding an invisible horse

[Thom Verlaine]

I stopped trying them, because most of the time my board will helicopter several feet away and I'm left there looking like I'm riding an invisible horse

The description is perfect.

[bandini]

I don't understand popping any kind of 360 shove and keeping the board level - it just don't compute to me.

However, I can do late shoves of all that stuff, so the way I worked out to do switch bigspins is just to late shove it, only do the late shove so early that you can hardly tell. Works for me.

[the whompler]

I stopped trying them, because most of the time my board will helicopter several feet away and I'm left there looking like I'm riding an invisible horse

hahaha

[dirty jerseys steeziest]

I'm in the same boat. The weird part is i have regular front bigs consistent along with big heels and lazers but none of them switch. My switch front shuvs are really good and my switch 180's are alright I just can't put it together. Whenever i really try i do half a pressure heel and land upside down.

[clamy]

A really frustrating trick to learn for sure. Whenever I used to try them they would just spin out of control nowhere near me, or they would flip. I finally got them one afternoon, the only way I've found out how to do them is to face a heap toward the tail, I guess that's the windup for the rotation. They probably look really shit, too, I barely pop them but they're gradually getting better. I wanna pop them, must be the weak back foot.

[yeahisaidit]

it's all in the back foot, trust.

and finding the "sweet spot"

[alrightythen]

i am gonna learn these so bad. been wanting to for so long. also regular front bigspins. IMPOSSIBLE FFFFUUUUUU

[Heshstallion]

theyre easier regular, and even easier backside, for me at least