Simple Shit You Never Learned

[Gnarwhal]

i cant back 50-50, but i can back tail and back smith

[ThatOneGuy]

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.

[MrDreamPop]

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

[kazbenson]

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.

[Mr.Blonde]

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.

[3base]

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.

[camel filters]

i will die not having varial heelflips learned. ive landed 3 in my 7 years of skating and i am considering suicide.

[Turtle Boy]

Inward Heels and BS noseslides

[EricLogan]

made me think of this thread

[mooraga]

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

[few123456789]

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. 

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

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frontside pop shuvits.  but ive got them switch

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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.

 

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

[Yours Truly]

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..

[alrightythen]

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

[oyolar]

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.

[Skwisgaar Skwigelf]

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.

[BFKskateboards]

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.

[formeitscrazylike]

tranny

and switch back 180s

[aojiru]

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.

[Tuna]

Backside slappies. Frontside ones were always easier.

i'm the opposite. what would you say is the trick to the frontsiders?

[Smell Good]

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Backside slappies. Frontside ones were always easier.

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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.

[aojiru]

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).

[koots]

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.

[Stoeipoes]

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.

[Smell Good]

Ollie-ing into nose manuals.

[finknoos]

All heel tricks and no-complys

although ive started trying no-complies and theyre working...kinda

[formeitscrazylike]

back smiths, i always catch my front foot on the ledge. can't figure shit out

[tonysean]

front shuvs and my brain can't even process back tails in the slightest.

[aojiru]

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.

[Tarquin]

Most flip tricks.