Yeah, it took me way more than a year to kickflip…and even then I could do it maybe 1 out of every 50 tries. I learned how to Sex Change before I learned to kickflip :xeye:
I’m still learning how to kickflip…
It took me a good week to learn how to kickflip. I just learned to STOMP on the board when the board flipped to the grip tape side of the board. Heel flips, is another story, it took me seriously almost a year to get those shits down for some reason. It took me like 3 months just to get the board to flip all the way. Something about kicking with my heel part of my feet was just something my brain would not tell my feet to do correctly. I would kick it and the board would just fly like 5 feet in front of me. I got down my 360 flips before I could even put one foot on a heel flip.
I never really liked grinding rails, well, for the most part, ROUNDED rails. I find it very difficult to just grind on one for no more than a quarter of a second before I start losing my balance or already bailing out of the board. I like my rails flat and squared…that or random ledges.
Oh and like Josh Kasper, I was always a HUGE fan of ollieing off big ass shit (ledges, stairs, etc.)
^^^ When you hit rails all you got to do is just relax and do go stiff legged because you will over correct and bail the trick. I know it may soind dumb, but you have to somewhat chill on the rail to hold the trick down.
Jeremy Rogers FTMFW.
nothing will beat me trying to learn how to pop-shuvit and ended up doing an impossible:lame:
lol…wow. I never learned to Shove it or Pop Shove it…not because I didn’t try, but because the skaters I hung around with said Shove its were stupid as hell to do and wasn’t a real trick, so I never bothered.
Also, if you want to learn how to kickflip, just go on the grass and try…it actually works, lol.
I remember trying to kickflip and I was so scared, half the time I would spread my legs instead of landing on the board just because I thought I was gonna end up falling…but then I tried it on the grass and it gradually got better…lol, those were some fun times.
I don’t know about you but impossibles are easy as fuck, wonder where the name comes from.
The trick that took me the longest to learn was a pressure flip. :rolleyes:
Hah, anyone remember disco flips.
shove its are actually good to learn because they teach you board control which helps when practicing big spins and stuff.
i loved to do really high shove its and at one point at my peak skating period i was able to do high pop shove its then right when i hit the peak height i could toe tap the center of it into a quick flip on the way down.
I tried to learn how to shove it about 2 years into skating and could never get it down.
I was much more of a grinder though. I loved doing 50-50s and 5-0s near the apartment I used to live at…damn, that street got fucked up, rofl.
The only thing I couldn’t do was board slide a circular rail :crybaby:
I would somehow put too much weight on one side and pwn myself.
I wish I still skated - I weighed like, 130, when I was still skating. Then after about 2 years of not skating, I went up to 180 :xeye:
Skating was a great way to keep in shape, but getting hurt sucked ass…lol.
Thats kind of a big difference isn’t it?
Impossibles used to be damn near impossible when they were first popular, cause of those big ass boards and crap.
The way I learned kickflips, my main problem was I could never get the front foot back on to the board. Later I found out this was because I was flicking down and not out, so I got a blank deck with no trucks and just practiced on that. I would try to flick and just flip the board half way over and land on it with both feet. Once I got that down took it to a real board and landed it in a few tries. Still can’t get them to look the way I want them, but I got them every try.
now learn front foot impossibles. kids around here had never seen one until i popped one at the new park they just built. too funny. they may learn their tech shit, but seeing them tryin to melon over a can is too good. oh well different generations. just glad that old shit is a part of most pro’s trick set these days. It seemed to disappear for a long while there.
^^^ Damn if you can knock down front foot impossibles, you should try adding the forward flip to your arsenal. You definitely see a few heads go:wow:.
i have a question
i push with my front foot (left) instead of my back foot (right). is there a specific skateboarding term for this or is it just retardation?
It’s called Mongo Footed.
thanks man. i thought it was called mongrel foot for a really long time. it drove me nuts when i googled mongrel foot and came up empty.
LoL… I see a lot of people with that problem lately. ( I call it a problem because it really fucks up the direction you want to skate in IMHO.) But if you try to push the right way for a week you’ll be all good to go.
Deck: Chocolate Marc Johnson Edition @ 7.81
Trucks: Independant
Bearings: Lucky Abec 7s
Wheels: White 53 Autobahns
Shoes: P-Rod 2’s or my Suede Dunk Classic SBS
Skating Mongo footed is really bad form, but if you’ve been skating for a while like that, I’m amazed.
Im thinking about getting some new skate shoes since the eires are officially fucked up. Since Ive been on NikeSB’s dick for a good year would anyone give me a quick review of the Zoom Tre’s?
Skateboarding use to be my life back in 01-03. Tournaments started creeping up and before I knew it, I hadn’t set foot on a board in years.
But now that I got a job, and more importantly - a car, I 've thinking about getting back into it again. I was decent enough, and one of the few vert skaters out here at the time.
Thing is, im too lazy to relearn. I’m sure I can still ollie(which was a journey in itself learning…I’ll be damned if I ever forget)…but everything else :sad: