I don't know how to do manuals, but I really try to lift my front wheels by lifting my front foot. But apparently that doesn't work. Or maybe I'm not lifting it enough, or maybe I'm lifting it too late?

By bending the knees more, do you mean that I should try to crouch more at the top? Should I try to crouch more while actually doing the kickturn as well?

No. I mean to be crouch little more in advance, before you start kickturn at the top, to have reserve for extending legs. All the time you going up and kickturn, extending legs. If you crouch when going up, that slow your speed down and maybe loose friction with board happend. It's hard to control.

@@slavaz7932 Ok, so I should stay crouched more and longer while rolling up the ramp? But I need to rise up / extend my legs at the beginning of the transition to be able to pump up the ramp, right? But I guess the important point is that my legs shouldn't be fully extended at the start of the kickturn?

Yes what's right! Strightened legs brake any kind of control. You spend extending move to get speed and pressing board to the ramp at the same time. When you reach the coping leave enough stock of extending move to keep control for kickturn.

Ah, slower as in just getting the front wheels over the coping rather than flying out or rolling away afterwards? When you say bending the knees more, do you mean crouching more before and while rolling up the ramp, or "pulling up the knees" more at / after reaching the coping?

ye, I would try do it slower to roll away as you say, it gonna be similiar to rock on the coping, first you need to lift front wheels and then stand on the nose with almost all of your weight and lift your back leg with the tail, with every good try when you fill comfortably you can add some speed. Knees are fine, i mean when you bend them more you have less distance to cover when you fall, and its good to fall on skateboard. In your case shoulders are the most important, from 0:15 - 0:19 sec i see the problem, shoulders are not in parallel to skateboard

Thanks for the encouragement! You make it sound so simple 😀I thought I was committing, but I have never really understood what it means to "commit". To me, it's more about "understanding what to do" and then focusing on doing that. I'm still not sure of exactly what to do here. I focus on the "lift the front wheels" part and managed to do that a few times, but then my body / mind automatically jumps off the board without my approval 😀

‘Committing’ means telling yourself right before rolling up to your obstacle, you’re gonna do it no matter what, and then also 100% going for it. If you then step of before you even tried it, you didn’t commit, you ‘bailed’. As for the tips that I can’t really make clear over text, SkateIQ is the best teacher out there. I’ve never seen anyone explain tricks so detailed as him. Here’s a video for fly outs kzbin.info3H4EpBjR4MQ?si=b5bLX2j6QzN11qhr

@@mullet-man6956 I honestly think I might be lacking the ability to "commit", because to me committing or bailing doesn't seem like a conscious choice. Bailing usually happens involuntarily for me. I might be super calm and think I'm going to make it, but then my mind/body bails for me. The few times I have tried to "just do it" I usually end up flat on my stomach on the concrete, rolling my ankle or something similar 😀I concluded that this happens because I have no clue of what I'm doing or no clue of what to do, as in which parts of my body should do what to execute the "trick". The few times I've had "breakthroughs" have been more about "being calm" and "focusing on one thing", as in "this time I should try to move this body part this way" I follow Mitchie @skateiq and am part of his online membership program. He and his videos has helped me a lot, primarily by giving insights into the "fundamentals" that I probably never would have gotten by myself.

It indeed does happen and you can't do anything about it. If you really can't do it, you have to get more boardfeeling before moving to that obstacle. Skate around more en do little jumps on and of things. Ride on and of things as well. Get more confident on the board.

oh and you know what helped me alot when i first started and was afraid of the jump ? i took an old matress and put it on on top of the ramp hahah

@@g.k.1552 Hehe, I think there should be mattresses available at all skateparks! :) Did the mattress help? The funny thing is that I can do a Fly Out at another spot in this park - a corner in a bowl with a coping. But this ramp seems to mess something up for me. Maybe because it's quite steep and short?

Rocking Out - is that when you lift the front wheels over the coping, put them down and then lift the back wheels? I have kind of tried that, but I usually end up jumping off the board when I try that as well...

So speed is more important than technique? How do I get more speed at this particular place? Do I need to go higher up on the opposite wall/bank? Or do I need to pump more going down? Or pump more going up? Why do I need more speed on the higher / steeper ramp than on the small ramp / kicker beside it? Is it because I lose a lot of speed as I roll up the higher ramp?

To me it seems you have enough speed, just a commitment issue.. you are just jumping off the board. Just pump up like you do on the small ramp and do a little hop when the back wheels clear the coping

Not exacly more important than technique but always helps in a bunch of tricks. Going faster in this case, it will automatically boost you off the ramp. Here in my city we have a bowl, going faster to go off the bowl is easier, basically it throws you ahead. And don't forget to lean your body forward, so you can get out off the ramp. You need to imagine that you are going forward, to get off the ramp. And I think that in this case, pumping more in the final of the ramp first ramp and the begining off the second can get you more speed. Just bending your knees and push at the and and in the begining of any ramp can get you more speed. Imagine that you are pushing the ground with your legs.

But I think in this case like the others said to you, its more a commitment issue, just believe that you will land and stay on your board. I think that my tips will be more usefull for you in bigger ramps. That could be your next step. Hope you can land this trick brother. Cheers from Brazil.

@@alangaspero Thanks for all the encouragement. The funny thing is that I can do a Fly Out in a corner of a bowl with coping in this skatepark. And I don't feel scared when approaching this ramp, but I guess my mind is scared!? ;) Brazil sounds like a much better place to skate than Stockholm, Sweden, right now :)

More weight on the front foot? Interesting, because I thought the problem was that I had too much weight on the front foot. But won't this mean that I will "ride into the coping" when the front wheels hit the coping? When should I lift my front foot to avoid hitting the coping? I watched the video frame by frame and noticed that when the front wheels bonk off the coping, the nose starts moving upward, but quickly hits my front foot and then starts leveling out / going down. Do I need to lift the front foot more / earlier to avoid this?

Makes a lot of sense what you're saying, that's why I thought the exact same way. Two of my friends were having no trubble with jumping a ramp, I did. One of them told me to stop "bailing". I then realized that my reduced pressure on the front foot right after the wheels hit the coping somehow lead to my issues (your logic sounds just like the one I was using). I was probably too careful, relieved tension to early and had too little pressure on the board at the time the wheels hit the coping. I can't check if I'm right at this point in time (I'm injured), but as I remember, my issues immediately resolved as soon as I put more pressure on the front foot. My theory is that the board than has more inertia to clear the coping (because the friction between the griptape and your sole is increased), instead of slipping away under your foot. Who knows, maybe the wheels need to slam into the coping to pop up and gain inertia towards your foot? The Board might be lighter that it seems... The other thing: I feel like the pressure/ tension of the calve might pop the board away from your front foot. That's why I think pressuring the heel of the front foot might help you. again: I can't check if what I'm saying is correct at this point, because of my injury, but that's what helped me (at least as I remember). So what you might try: 1. lean forward more 2. more pressure on the front foot 3. more pressure on the heel instead of the toes

@rarvinmobin670 I re-watched my video and during the split screen part I noticed that I'm leaning much more forward on the low ramp. It looks more like I'm trying to "clear" a bump rather than ride up a ramp and do a jump. So maybe the bigger ramp also should be treated more like a "bump"? When I re-watch the video I also notice that I lean a lot backwards on the big ramp and probably also pump up / rise up way too much on the big ramp. I guess "keeping pressure on the front foot" will make the whole motion more like "normal riding" rather than "doing a jump"? I will experiment with this in my next session 😀 But what do you mean with step 3 - more pressure on the heel? Is it to avoid getting up on the ball of the front foot, like a "ballerina"? Is the idea that more pressure on the heel will help keep the board flat?

What I mean by the pressure on heel: the calve is a very explosive muscle. If you pressure like a "ballerina", you might accidentally push the board away with that explosiveness. The moment you've already cleared the coping, your calve might still pressure the board as if it had to support your entire body. That pressure is way to much for your board to stay on your foot though, and it's pushed away. By leaning on the heel, you might prevent that... Please let me know if it worked!

To get over coping you need work on bending knee much harder.

Roll Ins are a longtime dream of mine, but I'm so afraid of hanging up on the back trucks and getting thrown off the board, face - or shoulder - first into the concrete 😲 But I have learned a bit lately about Roll Ins from Mitchie @skateiq As far as I understand, it's important to keep the board level as long as possible, so that you don't point the nose down too early.

Thanks! Yes, getting the timing right is probably very important. I notice that when I actually do get the timing right. One of the drop ins I did - not caught on video - I got everything right and felt a "swoosh" feeling as I was going down the ramp. Sometimes when I pump up at the beginning of the transition I also get this "whoa" feeling. Another thing, I didn't know that you should stay crouched as you go up the ramp if you want to fly out - I need to try that!

Ah, that's a good way of looking at it. Trying to "remember" the ramp angle (in your body and mind). Like you said, I think my biggest problem with FS is that I still have weight on the front truck. Gonna focus on those two things in the next session. Appreciate your analysis, as always!

Thanks for the encouragement! I'm trying frontside kickturns from time to time on a quarterpipe or big ramp, but it feels like I still haven't "figured it out" whenever I try them. That's why I try to take a step back and do them on a bank. I want something to "click" in my mind so that I can do the same in a ramp. But I think "treating the ramp as flatground" might be the missing puzzle piece. Regarding the coat, yeah, it was quite chilly on that day. I think it was around -2 Celsius (28 Fahrenheit). A t-shirt and this snowboarding jacket worked great. I also wore a pair of fleece gloves.

Yes, this is my problem! And I never seem to find a solution to it. I have tried many ways of jumping, but always end up doing the same mistake. I think my early pop comes from lifting the front foot too early, but I'm not sure...

Start your session with 10-20 hippie jumps with emphasis on jumping off of both legs from balls of feet. Then start jumping off balls off feet but lift the nose a little, then a little more, then eventually snap the tail. Also when you practice hippie jumps use your arms to stabilize so you learn that at the same time

The hippie jumps will make you comfortable jumping on the board which I dont think you are from all the hours of popping without jumping enough

@@philipme2073 Sounds like something I can do :) Any special way I should "use my arms"?

When you practice the hippie jumps try to lift your arms in a way that gives you stability

Thanks! It feels a lot better than all the other rotations I have used before! Regarding beinding the legs more, that's my "next goal". I've noticed that great skaters bend their legs a lot DURING the kick turn as well. They are typically quite low already after rotating 90 degrees, when the butt is aimed straight at the ramp. I have experimented with this, trying to start bending the legs / lowering the butt at the start of the rotation. Haven't found the perfect technique / timing for it yet though.

I'm see. You already bending knee after kickturn, but it so light move now. Extend to start rotation and bending to stop and aim the way to correctly out. At BS kickturn out is simple, but if you try FS kickturn, bending before you go out is very helps. Especially on BS 50-50 - 270 FS out it feels great and safe, because you closer to a ramp. Bending before start rotation, to unload weight from board, is difficult when you try learn it. Is unusual feeling. But if you want sometimes to do a tailstole - FS 180 fake out it is only way to do this trick. All time you getting low.

Should I keep my legs bent longer / further up on the ramp? Maybe all the way up to the coping? Should I try to to the kickturn (on the coping) while crouching a bit?

It's not necessary bend legs strongly all time, but is more safe because you closer to a ramp. Ramp is your friend, be closer, and ramp save you from injuries. Important thing is get right speed to reach the coping(It's a key). When you come, at the bottom of the ramp feel your speed. If your speed is slow, you can get extra speed by crouching before and extend your leg when going up on the ramp. If your speed is fast, you can slow down by extend before and still crouching when going up on the ramp. At the top(on coping) you need rotate shoulders first and get away preasure from back truck by banding or unbanding legs, like you want, depending of situation. To touch the coping gentle and not stop your kickturn. Remember, always keep preasure on toe when you rotating on coping before going down on the ramp.

@@slavaz7932 At the top, you say I can remove pressure from back truck by bending or extending my legs. I guess you mean that if I extend my legs (back leg when doing a slash), I will press the board down on the coping. And if I bend my legs (back leg when doing a slash), I will remove some pressure since my leg will work like a "shock absorber". Is that correct? Should I ever try to "pull up" my knees (back knee when doing a slash) towards my chest, like when doing an ollie?

I think this might be one of the hardest things to explain how to do. It’s such a feel thing. I have to agree with slavaz7932. Knowing how much speed you need is critical to getting to the coping. You will have to control your speed by either pumping up to the coping or bend your knees to absorb some of the speed to keep you under control at the coping. I wish I had the words to explain it for you.

Today i try to do kickturn on coping to give you right answer. I'm tell you earlier about control speed on a ramp, how to do it because correct speed on coping is priority. In reality slow down is much harder to do then speed up. -You need get right speed or bit slow and crouching when go on flat. - Start extending just before you go up to the ramp, on a flat to correct speed and unload board(you can't get extra speed if you beeng on the ramp) - Don't extend legs fully (bend legs need to keep balance) - Near the coping load toe and start rotation. - think about to do 50/50, but don't stop and continue rotation. Keep all weight on back truck and pressing toe all the time(get balance). Feel how you hanger continuously scratching coping(nice feeling!). Still pressing toe(it's provide safe catch on coping and give stability) -When rotation is complete pull front hand down to ramp to direction where you want to go, crouching and move your weight on a front truck, like you want to drop. What's all.

Unfortunately not 😅I have almost given up on the ollie, but from time to time I do some attempts. Quite recently I tried a new jumping technique to see if that helped, and it felt better: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2OoapejatyDidUsi=jtkoggaJEa9cNeq4

Yes, that is my problem - popping too early. I sometimes thinking of it as lifting front foot too early, since that's what I think is going on!? Interesting advice about the toe of the front foot - will experiment it the next time.

Thanks! Yeah, in that video from 2019 I got some good ollies, but they felt "really strange" to do and required insane amounts of power. I was usually drenched in sweat after an ollie session 😀 This made me feel that I was doing something wrong, even though I got good results. My ollies didn't look "light and effortless" like they do for great skaters, so I kept trying different techniques. I want to find a technique which "feels right", but also feels "effortless". I think those two are a good indication of if you're on the right path. I have been able to improve other things by looking for these feelings. Especially if I get stuck or plateau. Recently I managed to improve my drop in technique by following this principle, for example. Mitchie over at SkateIQ also talks a lot about these things. If you do it right, it's easy - kind of :)

Tighten those trucks for learning ollies. Your foot turns because your shoulder is drifting. Maybe try putting the back wheels in a crack or start rolling slowly. I spent way too much time on the stationary Ollie. Stations ollies and rolling ollies are quite a bit different. Nice effort!!! Keep visualizing and keep popping them. It will make sense eventually.

I think the effortless feel refers more to how the board sticks to your feet and feels "light" and "weightless" underneath you. On the contrary, the act of doing the ollie itself does require quite a bit of effort, in terms of the act of jumping high and drawing your knees to your chest. It's actually quite tiring, so I don't think you were doing anything wrong, it's just quite tiring to do that kind of jumping for an hour. Good luck Henrik, you will make it!!

Yeah, this is fascinating, and I've heard it from other skaters as well. Now that I think about it, I kind of feel the same way when on my bike. If I go really fast and need to "lean into" a turn, I feel much more comfortable leaning in when doing a right turn compared to a left turn. I wonder if it's a bit similar to regular vs goofy? Each person is more comfortable in one stance without any real explanation of why?

Still too scared to drop in here, but I'm working up my courage. The new drop in technique I started using a couple of months ago has really increased my confidence. So maybe I'll try a drop in on my next session. My plan is to be drop in on all other places in this skatepark first. Once that feels ok, this one should be ok as well 😀

Let's more activate your knee and hips. It's strongest muscles which generate speed by push technique. Try to feel complete whole move of body, wave motion.

Up and down, slowly increase amplitude

Better than I can do, keep at it

❤

Thanks! I try to focus on turning my shoulders first, but I have a tendency to involuntarily "jump off the board" for some reason. I don't do this on banks, only on transitions. I guess I have to break through the fear?

Another moment. Try to do "late" Kickturn. Wait before board start going backwards it's more simple. You get off process to take balance then change direction on a ramp. You have to learn Kickturn on 180 degree to safe exit. Trick can complete if board stop going up or start going down. If start rotation to early you lost balance - body move down, board still move up. For stability also help bending your knee at the start rotation and feel only point where from rotating begin, but it universal advice.

At 4:27 I see. Shoulders move first, it's good. But you start rotating early and front wheels hit the ramp. You can compensate high by lifting front leg more or get less degree of rotate, but it not best way to fix it.

Thanks! I've been skating in this exact spot for almost 10 years now, so many hours spent rolling back and forward. But the funny thing is that I have improved A LOT over the last 6 or 12 months. The biggest change was that I discovered one of the "secrets of skateboarding" - lifting the front foot, and keeping it lifted. Has improved my skating in a lot of situations. Do you also like to roll/pump back and forward like this? 😀

Thanks! And thanks for the encouragement as well! I'm finally beginning to feel "relaxed all the way up to the coping" and also not scared of getting close to the coping. My back wheels have touched the coping a few times as I pump up fakie, and it didn't freak me out 😀

I haven't done tic tacs in a long time, so I should definitely revisit them and try to improve them. I watched Mitchie at SkateIQ talk about them in one of his videos as well. Is there something special they are good for, or will it just help me become "better in general"?

Tick tacs give that 'back and forth' at slower speeds. Like piano slow is as important as fast - they actually help eachother (slow helps fast and fast helps slow). Also tick tacking is pretty fun.

Yes! Finally getting closer! But I need to generate more speed on my frontside carves 🙂

No, I don't think it gives me more speed. It just feels less sketchy and less scary than all my previous techniques. To get more speed from the drop in I think I need to stay crouched while I roll down the transition, so that I can stand up / pump up at the end of the transition.

Interesting. Which rail should I try to be grabbing, and what kind of grab? I have never done any sort of grab, so I cannot visualise what you're writing 😅

Right hand on the right side of board. Grabbing your board promotes being really low. With left arm and hand you are leading your trajectory. This is a carve with front wheels down. Also, maybe learn frontside kick turn before the carve. Again, aim lower then the back side. Back side is alot easier. You will be really happy with your first frontside kickturns, trust me.

@@mikehemens9359 Ok, need to start exploring grabs! But don't you get kind of "locked in" when you grab the board? Doesn't it become harder to make the board turn / carve? Should I try to "lean back" (heelside) to make the board turn frontside while I'm grabbing the toeside rail? I did some frontside kickturns earlier this year, but I need to put much more time into them: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5K1dXqgpsZknJosi=b69XVRklsYh124TJ

If you are not going the speed high enough for your aimed trajectory, you will simply fall back onto your bum. The impact is small because you were low coming into the carve. This is another benifit to low pivot style approach. Whatever the trick is, do it the least impressive way to get a completion/confidence and build from that success. -Thats what I like to do.

Yeah, the shallow end was really challenging for me until very recently. But in my last session i managed to unlock it for backside turns / carves.

Very good question! I think it's an instinctive reaction, caused by "fear" - my brain is too "scared" to let my body stay on the board. This happens quite often for me in - and others - in skateboarding. You have to break this bad habit to unlock a new trick / movement. I managed to break through it on a similar ramp/bowl a month ago, but this situation is a bit different, so now my brain/body gets scared again :(

Thanks for the encouragement and coaching! I have experimented so much with lifting the front foot lately, and seen so much progress thanks to it, that maybe I'm overdoing it, or doing it in all sorts of situations instead of just the right situations? 😀But what do you mean with "lean on the turn"? In which direction should I lean? I know Mitchie over at SkateIQ talks about "leaning back" during a kick turn / carve (on vert), like really "sitting down". Is that what you mean?

Thanks! After 10 years of skating I have finally found a drop in technique which feels great. Maybe it's even "the right way" to do a drop in? I'm so happy for finally realise how to do it / what I was doing wrong 😀

Grab the nose thing?

@@Sure2Skate No, I'm not trying to grab the nose while dropping in. Instead I'm focusing on keeping my front foot pulled up "as long as possible". Here, on this near vert ramp, I'm crouching / bending real low while keeping my front foot pulled up. Then I lean slightly forward to perform the drop in. That makes my body automatically extend the front leg to make the front wheels get in contact with the ramp. But the important part is to keep the front foot pulled up during the whole motion instead of trying to "slam down" the front foot. Because the second you apply pressure on the nose the back wheels will probably touch the ramp and then the board will start moving and you will feel like you're "losing balance" and instinctively start doing bad stuff. 😲

wow, it actually makes a lot sense. When i drop first few times on banks i went for nose. Soon have realized that is too aggressive with front foot to slam into it. So i tried something like you did. Went few times on quarter but i get to dizzy there lol

@@Sure2Skate Did you get dizzy because of the height of the ramp? Like a vertigo feeling? One trick I use is to not look down the ramp, but instead focus on what I'm doing at the top of the ramp and on/with the board. Look at the tail of the board while you are placing it on top of the coping. Look at the tail as you're placing your back foot on the tail. Pull up your front foot and look at it (and the front bolts) while you're placing the front foot over the front bolts. Keep your front foot pulled up and lean forward to drop in. If you're an a steeper ramp, try to crouch down more before leaning forward. While I'm crouching down, I'm kind of looking at my front foot as a way to ensure that I keep it pulled up while I'm crouching. It becomes a very focused but also relaxed / zen-like ritual almost 😀

Thanks - happy to hear that it was fun to watch! Yeah, I got very close to the coping and I actually - kind of - tried to go all the way up to the coping. Maybe to try to do a slash grind? 😀

I have always wondered if it is hard to learn when you're older. Or is it more about personality? I was just as "careful" when I was young as I am today. When I was young I had friends who were real daredevils and did things I would never do. Today, I'm trying to use "technique" as a way to get around my careful behaviour 😀

It's about 'personal bests' imo.