Intro to Bowl Skating - How to carve with speed

[@joshradick6096]

Dude, I've been skating bowls for over 20 years, and would NEVER have been able to give this tutorial. Makes total sense, I've just never heard anyone verbalize any of this before. Thank you!!!

[@rwandeuk]

This guy is a genius of explanation and transmission !

[@kevskatesNM73]

🤟🤟🤟

[@kevinnaughton9597]

We should all take a moment to consider how lucky we are that such a phenomenal skater as Mitchie is taking the time to break down fundamentals like this

[@realestpersonever]

youre a bot bro

[@xdirt.surferx]

I grew up skating street, but just now learning transition at 34 years old. Thanks for this!!!

[@Skateiq]

No problem. We havent put out any bowl content in a while. But more is coming soon

[@xdirt.surferx]

@@Skateiq awesome!

[@leightonlawrence8832]

me too

[@jamesclaridge9773]

Hello mitchie im an old man started skating again since the 70's midlife crisis but wen i get to the parks all the young kids give me a look like wow grandads skating and puts me off from skating so i go home but i hav to skate wen theres no young kids around your vids r fantastic thank u keep it up mate !!! 😊

[@TheRealWarez]

As one of those young kids... I don't believe that's what most of us are thinking... More like "old man learning how to skate is sick, but I wish he was done with this run so I can get back in"... same thing I'd be thinking when anybody else is in the bowl and I'm waiting for my turn lol.

[@silentvhs2835]

I'm 34 and starting too. I go skate with my kid and honestly only other Dads and young kids are nice and friendly to us. The last time I had a 11 year old showing me how to roll off ledges and his dad showed me what I was doing wrong. The teenagers and 20 somethings are always just doing whatever they want no matter who is skating anywhere. But I don't care I'll go by the bench and practice Ollie's and manuals until they move.

[@timhouston4470]

58 and still rolling. The kids are cool.

[@leo_link]

I couldn't care less about what young kids think about me. Just keep skating.

[@search895]

You can go in the morning when most kids are at school or at work. But better have at least one person around you in case of need or accident.

[@marsmachine1156]

Incredible video. I am guilty of doing those flat arcs around corners. It is not instinctive to find the perfect lines as a beginner. This was very helpful. Thank you so much.

[@SDS-uo5bg]

Great stuff, Mitchie, I'm an old ex skater who can't take the falls anymore. But I wish we had stuff like this when I was a kid!

[@robertvigh467]

I’m 52 years old and haven’t skated a bowl since The Turf. My city just built a new park with a small bowl and I can say I absolutely needed this video… thanks!

[@Kangaroo-x]

I love how detailed you are when explaining things, you are the only person that’s helped me actually get most fundamentals down, thank you bro you’re the best teacher. 🤙🏻

[@Skateiq]

Thanks! Awesome. Im happy you find it useful, and there’s more coming!

[@iamtheblackwizard914]

This is the most helpful bowl video i saw yet, also what a beautiful skatepark right next to the ocean, wow!! Keep it up with these videos !

[@RasKitchen]

Love it man! Damn Sunny Coast has some epic parks....got to love Oz.

[@ChicoAzevedo]

About the "not following the same height on the wall to not lose speed" = GENIUS! This makes perfect sense since i always lost all my speed making this and wondering how! For a beginer this is gold!

[@SunCity-ov1no]

That busted up left shoe tells a lot about bro's passion. Multiple sponsors. Could easily get a fresh pair for every video, and where's what's comfortable! 🔥 A professor of the sport, for sure.

[@darkknight097]

7:13 "find the part of the wall that faces where I wanna go" dude, thank you! It instantly just clicked on how to carve for me

[@samwirtel5230]

It warms my heart to know that there is someone to take the Hawks torch! Skating needs a nice guy, who is a badass skater! Thank you for being that guy for my kids generation the way Tony has been for mine!! ❤

[@LearnToSkateboard]

As someone who has been skating for about 35 years and making skateboarding instructional video for 17 years, you did an excellent job on this. Truly one of the best I've seen. So often, I watch instructional skate videos and the teacher always says something wrong or explains something really poorly. But everything you taught in this was correct and accurate. Excellent work.

[@Forrizzledog]

The analysis and design involved in a bowl/pool line is so interesting. Love the strategic employment of geometry and physics .

[@its_the_fudge]

Great video! Thank you so much! Was able to use some of your advice today at the park and was blown away how much better my lines formed!

[@C-G585]

Brother I love your videos and ive been skating for years. Im so excited watching this lol. Sometimes hearing an explanation and an example of what to do not do is so beneficial and helpful. I hope we cross paths one day so I can just shake your hand and we can rip a bowl for 5 mins. Cheers man!

[@johnnycountee644]

SkateIQ you are the best teacher in the world. I've been skating almost 50 years and if you were around when I started skating I would be one of the best. Thank you for such great teaching. Do you have something for old skaters with sore joints ect. Who will keep skating no matter what!

[@gregorystiller975]

What a beautiful spot for a skatepark. This info is helping to learn the bowl, thanks 🙏

[@jonnyshires9912]

Awesome tutorial! Sounds like Skate Bowls are my kind of amateur challenge. Although I'm not a Skateboard beginner as this takes weeks & also months to get the right stance. But I'd proper go all goofy just to practice beyond endless & carve bowl my way through those mind-blowing fundamentals. Makes me wish I stoked up some Retro-Skateboarding lessons & practiced my own nutshell tricks🛹💥🤯💯%

[@gavinogawa8386]

This is easily the best skating tutorial KZbin channel. Thanks man!

[@wdoering01]

I really like how good you are at explaining things! keep it real man! Thanks!

[@danielclipper931]

Called me out right at the start, always learning with your videos

[@caseyfaust8998]

Becoming a total bowl addict. I use this video to refer back to as I’m getting better at connecting lines…I have miles to go, but it’s great to have a roadmap!

[@Subversionskateboarding]

This guy is the skateboard professor! Great teacher.

[@seanmckean934]

Excellent Mitchie, I only skate a vert ramp atm and avoid bowl skating for injuries. This is straight to the point and intelligible, thanks I'm looking forward to setting up my second board for bowl and street!

[@thezetes]

One wrong turn on a bowl and you are launched several feet in the air only to land on your tailbone. I really, really want to learn to proparly skate bowl. Hence, watching these videos

[@sway_onthetrail]

Man, I just started skating transition after skating street for like 20 years, and the very first tip alone helped me exponentially. Had no idea I was carving so wrong, makes so much more sense.

[@user-eo5lz7nn1n]

I love how Mitchie condemns people who do the mistakes, really funny. But i also love how he touches on how not to do it

[@Skateiq]

Hahaha

[@anna2224]

I like when you said, "...listen to the bowl don't fight it."

[@ondrejkotalik3175]

What a great tutorial, thanks a lot for you spending time to help us 🤙 39yo beginner, not looking for kick flips, etc. skating bowl is on my bucket list for long time. Please, could you advise a bit on a good setup for bowl riding, it’s a bit overwhelming for someone without experience. Cheers mate

[@frankiew311]

This is awesome. Very helpful. Would love to see more basic and detailed transisition tips

[@koenstokman3200]

Two uploads on the same day? Love it!

[@__fer]

Every video is better. Love it! Thanks mate

[@Skateiq]

This is what I like to hear! Thanks!

[@roughcutretrospect7235]

Great video. I like how you explained everything.

[@AndySo2000]

Great tutorial, keep these going!

[@cedricclark5531]

That drop into knee slide was 🌊, looking for the surf board now, deep in!

[@Skateiq]

Haha sick

[@xxkxllshxtxx2189]

your videos have helped me so much

[@justadutchman5169]

You make it look so easy. 😅

[@trumanb4758]

I wonder if that bloke with the dog realises he's watching a world class skater in action here.

[@Lazy_Lazar]

This is extremely helpful, I will use these tips in the future. Thank you!

[@caseyfaust8998]

It may be in here or another skate IQ video, and I’ve just missed it, but if not, a video about best bowl riding foot placement would be helpful too. After your manuals video, I’ve become way more aware how often my back foot toes are hanging over the tail.

[@harrisonclark4382]

Man, the boards look a lot cheaper and so do the trucks n wheels than what we had in the 80s.

[@Skateiq]

Idk prolly is

[@harrisonclark4382]

Wish I had known how to fall properly. I would’ve taken more risks, @@Skateiq

[@luvemekim]

Go surfing men ! The waves are gooood !

[@Seeeeyaaaa]

Love your lines Mitchie, i realised towards the end of the vid your a goofy stance rider..so my lines wouldn't be the same as yours due to being backside on the angles you cut in the bowl. Smooth riding though man thankyou!

[@oliewray8357]

It took you till the end of the video to figure out he's goofy😂😂

[@Seeeeyaaaa]

@@oliewray8357 yea dude 🙂 he skates so smooth I didn't notice it.

[@fredyuen2489]

I don’t skate anymore but I’ve never been good at carving bowls, now watching this is interesting to me. It’s easier to carve bowl if you go high up in the bowl when you carve?

[@guitarrc81]

Great video, love the insider tips. Would you be willing to do one on knee sliding? Never used knees as a kid so it's still foreign to me but it's obviously a huge cornerstone to learning to skate bigger transition. Again thanks for the details man, as I'm sure you know no body is really doing this type of in-depth analysis for skating. You can get books on being a ballerina or how to maximize your baseball skills but almost no real skateboarding literature. This to me is as close as it gets. 👍

[@Skateiq]

Just filmed one g

[@guitarrc81]

Hell yeah dude! Bout to watch it now, thanks so much Mitchie!! @@Skateiq

[@TheRealWarez]

why do I feel like I have to kickturn to maneuver around corners in the bowl? If I try to actually carve with no kickturn, I lose all my speed in the turn or I have to step off the board.

[@prawnyb]

Nice. It was those fundamentals that I was missing

[@timw6546]

Wish I'd been there that day instead of sitting at home. Been getting back into it after 15yr would have loved some tips

[@Skateiq]

Oh man! Stoked you got back into it though ! we will be back some day :)

[@BigSleep3750]

ADD had me distracted. Had to make a comeback cause these are some good tips

[@franciscoramirez9867]

I love turning a 5-10min run in a skatepark with a lot of transition into kickturning everywhere/at every turn at unusal/drastic angles at high speeds. I like to bash my front truck in a chopping motion at the peak/right after the kickturn right into which ever direction I'm going_gives me a sense of control/let's some aggression out. Skating/carving transition with no kickturns is preferred by some/viewed as "the correct way" but can get sketchy: when skating super fast/semi loose trucks/constantly changing direction/angles you can get wheelbite if not kickturning

[@Skateiq]

Skating is supposed to be a bit of chaos eh

[@MrGough22]

Hi is there any advantages to running softer bushings up front

[@JaviSancho93]

What size and hardness wheels are you using?

[@44fruitella44]

Thanks for sharing this tutorial

[@sergeykooch]

Can you recommend what type of bushings to use for a bowl (conical/cylinder/harder/softer) and should i tighten/loose the trucks comparing to flatground skateboarding

[@idhatemet00]

Just use the bushings that come with your trucks or whatever bushings you currently have in your trucks. Nobody, and i mean literally nobody, changes out their bushings for different styles of skating, that would make absolutely no sense at all. If you're new to skating, you shouldn't even have to be experimenting with bushing a vs bushing b. If you're new to skating, i really don't blame you for not knowing better, because people online and on slap forums love to talk about bushings more than they actually skate. In all my years of skating i've only ever used the bushings that came stock in my trucks. When i rode indy's, i used the stock indy bushings, now that i ride thunders, i use the stock thunder bushings.

[@sergeykooch]

@@idhatemet00 thanks, i was riding stock ace bushings, but found em too soft for me, my board wobbled every now and then

[@idhatemet00]

@@sergeykooch No problem, I haven't ridden ace and i wouldn't necessarily recommend them to beginners as they're the most "surfy" feeling trucks out rn. Aka they're pretty squirrelly to ride. Some people like that, but for a beginner I'd say try thunders. They are lighter than indys and aces and have good turning, but are also much more stable in my experience. But if your trucks are brand new, no need to get a different brand of trucks, just crank down your ace bushings a little more. Ace also sells some harder durometer bushings, you could try those too. 👍

[@Gunjaroo]

Best coach = Mitchie!

[@ocelot_zz]

I stuggle to drop into anything and the coping also stops me doing rock to fakies and such, how do i get better at transition in general?

[@Meowskulls_rules]

I'm kinda a bigginer on skate boarding and I just want to carv in my bowl but I just don't think my bowl is big enough to do that and I keep on getting hurt is there a video of yours that teaches about carving a bowl on any size

[@Insignifant]

Mitchie-Merch? insert shut-up-take-my-money-meme!

[@Skateiq]

Merch drop soon

[@Romper-t3x]

There used to be a bowl video with smit grinds in it. But it gone. Can we get a video explicitly for FS Smith Grinds??? Appreciated!!!

[@Greatesthits-jm6fu]

The location is nice where about is it

[@k31n41m]

Ur tutorials are soo f good!!! But I wonder if there are ones for inline skaters out there too? Haven't found any yet :(

[@choosmusic9676]

WHERE IS THIS BEAUTIFUL PARK

[@zhaoyisha1409]

Mitchie, I’d really want to know about your setup! I see that u ride thunder and probably a 8’5 board, but what are the wheels? Do you add riser pads?

[@atbta]

He’s riding the jimmy wilkins shape 8.8 with 15” wb. Probably 151 thunders and 60 wheels

[@erenvalley]

What skatepark is that

[@wakjob961]

I mean this as a compliment,. You have very Birdman-esque body language when you skate .

[@Skateiq]

Haha thank you

[@imkanus]

Thanks a lot, great

[@jookbj]

Remember when Mitchie out did Tony on that 900. I member 🍇

[@jookbj]

Also, I need help carving bowls 😫

[@mohammedhossain1413]

Where is this skatepark?

[@kristopherjohnson9175]

What skate park is this? Looks awesome

[@Skateiq]

Alex something in sunny coast aus

[@J-Jizzy]

🐐

[@christopherhall1021]

WOW👀

[@hansonlife9465]

So helpful! I have to say “absolute basic” line including a frontside air over the hip 😂 doesn’t feel basic to this noob

[@ronin_ofp]

🤘🤘🤘

[@ElectronicsNick]

i want to love this but dale carnegie it dude. Look at it from our perspective as learners.

[@Skateiq]

Say again? Are you saying it’s just a little too anecdotal and high level?

[@fanzogarbanzo]

can you please please teach how to skate hips. there are absolutely no good videos on youtube by a pro skater on how to skate hips well (only the barebones basics - nothing intermediate or advanced)

[@adhidassler]

a bit unrelated but perhaps someone could answer.. : I'm goofy footed and ive been wanting to skate more transition. I got the basics such as carvin around, keeping speed and some stalls. But the thing is, i find my right thigh is so easily sore to almost cramping after like 15-20 minutes skating transition just carving around. And yes i do stretches before skating. So my question is, is there maybe anything wrong with my carving (like maybe theres some "how to properly bend your leg when carving" or something like that?) or maybe it was just my leg? lol. I was so bummed not to be able to skate transition for a long time and none of my friends have this issue so im really confused. Really want to have fun and learning more transition but i feel like my leg wont let me 😅

[@Skateiq]

First thing you’re gonna have to do is go to the gym with a good personal trainer and strengthen that heel reference. The second thing is to see if you can change where you get sore while skating, like more on your back leg instead of your front - that’s more of an exercise to build body awareness than aiming for best form. But honestly20 minutes of pumping is a full on work out so basically it will come down to you getting stronger and better cardio to really improve it.

[@adhidassler]

@@Skateiq whoa.. yeah never thought about that before! And spot on about the "should be sore on back leg" like thats exactly the difference between me and my friends. I felt it on inner front thigh instead of back. Thanks for answering this. I'll look into it!

[@BaldingSasquatch]

This dudes mustache gives me child predator vibes

[@jay999tv]

This park is perfect 😍 I probably gain more speed tmr in the bowl thank you🫡🙏