HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR FLATGROUND

This video is a follow up to my last Rookie Mistakes video. Where I suggested that everyone should be skating flatground. Here, I'll give you some tips to help improve your flatground flip tricks.
Let me know which tricks you’d like to learn in the comments. Thanks for watching.
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[@circlesplitter]

Hey dude, You are a treasure for the community.

[@NormanWoods]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@TripGodUnlimited]

Sometimes I catch myself mentally giving you and Sebastian a shout out as I’m setting up for a kickflip 😂 big thanks 💯

[@PrimitiveSkater]

Elite explanations

[@Lehornet85]

This wise boarder is my teacher for my students. Team Norman 💯♾️👊

[@buzzerking]

Was super frustrated with my inconsistency on this trick and I decided to start from scratch on heelflips one day doing all your suggestions (weight thrown back, upright stance, shifting to heels, pop from a full crouch, maintaining the crouch, aiming for the nose) and I had them with such consistency and clarity that I was super surprised. I wasn't even trying to do the foot hanging off thing but when I committed to putting everything together my foot started naturally doing it. I would be so scared that they under rotated because they were rotating slower than usual but they always completed before I came back down. Definitely the most in control I've ever felt on a heelflip. I haven't had them that consistent since that session but every time I try to emulate those steps I get closer to landing them how I had before. Accidently landed a 90 degree heelflip (due to a consistent shoulder throwing problem I have during heelflip flicks) with my feet hanging past the board and it felt so natural with how fast it came up to my feet and how gently it landed. This is definitely the way.

[@NormanWoods]

Thank you for sharing this. I’m happy the tips helped. It’s a lot to have in your head, every try. But, it starts to click and works. 👊🏾

[@J.A.P1989]

Bro the way you breakdown the guidelines to performing flip tricks better is exquisite 💯🔥✅🙌🏿 I

[@NormanWoods]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@LameBalsam]

Ive never really struggled with flatground but i find it hard doing any of them in transition.

[@NormanWoods]

@@LameBalsam whole other strategy for that. I’d say start in really mellow transition. Figure out the best time to pop. For me, I have to pop just before I start rolling backwards. Too soon, and I land in a deck check. Too late, and the board falls behind me. Steeper the ramp, the harder to time.

[@LameBalsam]

@@NormanWoods just did that and it really helped, Thank you!!!

[@workinprogressskateboardin9877]

Very interesting ❤

[@NormanWoods]

🙏🏾

[@mikeemswiler4541]

Thank you Sir, you are doing good things

[@NormanWoods]

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[@FBombs4All]

Awesome tips Norman. Thank you.

[@NormanWoods]

You bet! Thank you for watching 👊🏾

[@taterstoolboxskates]

Thanks for all of your tips, Norman, really dig your new graphics and lots of cool video clips lately💯🔥🤙🏼🙏🏻

[@NormanWoods]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@liveanddirect100]

Great one!

[@Imsowindead]

Definitely helps

[@vincentschena1992]

But honestly Norman your the best help I've had through a computer device

[@hunter7vz]

Can you do a biggerflip tutorial there are no tutorials only fakie ones

[@NormanWoods]

I’ve never even attempted one. But, I can learn them and make one.

[@chrisjeffrey589]

Thanks man. I appreciate your channel.

[@yacineayadz]

thank you g❤🎉

[@yungsosaa]

Gems 💎

[@vincentschena1992]

Norman what up I'm it's vin I'm mostly flat ground trickery but some strange reasonsl.i differ I can Ollie over high stuff premature but I can't up anything anyways IDC thanks for sharing your views keep shredding

[@NormanWoods]

Might be a mental block. Before I figured it out, I was afraid of going up stairs, because of the distance. But I realized the distance isn’t too hard to overcome, and going up is easier than over.

[@midnighttoker8663]

Spilling the real secrets

[@NormanWoods]

@@midnighttoker8663 🙏🏾

[@130world1]

Yeah I miss Active doing these

[@haroldcampos9661]

I can push my ollies over a little gap but kickflip is a little harder for me. I can throw it down a drop but I haven't successfully kickflipped across any gaps yet lol

[@NormanWoods]

You’ll get there. It takes some playing and figuring what you’re not doing, or need to stop doing. But it comes with practice.

[@haroldcampos9661]

@@NormanWoods Yeah the first try went pretty bad. I just gotta start trying again. I think probably dial in my speed more than just “fast” to get a good pop. Even I tend to rush tricks, I gotta look into what I’m doing further. Maybe start recording my efforts. I can’t always tell what I’m doing wrong in footage but sometimes it’s pretty obvious lol

[@jestzawszespoko]

ace trucks are the best btw, just a note from me

[@NormanWoods]

They turn so well!

[@thebrokenskater]

just a question, no disrespect. does it really matter where someone flicks their skateboard for a flip trick?

[@doctertoboggan]

Audio?

[@NormanWoods]

Audio is working. Check your listening source?

[@doctertoboggan]

@@NormanWoods whoops thanks, ya dunno what that was about, look fwrd to the vid

[@Vondoobie]

Ive got pretty good tricks on flat but for some reason I have a hard time taking them up a bank

[@AnneALias]

How many hours have you spent on your skateboard on flat ground? 5,000? How many on a bank? 50? That's why.

[@yooomarie]

@@AnneALiasfacts cuz I got da same issue lol no parks near me so no need fa me to really stay on a bank trying a tricks but ima need get a hard flip on one reallll soon

[@NormanWoods]

Try pumping into the bank. Helps project you forward. This is a pretty common struggle.

[@_marcus_payne_-2356]

I had the same issue for years. I don’t know if this will help for you as everyone is different but it changed everything for me. This is for Ollies, Heelflips and kickflips. I usually have my feet just below the front bolts when doing tricks on flat, but for some reason I decided when positioning my front foot to do Ollies kickflips and Heelflips up banks, I covered the first two of the front bolts. And I don’t know why but instantly the tricks actually felt controlled. And like I said earlier, I struggled to pop out of banks for years. Until I tried this. Give it a go and see what happens.

[@quasar55cancrie65]

The secret is that you need to pop your tricks before you come to the highest point where your speed is zero

[@yooomarie]

Im literally a flat ground enthusiast lol I stay on flat even at the park I skate flat while I skate da rails and stuff jus gotta get them tricks consistent, and im glad I’ve found ya channel early in my progress my 7-8 months have been so smooth I got hella tricks in my opinion and they actually look good practice is key fr and gathering info from others who know how to do it like my guy normannnn⛹️‍♂️

[@NormanWoods]

Happy to help. I’ve come around to flatground again, myself. Used to spend hours and hours on flat. Drifted away from it. But I’m deep into it again now.