How To Frontside AIR Skateboarding Transition

Tips and tricks for learning frontside airs on transition.
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[@ZackDowdy]

What trick should I learn with you next?! If you enjoyed these tips, consider hitting the like button under the video (:

[@june7932]

nose bluntslide

[@Krakesenix]

frontside grab behind the knee and indy air behind the knee pls its so hard for me to do this step :)

[@Ktsusna37]

More hand plants. Stall that thing get that full extendo

[@Ktsusna37]

Or a fat back lip

[@ZackDowdy]

@@Ktsusna37 Got some today, so stoked!!

[@damiancecala5425]

I know I'm at the point in my transition skating where I gotta start trying to go above the copping, hyped you made this video

[@davidbubbsoar2555]

Good luck! I’m There right behind ya

[@magicwood2360]

I need to learn how to grab behind the knee on fs airs 👌

[@thisgoestoeleven]

any tips for grabbing in the air? I've been getting some pretty consistent frontside ollies and early grabs over a hip at my local, every time I try and grab in the air I end up bailing it.

[@chriszimmermann1442]

Hi Zack. How about a lesson on Fronside RocknRoll please? Love it. Thx man.

[@magicwood2360]

Learning Front boardslides on a flatbar will simplify that trick greatly 👌

[@Dillonisgone]

Awesome video. Would love to see any sort of vert ramp content, just starting to get fs airs on one. Dont know if you sesh them at all, but myself being new to them it feels like even the biggest of bowls are worlds apart from learning to skate vert ramps in terms of familiarity

[@Skateboardingofficial]

Sick video Zack 😎

[@pointxshoot]

Dude you're really good in front of the camera. Great advice. Thank you!

[@DEEPWATERS4]

You should try grabbing tuck-knee instead of stinkbug. Great video though 👍

[@ZackDowdy]

I want to! Eventually is the goal...

[@Sketchymike]

Al is the man

[@TheAnimeist]

0:08 "I don't really have them dialed in". That warm you did, I don't even have that dialed in. My warmups start with kick turns. Hey at least I do both front and backside kick turns. Question about the 187 Kneepads. I heard initially they are a tight fit, but eventually contour to your leg so it gets to be a good fit. Is that true?

[@thomevans4018]

This is true about the knee pads, it takes a little bit to get them there but once they’re good they’re very very good

[@ZackDowdy]

Honestly I'm not stoked on my 187 Kneepads, they've ripped at the bottom after 5-6 sessions but to be fair maybe I wasn't using them right. The fit is a bit snug, and they do loosen up similar to a pair of shoes.

[@leredditcommander8208]

I feel like having fear of flying over the coping is what stops people from going higher, when i was doing backside air it took me a while to try full speed like a maniac.

[@kylep3759]

If you go full speed and come back in the same exact angle you went up you will get much higher. You're hitting the ramp at about 75 degrees go for the straight up 90 degrees you'll be up at least 3 feet higher

[@ilikethispost7826]

I’m just learning basic lip tricks just now but it’s my dream to do these. At what stage would you recommend trying this?.

[@TylerRaffle92]

You’ll know when your ready

[@ZackDowdy]

Nice! It really depends person to person. If you're comfortable with frontside and backside grinds on 8+ transition, I think that'll help.

[@scottkeenan6339]

That's how the pros do it 💥🤙

[@TheHairyDurdles]

Thx for the vids & stoke… would the Invisible wall technique work for BSA too?

[@ZackDowdy]

I don't think it works the same way backside, but I'm working on an updated backside air video :)

[@TheHairyDurdles]

@@ZackDowdy Thx! Can’t wait 👊🏽 skating vert tomorrow and I was gonna try to scrape the tail straight through the coping onto the invisible wall. I can quarter pipe air to bank like big Al’s video and I’m consistently three wheels over coping on vert just looking for that last final step and I thought maybe the invisible wall would help🤷🏽‍♂️

[@patrickisles4570]

Can you do a video on falling correctly when you're padded up?

[@arcvigaming8198]

Grabbing late still scares me, haven't tried it yet. I always grab early cause I'm a coward haha

[@panitpundarik3990]

Hey, Thanks for the vids :) Do you let your wheels (back or even back & front ?) bump on the coping or do you have to pop the board so nothing touches ?

[@ZackDowdy]

I lift my front wheels up towards me and let my back wheels bonk the copping, helping bring the board closer to my hand.

[@panitpundarik3990]

@@ZackDowdy Thanks for your time and for helping an old 51 years old man to improve in bowl skating :) Your videos are great. Best thoughts from France.

[@andreschou9560]

what a nice video ... im learning em atm :)

[@Truestories404]

Dude 8am! My body isn’t even awake let alone fs air early morning! Lol

[@Dannys.pitted]

Wowowow stupendous video

[@jonahardayfio7746]

Where did he get this helmet from?

[@xisotopex]

you learned b/s airs before frontside?

[@gnarlywagner8171]

How the heck did you get so comfortable on the coping

[@ZackDowdy]

Hips really helped with that fear of launching off coping, it took awhile!

[@christians131]

@@ZackDowdy it’s just a commitment thing and really nothing else I imagine?

[@takndul5704]

Do the invert... 😁

[@ZackDowdy]

Been enjoying them!

[@TwentynineDjibril8614]

Yo

[@christians131]

I’m peanut butter n’ jealous that I can’t skread like that yet 😔

[@xisotopex]

tuck that knee... its not worth learning stinkbug style and having to start over to an extent to do them correctly.... remember, its not what you do, its how you do it.... learning proper tuck knee grabs will also keep you more compact. dont reinvent the wheel, people have been doing stylish tuck knee f/s airs 6 foot out since the early 80's at least.

[@skate_oasis]

I'm curious what the technical downfalls of grabbing stink-bug are. I leared all my grabs snowboarding, and because of the stiffness of boots and bindings, grabbing tuck knee is really difficult. So I learned indys and frontside airs grabbing stink-bug.

[@xisotopex]

@@skate_oasis its not what you do, its how you do it.