💙 HOW to DROP IN the SAFE WAY! Build Confidence with Understanding, Learn from Pro Skate Coach JB! 

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I'm 42 and just started skating again after a 20 year break. Never learned to drop in as a kid but I just did it last week for the first time! I'd been standing on the edge of a 3 foot quarter pipe at my local park for 6 months. Then I watched your video, went through the steps and nailed it. Thanks JB for the great technical and motivating content.

I like how you put crazy tricks in-between steps to remind us this is only the beginning 😂

Yo! I saw you at this skate park today, just said hi but didn't want to interrupt your lesson, but you ended up coming back and handing me some stickers. Was cool to see you, I had watched your carving videos and was doing a ton of that, practicing kickturns, and going down the bank into the pool and pumping all the way up, I got it a few times! Gonna keep watching your vids man, thanks for the content!

I’m 33 years old and just started skateboarding. ALL your videos are beyond helpful! Thank you for the work you do

Easily the best skate teacher on youtube, best production, no corniness, straight facts, amazing detail

Dropped in for the first time on a quarter pipe at the skate park, after trying on my own and slamming pretty hard, everyone there was so chill and I can’t wait to go back. Thanks JB ❤️

I am 59 years old and skated drains,ramps and parks all the way until my 20's. Back injuries curtailed my skating, but I could still do a lot of intermediate park riding and street skating and even motocross into my late 30's. From the first few minutes of watching this video, I have to say, "you are one excellent teacher."

Hitting 51 next week & just started skating. I rode maybe twice in my teens and it was always on some board with no concave or pop. The hangers were either plastic with a low quality steel axle or entirely cheap metal and both would eventually bend after riding off a few small drops. Initially, it just started out as buying the board I would've wanted back then just to have. That changed once a friend's children started telling me about what they do which made me decide to start skating myself. It's been two weeks now and the format of your videos really helps!

The thing I’ve learned most from skating is that the skaters there are the most chill people on earth 90% of the time

today was the first day i got confident enough to drop in. its waaay easier than it seems. i got tired of not being able to do it. my friends encouraged me to learn and im glad i did!

This is so sick

Personally I like the leaning over explanation for the ups and downs but if I were to have watched this before I learned to drop in, I don’t think I would’ve pressed down hard enough based on the way you’re explaining it. I take everything literally and explanations that may seem like common sense to someone who knows what they’re doing, doesn’t always make sense to me. So if you’re reading this and you’re like me. You can’t just lean over slow because like he said, as soon as you put any pressure on your front wheels your back wheels will start rolling. You really need to ensure that your front wheels hit the ground and you kept that pushing momentum because you will get really hurt if you lean back. It’s way better to over lean than not lean enough. Hope that makes sense and was helpful if you heard the instructions like I did. This guy is amazing for teaching this is the only video I didn’t quite understand

Thank you, I just can’t get over the fear factor. I’ll have my dad hold my hand for more confidence. You gotta do what you gotta do

My 48 year old body wishes there was a step between dropping in on a ramp, and dropping in on coping. Oh well, here goes....

Dude I Iove your videos! Im 43 and trying to get back into skating. I love your systematic way of teaching. Youre a really great instructor! You do a great job of breaking things down, showing progressions and most importantly, encouraging and inspiring your students to believe that we can do it!! Thanks JB! Youre awesome!

Awesome lesson; What helped me starting out was holding on to the nose of the skateboard with the lead hand during the dropin... That pretty much forces you to lean over an in while bending the back leg...

I never had the courage to drop in in the years I have skated. I have only just taken it back up again and on my bucket list is dropping into a pool and carving. The time is now! Thank you for this video, I'll be following your instruction very carefully .

woohoo! drop in is just the coolest thing!

you really the best teacher ! 👌🏼

You rock mate ⚡

The point at 2:24 is so true. That was my problem when practicing dropping in and I ended up falling like a doofus.

This is the best video I've seen on how to build the confidence for dropping in. I really like seeing the part on how to build confidence since it's hard to get an idea of what to do when you've never done it before.

Just watched this with my seven year old son! Thanks!

Thanks JB!

Awesome!

It can also help to use form block s or any mattress for the landing if you very very new reduce the fear

Clear and straight to the point. Great video!

Thank you. Very good explanation.

Thank you for this video. Seeing you ride and coming out of the pools were great tips for me, and gave me ideas.

Great tips! Good way to learn with the ramp

Wow! This video is compact and good!

@SkatePark Lessons Thank you brother for these videos I appreciate your dedication and time about to buy my first skateboard... I want to learn how to ride bowls for sure!!!

i'm 14 and used to be into skateboarding but stopped cus my skatepark had a bunch of rogue toddlers running about. Everytime you went down a ram the odds were about 1 in 1.5 that a toddler would run in front of you. I had to quickly do this sideways skid manoeuvre with the skateboard and roll over them onto concrete and hurt my back. Even though the skateboard still hit the kid, (at a slower pase because i slowed the skateboard down) it's better than having some teenager collide into you. Luckily this has only happened once, but i stopped skateboarding for a while because the chances were too high to play around with. Anyways i moved houses and there's this local skatepark nearby that's actually good, so just refreshing on some essentials thanks for the vids.

IMO these are hands down the best how to videos I've seen. Please keep them coming!

Dude, awesome videos!!! I need to out to the park to shred with you soon!

Finally I had the guts to drop in on proper quarter pipes today! Woot woot! Thank you for these videos. They inspire! ❤️🛹

Dude, you're so good!

Best video on how to drop in…the head thing is the secret in terms of movement and positioning. The rest is commitment, as everyone already says it

Thanks!

This is truly the best video I've seen on drop in!!! Congrats Liked, Subscribed and bell!

Tnx Man I'll tri it !! Have to practice first alot of Stuff from Youre other videos Keep temi rolling please Thank You U da best !!

thanks!

Tysm

Dude thx sooo much you are the best I want to become a good skateboarder one day and you've helped me out

Learn and earn it. Nice one 👊

You are severely underrated. The quality of the explanations are insane. Outstanding videos man, keep it up! 💯🔥

I'd seen other videos and was still struggling but the "lean your head forward" tip that the others I watch didn't mention got me doing my first drop in at my third attempt. And even when I failed I no longer hit the ground hard or anything, I could always run out

I just dropped in for the first Time!! Thank You!

I’m really pumped to get more comfortable riding the whole park. I just cruise around the bottom of bowls and over banks, but I haven’t worked up the courage to try dropping into banks or little quarter pipes. Thanks for these videos Josh, already subbed after watching a few videos 🙏

Nice dude love these

I remember the first time I dropped in. I was nervous about it and all that, I didn't want to try in front of other people (mostly because I didn't want to pussy out in front of them) so I went to the skatepark in the middle of a weekday when there was absolutely nobody else there, I stood up on the coping and told myself to commit...and three minutes later I was still standing there hesitating. So I got down rolled around on some ramps and shit for a few minutes and thought 'Ok, I'm going back up and just doing it, no hesitation"... Nope, again I got up there and just overthought it and let the nerves get the best of me. This happened one or two more times before I was just like "No more of this bullshit". I climbed back up to the coping, put my foot over the bolts and just committed myself forward before I could even have the thought of NO. And.... I fell off the board. Which of course was what scared me about it in the first place. BUT I am so glad I did because you know what? It was fucking nothing, I barely felt it, I was totally fine. I was totally fine because I committed. And immediately realising that before I even thought twice about it I was on my feet and climbing the coping again and just went for it again within seconds and nailed my first ever drop in right there. Then just did it like 50 more times that day just because I was pumped that I could. Falling that first time was one of the biggest weight lifted off my shoulders feelings I've ever had in life. It was like falling that first time was way more of an important step for me than nailing it. I mean obviously you don't want to fall off your board but that was the moment I actually understood the words when people always said "if you commit you will be fine". That sentence was so hard to believe before that moment. But they were right, I committed, fucked up and I was totally fine. Although you never want to fall backwards, that really is dangerous and results in injuries. But the point is, if you commit then that will never ever happen. It's only when you don't commit that it could happen. So really the whole standing up there and hesitating ritual isn't exactly stupid. Because if you are doing that it means you are not ready to commit and if you have that feeling then don't do it because there is a very good chance that YOU WILL hurt yourself. Also it boosted my confidence in skating immensely. At the time I couldn't ollie, manual or anything. All I could really do was ride the board, do a frontside kick turn on a ramp, drop off a small ledge and almost land a shuv it. I wasn't at a point where I was comfortable calling myself a skater (not saying you can't at that point, it's just the way I felt about myself). But rolling away after that first drop in I had the thought right there of "I'm a fuckin skater now" and it can only get better from here. It even gave me a second wind in wanting to skate at all. Beforehand I wasn't sure if had it in me to ever get good and didn't really see myself continuing on with skating. But bam, after that I was like "I'm learning whatever I can and none of it is scary now because I just dropped in".

Your videos are easily the best resource on RU-vid for learning skateboarding. My carving has gotten exponentially better since I watched your video on that. This makes dropping in seem a lot more approachable. THANK YOU!

Thanks JB! This video really helped us teach our 3 year old son to get started dropping in to our mini ramp and get more confident at the skatepark too. Keep up the great work man!

This is the best video on dropping in i've seen so far.

Love your videos!!!!! :)

This was so helpful! After watching this I went to a skatepark and started doing drop ins, I’m usually super scared so it’s hard, but this helped, earned a sub. Thanks

Greetings from germany. I'm 25 now and I'm using my board mostly as a last-mile transportation since the covid thing started. Using Bones 59mm ATFs to get around the city. I'm feeling like a little kid every time I get back on the board. Now I need to learn how to carve and drop in after watching your videos.... Love your positive vibes. Keep pushing !

just came across this, I go to the same skatepark!! I go to the school right by the park, TKA. this was very helpful for me as a beginner, as i just started skating a few days ago.

Great video, new subscriber!

Great explanation! Learn it to earn it.

this is definitely the best tutorial on how to drop in! Following it I was able to drop in one session! thank you!!

Hey, I dropped in for the first time thanks to you JB! It was a driveway ramp, but hey, gotta start somewhere. Totally was able to apply your principles, using the "coping", then just the ramp. Great stuff, and I felt great. Thanks again.

Respect.

Awesome tips!

I learned just in one evening on the creapiest modules in town tanks to your video. Thanks a lot dude best feeling ever !

Finally got it, right before the cold weather hit!!! Clips up on my channel! Thank you so much homie, couldn't have got this far without your rad knowledge!

Thanks with your tips I dropped in on my 6 ft quarter pipe finally thanks alot

Very nice, I already knew how to drop in, but always good to see what other peoples tips are :D

subscribed, what a boss at explanation

Yea first time I slammed pretty hard on my thigh but then I kept doing it and got better and this video helped me do it

LOVELY PARK

are you kidding? this an awesome, straight to the point video! like and saved

This is a great intro! I am heading to a Bowl Clinic tomorrow!

I managed to build up the courage to drop in a 7 feet quarter, took one heavy slam, but after I got up again I was able to do it and now I am hooked

Me and my friends all dropped in today!! My tip is to have your friends hold on to your hands. That built confidence for all of us and it helped us move forward and slam our trucks down. JB thanks for the tutorial man you have the best tutorial channel on RU-vid

I did it before seeing this video at my local skatepark and did it in the bank :D and after seeing your video I did the same technique ( learned to drop in before doing an ollie 😭)

cool ty

THANK U😍

Ive been trying to work up the confidence to drop in on a quarter pipe after eating it 2 times earlier. I never knew how to bail so I think i got it now.

Dude I love your tutorial videos most other tutorials dont ever show how you should bail.

Appreciate it JP this should help me 53 and I’m a chickenshit of dropping in but I will try your techniques, thank you

Josh have one of the best method teaching in the world of skateboarding. I might exagerate, but ive got so much useful tips to put inside my head before doing any skateboard trick.

Thank you so much for this video, it helped me today to drop again after not skating for 20 years.

Thanks goat

Excellent progressive method and body mechanics explanation!

I really want this channel to blow out!

best drop in tutorial

I’m all about that power pump

I ate it so hard twice trying this last night.. can't move today

This helped a lot. I was doing like a 1 second back wheel manual and almost dying every drop in before. And most importantly, not looking good.

This is the best tutorial to drop in

I’ve noticed from several videos your emphasis on keeping your feet even. I’ve never really thought about that. I noticed first on your Ollie video. I always had my front foot flush with the edge of the board,but I never really though about the fact that my back foot isn’t.

Man I love skateboarding. I’ve met some of the coolest people at the skate park

Goal for 2021, drop after seen this video.

I tried it, slammed pretty hard. He's right about the leaning forwards, if you lean back you're just done.

Messed up my knee and right leg real bad trying to figure it out this video helped a lot will try again when my leg feels better

Today I managed to do my first roll in since I stopped skating about 7yrs ago. Next time I visit the park - I will give a few of the lessons here a go to get further :) Thank you for the brilliant breakdown in particular w/ the bank drop ins and pump timing. Skating to lose weight and ultimate dream is to visit America and carve up Skatopia's legendary bowls. First: Time to get those drop ins second nature at my local parks in Dorset, UK!!! Update; went and did some bank drop ins as this video and gearing up to getting super comfy with them. Defo gonna recommend these brill guides :)

So I tried this at my local skatepark n the thing is I didn’t lead back but to far foward n suffered ah slam on the face but i met my best friend that day🔥🔥

I’m 44 and have a 6 year old so bought 2 boards and we are learning together. Your videos are AMAZING, thank you so much! Those brown suede shoes you are wearing in this video look SO comfortable. Mind if I ask what brand shoe they are?