Thanks Ben, I plateaued on small arcs and just now got into a nice straight 180 up and down…. Way harder and your tips got me back to the basics. Great content all the time 🤙🏼
Thanks Ben for the explanation - I guess my main problem must be the turning of the shoulders. On the backside I get it right, but totally missed it when doing frontside. Looking forward to try it out!
I wonder the same about riding switch. I've recently started practicing switch ollies, nollies and drop ins and I can't imagine them ever feeling as natural as my goofy stance.
@@JM1675just ride switch often and eventually it will. I started skating pushing mongo and eventually when I started riding regular normally I was still able to push goofy. I can do both comfortably now and they don’t feel any different. I just am not good at actual switch tricks like Ollie’s and stuff
long time ago i use to love skating bowl but never got good at pumping around in it so I always skated them more like a half pipe tutorial for pumping around a bowl? I remember some times i got that pump feeling around the corners and what not but not consistently so I had no idea how i got that feel.
This may sound a bit dumb, but could someone explain to me how to tell backside from frontside? Because the way I always thought of it, I would've called this a backside kickturn since you're focus is towards your back. Such as with a backside 180, you're focus is mostly on your back. I'm a bit confused on it now, there must be something I don't fully understand.
It's whatever side is facing the cooping about half way through the turn. If you go frontside it faces your chest to the cooping as you turn your back to the ramp. Backside you turn the front of your body towards the ramp and your back to the cooping/edge.
I’m probably too late, but always remember that these transition tricks (and names) come from surf, and when surfing you call backside whenever your back is turned to the wave and frontside whenever your chest is facing the wave
I would. Although I would try to make sure it was going to be a useful and honest review. For example there are a lot of clickbaity gimmicky reviews of products most of us would not ride like walmart boards, skate trainers etc. I like to find the best in things so I would just want to make sure there was something worth finding before I spend my time on it.
Ben Degros basically, I'm in Victoria, and I have a brand new Powell Flight deck size 8, with some thunder 147 hollow lights (also new). I wanna send it to you for a "lightest possible setup" review or whatever you choose to do. I'm skating an 8.25 Powell flight deck now and I personally feel it's game changing in the way the board pops and stores energy, to me it actually makes the activity of "skateboarding" feel different than on a regular maple deck. I'd love to see what a really talented skater with experience of the old and new like yourself thinks of these decks. If you're interested I'd love to ship it your way.
I would definitely do that. I need another month or so until my knee and ankle are better. I will be heading that way one of these days. My Dad lives in Deep Cove a few minutes from the ferries. We come over a few times a year. I'm looking forward to skating the new Sidney park. We could plan to meet up in a few weeks the next time I head over.
Ben, I’ve watched this and frontside 5-0 video a dozen times. I’m in between. I can’t get a frontside slash grind. If sent you a couple of clips could you help me out? It’s been a mental block for me for years.
Yes Kris they are. How observant of you. This is my cruiser board. Those are 60mm rat bones on them. I just put some 53 mm bones 100s on it and it feels great. Much bigger than I could easily flip around but I am having fun on it.
