How to Wall Spin | Old Tutorial 

Hey Epic! When I first started freerunning, this was THE FIRST tutorial I came to on youtube, and it was the first trick I nailed. So I just wanted to come back and say a MASSIVE THANKS, I'm loving where I'm at today! You break down your tutorials perfectly and your positive attitude is always a great inspiration to continue pushing forward! Keep up the fantastic work, you da man!

This is actually very helpful. Most people try to do it without using their arms to help spin at all. Thanks!

I love the fact he slows it down, easy to spot the specifics that make things perfect!

Dude! You're awesome! I finally learned it after a week of training! Now I only need to polish it for me to land with straight legs. Thanks for this tutorial! 5/5

Kyle, you did awesome on ANW 9! You didn't finish, but you still did an amazing job.

thanks dude i finally got it down thanks to your vid. good tuutorial i have it meorized and wne im not doing it right i just go over your instrutcions in my head again and it works. anyways thannks awsome!!!!

Epic is the man :) Just tried this for the first time this week and this tutorial helped. I posted my first one as a video response its not perfect but its a start!

thank you now i can do it with ease. you are great i figured out what i was doing wrong, great tutorial by the way

Oooh wow that looks fun!Now im-a gonna go buy some mats from wal-mart!

Thank you so much man this is the one that helped me the most

Oh yeah Epic1 you are incredible your tutorials helped me a lot thx very much

wow! thanks man. this video has helped me a lot i can now do a wall spin. thanks a lot.

@MrAnjelorion Yes. Wall spins were the first trick I learned how to do. Find an object like a rail that has an end, and is suitable height for a palm spin. Practice palm spins on the end (so you don't clip your feet on the rail coming out of the rotation) until you feel comfortable getting vertical. Then you can go to a wall spin, or if you have a picnic table nearby, lean it up on a tree and increase the angle as you get more comfortable.

i love your tutorial for the palm spin!

Your tutorials are the best

it really helps if you can find a slanted surface and work your way up until its flat also i found that it was easier if you force your head down (almost as if you were going to kiss the ground) this helps you bring your feet :) great vids btw :)

thanks man!!!....wall spin is my 3rd stunt that i did it...

Amazing tutorial :) Will help me a lot

Thank you, I can finaly do the wall spin. I find it easy but I bail sometimes. I love to do it on trees

@Epic1 ,the hand that is used to push,is it left or right ,cause im a right handed person..and before you jump to the wall is it like...jump first,hands on the wall,once your on the air,use the upper hand to push to get that circular momentum ,and land it or something like that??

@adnan5404 u keep your lower hand somewhat straight, about waist level. your other hand goes about 1 and a half/two feet higher than the other one (it really just depends on your size) and just push off. i dont know if that helped, because your question didnt make any sense. you dont keep your hand far from the wall or close to it-you just put your hands on the wall

Great vid 5 stars. Also some things that helped learn how to do it was trying to see the ground the whole time. Once you start not seeing the ground you have to turn your body so you start flipping backwards. Also try keeping yoour legs the same distancw away from the wall as your shoulders so that they wont hit the wall. That is what helped me learn. Hope it helps you guys to.

Like in a palm spin, looking directly at your landing spot as you spin helps to get the body to do the full rotation.

very good vid m8 thanks this will help me alot much aprecitated :D

Thanks becouse of you i learned wall spin

Awesome tutorials man. Would you say that this move is easier or harder than the sideflip?

cool cool :) I understood perfectly!

Thanx that video helped me alot!

wow, your actually still playing at the playground!! awesome!

hey um whats softer a crash pad a mattress or sand at the beach?

wow rj , sounds like you need a landing matt. wonder where you can get one of those.

epic makes it look so easy

@pntballer4life01 howso? the sideflip gets your body used to going to the side if you are worried about hitting your head.. i think your going to haft to really experiment with it.. you might need to throw yourself into... if you can get a matt or some sort of soft landing.. find ways to progress into it id suggest to maybe slant the board even more..

I can do a palm spin, and a punch front, do you think I could do a wall spin? please reply

Nice tutorial, I learned it today in a Waall!!!...some pplz would say *Of course it is in a wall* But I said it cuz I learned it in a Plam Tree!

Lol at the girl in the background: "wat is dat boi doin" Good tutorial btw :D

@pntballer4life01 the best way to train up to it in my opinion is either to get a slanted object like a tree and try it like that and gradually practice... but what really helped me was i nailed the sideflip which made everything easy... because i used the same technique as a sideflip except i had my hands on the wall but i still did the same things i perform while im rotating in the sideflip besides my hands so try that

i'm lefty too and i do wallspin from left, but i don't think that it matters wich hand u use. for example, one of my friends can do wallspin from both sides. it's just about wich side you feel better to do.

I might try this one tomorrow at the gym. We'll see how it goes.

Hey Mr. Epic. Can you tell me easy beginner tricks to start with? I can do a frotflip and a tornadokick, dissappointingly failing 540 from the beginning on. I would like to learn new things but dont really know what to start with. Thanks man

so when you reach the top of the wall do you push back to land in the position?

very nice ,you area good instructor

i almost hav ethis down!! its awsome!!!!

@Epic1 hey got any tips for me i only get about half the spin and then stop spinning and im force to push off the walls with my hands to alnd on my feet i normaly am able to fix these things by thinking ti through but cant figure this one out and tips???

thats really good...how do you get the height on it?

Where did you learn to do this stuff? From someone else or did you just teach youself? Also, whats your workout program? Do you just do this for exercise?

That's pretty cool! I am just afraid to bump my head into that wall. :-)

@Epic1 I can do the wall spin but sometimes I dont get much height and land on my knees. Any tips? Thanks

nice. thanks, gotta try this out

the first time do u ussually land upside down or on ur side

you make all our videos look easy but i am looking forward in achieving all this with practice and commitment.

oh yah! thats a good style. i dont go to any gym and i havnt gotten any injuries. =D then again, i havnt really progressed much either. lol.

I'll do it today!...thank's Dude : )

awesome vid i might be able to do it now

learned this move in 10min. The main thing is get over the fear of falling. It's really much simpler than you let yourself believe initially

hey i need help... when i try this i stop rotating when i get sideways and jus fall...

How much upper boddy strength would you need to do this? Or is this one of the moves that looks like it needs the upper body, but it's mostly the lower... I only ask this because in terms of strentgh, I don't have much. ^^

@jakeeln what i learned from doing parkour and freerunning is before u think of ways u can hurt urself by doing it, just go for it. works everytime =P

Hey Epic and all of you guys..I managed to do the wallspin but not in a completely straight wall...and now i am kinda afraid to do it on a straight one.. Is more difficult or kinda same?

i have a tip, try finding a wall or something that's somewhat slanted, and work your way up to a flat wall. its how i learned them tonight

thanks alot for ur reply and i will try to do that .

hehe lol XD your last text the end and thats the tutorial for the palmspin xD

i can palm spin but when i wanted to do this move i pause in mid air :( any pointers? must i push hard when my body is above my head?

lol i lvoe this move! i learnt it today its so easy! just wen you are learnin it feels im possible but its not

i need help epic1 when i do a wall spin i always land on my knees together -_- on a soft mat please reply, am i not gettin enough height? or am i not tuckin fast enough or what? please HELP!

Sure you can! As long as your practicing in a safe area. Dont limit yourself on the things you want to do because of age, as long as you're in shape you'll be fine.

would it help to know the side flip

@pntballer4life01 well that might not be thick enough it sounds like u might b nervous in general of it not being able to support ur weight. maybe find a tree or flip over a picnic table to its side... i used a tree but i have heard of people who have used picnic tables... but if not lean the board at a comftorable angle... really experiment with it. i would stil recomend learning a sideflip so that it brings down the fear of rotating to ur side try that then ask me again if u have any problems

So, keeping a good grip and knowing how to do the twist is all there is to it? With the idea of being fluid of course.

@iDeaTHeoRyi if u doin that trick 1st time u shuld do it against a wall witch is leaned on 1 side (Tree is an option) so u don't fall on ur head :) also if it might help try to put ur hands a bit lower cuz Epic jumps rly high for this trick :)

you make it look so easyy

@Holfus I play a lot of basketball and my jumping ability is the best in my class, i can jump about 1m high. (I can dunk a 2,5m basket.) My muscles are , well not easy to be seen but when you touch it, it's really hard, solid.

do you do this the same way you arial?

Do you need to learn the sideflip so you can do this too???

do you have to have a lot of muscle to do this?

would be able to do a sideflip be an advantage learnin this move? ya no cuz u'd be more used tot he rotation or something?

Is this more of a beginners move or an advanced move? I haven't done much tricking and I wanna try this.

If I'd send you a video of my Wall-Spin attempts would you check it out to see what I am doing wrong? Cause after forgetting about my fear, the spin itself wasn't the problem. It's the landing that bothers me. Out of 30-50 attempts I landed maybe twice on my feet. I recorded myself and think, that I let go to early of the one hand and that I fall right away after reaching the peak of my spin, giving me no chance to straight out my feet. Are there some generall tips, you could give me?

my friend the storm teach us this is actually much easier if ur left or right hands palm is in the ground and spin urself up this video is MASTERED wall spin. for starters try doing this ull complete it at two or one day...

What kind of shoes do you wear?

@pntballer4life01 well then you know what you haft to work on.. work on the flip and ortation become comftorable with it then try it... when i first tried the wallspin i was intimidated like you but i worked on it doing it on trees... i gave up on it and i eventually worked on the sideflip.. once i had got it down... i retried the wallspin and was actually able to just commit myself in it without hesitation... so thats how i learned it.

Epic, you're so young-looking in this one!

thank sfor the tutorial i can finalyl do this thanjks to your video thanks again ima check your butterfly kick on now to

how long does the guy near the ripstik tie his one shoe

Thank you so much my friend. I got it =]

thanks man I'll try it

@Taylin1000 When people do soccer, football, or baseball for fun with friends, some kids just play with their friends while others play in organized leagues and have coaches. I was wondering if he had a coach or if he just saw someone do a wall spin and tried it himself.

what is your secret to doing your moves in slow motion, i've been trying so hard to get it but i cant.

i can do on a 90 degree tree but cant on a wall, what should i do ?

lol i learned this today aswell as wall arabians and wall flip half twists but with my wall spins i land like i do with aerials???? is that ok???

Thank you so much! im 11 and now i start wall spinning in front of my freinds!

where did you learn all of this? i cant do anything because the city i live in is a hole

i dont put my hands so high:S do i have to force it or height will come later?

@ahmadhaiqal32 u can is a bar or the edge of somthing you wud vault over to d a plam spin and wlak your way from there

Took me a little while; start with inclined walls and progressively get to straight walls and you'll get it. But train it because it's kind of easy to forget the move.

@KTBeats wall flips are way more scary first time but easy once you get the hang of them, side flips are easy once you can do the 1-2 step perfectly, look at epic's side flip tutorial, i recommend side flip first

@NicksPK I think u should learn a palm spin first, that helped me. then I moved on to a wall and tried a wall spin like: other hand on the ground, other on the wall. Then i just raised the angle a bit at a time until it was 90 degrees :)

when i tried it the first time i almost landed it, after a few more times i got it! its actually easier than it looks :D

@ahmadhaiqal32 if you know how to do a front flip just go up for a front flip but just put your hands on the wall and use them to help spin u and at the peak just begin to turn

nice..i can do a palm spin straight and side ways..but i havent tried the wall spin yet tho..i guess dont have the guts haha