Intro to Bowl Skating - How to carve with speed 

Dude, I've been skating bowls for over 20 years, and would NEVER have been able to give this tutorial. Makes total sense, I've just never heard anyone verbalize any of this before. Thank you!!!

We should all take a moment to consider how lucky we are that such a phenomenal skater as Mitchie is taking the time to break down fundamentals like this

7:13 "find the part of the wall that faces where I wanna go" dude, thank you! It instantly just clicked on how to carve for me

As someone who has been skating for about 35 years and making skateboarding instructional video for 17 years, you did an excellent job on this. Truly one of the best I've seen. So often, I watch instructional skate videos and the teacher always says something wrong or explains something really poorly. But everything you taught in this was correct and accurate. Excellent work.

It warms my heart to know that there is someone to take the Hawks torch! Skating needs a nice guy, who is a badass skater! Thank you for being that guy for my kids generation the way Tony has been for mine!! ❤

I grew up skating street, but just now learning transition at 34 years old. Thanks for this!!!

Great stuff, Mitchie, I'm an old ex skater who can't take the falls anymore. But I wish we had stuff like this when I was a kid!

I love how detailed you are when explaining things, you are the only person that’s helped me actually get most fundamentals down, thank you bro you’re the best teacher. 🤙🏻

Hello mitchie im an old man started skating again since the 70's midlife crisis but wen i get to the parks all the young kids give me a look like wow grandads skating and puts me off from skating so i go home but i hav to skate wen theres no young kids around your vids r fantastic thank u keep it up mate !!! 😊

This is the most helpful bowl video i saw yet, also what a beautiful skatepark right next to the ocean, wow!! Keep it up with these videos !

Incredible video. I am guilty of doing those flat arcs around corners. It is not instinctive to find the perfect lines as a beginner. This was very helpful. Thank you so much.

I like when you said, "...listen to the bowl don't fight it."

I’m 52 years old and haven’t skated a bowl since The Turf. My city just built a new park with a small bowl and I can say I absolutely needed this video… thanks!

I love how Mitchie condemns people who do the mistakes, really funny. But i also love how he touches on how not to do it

Brother I love your videos and ive been skating for years. Im so excited watching this lol. Sometimes hearing an explanation and an example of what to do not do is so beneficial and helpful. I hope we cross paths one day so I can just shake your hand and we can rip a bowl for 5 mins. Cheers man!

Great video! Thank you so much! Was able to use some of your advice today at the park and was blown away how much better my lines formed!

Love it man! Damn Sunny Coast has some epic parks....got to love Oz.

The analysis and design involved in a bowl/pool line is so interesting. Love the strategic employment of geometry and physics .

SkateIQ you are the best teacher in the world. I've been skating almost 50 years and if you were around when I started skating I would be one of the best. Thank you for such great teaching. Do you have something for old skaters with sore joints ect. Who will keep skating no matter what!

Man, I just started skating transition after skating street for like 20 years, and the very first tip alone helped me exponentially. Had no idea I was carving so wrong, makes so much more sense.

Man, the boards look a lot cheaper and so do the trucks n wheels than what we had in the 80s.

I really like how good you are at explaining things! keep it real man! Thanks!

Two uploads on the same day? Love it!

Excellent Mitchie, I only skate a vert ramp atm and avoid bowl skating for injuries. This is straight to the point and intelligible, thanks I'm looking forward to setting up my second board for bowl and street!

This is awesome. Very helpful. Would love to see more basic and detailed transisition tips

Great video. I like how you explained everything.

Great tutorial, keep these going!

This is extremely helpful, I will use these tips in the future. Thank you!

Every video is better. Love it! Thanks mate

your videos have helped me so much

That drop into knee slide was 🌊, looking for the surf board now, deep in!

You make it look so easy. 😅

What a great tutorial, thanks a lot for you spending time to help us 🤙 39yo beginner, not looking for kick flips, etc. skating bowl is on my bucket list for long time. Please, could you advise a bit on a good setup for bowl riding, it’s a bit overwhelming for someone without experience. Cheers mate

Go surfing men ! The waves are gooood !

Thanks for sharing this tutorial

Great video, love the insider tips. Would you be willing to do one on knee sliding? Never used knees as a kid so it's still foreign to me but it's obviously a huge cornerstone to learning to skate bigger transition. Again thanks for the details man, as I'm sure you know no body is really doing this type of in-depth analysis for skating. You can get books on being a ballerina or how to maximize your baseball skills but almost no real skateboarding literature. This to me is as close as it gets. 👍

I love turning a 5-10min run in a skatepark with a lot of transition into kickturning everywhere/at every turn at unusal/drastic angles at high speeds. I like to bash my front truck in a chopping motion at the peak/right after the kickturn right into which ever direction I'm going_gives me a sense of control/let's some aggression out. Skating/carving transition with no kickturns is preferred by some/viewed as "the correct way" but can get sketchy: when skating super fast/semi loose trucks/constantly changing direction/angles you can get wheelbite if not kickturning

ADD had me distracted. Had to make a comeback cause these are some good tips

Love your lines Mitchie, i realised towards the end of the vid your a goofy stance rider..so my lines wouldn't be the same as yours due to being backside on the angles you cut in the bowl. Smooth riding though man thankyou!

Ur tutorials are soo f good!!! But I wonder if there are ones for inline skaters out there too? Haven't found any yet :(

Wish I'd been there that day instead of sitting at home. Been getting back into it after 15yr would have loved some tips

Thanks a lot, great

Best coach = Mitchie!

Mitchie, I’d really want to know about your setup! I see that u ride thunder and probably a 8’5 board, but what are the wheels? Do you add riser pads?

why do I feel like I have to kickturn to maneuver around corners in the bowl? If I try to actually carve with no kickturn, I lose all my speed in the turn or I have to step off the board.

I'm kinda a bigginer on skate boarding and I just want to carv in my bowl but I just don't think my bowl is big enough to do that and I keep on getting hurt is there a video of yours that teaches about carving a bowl on any size

There used to be a bowl video with smit grinds in it. But it gone. Can we get a video explicitly for FS Smith Grinds??? Appreciated!!!

What skate park is this? Looks awesome

So helpful! I have to say “absolute basic” line including a frontside air over the hip 😂 doesn’t feel basic to this noob

I stuggle to drop into anything and the coping also stops me doing rock to fakies and such, how do i get better at transition in general?

a bit unrelated but perhaps someone could answer.. : I'm goofy footed and ive been wanting to skate more transition. I got the basics such as carvin around, keeping speed and some stalls. But the thing is, i find my right thigh is so easily sore to almost cramping after like 15-20 minutes skating transition just carving around. And yes i do stretches before skating. So my question is, is there maybe anything wrong with my carving (like maybe theres some "how to properly bend your leg when carving" or something like that?) or maybe it was just my leg? lol. I was so bummed not to be able to skate transition for a long time and none of my friends have this issue so im really confused. Really want to have fun and learning more transition but i feel like my leg wont let me 😅

Where is this skatepark?

can you please please teach how to skate hips. there are absolutely no good videos on youtube by a pro skater on how to skate hips well (only the barebones basics - nothing intermediate or advanced)

This park is perfect 😍 I probably gain more speed tmr in the bowl thank you🫡🙏