As a skater who is hovering on the beginner to intermediate level, I have enjoyed your trick tips, but also these recent videos within the past year discussing different aspects of skateboarding (the skate community, mentality/perspective, and other skateboarding idiosyncrasies). Keep up the great work and I’m glad to hear you are doing okay after that concussion.
Thank you for this series. You touch on technical mistake or error that can be so very subtle, but very impactful on my skating. This has helped me personally a ton!!! Thank you again!
When you landed that back 360 down that gap.... that look into the camera was Straight Gangster!! Your covering principals with skating that really no one talks about. Thank You.
Thanks man, I’m really thinking about skating in different ways now, I’m squatting more and trying to be more conscious about maximizing my energy usage throughout my board, the whole kinetic chain etc. thanks man. You’re actually the best at this. It’s real, it’s not holding your hand, it’s just explained and broken down in a way that someone as poor as comprehension as me really gets it!
I thoroughly appreciate your comment, and you watching my vids. I do my best. But, comments like yours keep me moving forward. Much luck and enjoyment in your skating and everything you do.
@@NormanWoods YO! I did it! I ollied up a box and like perfect. Bolts !! The craziest feeling ever over coming something I accepted I was either never gonna be able to do or was too afraid to try after skating so long and fearing being seen as a newb. I just gotta focus on MY progression instead of what others think ya know?
@@JilesRyan congratulations! Yes. I know exactly what you mean. It’s actually another Rookie Mistake topic: socializing instead of skating. Skating is much more fun with friends. But, it’s very common to end up spending your time sitting at the spot/park, chatting before it’s time to go home and you realize you’ve hardly skated. I make a point of trying to find a good balance between social and skate time.
All the information you're saying really makes me think of smaller things like squatting also, i like what you said about our skateboards being anatomic objects they only respond to the energy we put into it
Love these tips! I appreciate you for taking the time to create and upload these. I have already seen huge improvement in my ollies from your squatting video. This video was also easier for me to follow since the background music was a bit softer. Keep it up!
Greetings from Norway. Fucking great skating, and high educational quality on your videos. Its helpin my 40 year old body to progress in tandem with my 23 year old brain. If you put in the time to actually practice all your tips and exercises in these rookie mistakes videoes. You can actually sense that your executing your trix better and better by the minute! Thx man! I wanna betone a patreon! Pardon my french! Lars.
Always happy to hear that these are helpful. Thanks for watching, for your support, and for commenting. It’s feels so good to get tactile, when you’ve altered your movements, and are now pulling your trick better. Glad to help you achieve this sensation.
On My Mother's Account, But YOU'RE AWESOME NORMAN!!!!! Great VIDEO!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!
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Great video as always! When looking really carefully at your 360 at 4:20, it looks like it's the shoulders / upper body that are leading the way the first 180 degrees of the rotation, and dragging the hips / lower body / feet (in that order) along. Then, for the remaining 180 degrees of the rotation, it looks like it's the feet that are leading the way and dragging the hips / upper body / shoulders (in that order) along. So it almost seems to work like this: Wind up shoulders 90 degrees in the opposite direction, turn shoulders 180 degrees in the desired direction, wait for the lower body to rotate 360 degrees, which will (eventually) drag along the upper body to the full 360 degrees. A thing I realised quite recently, and I think the clip at 4:20 confirms this, is that it's THE BACK shoulder / arm that's doing most of the work when it comes to initiating the rotation. It kind of looks like it's the front shoulder / arm, but I actually think it's the back arm / shoulder. The back arm /shoulder is "turned behind you" (towards your back), rather than turning the front arm / shoulder "in front of you" (towards your chest).
Spot on! If I ever start scripting these, I know who to call 🙏🏾
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@@NormanWoods Hehe, if you're talking about adding transcripts, I guess an AI service will do a better job than me. I'm just trying to really understand what's going on in various skateboard tricks / movements. I have to rely on analysing / understanding stuff, since I have no talent ;)
@@NormanWoods checkout your maps to see a local natural Chinese acupuncture clinic, its about $80 a seesion, it cured my ringing in my ear and so much more
@@NormanWoods☺️🫱🏻🫲🏾 It’s a great looking watch! Been eyeing that for a while now to add to my collection. Good to see skateboarders with good taste in time pieces. 🤙🏻
i have the propblem backside that i stop rotating and then pop and try to continue to rotate. ive had the backside rotation epiphany, im binge watching your videos atm haha, theyre soo good.
I did this too. In the age of not having a camera in my pocket. Didn’t see myself doing it until watching bails, while filming a trick! I hope yours is easy to fix.
I actually learned heelflips after Ollies like you talked about stationary. my heelflip is higher than my ollie, but my kickflip took longer to polish, however it's my preference flip down stairs or drops.
Good stuff!… it took me a while to figure this out. I’ve found now I do my back 180’s a little late. But even then I’m rotating my shoulders through the trick, im just letting my legs linger for a split second before I rotate my legs. So the top half of me is still rotating. Honestly though I like how they look when there a little late. Plus that skirt sound of the wheels is addictive!… lol
yo i watched the other video on crouching more and letting yourself be a spring as you land I gotta tell you that I can ollie higher now and land softer, I thought that my squat was as low as I can go but I heard what u said in that video and it works my g, thanks
I have that issue with nollie 180's. My lower body completes the rotation but I'm usually looking the wrong direction when I land. Thanks for this video!
I definitely have issues with shoulder rotation with many frontside tricks. Especially Nollie Frontside 180 and getting out of blunts frontside. Also switch backside is tough.
Personally, I'm coming from learning to surf skate to broadening my skills to street boards. Much of my pumping is still a work in progress and teaching myself the basics does flow back. Lately my focus has been on 180 turns, which I still need much work on, especially when it comes to rotation of my shoulders.
Makes sense. It seems like the movement on those boards is concentrated in the hips and legs, more than the shoulders. All that experience will probably come in handy for you.
Hey Norman can you make a video on how to keep your Ollie straight? I have a good pop and front foot side but I’m twisting my body when I pop up and it’s turning my board frontside every time. I try hard to focus on not twisting/turning my hips and shoulders but I keep subconsciously doing it, causing me to land sideways every time
bro im trying learn about skating ahahahahaha and ive been skating for 20 years :) finally good at it kinda im 26 i like lock wood lil tables and lil 6 rails haha thats where im at! and wall ride the world! ps glad your better back 3 and bs flip so gnar! awhh and do the video on personality you said that at the end and it struck a chord in me like the ever long tuning haha!
Shoulders rotating was my biggest downfall when i started skating, kept landing parallel with the board till my homie held my shoulders while i tried to ollie so i could get that muscle memory lol
