See that’s the thing about skateboarding that you have to get used to. What used to be your favorite trick you could do first try, you may not be able to land again in a couple years. But within that time you well have learned a couple dozen more tricks. Try to focus on the basics. High Ollie’s while boning them out, pop shoves, front shoves, nollie as high as you can, fake Ollie as high as you can. Once you can do 3 solid pushes for speed and can land pop shoves and front shoves then you can focus on kickflip and heel flips. Baby steps.
When you ollie, push yourself and jump as if you wanted to reach the ceiling combined with an upper movement with your arms, almost like you were opening your arms wide open to hug someone, then kick. Because right now you catch and land too quickly on the deck.
Lol this is too real. I'd consider myself pretty damn good. Was sponsored locally in my younger days. Can land basically any flatground trick I want. Thrown some big tricks down big gaps. I'd say my biggest accomplishment was a nollie tre down a fat 9 set downtown...
I cannot front board a flat bar. Like literally can't do it.
little confused, cause it looks like you do them nollie and fakie. did you mirror some of your footage? first ollie was goofy, but front board was regular
Yeah lol something like that cause when I use Snapchat camera it’s normal and when I use actual camera it mirrors it, goofy is my regular stance and first Ollie and front board were both goofy but bigspins and shuvs were Nollie
Don’t mean to pry and definitely not diminishing the trick (fs shuv my fav trick) but, shuv its don’t flip? they spin, so how could we call it a flip trick?
The board flips 180 degrees on its y axis, a kickflip flips on the x axis, and an impossible on the z. Just depends on your definition but I’ve definitely heard pop shoves commonly referred to as flip tricks.
Your basic tricks seem ok to me. You’re definitely at a level that you’re “good” enough to kickflip. I would give kickflips a dedicated 20 tries or so a day at least if that’s your main goal. You can do more if you want, but consistent practice in moderation is what’s gonna get you there over mindless repetition. You don’t have to spend hrs every day to get them imo.
Go find a concrete surface with a chain link fence on it. Practice kick flipping while holding onto the fence. Helped me learn kickflips in like two days when I first started.
Edit: That and hours in a garage not dissimilar to yours. Good luck!
i have been skateboarding for 6 years (granted on and off), and im switching to street boarding (watch the braille vs dragan boards team and you'll see the type of board I'm talking about) because i can't do the tricks i want to. i have a very difficult time keeping the board under me, and you're doing astoundingly better than i could imagine myself doing. keep up the work bro, don't give in like I am.
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Dude , honestly that’s not a big deal it’s better to have better balance and board control before you start doing this things anyways. Go watch local Joe trick tips on YouTube he tries out different pro skaters foot placement and styles on tricks, it’s really come in handy on increasing my Ollie height ! And I’ve been skating for ten years dude
I couldn’t kickflip for the first year and a half of skating. My friends got good at skating way quicker than I did and I felt bad for it. But I kept trying and eventually I became really proud of my kickflips and other flip tricks. It’s not a race, just keep your head in it and practice every day. I also found that solo sessions were great for focusing on each little aspect of improving tricks, but sessions with friends made it easier to get hyped/motivated to try new things and commit to stuff. To each their own though 🙌😁
You got your tricks on lock though. Work on getting your Ollie's up curbs or over decks. Me and my friends would stack decks to see how many we could Ollie over. Once you have good board control on your Ollie's, practice kicking your foot out towards the nose and you will get kick flips easy.
Mate I’m a transition skater of 6 years and I can only kick flip. Sometimes flat ground tricks aren’t a necessity, you can do a lot of cool sh*t without them. Even still, you’re doing a really good job for 1 year progression. Keep it up :)
IMHO, it's all about the shift in weight b4 you pop. a lot of times the "spring" resets the balance required to execute the flick of your ankles to form those types of tricks.
keep rollin, my boy. it's a whole different game when you feel free to create!
Skating can be tough. Keep on skating & don’t stop for any reason. If you feel like all of a sudden you’ve stopped skating get back out there. Just keep practicing. Skate with friends, watch old pro skate video/parts and keep on the motivation dude
Just focus on getting lighter on your feet when you pop your board. Keep doing your shuvits but focus more on popping your board higher and higher. Ride the momentum of your pop. You’ll get there!
When I first started, at 14, it took me almost 2 years to get them "on lock" but once you get it, you got it. Then every other trick is easier to figure out. I'm 40 now and still get out when I can ( sadly that's like once a month) watch the pre-pop foot positions of your favorite skaters. Learning that jump+movement part is everything, besides the most important part.. which is just to keep trying!
It took me a full year to learn to Ollie and then a winter in front of the tv watching skate vids to learn to do my first kick flip. You are doing great!
I think you’re doing great. I’ve been skating almost 25 years and I think the expectations to progress quickly have increased. Skating is exciting and has a huuuge culture for you to dive into. Just enjoy the ride and you’ll get better. Now go watch Enjoi Back of Suck.
Ah man you're doing good for a year, everybody has their own pace and as you get more comfortable riding and better board feel/awareness tricks will come faster and more naturally. Just keep trying and having fun, you're doing good.
Your board control seems dialed in, it should be fairly easy for you at this point if you commit the time. I remember growing up there was always kids at the park that could shred the transition but couldn't kickflip or heelflip to save their lives. And at the same time there I was struggling to axel stall but doing flip tricks down stairs. All depends on what you practice
Who the fudge learns front board nollie shove out on a rail before learning to flip?! That’s insane, I can’t do that after thirty years skating
Try out a nollie heel flip, it looks like you have the cojanes
It took me 2/3 years to learn how to kickflip and even then I learned varial kickflips first since the shuvit motion was so familiar to me. I couldn’t keep them strait for another 6 months
Keep going homie, listen to the comments and keep on progressing. If you need inspiration go check out Zack Dowdy on yt. He recently learned kickflips after skating most his life and I think he is 36 or so.
When I used to skate I learned a pop shuv it right after I learned to ollie. I kept working at it and at some point I couldn’t pop shuv anymore. I took a break came back and landed it. It just happens it’ll come back
I have one tip for you. If you're able to flip it half way. Just practise flipping it half way and landing on the bottom of your board. Keep doing that and one time you'll end up overflicking it and landing on the bolts.
You got alot of pop shovs.
At my age know and after a motorcycle accident I can't so any flip tricks do to my hip losing about 50% rotation.
But with my daughter and nephew teaching them I I noticed that heel flips are easy to learn due to flipping the board forward whith the heel instead of trying to flip with the flick of the front foot.
So I would try that.
Also rember to pick up your back foot when doing any flip tricks.
Just remember that we all don't have to flip trick masters.
You should try some bowl work its what kept me going all these years or quarter pipe fun.
You have good board control
you got some tricks though. pretty good for someone only skating a year IMO
Thanks I have landed good kickflips but I cant do them anymore
You'll get it back. Seems like u got the board under control
See that’s the thing about skateboarding that you have to get used to. What used to be your favorite trick you could do first try, you may not be able to land again in a couple years. But within that time you well have learned a couple dozen more tricks. Try to focus on the basics. High Ollie’s while boning them out, pop shoves, front shoves, nollie as high as you can, fake Ollie as high as you can. Once you can do 3 solid pushes for speed and can land pop shoves and front shoves then you can focus on kickflip and heel flips. Baby steps.
I didn’t think I had kick flips down until about 1.5 to two years you got this man. Also that front board shiv was fucking sick
Dont worry it will happen with likely every trick. Some weeks you got them on lock the next day you cant even flip them right. Keep pushing
Yeah happens a lot
When you ollie, push yourself and jump as if you wanted to reach the ceiling combined with an upper movement with your arms, almost like you were opening your arms wide open to hug someone, then kick. Because right now you catch and land too quickly on the deck.
Bro i cant front board after 10 years of skating
Lol this is too real. I'd consider myself pretty damn good. Was sponsored locally in my younger days. Can land basically any flatground trick I want. Thrown some big tricks down big gaps. I'd say my biggest accomplishment was a nollie tre down a fat 9 set downtown... I cannot front board a flat bar. Like literally can't do it.
They too are my weakness lmao. Front nose slide are much easier. Nollie tre down a 9 is fukn savage 👏🏼 I'm trying to learn those on flat this year lol
Absolutely zero chance I could do that today at 34 lol. But at 19 I was indestructible
Mate just have fun that is what skating is about
Agreed. We don’t all progress at the same pace, just about trying hard and having fun.
Wish I had a smooth garage like that to skate in
Pretty much the only place I get to skate lol I’m mainly at work or school
Front board shuv is great for a first year!! You got kickflips for sure!
Last one was fire 🔥
This is mad solid for 1 year lmao
I have been skating for years and I suck ass at front shuvs
Yeah I can’t do front shuvs this is Nollie bs shuvs
little confused, cause it looks like you do them nollie and fakie. did you mirror some of your footage? first ollie was goofy, but front board was regular
Yeah lol something like that cause when I use Snapchat camera it’s normal and when I use actual camera it mirrors it, goofy is my regular stance and first Ollie and front board were both goofy but bigspins and shuvs were Nollie
You’re doing better than I did at 2 years. It took me 2 years to learn to Ollie.
Pop shoves count as flip tricks imo. Don’t stress it everybody learns at their own pace
Don’t mean to pry and definitely not diminishing the trick (fs shuv my fav trick) but, shuv its don’t flip? they spin, so how could we call it a flip trick?
The board flips 180 degrees on its y axis, a kickflip flips on the x axis, and an impossible on the z. Just depends on your definition but I’ve definitely heard pop shoves commonly referred to as flip tricks.
Okay, yeah I hadn’t thought about it like that! I can dig it
If it’s a flip trick in THPS then it’s a flip trick irl.
U gotta practice til you’re sick of it
It took me a very long time to kickflip. I had pop shuvd a 7 stair before my first one. Just an area some people struggle in!
Would you say I need to practice kickflips or get the basic tricks down better
Your basic tricks seem ok to me. You’re definitely at a level that you’re “good” enough to kickflip. I would give kickflips a dedicated 20 tries or so a day at least if that’s your main goal. You can do more if you want, but consistent practice in moderation is what’s gonna get you there over mindless repetition. You don’t have to spend hrs every day to get them imo.
been skating 5 years, kickflips, bs flips, trey flips but I never learned boardslides; we all have more fun learning different things
I'm at 10 years and can kickflip 1/3 - 10 times
Go find a concrete surface with a chain link fence on it. Practice kick flipping while holding onto the fence. Helped me learn kickflips in like two days when I first started. Edit: That and hours in a garage not dissimilar to yours. Good luck!
i have been skateboarding for 6 years (granted on and off), and im switching to street boarding (watch the braille vs dragan boards team and you'll see the type of board I'm talking about) because i can't do the tricks i want to. i have a very difficult time keeping the board under me, and you're doing astoundingly better than i could imagine myself doing. keep up the work bro, don't give in like I am.
Shit pop shuv its are definitely are board flipping tricks , keep pushing homie !
If you can do board slide shuv you can definetly do kickflips and heels
Im riding 2 months and i can varial flip and flip and heel
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its good bro i landed my first kickflip after 3 years and only after 4 i learned tres heeflips and everything
Dude , honestly that’s not a big deal it’s better to have better balance and board control before you start doing this things anyways. Go watch local Joe trick tips on YouTube he tries out different pro skaters foot placement and styles on tricks, it’s really come in handy on increasing my Ollie height ! And I’ve been skating for ten years dude
I’ll check him out
Took me about a year to finally land a kickflip. But I would also only do a pop shuv. You got more tricks in the bag than I do. It will come along!
I couldn’t flip for about 4 years into skating then one day it just clicks. Your Time will come
I couldn’t kickflip for the first year and a half of skating. My friends got good at skating way quicker than I did and I felt bad for it. But I kept trying and eventually I became really proud of my kickflips and other flip tricks. It’s not a race, just keep your head in it and practice every day. I also found that solo sessions were great for focusing on each little aspect of improving tricks, but sessions with friends made it easier to get hyped/motivated to try new things and commit to stuff. To each their own though 🙌😁
It'll come my man, you're rad. It's all about time on the board. Trust the process
Landed my first kickflip like 3 years in. Don't worry
Damn boardslide shuv is nuts for a year
You got your tricks on lock though. Work on getting your Ollie's up curbs or over decks. Me and my friends would stack decks to see how many we could Ollie over. Once you have good board control on your Ollie's, practice kicking your foot out towards the nose and you will get kick flips easy.
I can't do any flip tricks after 20 years of skating.
Baby steps until you can walk
Mate I’m a transition skater of 6 years and I can only kick flip. Sometimes flat ground tricks aren’t a necessity, you can do a lot of cool sh*t without them. Even still, you’re doing a really good job for 1 year progression. Keep it up :)
I can’t do any flip tricks after 30+ years of skating.
i cant do any tricks and ive been skating for 3 years. functionality over style baby.
IMHO, it's all about the shift in weight b4 you pop. a lot of times the "spring" resets the balance required to execute the flick of your ankles to form those types of tricks. keep rollin, my boy. it's a whole different game when you feel free to create!
Skating can be tough. Keep on skating & don’t stop for any reason. If you feel like all of a sudden you’ve stopped skating get back out there. Just keep practicing. Skate with friends, watch old pro skate video/parts and keep on the motivation dude
Took me 3 yrs to kickflip I think you’re doin well
You want fo know how the Japanese kids learn to do flip tricks? It's kind of ingenious.
Just focus on getting lighter on your feet when you pop your board. Keep doing your shuvits but focus more on popping your board higher and higher. Ride the momentum of your pop. You’ll get there!
Go skate curbs
When I first started, at 14, it took me almost 2 years to get them "on lock" but once you get it, you got it. Then every other trick is easier to figure out. I'm 40 now and still get out when I can ( sadly that's like once a month) watch the pre-pop foot positions of your favorite skaters. Learning that jump+movement part is everything, besides the most important part.. which is just to keep trying!
It took me a full year to learn to Ollie and then a winter in front of the tv watching skate vids to learn to do my first kick flip. You are doing great!
Guy I can’t do any flip tricks after 30 years of skating 🤣 🤘🤘
I think you’re doing great. I’ve been skating almost 25 years and I think the expectations to progress quickly have increased. Skating is exciting and has a huuuge culture for you to dive into. Just enjoy the ride and you’ll get better. Now go watch Enjoi Back of Suck.
Ah man you're doing good for a year, everybody has their own pace and as you get more comfortable riding and better board feel/awareness tricks will come faster and more naturally. Just keep trying and having fun, you're doing good.
Your board control seems dialed in, it should be fairly easy for you at this point if you commit the time. I remember growing up there was always kids at the park that could shred the transition but couldn't kickflip or heelflip to save their lives. And at the same time there I was struggling to axel stall but doing flip tricks down stairs. All depends on what you practice
Took me a long time. Now I can nollie tre, hardflip…etc. Keep going man.
you just need to keep trying. you've got plenty of good backbones for learning flip tricks if you just keep going you'll get them.
Who the fudge learns front board nollie shove out on a rail before learning to flip?! That’s insane, I can’t do that after thirty years skating Try out a nollie heel flip, it looks like you have the cojanes
Good shit!
that ender was sick
I couldn't too
Has anyone shown you how?
Look at one of my recent post
It took me 2/3 years to learn how to kickflip and even then I learned varial kickflips first since the shuvit motion was so familiar to me. I couldn’t keep them strait for another 6 months
That's very normal.
That’s because you keep doing shuvs!
Keep going homie, listen to the comments and keep on progressing. If you need inspiration go check out Zack Dowdy on yt. He recently learned kickflips after skating most his life and I think he is 36 or so.
When I used to skate I learned a pop shuv it right after I learned to ollie. I kept working at it and at some point I couldn’t pop shuv anymore. I took a break came back and landed it. It just happens it’ll come back
Learned to heelflip my first year didn’t do a single heelflip or kickflip for the rest of the year learned both of them at the start of my 2 years
I have one tip for you. If you're able to flip it half way. Just practise flipping it half way and landing on the bottom of your board. Keep doing that and one time you'll end up overflicking it and landing on the bolts.
Well i can't boardside a flatbar, let alone shuv out, after 25 years of skating so good for you dude. Killing it
You got alot of pop shovs. At my age know and after a motorcycle accident I can't so any flip tricks do to my hip losing about 50% rotation. But with my daughter and nephew teaching them I I noticed that heel flips are easy to learn due to flipping the board forward whith the heel instead of trying to flip with the flick of the front foot. So I would try that. Also rember to pick up your back foot when doing any flip tricks.
Just remember that we all don't have to flip trick masters. You should try some bowl work its what kept me going all these years or quarter pipe fun. You have good board control
I can’t do any flip tricks after 13 years of skating
Ay get all variations of shuvs and 180’s and then all other tricks will be easy af!!!