1) Push at a comfortable speed. The faster you go the better your pop will be.
2) Put your back foot on the center of the tail and the place you front foot about 2” to 3” away from the front bolts closest to the back bolts.
3) Bend down so that you can jump as you pop the board.
4) Pop you back foot, jump, and slide your front foot up the board
5) Level out the board with your front foot remembering to bring your back foot up as well and that your are jumping forward.
6) Land smoothly and evenly. It looks cleaner if you land bolts and it will provide less damage for the board.
7) Bend your knees to get that smooth look Roll away stoked.
How to Kickflip
1) Start with your back foot on the tail and your front foot a little to the left of an ollie position an tilted slightly.
2) Pop your board after you bend your knees
3) Flick your front foot down and out at the same time making the board flip.
4) Bring your legs up, watch the board and wait for it to spin to grip side up.
5) Position your feet over the bolts
6) Land bolts or as close to bolts as possible
7) Bend your knees slightly Roll away and later, go show your friends
The crew from the Original longboard shop heads out to finish summer of right while showing off the four new Original Pintail longboards. The Pintails are dropped low and designed for all around performance at an easily affordable price (9 – 9 complete). Board Art by surf artist Jay Alders. Check out the just released Pintail 43: www.originalskateboards.com Also check out more art by Jay Alders: www.jayalders.com The Pintail 43 (9 USD) is available online. The Pintail 37 (9), Pintail 40 (9) and monster Pintail 46 (9) longboards are set for release over the coming weeks.
How you film the skating is half of what makes the video look good. If you have a bad filmer you have a bad film, do you see what I’m getting at here? There are some ways to fix things like shaky cameras and poor lighting but first I want to explain equipment. Depending on whether you’re taking video or pictures your cost is going to vary. Obviously video costs more but photos come in handy as well especially if you don’t land the trick but it looks sick in the middle. If you are going to film you need a nice camera, you get what you pay for, and some good lighting, pretty straight forward. If you are going to take photos however, you’re going to need a camera, also you get what you pay for, and several flashes that you can program to go off simultaneously.
Now if you’re taking pictures you’re going to want to make sure the flashes are set up properly and get in a good spot that has a nice frame and then sit on your butt and whatch people skate. Pretty easy. If you’re filming, especially if you’re filming a line it takes more effort. You are going to want a board with loose trucks an incredibly soft wheel to push the filmer on so that they get a nice steady shot that follows the skater closely. This is how every skate filmer does it. Just make sure that if the last trick in the line is down a ten your person pushing doesn’t shove the filmer and $10,000 camera over the stair as well. You also want to keep the camera close to the ground and use a fish eye. It makes the shot look sick! So go out, find some friends and go make a skate video.
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Everyone skates the same thing all the time. Stairs and gaps. These are some fun thing to skate but there are a lot of much more interesting things out there. Heres a small list of things that I think are fun to skate
? Rainbow rails
? Mini half pipes
? Banks to over the wall
? Banks in general
? Hubbas
? Pyramids where one side is twice as big as the other
? Kink handrails
? Kink flatbars
? Rails to manual pads
? Curved boxes
? Kicker to table top
? Stair into bank
? Rail into bank
? Snake rail
? Kink snake rail
? Box put at a 45 degree angle against a wall
? Gap to table
? Gap to flatbar
? Step up
? Step up to box
? Step up to rail
? Snake run to launch
? Right handed kidney pool with double love seat
? Bank over fire hydrant
? Put trash can inbetween two boxes and to pivots over it
? Gap to bank
? And of course… anything that mullen or daywon will set up for you.
Now $30 for a skate video is not in a lot of skaters price range but trust me its defiantly worth it. Heath kirchart has the opening slide with a big slam on a 50-50 on a rail. Then does some flip in to flip out thing. Sort of weird but it looked sick. Next is Brian Herman, no one really likes him in general but his part was still insane. Ed Templeton was next and is getting old and his bag of tricks is getting smaller or at least isn’t getting bigger, he is into art though so that makes up for it… right? Next was Austin Stephens he pretty much killed every rail and ledge the team came across. Next is Eric Ellington, apart from looking like a girl he killed the rails with bigspin back tails.
Tosh was skating a little sketchy but people said that his ankle was messed up but I wont judge. However, when he lands clean, its clean. Chris Sean should get the underdog award, sickness all the way through. Spanky has a great part the whole time as well, most of his lines are long and very smooth. Reynolds defiantly deserved to be last. The only guy that can make Duffels pants look good with a leather jacket * laughs * amazing frontside flips the entire time. So if you like good music and even better skating go check out this video. Trust me you wont be disappointed.
There is a big difference in board set up when you skating vert compared to street. Either way you are going to want to get a set up that will be durable and keep its shape and pop for a long time. With both set ups you are going to want to have nice, smooth rolling bearings like black panthers and bones swiss. You are also going to want to have strong long lasting hardware. Other than that the set ups will be very different.
Lets start with board width. Most of the time when people skate street they will skate boards anywhere from 7.5” to 8” at the most. Vert skaters will typically have a board sized from 8” to 9.5”. The trucks you have on your board will always depend on the width of the board itself. Most of the time you want the trucks to match the board width or be a little bit narrower, also, vert skaters will put riser pads between the trucks and board so there is a smaller chance of wheel bite. Street skaters generally don’t use riser pads because the lower the board is to the ground the easier it is to do technical flip tricks. Vert skaters will always have larger wheels than street skaters. Normally a vert skaters wheel ranges from 55mm to 68mm. while a street skaters wheel will range from 49mm to 54mm. the reason the street skaters wheel is smaller is for the same reason they don’t use riser pads, the closer to the ground the faster the board will flip and the smaller wheel means less weight.
Almost everyone that has started skating in the last 2 years has had one. The pink or purple Bam pro model, black and pink Bam trucks and Pink Bam wheels. Kids are buying one of the worst set ups if this is what they’re buying. Overall Elements boards are horrible, they warp and break extremely easily. I don’t know about the heliums though because I don’t trust Element enough to buy a $60 board plus grip. You want to start off with a blank, a shop board, or a board that you know will last long if you are sure your going to stay into skating.
You are going to want to start off with a mini or a micro if you are 3 to 7 years old. After that you can pretty much get any board in a skate shop because they are all about the same length. You defiantly want to make sure you are getting a board that’s the right width though. I would defiantly recommend a 7.5” board for anyone that is starting to skate because they are lighter and easier to flip. Some good boards are Krookeds, reals, anti-heros, bakers, enjois, and girls. Any of these would make a great board for a first time skater.
Roll away stoked.
