Carving is a fundamental skill. The slalom is the single best drill for improving your carving. What is a slalom? A slalom course is line of cones that have been laid out with regular spaces between them. Usually a slalom is a race, to see who can carve around the cones the fastest. Why learn […]
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In this skill we will get comfortable with carving while riding ramps and bowls Find a quarterpipe or miniramp. Approach the quarterpipe at an angle and turn by carving. Do not kick turn. When you can do this comfortably, approach the quarterpipe more directly. You will find this harder. If you find this difficult, learn […]
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We need to train our basic kickturn to a level where can apply it to tricks, like grinds and rotating ollies. We do this by practicing on the spot. To complete this skill you should be able to do a backside (the way your are facing) three quarter turn (270 degrees) do a frontside (the […]
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Kickturns on the nose Kickturns on the nose, switch kickturns, whatever we want to call it, learning fine control over the nose is vital to a number of tricks we’ll be working on in the Progressing Programme. Put your foot on your nose. Use techniques you learnt in the beginner course to kick turn on […]
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OK, before we start learning how to skateboard we need to have the right equipment. Padding up First, we should pad up, correctly. Wearing protective pads is strongly recommended. It allows us to take more risks and learn faster. It also prevents us hurting ourselves, and when we are injured we can’t skate. Which is […]
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Today we’re going to figure out what stance we are, regular, or goofy, and along the way we’ll learn the push stance. Here’s our skateboard on the floor. If you’re right footed that foot stays on the floor and your left foot goes on the board, covering the bolts. This is called regular stance. If […]
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Stand on your skateboard – Transcript Today I’m going to teach you how to stand on your skateboard, and get off it again. We’re not rolling along just yet, we’re covering the absolute basics of skateboarding first so we don’t have any accidents when we start rolling along. Stand on the bolts This is our […]
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Video Transcript OK now we are going to learn how to fall, and in the process, how we can learn from falling. When we lose our balance we instinctively try and jump off the skateboard. Don’t do this. If we can counter this instinct we can learn much faster. We learn by failing, failing and […]
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How to pick up your skateboard, and carry it.
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OK, in we’ve learnt our stance, how to stand on our skateboard, and how to fall in a controlled way. This lesson we are finally going to push along. Terrain tips Firstly, make a conscious choice of what terrain to learn on. Skateparks such as this, Charlton Park in London has water-smooth concrete, which is […]
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Another student doing their practical assignment for their beginner grading 🙌
That`s a friendly little quarterpipe to learn on at @folkestone51
Analysis:
A cheeky right foot went down here to maintain balance. This demonstrated quick reactions, which is great 👍
Preferably this correction should have been made with a toe edge carve, to bring the centre of gravity back to the centre line of the board. In this case it would have been a struggle, because the front foot isn`t quite square enough. Remember the rhyme `toes and heels over the wheels`. 👟
How good is your carve? Invariably, as a learner, it can do with work. Practice your carve every time you go out. Buy some cones. Do a slalom. Adjust your trucks if need be 🛹
Lastly, keep your feet on the board. Even when you make mistakes or fall. Use your hands to stabilise. You should know what the board feels like under your feet when you do something wrong in order to learn what`s right. Make mistakes. It`s how we learn 🧑🎓
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Some progress at the progressing group 🙌
First The Drop In on the quarter.
We`ve decided do lower the bar for the pro group. The drop in is hard, so have decided to make The Roll In the required skill for entry to the pro class...
Here we are working on the basic fakie 360 kickturn going backside on the ramp. It doesn`t look much but when you get up to the coping...
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