Welcome back! This week I will be writing about the Ollie. The Ollie is a trick that allows you to get your board off of the ground like a jump. This “jump” allows you to go up or down curbs and also this is the most important trick to learn, because it sets you up for nearly any trick in skateboarding. This makes the Ollie the most important trick to learn. The Ollie was originally created by Alan Gelfand who started the ollie in bowl skateboarding, and Rodney Mullen took the ollie to flat ground skateboarding. The flat ground ollie is the trick I will be talking about as I have very little experience with Half pipe skateboarding and such.

The Ollie took me a really long time to learn because of the fact that when I learned it I was just learning how to ride my board and just cruise around my neighborhood. The Ollie was something that takes a lot of practice and steps to perfecting it because it is the first trick you should learn. The first thing you do is pop your tail down. Then you slide your foot up on the board and jump. This takes a lot of practice but once you get it down you get it down. The ollie is great for going up and down curbs, and is fun to do off of any ledge and go high off the ground.

The best thing to do if you are not getting the ollie is to ride around your street and neighborhood. Ollie(ing) an object is so worth the amount of time and it is so satisfying to learn for the first time. It is a easy and a hard trick at the same time because it is the first trick you learn. The ollie took me a few months to learn, so if you aren’t getting it immediately thats totally normal. You have to learn the ollie to do almost any other trick in skateboarding, which is bad and good because once you get the ollie down, it becomes second nature and doesn’t even feel like a trick anymore.

Welcome back to my blog. Today I will be talking about the Heelflip. The heelflip is a trick where instead of flicking your foot to the right of the board if you are goofy and to the left if you are regular, you flip it outward or the other way. I hate the heel flip. The kick flip is so much better of a trick. I am horrible at heel flips and they feel awkward under my feet. I hate flipping the board outwards because I never seem to land them right. I like varian heels a lot more because they feel better under my feet, although I never seem to land them.

Heelflips are ugly as heck. They are hard too. The foot position is weird. Varial heels work for me because of the front shuv part. Varial Heels are a front shuv and a heelflip. The foot postion is really good for that trick. Yesterday I went to Santa Barbara City college to skate and I really hurt myself, but the good thing about it was that I landed a nolie varial heel which is a pretty hard trick. I also almost landed a 360 flip and a 360 shuv. My favorite thing to do there though was 50 50 the rail. It was my first time skating a rail and I was very proud of myself for trying it. I will try to write more about the things that I did over the weekend for my next few blog posts, it will still be about skating but more specifically the things I did skating for that day because writing about new tricks is getting stale for me.

Yesterday at CC I was working on Varial Heels a lot because I want to get better at that trick and land it consistently. My goal for the end of this year is to kickflip a stair set. Maybe even Varial Flip a stair set. The one at CC is a good one to do that on, so expect to hear more stories about CC.

Welcome back. This week I will be talking about the kickflip. The kickflip is a trick that everyone wants to learn. This trick is where you flip the board around and land on it. It looks a lot harder than it actuallly is. I kind of feel like the kickflip can become the advanced version of the Ollie eventually if you become good enough. The kickflip is pretty difficult to learn but once you get it down it becomes second nature. (I wouldn’t know) It’s a solid trick that almost always looks cool.

Kickflips are very satisfying to land. They are fun to do off of ledges and stair sets, and are so cool to watch. Flip tricks like the kick flip are fun but hard. It was the first of many modern flip tricks to be invented or modified by Rodney Mullen in the early 1980s. The original kickflip was invented by pioneer Curt Lindgren prior to 1978 and was later modified and popularized by Mullen.

The kick flip involves a certain flick that you need to prefect the trick. Once you get the flick down, the trick becomes a lot easier and becomes stylish. The kick flip is a sick trick and looks really nice and is pretty difficult. Learning kick flips makes you a good skater.

This is probably the best trick I can do consistently. I am working on big spins, varial flips and backside flips. Big spins I am trying to learn a lot better than backside flips because I am better at them. Fakie flips are just like kick flips but rolling fakie. Rolling fakie is basically rolling switch but with your foot on the nose. Fakie flips are super fun too but they are harder to do off of things because poping your nose up is harder than posing your tail up.

Flip tricks are harder than regular tricks in my opinion and are more dangerous. Flipping the board around can result in not landing on the board straight.

Welcome back. This week I will be talking about the Big Spin. A big spin is basically a pop shuv it and a backside 180 in one. This is one of my favorite tricks because of how nice you can make them look. This trick is pretty difficult and I would recommend you get your pop shuv its and backside 180’s down before you try this trick. I first learned this trick off of a curb and I’m still not sure whether or not this is easier to start off with. If you are comfortable with your backside 180’s and pop shuv it’s off of a curb, then maybe give it a shot, if not, then don’t because doing unfamiliar tricks off of a curb can be dangerous. A good way to think about this trick is to do a 360 shuv with a backside sex change. This could make the trick look nicer when you land it.

Big spins are the most satisfying tricks to land. Fakie big spins are way easier than big spins to learn and I recommend that you learn them before big spins. All you need to learn for the fakie big spin is the fakie shuv and half cabs which as I said before are really easy to learn. The momentum of rolling backwards with a big spin is so much easier than rolling regular. Fakie big spins are good to do in games of skate but not that good to do off of things because you are rolling fakie. I love big spins but they took me so long to learn and get them down well. I can sometimes land them of off curbs now. That’s how bad I am at them.

Another topic for this week was our Mad Academy Winter Sohpmore retreat. It was really fun. I am taking about this in my blog because we snowboarded. It was really fun but I was really bad because every time I would go off of the jumps I would fail really hard because I wouldn’t bend my knees because I was in jeans. This was definitely the highlight of last week,

Welcome back. This week I will be talking about the opposite of the last weeks blog. The fakie front 180 is the opposite of the half cab, where you turn frontside, instead of backside. The fakie 360 is the full cab but the other way around. If you like turning frontside then you will probably prefer these tricks compared to last weeks tricks.

The fakie 360 is currently, my favorite trick! It is so fun to do and I feel like I don’t need to pivot as much. It feels so great to do off of things and on flat. The fakie 360, also known as the fakie frontside 360, is a difficult trick. It takes more then a day to learn and you can pivot, but unlike the full cab, you can’t rely on the pivot. The feeling of a front 360 can be done with a pivot, but it makes the trick look ugly. Skateboarding is not supposed to look ugly. If you are learning this trick I would recommend not starting with a pivot because it makes the trick look ugly and it is a hard habit to break. Once you learn this trick it should feel like a 360 and not like a 180 with a pivot. This trick is so fun to do off of things and out of grinds etc. Once you land a 360 off of something it is one of the best feelings a person can have. I liked it so much. That is why the fakie 360 Is my favorite trick.

This week I will be taking about the Pop Shuv and the Front Shuv. These tricks involve rotating the board 180 degrees without doing a 180. These are easier then kick flips but harder than 180s. The pop Shuv has a simple step. The Shuv. The Shuv is basically a pop Shuv, without the pop. These are very easy to learn and very essential tricks to learn.

The pop Shuv it is a pretty easy trick. An even easier step is to learn fakie shuvs, because the momentum of going backwards makes it a lot easier to do the shuv. The foot placement for the pop shuv it is to slightly slant your top foot and slightly hang your back foot off the board. This would allow you to scoop your foot and make the board rotate. This is a good trick to do off of a curb because if you are going with the curb all you have to do is scoop the board and sort of fall off. This is one of the easier tricks to learn off of curbs and is very satisfing to land for the first time.

The Front shuv, is a much harder trick that involves almost all of the opposite steps than the pop shuv. With this trick, you cannot see the board. The board will go around but you wont see it because it is frontside. There are no easier steps to learn this trick except maybe fakie front shuvs. The foot placement is hanging your front foot of the board and your back foot hanging of the back but instead of your toe hanging of the back, your heel should be off the back. Try to do a frontside one eighty but without rolling away switch. That is how I used to look at it. This trick is a lot more difficult of off a curb so I do not recommend doing the front shuv off of a curb. The only other advice I can give is too push your board faster and do a front shuv with speed. Good Luck.

Welcome back. Today I will be talking about the front-side 180 and backside 180. These two tricks are both very important for later tricks and are actually really fun to do once you get them down. The 180’s originated from bowl skateboarding just like the ollie did, but these two are consistently considered real tricks while the ollie is not. 180’s can be considered the easiest tricks to learn after the ollie, but some people say they aren’t. Personally, once you learn these tricks consistently I think they can be two of the most fun tricks you can learn.

The front side 180 is the easier of the two in my opinion. It is a very consistent trick that once you learn it you learn it. You can do them off of almost anything with ease and they usually look very nice. The frontside 180 involves a way of moving your board in a way that makes your body turn so that you always see the board. Sometimes I tilt my foot at an angle to make it so that it is easier to turn my body. I would usually do this while learning. I feel like the frontside 180 is less scary compared to the backside 180. It is also a lot easier to learn. Sometimes this trick is easier fakie. The fakie frontside 180 involves the person riding fakie and doing the frontside 180. Sometimes the momentum of going backwards helps.

The backside 180 is the alternative to the frontside 180 and is way harder in my opinion. This usually takes a lot longer to learn because of the difficulty of the trick. First off, you are doing the 180 in a way so that you can’t see your board. That scared me at first but then I got used to it and it is one of my favorite tricks to this day. I would say that the fakie backside 180, or the half cap is a lot easier. You can see your board the whole time and it gives you the right momentum to turn backside when you are riding regular. All in all, the 180’s are 2 of my favorite tricks and I recommend giving them a try next time you are on a board.