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.
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