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,
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