Last weekend was a fun on for skateboarding. On Friday I worked on my varial heelflips and 50-50s to nolie shuv out. A 50 50 grind is where you Ollie on to the side of a curb so that just your trucks are hanging off. Olling out of these is more difficult in my opinion than a 180 or a shuv. Frontside 50 50s are easier than backside 50 50s for me. It is easier when you are faced towards the curb, rather than being faced away from it. This week I have been doing really good backside flips, which are backside 180s and a kickflip all in one. It is a pretty difficult trick and I am glad I have been doing them so well recently.
On Saturday I went to Santa Barbara City College to skateboard. This was a bad choice because I fell really bad when I was there. I went with my friends Logan and Kalin. I nearly died. I scraped my elbow a bit and it was pretty bad without any first aid or anything like that. But the good news was that while I was there I almost landed my first 360 shuv. A 360 shuv or 3 shuv for short is a 360 pop shuv it. I have never landed one of these before, and I am very proud of myself for almost landing one. I also skateboarded a rail for the first time. I did frontside 50 50 on it and almost landed it. With a lot of practice I could get really good at rails, I just never find a place where I can skate them without being embarrassed of falling.
This week I landed a backside flip off of a curb. The 3 best things I can do right now are backside big spin off of a curb, backside flip off of a curb, and Backside 360 off of a curb. I really want to learn frontside flip and frontside big spins soon. I really just cant figure out how to do frontside flips. As for the frontside big spin I just don’t know how to finish them without flipping the board like a frontside big heel.
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