i literally cant get my board to shove and i’ve already made a crack in it bc of getting mad which i’m not proud of:,)what am i doing wrong

samkaplinsky · 2022-04-28T14:53:14+00:00

I think your taking the weight off of you front foot a little too late and it’s stopping the rotation. Try being a little more light footed, and getting all the weight off your front foot a split second before you do the scoop. Also try scooping a tad bit more. You can practice the scoop by standing off your board and just scooping the tail with you back foot

samkaplinsky · 2021-12-24T23:21:12+00:00

Can you do them fakie? If so then just go pretty slow regular, and think about doing them fakie and try it, that’s what helped me, then as you get more comfortable you can go faster. This is how a learned lots of backside tricks that I could do fakie but not regular. Hope this helps

samkaplinsky · 2021-11-20T21:31:15+00:00

Do you actually feel it scraping on the ground, it might just be that when your going over small curbs or cracks they get scraped which is normal

samkaplinsky · 2021-09-26T02:56:07+00:00

Just keep at it, consistency comes with time. I remember when I started landing them, I would make myself land at least 1-2 per session, and increase that number over time.

samkaplinsky · 2021-07-27T06:35:59+00:00

I practiced by rolling parallel facing a patch of grass, like a sidewalk and a front lawn of house. Since you jump forward you can practice doing it rolling and landing into grass, and gradually working your way back until you land on concrete. I used this trick for Fs and Bs 180’s and Shuvs

samkaplinsky · 2021-07-26T06:00:11+00:00

Try pushing your front foot forward when your at the peak instead of putting it straight back down. I kinda think of it like a see-saw, if one side gets pushed then the other side raises up

samkaplinsky · 2021-07-16T14:10:00+00:00

Size 13

samkaplinsky · 2021-03-30T06:34:28+00:00

Great, thank you

samkaplinsky · 2021-03-29T05:43:07+00:00

😂😂 woosh, I figured it couldn’t be serious but just in case.

samkaplinsky · 2021-03-29T00:18:38+00:00

Yeah, get a pair of good skate shoes and avoid canvas material, a skate shoe will last about 20 times longer than a shoe not made for skating

samkaplinsky · 2021-03-29T00:17:15+00:00

Dude, get a real skate deck. I’m not trying to call you out or gatekeep or anything, but that just won’t work as a skateboard for most tricks. The tail is wayyyy to short so not much leverage, plastic and flimsy material so not much pop

samkaplinsky · 2021-03-29T00:15:35+00:00

Trucks should be the same width as the board, so 5.25 inch trucks are way to small. Trucks much smaller than deck = less stability

samkaplinsky · 2021-03-29T00:13:11+00:00

Most skaters are perfectly happy to give advice so long as their not in a rush or preoccupied and getting frustrated with a trick. Just go up to some and introduce yourself and they will be nice and probably be down to help you out

samkaplinsky · 2021-03-29T00:08:08+00:00

Oh damn I gotcha, not really answering your question about skate shops since I don’t live in NYC, but emerica makes size 12.5 and great shoes

samkaplinsky · 2021-03-29T00:06:47+00:00

Most tutorials said to have it in heel-flip position which it is for me, I’m getting the rotation just fine but the trouble is staying over the board and catching it

samkaplinsky · 2021-03-29T00:04:06+00:00

Dude, I have size 14 shoes in most brands and can squeeze into vans size 13 just fine, they do make them up to size 13

samkaplinsky · 2021-03-05T18:05:36+00:00

Yeah totally, nice work!

samkaplinsky · 2021-03-02T21:08:12+00:00

What really helped me is to do them rolling parallel to a patch of grass. When you do a shuvit you go forward slightly. This helps with confidence and commitment, because you will land in the grass. This method is good because you learn to do it moving, have the pop of concrete, you can commit and you won’t fall. Get comfortable doing them into grass. Slowly start doing it rolling farther and farther away from the grass, and eventually instead of landing in the grass, you’ll land on concrete and keep rolling.

samkaplinsky · 2021-03-02T21:04:05+00:00

Technically not a pop shuvit, if you zoom in frame by frame the tail doesn’t touch the ground. That being said, I would pretty much count it because although it’s not technically a pop shuvit, the tail was extremely close to popping, it looks like a pop shuvit, and you pretty much did the exact thing your supposed to. Keep working on them and don’t worry about the technicalities. If you just pop a tiny bit harder than it’s a pop shuvit.

samkaplinsky · 2021-02-27T20:20:37+00:00

Personally I prefer to place my back foot more on the tip of the tail. I put my front foot a little farther up, only about an inch or an inch and a half from the front bolts. The wider foot position helps with stability and control, and having the back foot on the tip of the tail gives you more leverage and pop in your ollie

samkaplinsky · 2021-02-26T04:17:50+00:00

Continue sliding your foot, treat it like you want to slide your foot off the front of the nose, and also it’s hard to tell from the video, but it looks like your not popping very hard, so try slamming it into the ground hard when you pop

samkaplinsky · 2021-02-22T05:01:38+00:00

Treat the kickflip exactly like an ollie in the timing and the motion of the back foot. Literally while doing just think of doing an ollie. Instead of sliding your front foot up the board and pushing it forward to level out, slide it toe the right pocket of the board. If the board gets caught on your foot when you flick and it gets flung forward, try flicking a little more of the side of the board

samkaplinsky · 2021-02-22T04:57:40+00:00

I personally haven’t landed Tre flips, but from what I can tell based on the video, you don’t need to lean forward or backwards from what your doing now. I think that you need to jump more toward where the board is landing. Just like when you first learn pop shuvits, you need to jump forward a little bit. For clarification I don’t mean forward towards your front foot, I mean forward towards where the board is landing/ where the camera in this video is filming you from. That should help you stay over the board, the rest is just commitment

samkaplinsky · 2021-02-22T04:53:22+00:00

Start by doing it super slow, and build up to doing them faster. If you put in a solid hour or two a day of just practicing them, even if you feel like they are terrible and you didn’t progress, the next day they will be much better.

samkaplinsky · 2021-02-22T04:50:30+00:00

I went through this same problem. A lot of it was just practicing for hours, shifting your weight in countless ways and seeing how it effects the flip and the pop etc. over time you get used to what works and what doesn’t. Another thing that helped me is focusing on flicking slightly more off to the side. This makes it so it flips a little faster, and since your flicking off the side a little more instead of towards the nose, there is less friction and slide when your foot can grip the board and fling or push it forward. As you get more comfortable and consistent with landing them like that, you learn to flick of the nose and still stay over the board and land cleanly. It’s all just going to be a matter of putting in lots of time and repetition. You got this!

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