What tricks are you working on?

offkilter23 · Pop Shuvit Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 221 City: venice

kickflips

nick · Posted: Jun 30, 2004 11:54 am Post subject:

how close are you?

Guest · Posted: Jun 30, 2004 12:43 pm Post subject:

Wrapped surface 1260's. Got 1080's down so I'm steppin up!

Ok for real though no tricks in the bag except the nut crunch and the eye peeler!

kyle41 · Posted: Jun 30, 2004 12:43 pm Post subject:

im workin on kickflips also. im gettin really close but just cant seem to stick it.
i started tryin them in the flats and they almost seem easier then inside out. what do the rest of u think

rukusrider103 · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 961

eighteenvisions · Ollie Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 94

ive tried inside out ones forever like, since almost a year ago. but if your board has enough pop, especially if its a-sym, in the flats is easier, i think. i finally landed it in the flats. i think its easier cause when you do inside out you have to worry about edging, pop, flick, and if the wake isnt right it could mess things up. out in the flats as long as you pop enough and kick it right its right under you. but a trick i learned that helps with doing inside out ones is to stay over your board but pop the board up almost vertical. if you just lean over the board will stay behind you. if you lean back too much it will be nearly impossible to land. you just have to find that happy medium inbetween. but you should do whatevers easiest so if you think inside out is better for you do it. i think its good to be able to do both ways though so just keep doing them.
the reason its taken me so long to do them is cause i would try one, get real close, and then keep trying for like 45 min. i would get super close, then start doing worse and worse till i was just real frustrated and tired. then i would not do them for a couple weeks cause i didnt want to ruin a good run like that. i dont know if any of you are having that problem but i would stick to like a couple tries each time you go out, cause you would probably land them faster that way rather than every once in a while just wearing yourself out.

Dave Barousse · Faceplant Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 5

This topic is about tricks you are working on. How about we support our fellow riders and help them land something they are working on instead of turning this entire topic into another topic full of arguing.

Because we all don't ride together, generally we will never know who is telling the truth or not about the tricks they are doing. Why is it that important to know for sure anyway?? It isn't unusual for people to land kickflips these days and it should not be a surprise if next biggest wakeskater to hit the scene is from some small town in the middle of nowhere. How many times have we seen that already??

Yuri · Raley Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 1977 City: orlando

Todd, If you dont believe me about me trying backlip 270 shuvvits out on the pic nic table at OWC I could care less. First let me explain is you havent seen the pic nic table its a ride on rail but you can ollie onto it if you want but very few wakeskaters do. I`am goofy so the rail is heelside so in that case a fs boardslide is considered a backlip, so basicly I go up the rail do a fs boardslide to 270 shuvvit out, (havent landed one yet but I got damn close).

rukusrider103 · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 961

dave, what are you talking about? who was arguing? did you delete a post? am i missing something here?

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

i just started, so i'm workin on my ollie. I need to meet some new people around the central valley of california, (modesto, stockton, sacramento area) who like to wakeskate/wakeboard so i can get out on the water more often.

Steven M · Posted: Jun 30, 2004 3:29 pm Post subject:

eyeareque, if you ever come down to McClure lemme know and we can try to work something out

Travis · Faceplant Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 43

shuvits (cant even get close).. w2ws and ollie 180s are what im mostly workin on

Dave Barousse · Faceplant Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 5

nick · Posted: Jun 30, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

i saw wakeskater1234 tryin bs lip 270 out yesterday and he was seriously close as hell... and ya dave i bet someone would have started sumthin soon Confused

offkilter23 · Pop Shuvit Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 221 City: venice

i have came extremely close to kickflips i am just so mad that i havent landed it yet

thirdcoast · Pop Shuvit Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 145 City: @uSTIn

trying different lipslide variations to shuvouts, still working on the pop shuv in the flats....tried a few kickflips today.......ugly. Evil or Very Mad

wakeriderof87 · Frontside 180 Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 495 City: cen fla

workin on shuv its, i think i'm doin what eighteenvisions was talkin about. I keep on developing bad habits, so then i spend forever tryin to get rid of that habit. For a long time i was spinning the board and then i would somehow spin my body after it, like it was two seperate motions, it was weird. it took me a long time to figure out how to stop doin that. Then i started like spinning it to soon, so when i would spin then push down with my front foot to even out the skate instead of even out then spin, so i would send the skate like off axis. That was all on my one week of riding every day. I think my main reason i haven't landed them yet is b/c i dont' go out enough. I'll get really close, like i'm landing on the skate its just sliding out form under me. Then i have to quit and don't go back out for a month or two, so when i do get to try again, its like starting over again.

other than that i'm tryin to go w2w(not nearly successful), and ollie off of the wake, can anyone give me a few tips on that,

Dave Barousse · Faceplant Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 5

Frye · Guest Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 3335

i stopped wakeksating for like a month and a half and was wakeboarding the whole time, then went back to my skate and i was so much better. my first run out with no falls i had heelside and toeside two wake, and i couldnt even do toeside before. then i landed a shuvit first try. then i went out the other day, and i could ollie off the lip, and i landed ollie in to shuv off. i am working on shuv on and i am just so close. i dont know if it will help everyone else, but just taking a break i progressed alot.

seven11dmd · Posted: Jul 02, 2004 10:59 am Post subject:

Dave Barousse, thats a really good tip, thanks