how did our tranny fuck up her finger like that? shit is bruised like it was broken or something. Originally it looks like a basic cut or maybe something with her nails fucking up but that shot after its bruised like crazy wtf?
>>260863 >>260864 eat shit more importantly, my fakie flip is for whatever reason leagues nicer than my kickflip need to grow some nuts and take it down something
>>260870 That could happen to a non fatty. It's so disheartening how easily people can get fucked up, but the pros get away with launching themselves down stairs and ledges
>>260872 >fakie flip is for whatever reason leagues nicer than my kickflip Same just rolls off my toes so easy where regular I ghost flick half of them and just flail around like a tard
>>260873 A lighter person would have less momentum, and therefore less force going into the ankle when slamming.
I mean props to fat people for actually going out and trying to skate, that's obviously way better than staying home no matter what, but extra weight is just much more dangerous on your articulations and bones in general.
Pros tend to be pretty skinny and athletic in general. Obviously with experience you develop automatisms for bailing in almost every possible scenario, but having good muscles and low fat goes a long way.
>>260937 Yeh I rarely watch but this show seems like the old experience show which I thought was good, I enjoy watching them review videos >The Bunt They try cool guy it a bit much. Im also not into the mutt sports talk. The random skater show is great though, watched them all and I've only ever got one lel
>>260939 This is sick, thanks for posting, anon. Looking forward to seeing your ollies in the grass and stationary shuvs in the garage set to this banger.
A group of skaters vandalized the parking lot I frequent. I was even there while they were vandalizing it, and although I didn't interact with them they definitely have my face on cctv. The security guard there would just ignore me, but now I'm not sure if that's going to be the case from now on. Fuck there's no other good spots around here.
>>261197 yea i see this is honey pig BBQ in irvine california. hes gone there forever and sold boards and done meetups there. Its in the vice documentary a bunch hes there with heath kitchart etc. they say hell get drunk and throw glass and shit in there and theyll let him or something
>>261201 I don't know much about hook ups or klein desu, just found it funny Rocco saying don't demean him. I remember when I was like 10yo skating a car park and some older kid there had a hook ups board, I thought he was very bad ass because of the graphic.
>>261232 DVS filed for bankruptcy, got sold to an investment firm, the investment firm went bankrupt, and then got acquired by a shoe focused private equity firm in 2021. Seems like they have no riders and only make a few shoes now which are just their old 2005-2010 pro shoes renamed to something generic. Sad fate.
I fucked my shoulder pretty bad 180ing into a bank. Separated my AC ligaments. Its been 3 weeks and I can move it a little better . But doing small things like turning a door knob fucking hurts. I haven't skated since. I also haven't posted here in over a year. I'm glad to see it's still alive
>>261259 I guess I'm hesitant because the soles on my shoes just falling off not even because of use but age blackpilled me. Easy enough to keep applying goo to the holes but what do you do when the shit holding everything together "ages"? They should make an all rubber shoe.
>>261260 Do what you want, retard, it's your elbows. If you want to get fat mans wheelbite while cruising again and do more damage before it's healed and risk serious complications, that's completely your choice.
>>261262 unironically get some Nike SB, Adidas, NB#, or Asics. The big sports companies that make skate shoes. They last a long ass time and skate really well. You can find deals on them pretty easily too
>>261275 Maybe, Geoff Rowley said he used to skate in doc martens. >>261283 >Nike SB I see some expensive and some cheaper ones too, are they all good?
>>261267 point taken dickhead, i just thought maybe i coud wear a pad over it and carefully cruise around instead of sitting on my couch continuing to be a fat cunt
>>261339 There are a bunch of oldheads in these threads that cling to this old notion of being anti-Nike or whatever big corpo brand because they grew up when buying that shit was seen as "not core" and you would get clowned on at the skatepark for it. Nowadays your options for supporting a core skate shoe brand are pretty much non existent because they've almost all been sold and bought out by non skaters looking to extract value out of well known old brands.
Nike SB, NB#, Addidas, and Asics sponsor and support a lot of great pro skaters and are basically the only avenue for a lot of them to make a living being pro. Most of my favorite current pros are on those shoe brands and so I see no issue with supporting the Skateboarding arm of those companies.
>>261340 Those companies controlling who gets a career in skateboarding is exactly why we said don't buy them. Now Nick Merlino paints instagram art in Missouri while Betty Transdick Rollongrind has a Nike sponsor and three thrasher interviews.
>>261335 highly subjective you have to try them yourself but a few ideas off the top of my head pantheon stylus if you intend to never grind and only 149mm size paris street are a step down but can be used to grind but not exactly meant for that either film trucks might be more comparable to stylus due to the similar unique bushing design
I don't understand how to manual. I've been practicing for weeks and no matter what my back foot always slams the tail down when I try lifting my front foot. I'm getting so upset that no matter what I watch or practice there is no progress like I just don't understand what's not working.
>>261367 are your knees bent 50%,? if sitting in an air chair is 100% and standing straight is 0% i want 50% bent >but my knees are bent if that is true, and you have a lower center of gravity, and your suspension (legs engaged) is active - find the right amount of weight shift from front to back that makes the truck feel very light
>how do i know if my truck is really light if your front truck is in that "really light" state you should be able to almost drag the front wheels sideways, pivoting around that back truck with very light resistance (frictionless almost)
>how do i manual that feeling of being able to make the front truck "really light", just bring up the nose by making the front truck "really really light" then transition into front truck "really light"
>>261490 haha i don't know what contests you are watching (i dont watch any) but i do know braille and dan corrigan. That's hilarious that you make that comparison. It's so fucking true. They are literally a slightly less annoying version of braille. All youtubers and autistic no style helmet andy.
>>261498 >plus they are considered a corelord brand maybe over a decade ago that was true. The last time I bought DCs was when Wes Kremer won SotY and had a pro shoe with them
found a new spot, an abandoned bank with those sheltered drive-thru deposit lanes. multiple painted curbs for grinds and pads for manual stuff, and it's out of the rain
>>260936 In the Rocco-Vallely episode (where Mike, for the first time, when asked repeatedly why he left World Ind., did NOT say that it was because of the jabs at Powell-Peralta) number23, which is another account of Gifted or Gifted-adjacent, provocatively posted "now sit Mike with Ed Templeton". LOL
>>260749 I can ride somewhat good but I think I'm just too scared to even try to do an Ollie. I've already slammed a lot trying to ride and I've somewhat gotten it down now. I tried doing an ollie once and I fucked my arm up for a month and cheese grater it across the pavement. Sorry for being negative but I feel pointless to keep trying to skate if I can't do simple tricks
>>261604 if you don't enjoy the feeling of pushing/cruising/rolling i don't know what to tell you. i get joy from just lifting my leg for a push and feeling perfect balance on the board, like i have full control and could hold my leg mid-kick forever. fucking love that feeling. have you ever been to a pump track? just feeling yourself building speed and carving is awesome. you can just ride the board a ton. eventually you will become more and more comfortable to try more. do little baby hippy jumps. gradually do them higher. then start sending ollies. or you can never ollie and just cruise. you can skateboard without ever doing tricks. your don't define your relationship with this toy by what anyone else does with it
>>261605 honestly, pool skating (and transition) is the abso coolest form of skateboarding to me. that's what always gives me the immediate "that's fuckin' sick" gut reaction. hill bombing is a close second.
>>261604 I get how you feel man Put on some protective gear next time you go out to practice them and appreciate your progress as it happens, a small hop while rolling along and you don't immediatley have to jump off? That's a good start, getting those to roll nice and straight is already good. Able to jump up, lifting the nose and landing back on the board? Great, that's just a little ways away from a full ollie.
Do a nose lift jump with a pop and the tail bounces off the floor? That's already more than most humans out there ever do, even if you don't immediately start landing them
Don't worry about your progress desu, as the others have said you should enjoy the process as much as you can, if it takes you 6 months to get nice clean ollies or 2 years or even if you never learn them it shouldn't stop you from enjoying using your board. I'm struggling to make progress with my manuals, seems I can never hold one while rolling even if I can while stationary (for a little while), but I don't let myself get hung up on it and neither should you.
>>261076 took my sling off today (day 8 since break). been in for x-rays twice but can't see an orthopedophile til tuesday. don't wan't to perma lose range of motion so i'm chancing it and trying to stretch it out a bit
>>261604 >I tried doing an ollie once and I fucked my arm up for a month and cheese grater it across the pavement. You can't even do it but you tried it moving? You should be at home on the carpet doing ollies, shove its and 180 turns.
>>261637 >>261638 soulless individual. I just know if I met you there would be nothing behind your eyes. I'd then beat you in a game of skate where you don't land a single trick. Sad!
I'm just saying it's something to do to pass the time, shit only gets cool when you get in the ZONE IFKYK but ye man I get same joy doing mad things, you just went all in on being a skater as a person you get mad and repeat the same old shit whateva
>>261677 I just use webm for lazies and its always worked for me. I haven't posted a clip in months here. Mostly because everyone else stopped. Now we just get pics from a drug addled schizo with an unearned ego
I really like David Gravettes skating, but I wish all his board designs weren't complete dogshit. Fucking horrible graphics and colours that are 95% dudeweedlmao or fish. Being on Creature is the final nail in the coffin for my desire to buy one of his signature decks. In fact I hate 98% of all board graphics I see these days. Maybe it's time to get a blank deck to mirror my lack of personality and soul?
>>261721 >Maybe it's time to get a blank deck to mirror my lack of personality and soul? Wouldn't it be less cookie cutter to do that and draw on it yourself?
>>261724 YOU SLIP THEM OVER YOUR SHOES AND THEY PREVENT WEAR. LITERALLY JUST WORKS, I WATCHED THE REVIEWS AND OF COURSE, WHY WOULDN'T IT? WHY CAN'T I BUY A TEN PACK OF SHAPED THIN RUBBER FOR A FEW BUCKS TO PRESERVE MY NICE SHOES??
>>261723 The real perfect solution is replaceable soles and a cottage industry of skate shoe cobblers, but we do not live in a perfect world and the corpos would never allow it
>>261723 unironically nyjahs >>261725 i was thinking like for feel and texture >cloth (eg. vans, or those shoes that donate a pair for every pair you buy) this guy likes bleeding toe >suede feels great, is durable will take a fair amount beating >finished leather (fake, think af1s,stan smiths ) suprisingly bangers insane durability and once you get through that coat of whatever the fuck and get to the real gray artifical leather shit by the time you burn through those payless bogo stan smith 1 you got pair 2 and you still saved a tenner on the cost of a regular pair
i'm thinking about trying to get into skateboarding again. i'm 28 and i used to skate as a yout. my question is about helmets. i have a mountain bike and i ride trails right now without a helmet which is pretty retarded. but, i can kind of justify buying a skate helmet if i could use it for my bike too, and then i wouldn't have a reason to not use a bike helmet. is there a helmet that kind of fits both roles or do they prioritize different things and i'm being retarded for trying to make one helmet pull double duty?
>>261736 I imagine the flutes in the bike helmet would let alot more air flow through skate helmets are mostly buckets and besides the pads wicking sweat are pretty fucking hot
>>261730 Yes, and? >>261731 That sounds way more expensive than mass produced shoe condoms. >>261732 I don't want my cool pair of circas to have ANY damage at all.
>>261736 i think skate helmets will give you more coverage on the back of your head, as you're a lot more likely to fall backwards on a skateboard than you are on a bike. so look for a full coverage helmet (not one of those top-of-the-head road bike helmets) if you want one to do double duty
>>261721 i feel you. i'm a jhanka fan, but really not into creature graphics either. ngl this upcoming gravette board is growing on me despite my better judgement tho
Late stage kickflip learning, I just need to put both feet on the board and I fucking can't, it's been weeks at this stage as well. Not sure what I need to do differently. It's only stationary at this point just to get the flips right, but I feel I got them down about 90% of the time, I just need to plant those feet and no matter what I tell myself mentally, I can't seem to do it. What kind of mental trickery do you guys use to get yourself to go in fully on a trick attempt?
>>261822 Make sure the boards rotate the way you want. Start with that.
Send your front foot on a mission. Flick it fast. Like an ollie, you want pop and then work your front foot. It is an ollie trick after all. Pop and flick fast. The last piece of information is, like an ollie, your legs are wide and getting air.
>>261822 >>261833 Addition; your front foot, LIKE AN OLLIE, should extend towards the direction you are going. The height and direction of your front foot determines whether you will make good use of the pop. Both legs work in synergy.
>>261833 >>261834 He already knows how to flip it, he can't land because he's scared. He should probably do the opposite, do the kickflip as low and shitty as possible, like the ones you see little kids do with a skateboard as big as them. Fast and low so his feet have no time to go anywhere else.
>>261842 >inb4 "erm that's not the right way" After he overcomes his fear of landing he'll go back to the proper form, which he has down from what I gather.
>>261829 I filmed myself practicing for the first time and noticed that I'm not consistent with it. This >>261838 might actually be viable advice that I need to tell myself over and over next session. I also realised that I will often do 20-30 minute sessions that are pretty much non-stop attempts. I think I need to chill the fuck out and limit myself to like 10 attempts then rest for a bit before I try again. >>261833 >>261834 I think it's like anon says here >>261842 and it's a fear thing. Learning to land and commit will help me more at this stage.
>>261848 >I'm not consistent with it staying above the board I mean. Most attmepts are a mix of being above it properly and bailing anyway, and doing the old 'front foot plants as so as the flick is done' thing, so I don't even get a proper chance to attempt the land.
>>261848 >>261849 For some reason everyone gives kickflip advice as if they're teaching a slightly advanced intermediate to do it over an obstacle. Forget doing it like an ollie and flicking through the nose, get your front foot closer to the edge and flick off to the side of your trucks. Do it quick, do it low, it doesn't need much energy behind it. You won't even have time to bail. We're not trying to take flight here, we're trying to land our first kickflip, which of course will be shitty.
>>261852 There's no way in hell I'm doing off the side kicks just to land it, I have some dignity. I couldn't even count them as proper lands and I would be too ashamed to tell anyone even if I did land it like that. I don't want to compromise form just to land it, I want to land it with good form.
>>261856 You're not compromising form, they're just easier and lower, like your first ollies. I bet you counted those. Anyway you're missing the point, it's just to get over your initial fear of landing.
https://youtu.be/UHS_4fl1y6c?is=NzqGcQDZJheobuZ- new tranny video. do you like when I post new tranny sk8 video or it is annoying? if so I'll stop. I don't want to annoy you huys
>>261842 >>261848 Oh ok. Flicking it the way you want I found gave me confidence. When I lose them, I try to land each leg seperately until I find that I can actually do them. Hey I actually should try this last one with all flip tricks.
Bought my first skateboard a couple weeks ago with the idea of using it to make my walk to work more entertaining. The yard out back at work is pretty open and flat so sometimes I go in early and just cruise around out back. Had a few tries at an ollie today and desu it didn't go all that badly. I think I got off ground one try.
>>260749 Guys, I've been gaining weight and I just checked my form attempting rolling ollies with my phone and I look like a fucking butterball. I feel like shit, didn't think it'd got this bad. I thought I'd at worst maintain my weight while increasing my skate reps but apparently I can out eat the exercise, I wish I had a less stupidly sugar mad brain
>>261899 >I wish I had a less stupidly sugar mad brain Ban sodas. Forever. Sodas are how most of us build up a habit of basically always having a ridiculously sugary taste in our mouth throughout the day, at lunch, whenever we're going out, etc, and it also fucks up your brain into thinking that nothing tastes sweet unless it has fuck-you amounts of sugar in it.
Even diet sodas are awful for that, as they keep you used to these habits and tolerance for sweetness.
If you want to drink something other than water when eating outside, go for sparkling water but that's it.
>>261899 >>261919 Soda also has a fuckload of calories in it, so you can still gain a ton of weight despite not eating a lot because a few sodas a day double your caloric intake.
>>261916 People obsessed with calorie counting are legitimately mentally unwell. You don't need to autistically track calories to lose weight. Plus, most calorie labels are misleading and never truly accurate. You can't 100% accurately track that shit, so why bother? Buy a few cookbooks of healthy food recipies, stop binge eating/drinking the processed shit every fucking day and do some cardio about 3 times a week. You WILL lose weight doing this and you won't have to count a single calorie. You can still treat yourself to pizza or soda etc., but it's all about moderation as with anything good in life. Just have those things as a treat on the weekend. If you stick to the plan the rest of the week, you will still lose weight. Calorie counting will only make you miserable - you end up like the retards from /fit/ having plain, unseasoned chicken plus a side of fucking broccoli or something for every fucking meal and the mere mention of carbs or sugar will become a jumpscare to you.
beginner coming through for advice. recently bought my first real (not 2nd hand/shit condition) skateboard, and the trucks are quite loose. in contrast, the first one I had was really sluggish and tight. Willing to post cute animals for kind wisdom.
with these new ones it feels like turning is a lot easier, but it's almost "too easy" (while barely moving) to sway toward different sides. How can I tell whether the trucks are too loose? My goal is currently just to learn how to ride around, keep good balance, and very slowly introduce manuals. (I know that stiffer trucks are better for tricks specifically) Is there a good middle-ground between loose and tight I should aim for, and if so how do I know once I found it?
Secondly, I skate at a very small skate park, with spaces that aren't very big. It's a dumb question, but I am a noob, so I'll ask it anyway. How much space is required to make a 180 turn? (If I am moving VERY slowly or not at all I can with relative ease go up on the rear wheels and turn by skipping the front wheels over to the direction I want to shift towards, but it's for very low speed or standing still alone.) Even with the above mentioned loose trucks, I feel like I am turning too slowly - I can only very barely make 180 degree turns over the open area of about 2,5 meters in width, so I guess I'm asking whether the issue is that the space is actually too narrow, my trucks are (despite what I wrote above) not loose enough, or is it merely (most likely, duh) a skill issue?
>>261367 I had extreme issues trying to manual until I got a bigger board, then the difficulty went from 8/10 to about 5/10. Now my issue is purely balance, not extremely finicky raising/lowering of my front leg.
>>261963 This is some classic noob over-thinking, anon. My advice to you is to shut your brain off and don't overthink every tiny detail, especially that shit about measuring turning angles, that is a very odd thought to have. Just skate, enjoy it >Is there a good middle-ground between loose and tight I should aim for, and if so how do I know once I found it? I don't care what anyone says, this is something you just have to figure out on your own and you'll know what feels right to you by experimenting. You can get used to any tightness or looseness, it's literally preference, so the best thing to do is dedicate a session to tightening your trucks a few moderate turns, riding it a little, then doing it again and repeat/loosen until it feels right to you. Bushings can also make a difference here, and different brands have certain traits (thunders = responsive and turny, indy's = tighter and more controlled etc.) but I'll let some other anon talk about that if they want.
>>261965 thanks for the reply, since it's only my 2nd time skating this new board (used the first one a longer time) it's quite hard knowing what's genuinely not right and what's just me being a scrub. i'll keep at it, and if I keep getting stuck on something or pleateau I'll just investigate at that point, I guess.
>>261963 >My goal is currently just to learn how to ride around, keep good balance, and very slowly introduce manuals
Do that.
>. (I know that stiffer trucks are better for tricks specifically) Is there a good middle-ground between loose and tight I should aim for, and if so how do I know once I found it?
Do what feels comfortable and logicalto you for your level.
Anyone ride the weird in-between size decks? I keep changing my mind about whether I prefer 8.0 or 8.25, and I have an 8.125 Enjoi deck lying around that I kinda of forgot about, so was thinking of setting it up to see if it's the sweet spot middle ground. I've considered 8.38 instead of going straight up to 8.5 as well, just to see if it helps with transition at all.
>>261969 tranny here, while i enjoy leo baker and hold him in favorable view due to his status as the only (to my knowledge) trans guy professional skater, song was wack and very baby transmasc, video name is corny, ender was mid and he kinda skates slow. he passes very well actually, the only clocky thing is his speed.
>>261988 >kinda skates slow. no kinda about it, he skates fucking slow and it looks lame as hell, it's anti-hype to be going that slow for a video part and that song is actually fitting to match that speed. That is a video to watch if you want to demotivate yourself from going skating that day because you have other priorities or something.
Are there any brands that make shorter decks? I'm only 5'7" with short legs, is there anything that's like a 29"-30" in length, without getting into those freestyle boards?
>>262013 Couldn't find anything, crazy. I guess you could mod it yourself, shorten the wheelbase yourself by drilling new holes, and take some length off the nose.
>>262019 Why are you against skating smaller decks anyway? I'm 5'11 and considering 7.5-7.75, I'm not liking my current 8.25. But maybe it's a length problem for me as well.
There's a really good vert ramp at my local skatepark that I really wanna get into, but it feels so goddamn huge.
For now I've just been practicing pumping up & down and doing kickturns, but it's actually insane how high it feels, I feel like I have zero trust in my ability to stay on my board this high and coming back this fast from it. My legs always end up getting exhausted after a short time.
I can do basic coping tricks on smaller ramps - rocks, axle stalls, tail stalls etc - but I can't for the life of me imagine doing anything on this ramp, it feels like trying to skate an actual wall
Is it literally just a matter of habit or is there some trick to it?
>>262024 Forgot to mention, but I'm struggling to actually even get to the "vert" part - if I'm pumping up and down I can't seem to get very high no matter how much effort I put into it
>>262038 >core and butt sharp It has always beeing a problem, I'm build like a potato, even when I was an athlete right now I can't even bend I will update, as I can't skate now
>>262052 Yeah, I see why you like it, but I will side with Gifted here in that the company name is plastic, since Nyjah is on top of the world.
He should have given it a rastafarian-related name and have Jef Hartsel as the legend sponsorship, or something that aludes to him being the top of the world.
>>262052 I gotta say Appleyard really disappointed me. He had the first part in Sorry, the last part in Really Sorry, and then just kind of faded into the background and didn't progress at all after the last 20 years.
>>261731 >The real perfect solution is replaceable soles and a cottage industry of skate shoe cobblers, but we do not live in a perfect world and the corpos would never allow not subverting the corpos by becoming the missing skate cobbler who takes disgusting sweat sock filtered shoes and resoles them with care on youtube
>>261731 >>262061 I get why some people would like to just resole their shoes and keep them forever, but it doesn't appeal to me at all. Resoling isn't going to do anything about the stretched out upper or the collapsed midsole, and a new pair of insoles isn't going to fix the funk growing in the shoes after a few weeks of skating them.
I need the pros and cons of each board company >Anti-Hero >Baker >Zero >Hockey I love doing nollie and fakie tricks but I can't find anything "perfect"
These are the kind of roads my city has, the sidewalks aren't much better. I want to buy these Dragon wheels but which durometer should I get? 88a, 93a, 95a or 97a?
maybe shes just lying for pride and """her moment""" but maybe Tony Hawk married there as well? im only thinking this cause he married like several times so maybe 1 undisclosed there was on the island?
>>262104 earlier threads had this epstein file some girl mentioning tony hawk wedding and prince charles etc. then another pic from tony hawk mentioning the dates and locations of where he was married, like 5 of them if he nnow marries so fucking often, then... not saying that any sacrifices were made like with the usual creeps, but visiting the place? hey its just an island! right?
I've been watching old braille skateboarding videos, I'd stopped skating long before braille took off and now I'm seeing it for the first time. It's kinda fun, and lame and corny at the same time. How was it viewed back then?
>>261691 he's just made a name of being a "tough guy" but he's only ever definitively pushed around literal kids and people who didn't do anything to him beforehand which mostly makes him come off like an arsehole.
>>262078 I used 95A when that's what my local terrain was like. my friends acted like I was crazy for using "longboard wheels" but I was the only one who didn't have his fillings rattled out after an hour. Always hated the 100A/85B trend
>>262173 Should the shoulders be Ollie position and remain square with the board? I always feel like I have to be position slightly more open so I can kick comfortably and also see/confirm the flick. Is that making it more difficult than it needs to be?
I can't wrap my head around no complies at all. How the fuck do you step off your board without your weight shifting onto your tail and mannying it up.
>>262199 How I do them is: >back foot in back left pocket (regular) >do a little hop as I step off with front foot >weightlessness allows me to push the pocket down and pop it >pivot the board as I am popping like a front shuv >swivel the board on its back wheels at mach speed into planted leg >picrel
>watching random skate vids, deck reviews etc on YT >guy in his late 30s early 40s claims to be a skater in the 90s/2000s >"anti-hero graphics suck", "I'm loving these DGK graphics" There sure are a lot of retards in the YT Skate scene
>>262199 that's how your supposed to do it properly. dont manny put more pressure and pop... u wanna jump off ur board with both feet at the same time while sliding ur front foot off and hitting the ground with it... dont do it in slow two motions taking ur weigh toff ur back foot thats the lame way to do them
stupid beginner question about ollies: how should i be thinking about timing my jump? if im doing a hippie jump i can get both knees up pretty high, but the second i try to get my front knee up early enough to lift the nose, i have a super hard time getting my back knee high enough that my foot can clear out of the way of the pop
>>262318 >but the second i try to get my front knee up early enough to lift the nose, i have a super hard time getting my back knee high enough that my foot can clear out of the way of the pop You're missing a step, your front foot goes up, and then forward, your back foot follows as the board goes horizontal.