Help with Cross Stepping but there is a twist please look.

[livethedream354]

im trying to learn to cross step. i have only been trying for about acouple hours now. i keep on getting about halfway through and then i think i lean forward and my board stops and i go off the front. idk what it is but thats not the big thing. i am duck footed. and that means both my feet point outwards. so staying on the board is a bit hard for me. anyone like this got any advice?

[jkpvilla]

go faster.

[NiN0B]

try doing it on cement, but hold onto something, and just practice doing it so that you can get the weight transfer down

[WeekendxCarver]

go faster.

I just learned last week and trust me it seems scary but the faster you go the easier it is.

[livethedream354]

alright ill try it out then. faster i shall go

[Jorelle]

Think about the question "how should I position my foot (flat, bent knees, how much etc) and what pressure would it exert on my board". Always asked myself this when trying out new tricks and I get it down easier. And it takes loads of practise again. Go faster, but not too fast, get your motions down on grass. Being duck footed won't matter too much, think about the pressure you exert.

[JamieReis]

I never cross stepped until 5 minutes ago. I was bored, it was like 2:00am EST and my buddies I usually ride with at this can't skate soooo...

I went out on some smooth slight grade pavement under some lights and did two smooth cross steps on my Kebbek JimZ Pro FC. It's a little short in the EFP area, but I can do it pretty decently. I think the stability is good for the first few times you try it. Smooth pavement and a little speed definitely help.

What I do:

Bring your front foot back so that your heal is touching your back foot (make sure to point your foot mostly forward.) You want to keep your weight on your heal of your front foot as to do a healside carve. Then cross your back foot over the front, and continue that same healside carve at the same rate (don't step too far onto the healside rail, or you will carve too much and do a big circle,) and don't step to the toeside rail because you will straighten out or cut back the other way awkwardly with your feet all out of wack. Once you get that back foot over, slide your back foot out healside, and place it how you would normally place it (perpendicular to the road on the very front of the EFP.) After that just move your back foot to its regular position, and there you go. A nice clean cross step. Good luck my brotha. Hope that helped a little.

[TM_Cruzer]

Lean forward so your shoulders are over you feet, stick your ass out. It'll keep you from leaning towards the front of your board

[blumpkinblake]

Start out just walking with one foot in front of the other. Then, after you can do that, keep doing it but each time, tilt your body more and more horizontal. Make sure you get some speed also, it doesn't even have to be that much. I also find the doing it on a slight slope instead of flat ground helps. Momentum is pretty much everything.

[Tagsrover]

or try for more than a couple hours, it's not like you can magically master a trick trying it a few times

[pandorlax33]

A big thing that helped me complete it was lifting my arms up and out. It seems to help with your balance a little more.

Also, I used to sit in my room and just cross step while leaning on something.

Everything worthwhile takes time.

[7m28]

im trying to learn to cross step. i have only been trying for about acouple hours now. i keep on getting about halfway through and then i think i lean forward and my board stops and i go off the front. idk what it is but thats not the big thing. i am duck footed. and that means both my feet point outwards. so staying on the board is a bit hard for me. anyone like this got any advice?

yup, like other people have said, try going faster, putting your arms up in the arm to help you balance, bend your knees a bit, and don't be scared. At first, it can be a lil harrowing considering you're trying to move along a piece of wood already in motion, but it gets easier w/ practice. What i find that really helps is when i carve into my cross steping. Like i'll heel side carve and then start to toe-side carve. As I am starting my toe-side carve, i cross my back foot over my front feet and start my cross-stepping; easy as pie. Try it out, heel-side carve and then carving into a toe-side carve and THEN cross stepping, so you end up carving to your heel-side again, makes it alot easier.

[nineball87]

it took me a couple days. i can cross-step from 38" and up. i say cross stepping is easier when carving but riding straight is also easy. practice with no wheels and see your footing position. i ride regular so my right foot (back foot) goes over the front foot and my left foot (in which is now in back) goes back in front. do a grape-vine (a.k.a. kareoke) in which is an exercise i learned in track which aquires the same or similar movement as a cross step. look up on youtube. adam learn cross-step

[rudyjb802]

practice on grass (if you haven't) and everyone who said go faster is right. but DO NOT go so fast that you cant run off the board without falling.

[Cann0n]

are you getting wheel bite? is that why you are stopping? cross stepping is easy if you know where to flow it in. wear gloves and if you feel like you are looseng balance, don't be afraid to duck and palm the road to gain balance again. that helped me. also, how wide is your board? does it flex? my stiff cedar long i call a skateboard is hard to cross step. the trucks are wicked loose and find myself only able to flow it properly at around 10 miles an hour on flat land. wear a helment if you plan on turning around backwards. the back of your skull isn't that hard.

[Bookworm]

if you're going too slow then the board will lose momentum when you shift your weight forward. if you go forward the board feels the need to go backwards to counteract the shift in the center of mass. this is why it's easier going faster, since the center of mass is moving so quickly the shift is hardly noticeable.