Your progress

[Hill Shredder]

I gotta say though, I just dont understand No-complys. I see people do it, and when I step on, I just dont get it.

Try doing 180s and shuvits first. The bs pop shove is probably the easyest. Jsut put your front foot almost all the way off, and put your back foot on the center of the tail, with your weight on the ball of you big toe. Take your front foot off and put all your weight on it, then pop the back foot, jump off your front foot, and land. No comply bs pop shove!

[gorillabiscuits]

Try doing 180s and shuvits first. The bs pop shove is probably the easyest. Jsut put your front foot almost all the way off, and put your back foot on the center of the tail, with your weight on the ball of you big toe. Take your front foot off and put all your weight on it, then pop the back foot, jump off your front foot, and land. No comply bs pop shove!

Thanks for the tip!! I am gonna try that after work.

I am also working on this now. http://www.bobstricktips.com/blog/archives/000210.shtml
I got the bigspin part of it, now I just gotta work on my landing and the last pivot.

Berg, SICK park. Lots of flow.

[WalkTogether]

I dropped in! Yesterday at Sunnyvalle in the tiny kiddie pool thing. Didn't think, just walked right up to the edge and did it. First try.

It was the most anti-climatic skating moment I've ever had in my life.

[gorillabiscuits]

Good job! I still wuss out on the bigger walls.

[WalkTogether]

^ Thanks. The biggest I've been able to do so far is 4 or 5 feet.

...especially on my boneless/beanplant (whats the difference between those two?)...

You grab the toe side with your back hand on a Boneless.
You grab the heelside near the nose with your lead hand on a Beanplant.

Beanplants are way easier for me. I always do a 90 degree turn on a Boneless.
The only problem with my Beanplants is landing with my front foot too far back and going into a maunal and then slipping out.

[mc99david]

i thought this was kinda cool, was riddin an 8.25inch blk label deck, switched to a hosoi hammerhead, and my airs started goin over the coping on this hip right away. anyway, thats where i'm at, thought you might enjoy it.

[WalkTogether]

Cool pic. You mean you suddenly got better when you changed decks?

[mc99david]

yeah, the wider foot placement made a big difference imedietly - haha, i have no idea how to spell that -

[The hippie from skogås]

I need some suggestion how I could turn in the best possible way in a bowl/vert.
=)

[mc99david]

there are three ways realy, kick turn is the most common, or carve - this doesnt work too well on vert cause you kinda need a pocket to carve through or around - and then 180 airs also work. but for starters definitly the kickturn is probably the best way to go

[WalkTogether]

yeah, the wider foot placement made a big difference imedietly - haha, i have no idea how to spell that -

I have a feeling I might get magically better with a different deck too... Mine is 9.75" in the front but is only 7" over the back trucks. And there isn't any concave where my front foot is at.

[mc99david]

yeah, my new board is way less concave then my last one, it goofed me up a little when carving for about a week, but yeah, i'll bet having a larger foot pad on your back foot would help ya out a ton

[The hippie from skogås]

there are three ways realy, kick turn is the most common, or carve - this doesnt work too well on vert cause you kinda need a pocket to carve through or around - and then 180 airs also work. but for starters definitly the kickturn is probably the best way to go

I've been practicing on kick turn but I just can't get it right =(

[WalkTogether]

^ Bend your knees a lot and whip it around hard.

[The hippie from skogås]

^ Bend your knees a lot and whip it around hard.

Remember, I'm doing this on a GFH 27
I'm going to go and practice on Monday, after work.
Hopefully Adam (BergaLiden) can come to me to skate in the vert which is 500Ms away from my flat.

[mc99david]

i just started last summer, and it just takes doin over and over and over and fallin a bunch, i wish i could give better advise than that, but thats how it worked for me.. for me it was also a lot in my head and getting over freakin out halfway through the turn and committing to it if I'm going to fall or not... oh.. and pads helped me out a bunch too,

[mc99david]

ok, didnt know you were on a 27.. thats just plain hard to do.. good luck

[The hippie from skogås]

ok, didnt know you were on a 27.. thats just plain hard to do.. good luck

BergaLiden is capable of doing it with his GFH 27 =)

Only if I could =(

[mc99david]

i have a mini, its 24 i think, anyway, i tried ridding that in the bowl i always ride and i could only get it about halfway up the 11ft wall that i can usualy slash with out trying, it was super squirly, and the wheels i had on there were pretty soft though, that might have helped.. but yeah, i was just thinkin of that yesterday that a gfh 27 would be fun to try in there, but that little kicktail i think would realy make it hard for me

[WalkTogether]

27"? Yikes. Practice carving around the bowl and sorta tic tacing around the wall.
And whatever you do, don't think.