Skateboard Homework

Well done on completing your 1st skateboard lesson!!

Homework

You need to practice 3 things. 1. Knee slides 2. Foot position 3. Kick-turns & Tic-tacs.

1. Knee Slides

   In the video below you can see some really good skaters. They do knee slides so they can fall over without hurting themselves and still get back up and win the competition....

2. Foot position

Get feet into correct position when pushing and getting onto board. You have to remember to turn your front foot forward when pushing and sideways when standing.

Are you goofy or regular?

3. Kick turns & Tic-tacs

Kick turn by lifting front of board up and doing circles (both ways - frontside and backside). Remember to keep shoulders level with the ground. Can you do 90 degrees or even 180 degrees in one go? Which way is easier backside or frontside?

Tic-tacs a frontside kick turn followed by a backside kick-turn (over and over and over again). Can you spot Rodney Mullen doing tic-tacs in the video below?

FRONT SIDE OR BACK SIDE QUIZ

The options for spinning are either Frontside or Backside.... do you know the difference? Can you correctly label each of the 16 dotted lines with either frontside or backside? Two bonus questions:

17. How many ways are there to do an Kickflip?
18. What is the official name to a fakie ollie backside 360?

Hints

1. You can only be regular or goofy not both.
2. The direction you are rolling in and the obstacle play an important part.
3. Remember Fakie is the exception to the rule.