TONY HAWK: The first trick I learned,
I watched someone go up a curb on their skateboard.
And I thought that was magical, like that defied gravity.
It was like they could maneuver the streets
and the urban landscape.
And you could go up a curb, and I
was like, I want to learn that.
I felt like suddenly, I can control what I'm doing
and where I'm going.
And I could ride my skateboard all throughout it.
I felt empowered.
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Street skating is the act of skateboarding on the terrain
that you would find in a typical suburban landscape.
So that includes handrails, stairs, ledges, gaps,
literally the streets.
And it's a lot to learn, and we're
going to teach you the best techniques on how
to do it safely.
So we're using a skate park to teach street
skating because it's a controlled environment.
And we have all the elements here,
elements that you would encounter out in the streets.
But we're not going to get kicked out of this place.
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Skateboarding can be a dangerous activity.
Using protective gear is recommended.
In my class, you'll see trained professionals
in a controlled environment.
Please use extreme care when attempting these activities
on your own.
A backside pop shove-it is the act of doing an ollie
and turning your board a 180 in the backside
direction under your feet, and then catching it
with the feet after the turn and putting it back down.
It's a very subtle move.
It all happens as you ollie the board.
And so basically, as you ollie the board,
you kick your back foot just a tad behind you.
And you kick your front foot just a tad in front of you,
and that gets the board moving.
And if you're snapping the ollie properly,
it will immediately do a 180 under you.
In fact, a lot of times, it overturns.
And the way to remedy that is just
to give it a little less push in that direction.
I like to set up my feet so that my front heel is hanging off
a little bit off the board, and my back toe
is more pressed on the tip of the tail.
And that way, when the board does come around,
I have a better chance of catching it and landing it
properly.
Because if you don't preposition your feet, it's a good chance
you're going to land either with the board turned too far
or with your toes hanging way off the front.
And that's the first mistake of pop shove-its.
And so if you can just find that balance
of positioning your feet and snapping
the board in that direction but very lightly,
you'll find that it comes to your feet quickly
and then you can put it back down.
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A frontside 180 ollie is the act of doing an ollie
and then turning in the frontside direction
180 and landing backwards.
And it's sort of a three-part technique.
It starts with the regular ollie,
but as you're snapping the ollie,
you start to open up your shoulder
and turn your torso in the frontside position.
And then as you're leveling out your board,
you're usually about halfway into that turn.
And the key right then is to start
shifting your weight towards that front foot
and allowing your upper body to hang over the back foot
so that when you land, you're ready to roll backwards.
The biggest mistake of a frontside ollie 180
is not turning far enough.
And that's just a matter of turning your shoulder more
and snapping it better.
And if you need to, you can land on your front wheels
and pivot the rest of the way.
But as you push down that foot, that's
what gets it to turn that last 90 degrees.
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That is a way to do it, but it's not
going to help you if you're trying to do it over big gaps.
So it's basically that sort of hop over, turning
your shoulder, pushing down on your nose,
and then leaning towards your back foot as you land.
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