How To: BACKSIDE DISASTER | Backside Disaster Tutorial
How To: BACKSIDE DISASTER | Backside Disaster Tutorial by Tom's Tutorials is a skateboarding tutorial for the Disaster. Tom Rohrer teaches the backside disaster as a backside power slide 180 taken to the coping without popping, so he has you get comfortable power sliding up the quarter pipe and launching backside 180s onto the deck before you ever try to stall.
What this video teaches
Tom Rohrer teaches the backside disaster as a backside power slide 180 taken to the coping without popping, so he has you get comfortable power sliding up the quarter pipe and launching backside 180s onto the deck before you ever try to stall. His most emphasized detail is the front foot: it belongs up on the concave of the nose at an angle, because a straight front foot makes it much harder to press the nose down and bring the board back in. The back foot sits in the back pocket of the tail with the toe hanging off slightly so it can scoop, and weight shifts from the back foot on the way up to the front foot once you are locked in. He also covers winding and twisting the shoulders to time the scoop, keeping the eyes on the coping until you lock in, and angling the body out from the quarter pipe roughly 45 degrees so you lean in on the way back down.
Key tips
- Front foot goes up on the concave of the nose and at an angle, not straight across, so you can press the nose down to come back in
- Back foot sits in the back pocket of the tail with the toe hanging off slightly so it can lift and scoop the board
- Slightly press the tail, let the front wheels clear the coping, lift, and power slide; the back wheels should bounce off the coping partway through the slide and guide you into the lock
- Wind and twist the shoulders and time the scoop to that twist; wherever your head goes the board follows
- Land with the center of the board on the coping, back wheels up in the air, not near either set of wheels
- Straighten the back leg and bend the front leg while locked in, and angle your body out about 45 degrees from the quarter pipe so you lean in rather than standing straight up
- Shift weight from the back foot on the approach to the front foot once you are in the disaster, pushing down on the nose to lift the wheels back over the coping
- Practice on smaller coping first so the wheels hang up less, and try landing way up on the deck and stepping off before committing to going back in
Summarized from the video transcript.
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Disaster