How to bigspin on a skateboard ( bs bigspin secrets)

What this video teaches

A personal-experience tutorial where the skater shares the specific cue that finally unlocked his bigspin after struggling with the board flipping: dragging the back foot in a half-moon scrape rather than a quick scoop. He also addresses a common follow-up problem of slipping out on the front foot after landing.

Key tips

• 1Nail the full backside 180 rotation first, without ollie-and-pivot shortcuts, before adding the shove-it
• 2Set the back foot in the pocket like a tre flip stance, the front foot position barely matters for this trick
• 3Wind up and turn the shoulders as you would for a back 180 while scooping the back foot
• 4Picture dragging a piece of chalk on the ground with the back foot in a half-moon or half-circle shape, then release the pop at the end of that arc
• 5Avoid a quick single scoop, the scraped half-circle motion is what stops the board from flipping over
• 6After releasing the pop, keep the shoulders level and turn rather than dipping or diving into the spin, dipping dumps too much weight onto the front foot
• 7Watch for the front-foot slip-out failure mode: a heavy landing on the front foot right after the catch means the shoulders dipped instead of staying level

Summarized from the video transcript.