HOW TO BIGSPIN THE EASIEST WAY TUTORIAL

What this video teaches

Aaron Cairo from Braille teaches the bigspin by breaking it into two prerequisite skills: the pop shove-it and the backside 180. The drill is to practice catching the nose with the front foot on a pop shove-it while rotating the shoulders 180, which builds the muscle memory for letting the board do a full 360 while the body does a 180. He stresses that the scoop motion with the back foot is the heart of the trick and that the front foot rides with the board through the full rotation.

Key tips

• 1Prerequisites: have solid pop shove-its and backside 180s; the bigspin is essentially those two tricks combined in one motion
• 2Drill: do a pop shove-it while catching the nose with your front foot and turning your shoulders backside 180; this isolates the combined motion before going fully airborne
• 3The back foot does a hard 360 scoop, similar to a 360 pop shove-it scoop; the front foot stays with the board the entire time, just like in a regular pop shove-it
• 4Turn shoulders and upper body with the board; your feet follow the body rotation, not the other way around
• 5Practice the scoop motion standing off the board first: place only the back foot on the tail and scoop it 360 to build the muscle memory for the full spin

Summarized from the video transcript.