How to do a Big Spin in 4 Minutes!

What this video teaches

GoSkate's Rob delivers the most structured breakdown of the eight, defining the bigspin explicitly as a shove-it where the board goes 360 instead of 180 while the body adds its own frontside or backside 180. He isolates the single most common beginner error, stopping the body rotation partway through, and prescribes a drill progression: nail the board's full 360 standing still first, then focus entirely on completing your own 180 once rolling, before ever adding pivots.

Key tips

• 1Set your feet into shove-it position with your toes slightly further over the tail's edge than a normal shove-it, this gives extra leverage for the double rotation
• 2Place your front foot just below the top bolts at a slight angle
• 3Practice the trick standing still or rolling very slowly at first, focusing only on getting the board's full 360 before worrying about landing it
• 4The most common beginner mistake is stopping your body rotation partway through instead of completing a full 180
• 5Once you're rolling, stop watching the board and focus entirely on completing your own 180, the board rotation should already be handled
• 6Expect to land sideways sometimes while you're still dialing in the full rotation, that's a normal part of learning it
• 7Only add pivots once the flick and the full 180 are both consistent, adding them earlier is too much to focus on at once

Summarized from the video transcript.