How to Do an Acid Drop aka Bomb Drop | Skateboarding Tricks
How to Do an Acid Drop aka Bomb Drop | Skateboarding Tricks by Howcast is a skateboarding tutorial for the Acid Drop. Howcast starts one step earlier, with getting the board into your hand: lean back on the tail and let the board kick out so you land on your feet and the board pops up into your hand, right hand for goofy and left hand for regular.
What this video teaches
Howcast starts one step earlier, with getting the board into your hand: lean back on the tail and let the board kick out so you land on your feet and the board pops up into your hand, right hand for goofy and left hand for regular. From there the board is swung like a pendulum and you jump as it comes back toward you. The height of the toss sets how much you have to do: keep the board low and you barely have to jump, throw it high and you have to suck your knees up to meet it. For riders who cannot get the board into their hand, the fix is to not roll at all and instead kick the board out from the tail with the back foot, adding a small front-foot kick so it ends up in the front hand.
Key tips
- Get the board up by leaning back on the tail and letting it kick out, landing on your feet as the board pops into your hand
- Grab with the right hand if you are goofy and the left hand if you are regular, and keep stepping to one step at most
- Swing the board like a pendulum and jump as it comes back toward you
- Keep the board low and you do not have to jump as high; toss it high and you must tuck your knees up to reach it
- If getting the board in hand is the problem, stay stationary and kick it out from the tail with the back foot plus a small front-foot kick to steer it into your front hand
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Acid Drop