How To: Frontside 180

What this video teaches

VLSkate focuses on the back foot position as the primary setup variable: the back foot must be in the heel-side pocket (not centered like an ollie) so the tail can be scooped frontside during the pop. He also addresses the common weight-transfer problem, skaters must consciously shift weight from back foot to front foot at the apex of the rotation so they can pivot on the nose and roll away fakie cleanly.

Key tips

• 1Back foot in the heel-side pocket of the tail, this is the scoop source that turns the board frontside
• 2Front foot slightly higher up the board than an ollie position to prepare for weight transfer to the nose
• 3Pop the tail and simultaneously turn your shoulders, the pop and rotation are one unified motion
• 4At the halfway point, shift your weight forward to your front foot to pivot on the nose and complete rotation
• 5If you land on the tail and get stopped, you failed to shift weight to the front, the nose-pivot is the exit
• 6Pivoting on the front truck (nose) is the clean way to finish a frontside 180, not the tail
• 7Practice frontside pivots and reverts to train the weight-transfer and pivot motion in isolation
• 8Comfortable frontside kick turns on your front truck train the same weight-distribution needed here

Summarized from the video transcript.