How to Frontside 180 - Beginner Skateboard Tricks Tutorial (Slow Motion)

What this video teaches

Note: this video teaches the frontside 180 alone, but its detailed shoulder-opening and foot-transfer breakdown is directly transferable to the rotation half of the kickflip frontside 180. Skiddy Skates frames the frontside 180 as an ollie with a frontside spin, splitting it into the pop and shoulder opening, the spin and foot transfer, and hang time and landing, with a strong focus on landing switch cleanly.

Key tips

• 1Move your back foot slightly closer to the tail's edge and angle your front foot slightly inward from your ollie position
• 2Set your shoulders not quite square to the board before popping, turned opposite your spin direction as a wind-up, without over-winding
• 3Pop a clean, level ollie first, since a good floated ollie makes the rotation itself much easier
• 4Open your shoulders and turn your body to face your direction of travel as you pop, keeping the board in front of your body
• 5Let the foot that started at the front of the board take over control and finish the rotation once you're turned 90 degrees at your highest point
• 6Pull the board around and down toward the ground while your other foot hovers over the bolts, ready to land
• 7Bend your knees on landing and stay loose, since locked legs are what cause you to slip out landing switch
• 8Use frontside pivots or reverts as a lower-commitment way to build the same rotation feel before adding the ollie

Summarized from the video transcript.