HOW TO FRONTSIDE 180 THE EASIEST WAY TUTORIAL 2.0

What this video teaches

Note: this video teaches the frontside 180 alone, but Braille's head-and-shoulders-first cue is one of the clearest available for the rotation half of the kickflip frontside 180. Aaron Kyro reduces the whole trick to a single idea: turn your head and shoulders before you pop, then let your legs and board follow, contrasting it with the common beginner mistake of trying to twist only the feet.

Key tips

• 1Set your back foot on the very tip of the tail and your front foot near the front bolts, essentially an ollie position
• 2Turn your head, shoulders, and arms before your board leaves the ground, not after, this is the single most important cue for the trick
• 3Avoid trying to twist just your feet without turning your upper body first, that approach causes you to twist your body awkwardly and lose the trick
• 4Pop a normal ollie once your upper body has already started turning, and your legs will follow the rotation naturally
• 5Time the shoulder turn to happen just before the pop so your head and shoulders are already near 90 degrees as the board lifts off
• 6Land with your knees bent and compress on landing to absorb the switch stance you land in
• 7Use this trick over obstacles by ollie-ing over them while turning your head and shoulders during the ollie itself
• 8Master ollie, frontside 180, backside 180, pop shove, and frontside shove before flip tricks, since those fundamentals make later tricks like the kickflip come much faster

Summarized from the video transcript.