How To Frontside Bigspin Trick Tip
How To Frontside Bigspin Trick Tip by Josh Katz is a skateboarding tutorial for the Frontside Big Spin. Josh Katz keeps the trick approachable, warning that scooping the back foot instead of snapping it straight and hard tends to flip the board when you don't want it to, and covers two specific error fixes: loading off a small ledge for extra rotation time, and pushing the board slightly forward if you keep landing ahead of it.
What this video teaches
Josh Katz keeps the trick approachable, warning that scooping the back foot instead of snapping it straight and hard tends to flip the board when you don't want it to, and covers two specific error fixes: loading off a small ledge for extra rotation time, and pushing the board slightly forward if you keep landing ahead of it.
Key tips
- Be comfortable with frontside shove-its and frontside 180s before attempting the combined trick
- Set your back foot in a frontside shove-it position with a bit more weight toward the heel for extra rotation
- Place your front foot in a heelflip position below the bolts, lower than usual at first for more leverage on the full rotation
- Snap the board hard and fast with your back foot rather than scooping it, since scooping risks flipping the board unintentionally
- Land lightly on your popping (back) foot to stay light through the rotation, the same principle as any 180-based trick
- If you're not getting full rotation, try loading the trick off a one or two-foot ledge or dock for extra airtime while you learn it
- If you keep landing too far ahead of the board, give it a bit more forward push with your back foot as you snap it so it stays under you
- Expect to land it switch since the trick ends on the opposite stance from how you started
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Frontside Big Spin