How To: Frontside Bigspin with Blake Johnson

What this video teaches

Blake Johnson's TransWorld tip treats the frontside bigspin purely as a prerequisite-stacking trick: nail the frontside 180 and the frontside shove-it separately first, then simply combine them. He frames the front foot as the piece that catches the board while the back foot's job is only to guide the rotation the rest of the way around.

Key tips

• 1Learn a frontside 180 on its own before attempting the combined trick
• 2Learn a frontside shove-it on its own so the pop-and-scoop motion is already automatic
• 3Position your front foot toward the middle of the board, a little closer to the nose
• 4Keep your back foot in the pocket on the tail's opposite side from a standard shove-it
• 5Scoop and pop at the same time rather than sequencing them
• 6Let your front foot catch the board while your back foot guides it the rest of the way around
• 7Once it's consistent, start taking it down stairs, across gaps, or into other obstacles to build on it

Summarized from the video transcript.