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How To: Frontside Bigspin with Blake Johnson
TransWorld SKATEboarding1:27
How To: Frontside Bigspin with Blake Johnson by TransWorld SKATEboarding is a skateboarding tutorial for the Bigspin Impossible. A brief, pro-rider breakdown from Blake Johnson framing the frontside bigspin purely as a frontside 180 and a frontside shove-it combined into one motion.
What this video teaches
A brief, pro-rider breakdown from Blake Johnson framing the frontside bigspin purely as a frontside 180 and a frontside shove-it combined into one motion. Short on detail but useful for foot placement on the frontside variant, and confirms the trick's core structure as two known tricks stacked together.
Key tips
- Have your frontside 180 and frontside shove-it solid individually before combining them into a bigspin
- Set your front foot toward the middle of the board, a little closer to the top edge
- Keep your back foot in the pocket on the tail, ready to scoop and pop at the same time rather than one after the other
- Scoop and pop simultaneously so the frontside shove-it and the body rotation happen together, not staggered
- Let your front foot catch the board while your back foot guides it the rest of the way around to complete the full rotation
- Treat the trick as two tricks you already know stacked together, not a new movement to learn from scratch
- Once consistent on flat ground, look to take the same motion over gaps, down stuff, and across obstacles
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Bigspin Impossible