How To Frontside Disaster
How To Frontside Disaster by VLSkate is a skateboarding tutorial for the Disaster. VLSkate covers the frontside version: roll up the transition, slightly press the tail, turn frontside 180, and land with the middle of the board on the coping, then press the nose to come back in.
What this video teaches
VLSkate covers the frontside version: roll up the transition, slightly press the tail, turn frontside 180, and land with the middle of the board on the coping, then press the nose to come back in. He keeps a normal drop in stance with a fairly wide foot position, front foot near the bolts and back foot on the tail near the pocket rather than out on the edge. He recommends breaking it into two halves, the 180 into the stall and the drop back in, and gives flat ground and curb drills for each. His notes on failure are specific: over rotation means you are swinging the shoulders and hips too much and not pressing down on the back foot once it clears the coping, and sliding out of the stall usually means you approached the ramp at an angle instead of straight on.
Key tips
- Keep a drop in stance: fairly wide, front foot near the front bolts, back foot on the tail near the pocket rather than out at the edge
- Prerequisites are dropping in, frontside kick turns, and flat ground frontside 180s; frontside reverts help because you barely need to pop this trick
- Warm up with frontside pivots after dropping in to feel turning frontside while rolling up the transition and to start using the shoulders and hips
- Practice a frontside 180 into a disaster on a curb, and practice the drop back in separately by pressing the front wheels and pushing the board forward to pull the back trucks over
- If the board ends up crooked you are over rotating; swing the shoulders and hips less and press down on the back foot once it clears the coping so friction stops you
- If you slide out of the stall, you are coming up the ramp at an angle; approach straight on instead
- You barely need to pop; it can feel more like a frontside revert or a frontside 180 no comply, with the back foot scooping more than popping
- Coming back in, press the front trucks gently so the board slides forward and the back wheels clear without hanging up, and do not press the nose too hard
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Disaster