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How-To Skateboarding: Backside 360 with Alex Midler
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How-To Skateboarding: Backside 360 with Alex Midler by RIDE Channel is a skateboarding tutorial for the Backside 360. Alex Midler frames the back 360 as a fast back 180 that you scoop and keep rotating rather than a separate motion, naming under-rotating and landing stuck halfway as the most common failure and prescribing a faster scoop and full shoulder turn as the fix.
What this video teaches
Alex Midler frames the back 360 as a fast back 180 that you scoop and keep rotating rather than a separate motion, naming under-rotating and landing stuck halfway as the most common failure and prescribing a faster scoop and full shoulder turn as the fix.
Key tips
- Have a solid, fast back 180 first, since the 360 is essentially that same pop scooped through a second rotation
- Set your feet up like a tre flip: back foot in the tail pocket, front foot in a kickflip-style position
- Treat the back foot scoop as the single most important part of the trick
- If you land halfway and get stuck facing forward, the fix is scooping faster and turning your shoulders all the way around, not adjusting your feet
- Get your first back 180 fast so the second half of the rotation can follow through immediately
- Once the 360 is consistent, progress to variations like backside 360 kickflips or backside 360 into rails
- Keep practicing the same foot placement you use for a kickflip so the trick feels familiar under your feet
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Backside 360