How-To Skateboarding: Backside Bigspin with Pat Duffy
How-To Skateboarding: Backside Bigspin with Pat Duffy by RIDE Channel is a skateboarding tutorial for the Bigspin Impossible. Pro skater Pat Duffy demonstrates backside big spins with an emphasis on staying on the ball of the back foot in an ollie-style position to keep the board flat during rotation, plus a breakdown of doing the trick over a hip obstacle as a distinct two-part motion versus the single fluid motion used on flat ground.
What this video teaches
Pro skater Pat Duffy demonstrates backside big spins with an emphasis on staying on the ball of the back foot in an ollie-style position to keep the board flat during rotation, plus a breakdown of doing the trick over a hip obstacle as a distinct two-part motion versus the single fluid motion used on flat ground.
Key tips
- Set your back foot in an ollie position and your front foot around kickflip position but with more of your foot on the grip tape
- Stay on the ball of your back foot rather than letting your toes hang off to the side, toes hanging off tends to flip the board instead of keeping it flat
- Give the board a solid, committed 360 shove-it scoop, this trick does not require much speed or a big runway to learn
- Combine the shove-it scoop with a backside 180 body rotation happening in the same single motion on flat ground
- Over an obstacle like a hip, break the trick into two parts instead of one fluid motion: pop the backside shove-it and catch it first, then bring the backside 180 around separately
- Put your back foot back on the board only after catching the shove-it portion when doing the hip variation
- You do not need to be an expert or have a lot of speed to learn flatground backside big spins, it is a great feel-based flatground trick
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Bigspin Impossible