How-To Skateboarding: Frontside Bigspin with Joey Guevara

What this video teaches

Joey Guevara demonstrates the switch frontside bigspin, built on a switch frontside 180 and switch frontside pop shove-it. Stresses keeping the scoop tight to your body and not being afraid to overturn, since most failures come from under-rotating rather than spinning too far. Demonstrated in switch stance, but the wind-up, scoop, and catch cues apply directly to the regular-stance version.

Key tips

• 1Have your switch frontside 180 and switch frontside pop shove-it solid before combining them into this trick
• 2Place your front foot high by the front bolts and your back foot in the curve of the tail
• 3Wind your shoulders up before you scoop, then spin and keep the board close to your body through the rotation
• 4Don't be afraid to overturn, most catches fail from not spinning the board enough rather than from spinning it too far
• 5Keep the board on the inside of your rotation and spin it as fast as possible instead of relying on your front foot to steer it
• 6If it's landing upside down or not catching, the fix is usually using your front foot less and trusting the back-foot spin more
• 7Expect to land closer to 90 degrees of rotation at first and work up to the full turn with repetition
• 8Keep your overall momentum moving forward through the pop instead of popping straight up in place

Summarized from the video transcript.