How-To Skateboarding: Frontside Inverts with Lizzie Armanto

What this video teaches

Lizzie Armanto covers the frontside invert at the Combi pool and treats backside inverts and eggplants as prerequisites, since the eggplant uses the same grab. Her main distinction is that a backside invert lets you more or less fall back in, whereas a frontside invert lives or dies on an aggressive push off the coping and then hucking your body back into the transition. She recommends going straight up, then at the peak throwing it back in and rolling away, and says there is no gradual way to work up to it beyond getting used to putting weight on your hand at the bottom of the transition.

Key tips

• 1Learn backside inverts and eggplants first; the eggplant shares the same grab as the frontside invert and gets you used to being upside down
• 2The initial push off the coping is the make or break moment, unlike a backside invert where you can largely just fall back in
• 3Go straight up, then at the peak huck it back in and straight back down into the transition
• 4Do it somewhere with real vert and pool coping that does not stick out too far, so you have something to pop off
• 5There is no gradual progression into this one; get the feel of weighting your hand at the bottom of the transition, then commit, because the way you throw your body is unlike any other trick

Summarized from the video transcript.