How-To Skateboarding: Inverts with Tony Hawk & Bucky Lasek

What this video teaches

Tony Hawk and Bucky Lasek on the RIDE Channel frame the invert as the vert version of the street plant. The grab is a mute with the front hand, taken between the legs, and they suggest starting it low on the transition even though the technique changes as you take it higher. Their central cue is that your weight has to be stacked directly over the planted hand, with a little bunny hop to get up onto it and a pivot around the hand before releasing back in. They point out that the trick actually gets easier the higher you take it, just scarier.

Key tips

• 1Grab mute with the front hand between the legs, the same grab as the street plant, and plant the other hand on the coping
• 2Keep your weight stacked straight over the planted hand; leaning off to the side is the main thing that goes wrong and it ruins the set up for the landing
• 3Give it a little bunny hop to get onto the hand, then pivot the body around that hand before releasing back into the transition
• 4You can start lower on the transition, but expect the technique to change as you get higher, where it becomes easier but scarier
• 5Half in and half out does not work; you have to push in and fully commit, because the board is out away from you and you cannot cheat the trick

Summarized from the video transcript.