How-To Skateboarding: McTwist with Dalton Dern

What this video teaches

Dalton Dern focuses on the prerequisites and the terrain more than the in air mechanics. He wants solid mute airs and mute 360s on anything before you try this, and he learned it himself early grabbing over a four foot hip, so he suggests using varied ramps including quarter pipes into banks. His recommended learning terrain is a vert ramp or a seven to eight foot quarter pipe with at least a foot of vert. The one specific mechanical instruction is that you do not ollie into it; you snap the tail into your hand so the motion goes with the flip, and after that it happens too fast to track and comes down to commitment.

Key tips

• 1Get mute airs solid first, and mute 360s on anything you can
• 2Practice variations on different ramps, including early grabs over a small hip and quarter pipes into banks
• 3Best learning terrain is a vert ramp or a seven to eight foot quarter pipe with at least a foot of vert
• 4Do not ollie into it; snap the tail into your hand so the motion goes with the flip
• 5Past the snap it happens too fast to track, so it becomes pure commitment and you should expect to slam a few

Summarized from the video transcript.