How-To Skateboarding: No Comply with Clint Walker

What this video teaches

Clint Walker teaches the straight no comply and makes the contact point the whole lesson: the board should hit the inside of your thigh, not your knee, so you open your front leg up as the board comes off the ground. He pushes the tail of the board backward as he pops, which sends it straight into that inner thigh, then levels the board out and sets it down. His strongest correction is against the two motion version where people lift the front foot off first and then pop; the foot should fall off the board and the pop should follow as one continuous motion.

Key tips

• 1Let the board hit the inside of your thigh, not the inside of your knee, and open your front leg up to make room for it
• 2Push the tail backward as you pop so the board travels into the inner thigh rather than straight up
• 3Do not take your front foot off and then pop; let the foot fall off the board so that falling off is what causes the pop, one motion not two
• 4Learn it stationary with only one foot on the board first, then add the front foot, then start rolling
• 5Lift your back foot up with the board after the pop so it can rise into the air instead of rocketing nose up
• 6Once the board has hit the thigh, level it out before putting it back down

Summarized from the video transcript.