How To Switch Frontside Bigspin | Skateboarding Trick Tips
How To Switch Frontside Bigspin | Skateboarding Trick Tips by Skate Warehouse is a skateboarding tutorial for the 540 Big Spin. Skate Warehouse's Mike tackles the switch frontside bigspin specifically, positioning it as an intermediate trick that assumes switch 180s and switch frontside shove-its are already solid.
What this video teaches
Skate Warehouse's Mike tackles the switch frontside bigspin specifically, positioning it as an intermediate trick that assumes switch 180s and switch frontside shove-its are already solid. His key cue is treating the back foot's push in the tail pocket as the trigger for the shove-it rotation while the shoulders independently wind up and drive the body's 180.
Key tips
- Have your switch 180 and switch frontside shove-it solid before attempting this combination
- Set your front foot right behind the front bolts and let it hang off slightly so it clears during the spin
- Place your back foot in the back pocket of the tail
- Crouch down and wind your shoulders up before popping, it makes the spin noticeably easier
- Turn your shoulders frontside like a normal switch frontside 180 as you push the back foot hard to start the shove-it rotation
- Catch the board with your front foot at around 90 degrees into the spin
- Keep your shoulders turning continuously through the catch, don't let them stop early
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
540 Big Spin