Learn Backside Disasters in 10 minutes!
Learn Backside Disasters in 10 minutes! by Skate IQ is a skateboarding tutorial for the Disaster. Skate IQ analyses the backside disaster as the stalled sibling of the backside lipslide and spends most of the video on one idea: the rotation should come from your feet switching places, not from your whole body spinning.
What this video teaches
Skate IQ analyses the backside disaster as the stalled sibling of the backside lipslide and spends most of the video on one idea: the rotation should come from your feet switching places, not from your whole body spinning. He diagnoses the two opposite errors precisely. Too much weight on the back heel makes everything sweep around the coping, which decks you and leaves you over rotated on the platform; too far forward on the toes gives a surfy slash rotation that over rotates you and sticks you in the ramp. The fix is a little weight on the back toe so the board is tilted rather than flat, ride up through the coping, and push the back leg straight out over the deck. He also stresses countering with the shoulders, keeping them open against the feet until the board actually lands on the coping, and picking a specific spot on the deck to land on rather than flying up and hoping.
Key tips
- The rotation should feel like your feet switching places, not your whole body turning; the upper body barely rotates
- Too much weight on the back heel sweeps everything through the coping, over rotates you, and decks you on the platform
- Too far forward on the toes gives a surfy slash rotation that over rotates you and leaves you stuck in the ramp
- Put a little weight on the back toe so the board is tilted rather than flat to the deck, ride up through the coping, and push the back leg straight out over the deck
- Counter rotate the shoulders against the feet and hold them open until the board lands on the coping, because landing is what starts everything turning
- Pick and aim at a specific spot on the board to hit the coping; for a disaster that is closer to the center of the deck since you are stopping rather than sliding
- Get the back foot out to the side of you rather than in line with your shoulder, the way a golf swing has the feet outside the shoulders, or you cannot counter rotate
- Learn it on smaller transitions first, where you can be dead footed and slide through, before taking it bigger and scooping instead of sliding
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Disaster