Manuals Masterclass with Mitchie Brusco

What this video teaches

Skate IQ teaches the ollie-into-manual with Mitchie Brusco, focusing on how to absorb the landing in manual and then recover balance while already in the trick. The central lesson is that both knees must stay bent during and after landing, as soon as the back leg straightens, the hip flies out and the manual collapses. The video drills a specific low, soft ollie technique so you land at the balance point rather than crashing down from height.

Key tips

• 1Bend both knees during the manual: if the back leg straightens, the hip slides back and the chest tips forward, ending the trick immediately
• 2Land softly and low, treat the ollie-onto-pad as 'bring the board up to the obstacle' not 'jump over the obstacle'
• 3Absorb the landing in the manual position itself: that little squat on landing is not a separate step, it is the manual
• 4Eyes forward, looking beyond the end of the pad, where your eyes go, your balance follows
• 5Once you can hold a manual with knees bent, squatting more or less doesn't change it much; getting the first bent-knee manual is the hard part
• 6Set your front foot in the correct flip-trick position before initiating the ollie if you plan to flip out
• 7For ollie-onto-manual, build smooth, well-balanced ollies first, a rushed or off-balance ollie makes the landing unmanageable
• 8Practice the manual balance itself until it is 'strong', you need to hold a landing shock in the trick, not just roll into it

Summarized from the video transcript.