Skateboarding Trick Tips - Invert!! / TRANSITION TRICK TIPS

What this video teaches

Transition Trick Tips gives the most patient, ground-up progression of the three, filmed on a vert ramp in Houston. The whole method is to start at the very bottom of the ramp doing the grab and hand plant hundreds of times until the turning motion is automatic, then creep the trick a little higher over many sessions rather than jumping straight to coping. The key mechanical cue is that the mute grab with the front hand and the back hand plant happen simultaneously, and both are set before any rotation starts, so the body traces a rainbow shape around the planted hand. He is explicit that this needs a real vert ramp: the same motion on a small mini ramp is a hand plant, not an invert, and it feels completely different.

Key tips

• 1Start at the very bottom of the ramp and repeat the motion until you can do it in your sleep, then work up a little at a time over sessions rather than jumping to the coping
• 2Grab mute with the front hand between the legs and plant the back hand at the same moment; get the board in hand and the hand planted before any rotation begins
• 3Make a rainbow shape around your planted hand as you swing over
• 4Learn it on a vert ramp with real vert in the transition; the same trick on a small ramp is a hand plant and feels so different it will not transfer to a 10 foot ramp
• 5At coping height you are going fast and effectively bonking out of a backside mute air, so straighten your arm at the peak and worry about landing rather than stalling
• 6The fear that the back truck will hang up is a mental block, not a real risk; hold on to the board and commit to the landing

Summarized from the video transcript.