Trick Tip: How to Backside 360 (In-Depth Tutorial)
Trick Tip: How to Backside 360 (In-Depth Tutorial) by bubbajacksn is a skateboarding tutorial for the Backside 360. The most structured breakdown of the set, opening with the two most common failure patterns, under-rotating and landing on the nose, and prescribing a specific drill progression: a fully rotated, un-tweaked rocket back 180 landed and held on the tail, then extending that same landing into a full pivot before adding speed.
What this video teaches
The most structured breakdown of the set, opening with the two most common failure patterns, under-rotating and landing on the nose, and prescribing a specific drill progression: a fully rotated, un-tweaked rocket back 180 landed and held on the tail, then extending that same landing into a full pivot before adding speed. Also covers bail technique for when the rotation comes up short.
Key tips
- If you are under-rotating, first nail a fully rotated back 180 on flat ground with zero pivot and land it rocketed, not boned or tweaked
- From that rocket back 180, land on your tail and keep turning until you complete a full pivot, repeat until it is automatic muscle memory
- Add shoulder wind-up and a hard swing only after the tail-landing pivot feels comfortable
- The core cue to repeat in your head throughout is land on your tail, do not land on your nose
- Swing your back arm across your body as you rotate, the arm swing is what generates most of the spin
- Set your feet almost like a tre flip, front foot slightly more on the board than a tre flip, feet close together for a faster spin
- If flat ground isn't clicking, move to a knee-high ledge or two-stair, the extra hang time makes full rotation easier
- If you come up short and start falling forward, kick the board away from you and put your hands down rather than half-committing one foot
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Backside 360