Why You CAN'T Manual! | Common Mistakes Explained!

What this video teaches

A common-mistakes-focused video that diagnoses why most beginners can't manual and gives the fix for each. Sean's primary cue is to think of the manual as lifting the front foot (knee up) rather than pressing the tail down, this prevents over-stomping the tail and gives a lighter, more controllable lift. He also emphasizes making sure you can manual the target distance on flat before attempting it on a curb or pad.

Key tips

• 1Think 'lift the front knee up' rather than 'stomp the tail down', lifting is lighter and keeps you from over-rotating past the balance point
• 2Master the flat-ground manual for the full distance of your target obstacle before attempting it on anything elevated
• 3Also confirm you can ollie up the obstacle cleanly before trying to manual it, hanging up the ollie kills the manual attempt before it starts
• 4Back foot near the tail but don't hyper-focus on pressing, get the back foot set and then lift the front
• 5Try approaching slowly and doing a slow-roll manual first to calibrate the feel before adding jump speed
• 6Common mistake: over-squatting or bending at the waist; stay relatively upright with bent knees only
• 7If you keep tipping forward off the manual, your weight is too far forward, shift it slightly toward the tail
• 8If you keep scraping the tail, you've passed the balance point, ease off the tail pressure and lift less aggressively

Summarized from the video transcript.