How to Rotate a Frontside 180 Skateboard Trick

Video Transcript

"JOSHUA BLANKENSHIP: Hi, my name's Joshua Blankenship of Expert Village and I'm going to be teaching you how to do a frontside 180. Okay, so you got the pop and the slide for your frontside 180. Now you need to finish your rotation. So you do the first two steps, pop and slide, and the key to finishing your rotation is all in your shoulders. So you set your up feet for the frontside 180, you're going to want to wind up, and then right after you pop the board, you want to be rotating in the direction of the 180. And this is probably the most important step to doing a frontside 180 and it will look kind of like this. You just bend down, pop it, slide your foot, and rotate. Okay, so you're rotating the boarder around, but you're not landing completely 180. You maybe you're landing kind of like that. The trick to get the rest of the way around is all on your front foot. So you pop a 180, you land it like that, and when you get the rest of the rotation, you do a little pivot, and roll away. And that--I don't kind of hope you get used to them, and once you get them down, good you won't have to do that anymore, but it's a good beginning step. And I'll show you what a pivot looks like. That's how you do a pivot."