Avoiding Mistakes When Half-Cab-Ollie Gap Skateboarding

Video Transcript

"Some of the common mistake you'll experience while learning how to half cab 180 ollie off something and down something, is that you're going to run into the same problems that you usually run into jumping down anything. What you are going to want to do is make sure that you're comfortably equipped and ready to jump down that distance. You don't want to pick something too big right off. It's better to get the feeling on something smaller. So, another problem that you're going to find with a half cab 180 down something is that, you're going to find that you're feet is going to change. Since you've got more air time, your feet foot position is going to be very important; picking the right foot position to be able to hold onto the board because, now you're jumping down something, so you're in the air a lot longer then you would be on the flat grounds. Because on flat grounds, you're generating your own height but when you're jumping down something, the height is just coming to you quickly, so you have to prepare for that. So the best advice I have for you is adjust your foot placement accordingly and test out different ways of doing it. Another problem you're going to have doing a half cab 180 down something, is just the normal impact and getting ready with your knees and your back. You're not going to be able to try something jumping down very long if you land in the wrong leg position because, it's going to end up making you sore and you won't be able to keep trying it. So what you want to do is compact and land and roll away cleanly."