Avoiding Nollie 180 Flip Mistakes

Video Transcript

"Some of the common mistakes you may experience while learning nollie 180 flip, have to do with basic flip maneuver problems. Adjusting your feet accordingly and turning your body and nollieing all at the same time. Combining those things are sometimes the hardest part. The best advice I have for you is to practice, practice, practice. The more you try it the better you'll get. One problem that people will experience is that when they nollie flip, they'll find that they're, they feel like they're just flipping the board and seeing it flip in front of them and not able to catch up with it. Usually, this means, you need to adjust your balance of your weight to be centered above the front trucks. There's something about this spot, after nollieing off the nose, that helps it balance and to bring it up, and up to your feet higher. You're just going to have to practice and learn how that feeling is going to be. But focus on centering your weight more above the nose then above the tail where you're doing the flipping. And, that way, when you're in the air, it can adjust and you can get a nice clean flip and roll away right. The other thing that people will experience as a problem is sometimes under-flipping or three quarter flipping and landing with the trucks on the ground, or maybe even with their heels too far over. This is easily corrected just by simply sticking with it and trying it more times. The one tip I have for you is that you need to compensate for that difference so that you make sure that you get into the fakie position. When you first start doing this trick you may also notice that you're landing short of the 180 and you're forced to do a small pivot on your nose. The way that you fix this is just turning more with your upper body to make sure that your body follows through and this will make you land clearly and roll away better from your nollie 180 flip."