How to Do a Pop Shove-It on a Skateboard

Video Transcript

"My name is Shawn Connolley. I live in San Francisco, California. I'm a sponsored skateboarder and I also run a skateboarding program for youth called the SF Skate club. What I'm here today to explain to you is how to do a Pop Shove-It. Now, the normal Pop Shove-It is normally done backside first. And backside means that it goes in the way that you can see it in front of you. Now, when you're doing Pop Shove-Its, this is usually the trick that you learn after you do an Olly or a 180 Olly because they're a little bit easier than doing a kick flip. Now, what you do is, you set up with your feet in an Olly position with your toe on the tail and your front foot in the middle of the board. But, for your set-up for this trick, you're going to want to put your toe a little bit over the edge because you're going to want to send the board varial all the way around. Now, what a Shove-It is, is when you Olly, you send the board around backside and you keep your stance the same, land back on the board and then continue rolling away forward. So, what you're going to want to do to first learn this trick is keep your Ollies very small with the Shove-It and keep it low to the ground and just concentrate on getting it around and then landing back on it. And eventually, after you learn how to do this trick a lot better, you'll be able to add more Olly into it and actually make it leave the ground and be able to catch it nice and high and then land back on it and roll away. One other tip I can give you is that, when I do Pop Shove-Its, I always start with the board backwards. So that, when I do land on the board, my board is the regular way and rolling straight. Now, I don't know why it helps. I think it has something to do with the tail being a little bit longer than the nose and it popping up and landing and feeling comfortable rolling away. Now, my name is Shawn Connolley. I'm from San Francisco, California and run a program called SF Skate Club. You can learn more about it at sfskateclub.com."