Skateboarding: Drop In On a Ramp

Video Transcript

"Hey guys what's up? This is Jacob from the Skate Barn Skateboard Park in Hampstead, North Carolina. Today we are going to learn how to drop in on a skateboard. Dropping in I suggest finding the smallest ramp possible at your local skate park or back yard. When you drop in you first want to pop your wheels over the coping using your back foot insuring that your wheels are locked in, your trucks are locked in and your tail is locked all to the coping and the wood of the ramp. Once you have it locked in you want to turn your foot to where it is completely perpendicular to your skateboard. From there you then want to place your front foot just behind the back set of screws on your trucks on the nose of your board. The biggest people have with dropping in is weight distribution. When you drop in you should distribute your weight all on your front foot, stomping down on the board and listening for the wheels hitting the ramp. It will make a loud thud. Don't ever worry about falling over the front of your board, too much weight to the back you will manual down the ramp and you'll fall backwards but you would rather lean forward because you cannot fall forward if you stomp down hard enough. Here we got this is a drop in. That's how you drop in on a skateboard."