30+ years ago I broke my leg badly. I was in a wheel chair for quite a while. I couldnt skate but got really bored learned how to balance on the wheel chair really really well like I could wheelie indefinitely on basically any terrain spin in circles go down hills up hills around corners etc. As soon i was able to skate again I could manual. My body had just figured out how to balance.
I think the bigger the object/wheels and the more weight it has, the easier it is to balance. I feel like most people who can ride a bike can wheelie for a while pretty easily but most people who ride a skateboard or scooter can't.
That's one kickass story bro. Def cool that you still shredded anything you could, and your body finding it's balance point was a major come up. Respect bro..🛹🔨✌🏽
The best advice I ever heard when I was learning nose manuals was to practice “running out of them.” Start with the board completely stopped, nose on the ground, feet in nose manual position. Pretend this is the moment that your nose tapped the pavement and you’re about to eat shit. Rotate your shoulders 90 degrees and throw your back leg out in front of you (from the back of the board onto the ground in front of the board) then take a step or two to walk away from the board. After you get the feeling of this standing still (should take a minute or less) then try it in a slow-speed nose manual. Purposefully nose-dive, rotate shoulders, and start walking or running using your back leg to take the first step. Nose manual speed dictates the speed of your walk or run. Practicing this for a few minutes should take away a lot of the fear of falling from nose manuals. Hope this helps someone.
If I haven't skated for a while, practicing manuals for a few days really gets me comfortable on my board again. Really helps strengthen your ankles again too. I roll my ankles a lot if I don't keep my ankle strength up.
i've always struggled holding manuals, after watching your tips i went to the skatepark and probably at least doubled my longest manual ever within a couple tries. the back foot placement/control tip as well as pinching to one side was huge. thanks dude your videos help a lot and are always entertaining!
i ride bmx mostly and use a board to film, this video not only helped me learn to manual a skateboard but also helped me get way more comfortable at manuals on a bmx
Right before I quit skating I always used the tip to do everything and was wondering why I had so much trouble with rail tricks and manuals and was messing around and found out to put my foot always in that pocket and suddenly I could do tricks that same day I was never able to do before. I went from being unable to nosegrind to nosegrind late shut out that same day. That pocket is gold
Sick, thank you for your tips 💪 yesterday I could last only for 10sec max… today I did 15sec, then 27 and finally 32 😱🙌 feels so sick… next step is getting to 60+seconds
well this was well timed, just starting to work on manuals now that i'm getting pretty comfortable pushing around. think my best so far is like or 3 seconds lmao much work to be done
Your tips are on point, been catching these tips in your videos for over a year now. Very helpful and unique approach. Just saying this to help you get some UA-cam money, well deserved man!
I can usually manual about 5-6 sidewalk squares and I think that's really awesome. One time I was just messing around and I held one all the way across half of the skatepark I go to and up an incline, I blew my own mind that day.
The comment about improvement not just being about repetition is highly accurate. Once I changed my foot position to be in the pocket, I started holding manuals with much more control and for anywhere from 5 to 25 times as long
This video DRAMATICALLY helped my nose manuals on both my skateboard and dancing board! Your tip of bending the knees and moving them slightly to the left/right really clicked with me… Thanks man!
Figuring out different manuals is one of the most fun things in skateboarding, it's low-risk but it feels so good and the possibilities are endless. Also, manual pads are pretty much everywhere, although it is surprisingly hard to find a perfect one. I liked the tips on the 180s into manual, the overrotation problem is real for me :-)
Thats how I approach getting better at serving in table tennis. I practice every now and then, 30 minutes max, and you just have to repeat stuff. When you are consistent with some stuff, you can progress into more difficult variations. Being able to take a step further is what motivates me with the grind. If I dont do a particular serve for a long time, I kinda start losing the ability and have to freshen it up.
dude jesus thank you for mentioning the nose manual pinch and watching shawn get a nice long one got me so excited. i’ve been struggling with nose manuals for years and always suspected that there was some type of slight pinch that i was missing. i can’t wait to get back out there and finally get these down
Dan, THANK YOU so much for this lesson, it makes a lot more sense to me now, I realized the times I DID do long manuals, I barely jolted around, but you allowed me to fine=tune everything that much more! You rock man!
So true about having a goal and trying not to move at all...I didn't learn them stationary but I started with parking spot lines..once I could get 4 spots, i took it to the basketball court, used those lines until eventually I could get all the way across the court everytime... At first I was overcorrecting too much, rocking this way and that way...but one day I was feeling really lazy, and just did one and stayed still once I got the balance point.... I was able to hold it farther then I ever had before with barely any effort, now I can hold them fer dayzzzzz - less is more with manuals!
Great video, so many helpful tips. I recently decided it was time to learn mannies & since it was raining after I watched the vid yesterday, I spent 30 minutes working on my stationary mannies and nose mannies in my garage. Today every stabilizing muscle from my toes to my nips is super sore, but at least I can hold now a stationary manny for 5 seconds. Thanks!
Yeh, I clicked on this to get better at manuals! And now your saying that I've got to get off my arse and put the work in? What the actual ...😉. Actually, UA-cam gold! Do more please
Love the video Dan, keep it up! Your videos actually help me out immensely with my Skimboarding technique and mentality. A lot of the body control, foot placement and body weight placement aspects of your skateboarding tutorial videos all apply pretty well to Skimboarding. The biggest thing I think I’ve learned form you and Andy Anderson is how to break down a trick to make sense of it or get better control. Usually it’s about doing less, not more.
I've actually learned so much from watching you, I noticed the way you and andy both "freeze" your upper body and "lock" into the manual. I appreciate the hell outta this video lol
I’ve been trying to learn nose manuals for the past week and it’s getting better and better but damn lol never thought it would be such a journey. I know this will help me a bunch cause the tips sound better than what I’ve been trying to do
And I get the inward heel thing. I learned them before youtube and internet videos. They were my jam. Any time someone asked me to explain how to do them, I explained that you had to put your front foot so internally rotated until it feels uncomfortable. But, I forced myself to get them without going past 90.
Yeah, I aim for an ending or finishing point, but simultaneously, once I start manuling, kind of don't focus on the end point. I am both aware of it, but not focused on it at the same time. That way the pressure/ excitement/ I'm done effect doesn't throw me off. When I finally do see it or get there I'm calm and ready; which can allow for you to do a trick out if you feel it's there, you just wanna do it, or if you planed it. Bend those knees, keep your back arm down, and use your front arm for balance like Mr. Tea Cup said.
I can manual lol but I watched this video cuz I liked the format of the filmer responding and asking questions as if I was the one in the conversation.
Manual* haha. Dope video Dan, I've been working on my nose manuals lately, thinking of it as a pinch definitely helped me! And not being scared to scrape and possibly bail. Manuel is a male given name originating in the Hebrew name Immanu'el (עִמָּנוּאֵל, which means "God with us."
Wow thanks brother, that actually was a masterclass! (Just hard to tell when it's gonna be a clickbait title or not with this guy haha) Seriously though, that unlocked so much more consistency for me almost instantly!
I skated that manny pad twenty years ago. Man I’m old. Also, yeah, there’s a point where where it feels like your body just takes a “set”. There’s a point where your body just wants to be on a manny. Good vid
Some useful and interesting stuff in here, will deffo be giving the stationary thing a go. I was hopeless at manuals for years, then rolled my ankle badly a couple years back, so had a good few weeks while recovering where I could skate around and manuals were the safe choice... went from a couple of car space widths to several on both nose and tail. I've gotten into the habit of using manuals as my warm up, 10 mins of manuals at the start of every session. I can ollie into a manual up a kerb or pad no issues, but still can't quite get brave enough to pop into nose manual.
So, I'm brand new to skating, at first I found Dan a but annoying because he talks a lot...but now- Dan you are the shit, because in the process of listening and learning you cover All the bases and it's obvious how much you care about skating and teaching. Thanks Brother!
Been skating for 8 years, I’ve got switch flip tricks and loads of ledge tricks and all of that but I have always fucking sucked at manuals, like it takes me so many tries to Ollie manny my local manny pad, can’t wait to watch this
Nice masterclass, but i have to add something, that i see a lot a people get wrong when they try to do their first manuals. In regular manual you dont press the pocket area on your back foot, instead you release the pressure on your front foot (light foot on the front) and lock the back foot in position (that pinch), for nose manual it's the opposite, light footed on the back foot, in the video you can see Dan doing this, but he forgot to mention that.
was riding around london yesterday and found a long slight decline of really smooth ground, i went down it and tried to manual and the very first one i got i hit this pocket where i was just perfectly balanced for about 20metres, longest manual of my life and it was a different fucking feeling - gonna be chasing that feeling for a while now.. i felt surreal like i was just perfectly balanced, i felt kinda weightless - then obviously i overthought it and lost it
Great video…when someone plays their music ,take that as time off and jam out and enjoy skating ….welcomed break to take the pressure off..I hate when people have ear pods , greedily keeping their music only for them🤣🤣🤣let the session last for ever
30+ years ago I broke my leg badly. I was in a wheel chair for quite a while. I couldnt skate but got really bored learned how to balance on the wheel chair really really well like I could wheelie indefinitely on basically any terrain spin in circles go down hills up hills around corners etc. As soon i was able to skate again I could manual. My body had just figured out how to balance.
That is the raddest story. Like you got better at skating by being taken away from skating. Crazy
That's mad
I think the bigger the object/wheels and the more weight it has, the easier it is to balance. I feel like most people who can ride a bike can wheelie for a while pretty easily but most people who ride a skateboard or scooter can't.
Same here I rolled my ankle and while I was recovering I practice nose manuals on my carpet and now I got them every time
That's one kickass story bro. Def cool that you still shredded anything you could, and your body finding it's balance point was a major come up. Respect bro..🛹🔨✌🏽
The best advice I ever heard when I was learning nose manuals was to practice “running out of them.” Start with the board completely stopped, nose on the ground, feet in nose manual position. Pretend this is the moment that your nose tapped the pavement and you’re about to eat shit. Rotate your shoulders 90 degrees and throw your back leg out in front of you (from the back of the board onto the ground in front of the board) then take a step or two to walk away from the board. After you get the feeling of this standing still (should take a minute or less) then try it in a slow-speed nose manual. Purposefully nose-dive, rotate shoulders, and start walking or running using your back leg to take the first step. Nose manual speed dictates the speed of your walk or run. Practicing this for a few minutes should take away a lot of the fear of falling from nose manuals. Hope this helps someone.
thanks dawg
Oh yeah, and... Never nose manual faster than you can run. Or do so at your own peril.
I just did this naturally lol
000
From one skate coach to another, this is great. We need more non-corny skate tutorials like this. Shout out to the NYC Homage days
If I haven't skated for a while, practicing manuals for a few days really gets me comfortable on my board again. Really helps strengthen your ankles again too. I roll my ankles a lot if I don't keep my ankle strength up.
Get so high tops sneakers bro!
thanks Dan, 35 year old dad learning how to skate to ride with my daughter. I'm trying this tonight after work👍
i've always struggled holding manuals, after watching your tips i went to the skatepark and probably at least doubled my longest manual ever within a couple tries. the back foot placement/control tip as well as pinching to one side was huge. thanks dude your videos help a lot and are always entertaining!
People thought diamonds were forever, Dan proved to everyone that my dude Manuel is forever!
Hilarious typo's are the best; keep up the good shit!
that guy is a spy!
Thanks man!
do you mean "typos"?
I love how as you are teaching us, we see Sean progressing in real time as a living example of your teachings. Love you guys, keep it up!!
i ride bmx mostly and use a board to film, this video not only helped me learn to manual a skateboard but also helped me get way more comfortable at manuals on a bmx
Out of all the thing you have taught me, the one I am most grateful for is wearing hats. Thanks Dan!
and the kickflip tutorial is really nice
Thanks! Amazing content as always. Looking forward to the slappy master class 😀
Coming soon! I been wanting to do it for awhile i just keep getting sidetracked haha i suck at planing out videos.
Oh my god the wisdom in this video is unmatched, I can’t wait to try out more manuals tomorrow
Right before I quit skating I always used the tip to do everything and was wondering why I had so much trouble with rail tricks and manuals and was messing around and found out to put my foot always in that pocket and suddenly I could do tricks that same day I was never able to do before. I went from being unable to nosegrind to nosegrind late shut out that same day. That pocket is gold
You quit wow that’s pretty lame bro keep skating ❤😂
Sick, thank you for your tips 💪 yesterday I could last only for 10sec max… today I did 15sec, then 27 and finally 32 😱🙌 feels so sick… next step is getting to 60+seconds
Heck yes once u can hit 60 it’s like you can just go as long as you want
well this was well timed, just starting to work on manuals now that i'm getting pretty comfortable pushing around. think my best so far is like or 3 seconds lmao much work to be done
I absolutely love this kind of skate content. Just real raw information and instruction. So awesome thank you for this Dan ✨
Your tips are on point, been catching these tips in your videos for over a year now. Very helpful and unique approach. Just saying this to help you get some UA-cam money, well deserved man!
I can usually manual about 5-6 sidewalk squares and I think that's really awesome. One time I was just messing around and I held one all the way across half of the skatepark I go to and up an incline, I blew my own mind that day.
You can do it everytime. You've almost got it 👍
The comment about improvement not just being about repetition is highly accurate. Once I changed my foot position to be in the pocket, I started holding manuals with much more control and for anywhere from 5 to 25 times as long
Nice. Yes that's true.
This video DRAMATICALLY helped my nose manuals on both my skateboard and dancing board! Your tip of bending the knees and moving them slightly to the left/right really clicked with me… Thanks man!
"you can't let fear pick what side you go to"
Thats a quote right there.
This is gold! Anytime you drop tip tricks I learn a ton! Best teacher out there!
So excited about this, my manuals have gotten so much better lately but they still need a lot of work and I’m excited to get more tips!!! 😊 🙏 👏
I am very impressed with this video. Most people that are good at something can't really explain why they are good at it. Thank you
You entertain me too much to work for free
dang, i really appreciate it my friend. Hopefully i can keep it going
You’ll be skating til you’re old and grey, I imagine you running a team in a few years
I love manuals, I know I'm going to have a load of fun implementing these tips, I'm working towards being able to manual revert.
Figuring out different manuals is one of the most fun things in skateboarding, it's low-risk but it feels so good and the possibilities are endless. Also, manual pads are pretty much everywhere, although it is surprisingly hard to find a perfect one. I liked the tips on the 180s into manual, the overrotation problem is real for me :-)
I love your use of language. And explaining specific unknown things.
Thats how I approach getting better at serving in table tennis. I practice every now and then, 30 minutes max, and you just have to repeat stuff. When you are consistent with some stuff, you can progress into more difficult variations. Being able to take a step further is what motivates me with the grind. If I dont do a particular serve for a long time, I kinda start losing the ability and have to freshen it up.
Hey brother! I had a Dan spotting today. Thanks for being cool
I was surprised how much figured out about manuals by my self before seeing any tutorials
Appreciate ya Dan. Doing his part for skateboarding out of his pure love for the sport.
There's almost nothing more fun than manualing as many parking spots as you can.
dude jesus thank you for mentioning the nose manual pinch and watching shawn get a nice long one got me so excited. i’ve been struggling with nose manuals for years and always suspected that there was some type of slight pinch that i was missing. i can’t wait to get back out there and finally get these down
Dan, THANK YOU so much for this lesson, it makes a lot more sense to me now, I realized the times I DID do long manuals, I barely jolted around, but you allowed me to fine=tune everything that much more! You rock man!
Dude, your instructional videos are GOLD..!
Great sharing Coach!
A lot of pointers, one for the archive to check again for my manuals journey.
Best vid on this topic for me,
Thanks 🦿⛩
So true about having a goal and trying not to move at all...I didn't learn them stationary but I started with parking spot lines..once I could get 4 spots, i took it to the basketball court, used those lines until eventually I could get all the way across the court everytime... At first I was overcorrecting too much, rocking this way and that way...but one day I was feeling really lazy, and just did one and stayed still once I got the balance point.... I was able to hold it farther then I ever had before with barely any effort, now I can hold them fer dayzzzzz - less is more with manuals!
Hey Dan, thanks for this. Used some of the tips you mentioned and saw instant improvement in my manuals. Hopefully one day, I'll get nose manuals
Great video, so many helpful tips. I recently decided it was time to learn mannies & since it was raining after I watched the vid yesterday, I spent 30 minutes working on my stationary mannies and nose mannies in my garage. Today every stabilizing muscle from my toes to my nips is super sore, but at least I can hold now a stationary manny for 5 seconds. Thanks!
Yeh, I clicked on this to get better at manuals! And now your saying that I've got to get off my arse and put the work in? What the actual ...😉. Actually, UA-cam gold! Do more please
Love the video Dan, keep it up!
Your videos actually help me out immensely with my Skimboarding technique and mentality. A lot of the body control, foot placement and body weight placement aspects of your skateboarding tutorial videos all apply pretty well to Skimboarding. The biggest thing I think I’ve learned form you and Andy Anderson is how to break down a trick to make sense of it or get better control. Usually it’s about doing less, not more.
This is exactly what i needed thanks dood... Mad love from Baltimore
These tricktips are teh best of your videos. They are really insightful
“Manual is Manual Labor”
Would be a good t-shirt, I’d buy it.
I've actually learned so much from watching you, I noticed the way you and andy both "freeze" your upper body and "lock" into the manual. I appreciate the hell outta this video lol
I’ve been trying to learn nose manuals for the past week and it’s getting better and better but damn lol never thought it would be such a journey. I know this will help me a bunch cause the tips sound better than what I’ve been trying to do
Wow, this is freaking fantastic! So many little things I didn't think of. Thanks brother
Dan you're a great teacher! I'm a beginner and I'm just getting comfortable on my board and might try these tips at the park tomorrow!
i really needed this tutorial, thanks Dan
Lots of useful insights :D True skate wisdom. Thanks ;)
Sonic - up-down-left-right-a-start - that gets you all the worlds, haha.
And I get the inward heel thing. I learned them before youtube and internet videos. They were my jam. Any time someone asked me to explain how to do them, I explained that you had to put your front foot so internally rotated until it feels uncomfortable. But, I forced myself to get them without going past 90.
Best manual tutorial i watched. Thanks you!
Thanks dude this confirmed what I already know and helped remind me the basics and how not get lost in the sauce
This man is a genius.
i learned so much from this im gonna rewatch this.
Yeah, I aim for an ending or finishing point, but simultaneously, once I start manuling, kind of don't focus on the end point. I am both aware of it, but not focused on it at the same time. That way the pressure/ excitement/ I'm done effect doesn't throw me off. When I finally do see it or get there I'm calm and ready; which can allow for you to do a trick out if you feel it's there, you just wanna do it, or if you planed it. Bend those knees, keep your back arm down, and use your front arm for balance like Mr. Tea Cup said.
I can manual lol but I watched this video cuz I liked the format of the filmer responding and asking questions as if I was the one in the conversation.
Some great nuggets in this video. Thanks Dan! 🔥
One of my good friends is named Manuel.. I enjoyed your master class on him. Good day sir!
Said everything I could never explain and hopefully I can get my friends to watch this and fuggin figure it out
Manual* haha. Dope video Dan, I've been working on my nose manuals lately, thinking of it as a pinch definitely helped me! And not being scared to scrape and possibly bail.
Manuel is a male given name originating in the Hebrew name Immanu'el (עִמָּנוּאֵל, which means "God with us."
Wow thanks brother, that actually was a masterclass! (Just hard to tell when it's gonna be a clickbait title or not with this guy haha)
Seriously though, that unlocked so much more consistency for me almost instantly!
Phenomenal. Absolutely love your tutorial videos. We can all gain from them. Thanks for being so rad to share these important details man.
I skated that manny pad twenty years ago. Man I’m old. Also, yeah, there’s a point where where it feels like your body just takes a “set”. There’s a point where your body just wants to be on a manny. Good vid
Excellent tip Dan ! It works thank you !
Dang it makes so much sense to use only one arm - front arm counter balances the back leg hanging out on the tail (nose manual). Front leg is pivot.
100K dan!!! lets go, one of my fav vids lol
Thanks for the video Dan really been struggling with these. Favorite skateboard UA-camr
Some useful and interesting stuff in here, will deffo be giving the stationary thing a go.
I was hopeless at manuals for years, then rolled my ankle badly a couple years back, so had a good few weeks while recovering where I could skate around and manuals were the safe choice... went from a couple of car space widths to several on both nose and tail. I've gotten into the habit of using manuals as my warm up, 10 mins of manuals at the start of every session.
I can ollie into a manual up a kerb or pad no issues, but still can't quite get brave enough to pop into nose manual.
Amazing and thorough tips man thanks so much
Thank you sir. Great advice for me to practice. ✌️
As guy who can manual blocks at a time, the "gotta go to the bathroom" analogy at 5:00 was SO ACCURATE! Lol!
This video is gold. Thanks Dan!
I started with manuel... now I‘m fully automatic
Thank you man these tip's truly work
Best manual tutorial out there
Boiiiii been waiting on this tutorial awhile. Thanks dan
yeeeeh babaayyyy !!! straight up new video, just watched the yesterday's one
Heck yeah
Thank you so much for showing me this.
Just the video I needed thanks Dan. You always post the tricks I'm working
This manual tip stuff definitely helped!
best teacher ever
So, I'm brand new to skating, at first I found Dan a but annoying because he talks a lot...but now- Dan you are the shit, because in the process of listening and learning you cover All the bases and it's obvious how much you care about skating and teaching. Thanks Brother!
Been skating for 8 years, I’ve got switch flip tricks and loads of ledge tricks and all of that but I have always fucking sucked at manuals, like it takes me so many tries to Ollie manny my local manny pad, can’t wait to watch this
Secrets out.. as soon as I heal, I'm trying this!
Great video. Love doing manuals. This helped.
This is totally correct bro I do this inside during the winter
"You clocked on this video to learn how to manual... I don't know what to tell you." had me rolling.
Thanks Dan, super helpful!
I friggin suck at skating. But i feel like if I spent just one day with Dan I'd instantly get better
Great points again Dan! Big up!
Linking this to a braille post bro. I hope I'm not crossing boundaries.
Shawns nose manual put the zest on the video.. awesome
Nice masterclass, but i have to add something, that i see a lot a people get wrong when they try to do their first manuals. In regular manual you dont press the pocket area on your back foot, instead you release the pressure on your front foot (light foot on the front) and lock the back foot in position (that pinch), for nose manual it's the opposite, light footed on the back foot, in the video you can see Dan doing this, but he forgot to mention that.
Legit video! Thanks for the tips.
Best skate channel
Thank you kind sir
was riding around london yesterday and found a long slight decline of really smooth ground, i went down it and tried to manual and the very first one i got i hit this pocket where i was just perfectly balanced for about 20metres, longest manual of my life and it was a different fucking feeling - gonna be chasing that feeling for a while now.. i felt surreal like i was just perfectly balanced, i felt kinda weightless - then obviously i overthought it and lost it
Really enjoying your instructional videos Dan. Keep em comming man 🙏✌️
Great video…when someone plays their music ,take that as time off and jam out and enjoy skating ….welcomed break to take the pressure off..I hate when people have ear pods , greedily keeping their music only for them🤣🤣🤣let the session last for ever