5 Tips To Avoid Falling On Mini Ramp!
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- In this video I share 5 tips to avoid falling on a skateboard and more specifically, mini ramp. Throughout my 20 years of skating I have take a huge amount of slams which have forced me to develop techniques to prevent slamming as best as I can. Hope these tips are helpful.
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I’ve been skating street for 7 years and I’m still so confused skating transition, this year I’m gonna make more of an effort but even miniramps are deceptively gnarly. It looks so effortless and fun but I take all my worst slams on miniramps
Frontside tricks are my arch-enemy on transition
Try front feeble to fakie easier than a front 50 50 for me
Nollie tailslides too not too hard if you can fs power slide on a ramp.
Using the momentum of your fall is actually a great tip. I never really thought about it, but I’ll exaggerate it to the extent where if I fall back, I’ll do a full tumble right back onto my feet, opposed to landing flat. Big fall, minimal pain.
Awesome! Thank for this Chad. Nothing worse that waiting for injuries to heal so you can get back on your board. Planing your bails and learning the fundamentals of the trick = more confidence and less pain🤘
Love the videos, for me personally I struggle a lot with bringing transition tricks from smaller ramps up to big ones and building that confidence
I always use the jump off method you mentioned in the second tip its so Important to do this I think people really bail hard not learning this
Good to have you back Chad! Been learning lots on my driveway 2ft mini quarters. I've got Rock to Fakies, fakie rocks, tail stalls, and 50-50s down in the past few months. Your videos help a lot! I think rock and rolls are next but can't seem to commit back in on the turn. I'll get there once I get over the fear. lol A real mini ramp would help. Lose a lot of speed on harsh transition and rough driveway.
Let's go baby Chad is coming back! Right now I'm trying to get frontside tricks. They are terrifying
Same I want front 5-0s they look sooo satisfying
@@tremolony4924 frontside 5-0's grinds look so good. That's one I'll use in every line when I get it haha
Ya frontside feels so much scarier, I find front 5-0 alot easier then 5050 honestly. if u just frontside kickturn over and over, turning alittle bit higher on the tranny each time with weight favoring your back foot , eventually ur back truck is gunna lock over the coping
@@pwilliams4640 foreal! I was actually doing that yesterday in the miniramp and started carving! Almost there 💯
He could probably explain it better than me but IMO frontside grinds in transition actually are not hard at all, you just have to build up the courage to send one and get past that mental block of coming in blind, and you’ll see that it’s very similar to coming in backside
Very helpful! Appreciate your videos Chad.
Thanks for video dude ! I’m on the struggle bus with dropping in on 4 ft mini. I’m 50 now so it hurts a lot more than when I stopped at 30.
I have dropped in on 5 ft but it takes all my concentration. Only been back at it for 4 months so I’m working on it.
Thanks for vids. Keep making them ! Us old dudes are stoked on them. I’m not a gym guy and skating is my only exercise. It’s helped a lot. Blood pressure is down. Feeling good. Riding bowls. So stoked !
Thanks again !
As an old guy skating again, the need to bail safely is huge. I learned this the hard way when I first stepped onto the board again after 25 years. Not only that, but I never did much transition skating when I was young. Landing back on the board during a bail is probably my biggest fear because that is what might put me out of commission. Thanks
thnks for the tips, im struggling trying to learn mini ramp basics, bc i couldn't picture how to fall properly, this helps a lot, so thank you very very much
Advice I needed to hear about drilling the technique and repetition and muscle memory, great video.
i have been skating for quite a while now and i am really struggling to do the axle stall, i have not done the axle stall drop in yet either, maybe over the next month or two ! Great video and great advice as usual dude !!!
Great video Chad! My biggest issue on miniramps and transition in general is just maintaining balance with the back and forth motions. I can’t ever seem to go more than 4-5 trips to both sides of the ramp without eventually losing balance and falling forward or backwards.
Thank you for your efforts and help.
Perfect timing. I was at my home park the other day and accidentally filmed a guy breaking his ankle badly on the mini ramp (I was filming my friend when that guy fell in the background). Be careful on those ramps and have fun!
Great tips! Thanks a lot!
Greatest tips man, THANKS 🤙
Great video Chad!!! Helped alot! As a beginner transition skater I struggle with knowing where my trucks and wheels are when in new bowls or ramps. Basically speed gauging is the issue. When I go up to a ramp for even a slash grind I'm not sure how fast/slow I need to go to get it and it takes forever for me to figure it out. I'm guessing that will come with time as I snowboard alot and speech gauging jumps is second nature to me but I have had many more years on snow than concrete
awesome video Chad, please do one on switch/fakie rocks! I'm terrified of those for some reason and it blocks a bunch of trick possibilities from my catalogue
thanks, with your help i learned blunt to fakie.
Back with another one of those block-rocking beats! I mean, trick tip videos! Heck yeah.
Well done on joining the grey beard club! I've been in it for a while👍
I just started getting onto 4-5 ft ft transition 🛹 Thank you Chad; these videos are incredibly helpful!! 🙏
Awesome - thanks Sir. Perhaps try getting padded up?! Old folks like me gotta wear pads cause I cant afford not be able to work my job for my fam! My younger days of not wearing my Rector ("protector") pads are over. Peace.
Hey man im always extending my wrists to catch my fall and I have a wicked bruise on my fatty part of my palm . Last week it was that I was bending my whole wrist back and now I'm going try to apply this.
Thanks Chad. This was really helpful. I can only find a few videos about how to fall. It's something I struggle with alot. I wear pads but always find myself falling arms outstretched no matter how many times I tell myself to roll. Maybe because I wear wrist guards I subconsciously use my wrists to fall on as a safety buffer or something like that. A training video on how to roll would be good but I guess it's pretty self explanatory
Me too. If I'm falling forward, it is much easier to roll, but there is still that instinct to stick out your arms. I'm just getting better at tucking. It's the falling backwards that gets me everytime. I'm 48, so I wear pads. Even with wrist guards I've messed up my wrists falling backwards. It's made it hard to attempt the tricks that seem to always lead to those types of falls.
With love and respect chad, that slam at 1:50 is so funny
Main thing I struggle with is going from different ramps at different parks. When you find one that has some massive coping, all of a sudden every trick feels different.
Thank you Chad, where are you located? ✌️👍🏻keep it up!
You’ve been such an inspiration and just seem like a great dude, and my wife says you have great hair! You got any advice for keeping the knees safe?
Look up "kneesovertoesguys" on youtube
ollie blunt. had em twenty years ago. shit scared now. love your videos
Must watch vid for learners
What I'm just starting to figure out that no one seems to talk about is when to put weight on your toes vs your heels and at what point you switch.
I struggled with feebles until I figured out the trick is done with my weight on the back heel and if I shifted my weight to my heel when I hit the coping I could lock it in.
Getting backside grinds seem to be a mix of puting the weight on the toes until I'm over the coping then putting it in my heels to stay on top. I'm sure there's more to it but I think a video on weight distribution for different tricks would be really helpful. I've just started figuring it out and my skating has got way better.
What he said^
when i do a back 50 i always imagine i'm pointing my toes down the ramp and it helps me lock in on the heel side wheels consistently
just started learning transition a month ago, got my bs stalls and fs stall and grind but my fakie game sucks so rock to fakies are what im trying to learn right now but i only have a 2 ft quarter to learn it on
Thumbs up for the buttslide, saved my life multiple times skating bowls!
Struggling with getting a proper ‘rock’ on the rock to fakie. Can get it over the coping and roll back in but I always clip the coping and risk the hang up. Trying hard to change my technique to clear it but finding it hard to get the rhythm and timing.
Awesome video Chad! That skull crusher midway through though WOAHHHH! Hope your brain and skull are good mate :D
Definately a good reminder for us novices that even the more experienced riders fall and hurt themselves. Padding up is a good idea for everybody. I don't have a helmet yet, but even just wearing wrist braces helps my confidence.
I mainly struggle with axle stalls. I've done them before but I have a habit of kickturning to early and leaning to far foward when I reach the deck.
Switch rock is my big hurdle at the moment. Just the fact that I have to move my feet of the tail and on to the nose feel so wrong.
Trying to bowle switch backside around corners is also something I struggle with.
I am 47 and could not imagine to try tricks in a ramp without helmet, wrist guards and pads...of course, if you only skate within your comfort zone, you won't fall very often and can control the bails (but of course not the slams), but when I try something new I couldn't commit to an attempt without knowing to wear pads and helmet. I broke my wrist as a child while jumping over a stair case...wrist guards would have prevented the injury. I am convinced, it could easily happen that you fall on her head in a way you are seriously injured, so I would appreciate if very good skaters, who mostly skate in their videos without protective gear (because they can calculate the risk much better than a beginner) would at least recommend a helmet and pads for beginners and intermediate skaters, and - most of all - for young children. If a child gives lets say in to the group pressure and tries dropping in on a bigger ramp and have for example a wheel bite when hitting the flat, he or she will definitely be brutally smashed into the other transition of the ramp with the head in front - and that could end very bad without a helmet. Especially when skating on concrete. So please, at least mention the purpose of protective gear in your very cool videos! thanks..
No video request. Just here to let you know you're awesome. Keep it up ! :)
Hi from Spain!! Great videos. Why does it feel so diferent to come back in the ramp after a rock to fakie (panic) than after a fakie pop rock (no prob)?? In the theory, they are more or less the same, but in reality, I‘m looking back to the ramp sooner in the second case because I don‘t care so much about the coping and neather about maybe falling, and that helps me to be ready to fall. Addicionaly, I‘m used to roll over my right arm, and, due I‘m goofy footer, increase panic even more when comming back fakie because I don‘t feel I can roll whithout problems if the truck hang up. Cheers!
What up chad I struggle with riding switch and carving front side.
what I struggle with the most is commitment and the timing of things
Nice
Never done backside tailslides on mini ramp, I have done fs tails slides and nollie ones and bs ollies to tail and back lips though, I skate very loose trucks. Any suggestions appreciated.
I have been struggling coming back in fakie from feeble stalls
Spine transfer is still tough. Maybe more tips on how to lead up to it on a smaller scale
That head slam looked way too gnarly. This is why you wear helmets. Great tips for us hall of meaters!
he didn't hit his head
@@x_x2232 he did though...
@@x_x2232 ua-cam.com/video/Y3PrAm4k-dU/v-deo.html I see a clear rebound of the noggin' and maestro holding the back of his head. This is not to shame anyone for not using protective gear. It's a personal choice. But to advocate using them, especially on a channel heavily focused on tutorials for beginners, a disclaimer could be in place.
nope
Blunt fakie is what I really really wanna learn, having a hard time popping back in the ramp
Struggling with rock to fakie on 4 to 5 quarters. I'm getting them. But no consistency. Have had a couple of falls to flat in last 2 days.
any tips for avoiding hanging up? really struggle with that one
Here's one for you: I can axle stall ok but mostly I end up sitting on top of the deck of the ramp, leading to me needing to adjust my back truck before dropping in. I see lots of skaters keep themselves inside the ramp and cross-locking as they lock into the stall. is this just timing? Bending knees to absorb rather than trying to stand up too much? Or am I missing something else?
Thanks in advance and keep up the great content!
yeah im having the same problem i'm always grinding on top and not cross locking
You're getting your weight too much on top of the ramp. You already said it yourself, keep weight more inside the ramp. If you're looking at the ramp from the side, picture your body at an 80ish degree angle from the coping instead of straight up. Get your back truck on and kinda let your body float up the rest of the way into that angle. It might be easier to cross lock but I never do it that way, what really matters is trying to get that back foot heel side wheel pinched and keeping it there, the front truck is irrelavent really
As 50 y/0 Miniramp skater, Wish I would have seen this couple years ago. Thanks.
I struggle most with popping fs 5-0 back to fakie. I see people revert out but I think popping it back in looks cooler
How do you do fakie 270 to backside pivot?! I just can't time it right, or my body weight is weird. Thanks in advance!
whats stopping me from learning blunt fakie is fear of hanging my front truck and falling backwards to flat, is there anyway to prevent this or how to not bail too hard?
Yep, knee pads, wrist guards and a helmet are pretty good for me on a big ramp. Mini, I don't really use pads but I could use knee pads. Nice tips overall!
Definitely struggle with front side stuff on a mini...ledges and stuff all my grinds are front side for the most part .. transition is backside...please fix me, I'm broken! Lol
I’m learning axle stalls right now and I’m struggling with getting my trucks on top of the coping rather than keeping my weight in the ramp and grinding across the coping
Try getting more speed and remember to bend your knees. Maybe also try flying out of the quarter pipe to get an idea of how much speed you will need.
leaning further to ur tail makes you grind easier, almost like your pushing ur hip back
What I struggle with most on transition is getting tail slides to actually slide. I just can’t seem to find the right balance between sticking and slipping out.
I should have seen this a week ago lol.. I was dumb enough to try and drop in from a 50 50 stance... Fell twice and almost broke my shoulder and got a minor concussion (even tho i had a damn helmet on) Ah well i will try again once i heal up in a few weeks hopefully :)
u got it
Keep it up! And it's good you had a helmet on otherwise it may have been much worse. Stay safe and shred 🤙
I'd say the title is accurate but not in the spirit of things. Number 1 rule is *don't avoid falling* ! Like you said - planning to do so is the key, and learning to laugh it off and roll with the punches :)
I struggle most with committing to tricks. Like I learnt blunt fakies over a year ago but am still inconsistent with them bc it takes me a while to commit
80% mental and 20% physical. Sometimes just gotta go for it and get that first fall over with. It's inevitable
Struggling to do frontside carves on big transitions. I lean too far back and smash my hip.
I struggle the most holding my nose grinds on minis/ long quarter pipes . Coming up with my back to the coping. BS nosegrind * 🛹🤙👍
I replayed him bailing hard as fuck at 1:54 seconds in literally 10x lmfao. That's a gnarly bail lol
A good example of why you should wear a helmet
I find it super hard to to change my stance. For example going from a tail stall to a nose Stall. You need to move youre feet. But how??
Griptape feels like glue in that moment..
Slide & roll baby
Knee slide would be so helpful
What I struggle with most with skating mini ramps is getting intimidated by a lot of frontside tricks
Yeah i feel this one. Im the same
I can blunt grab fakie out, but I can't figure out popping out of a blunt :/ (btw, your videos are awesome!)
I can drop in and rock to fakie comfortably but I struggle with roll in and fakie rock... that rear trucks and the fear of slamming forward... :(.
ay my g chad
Frontside feels alot more difficult. I spend alot of time doing FS kickturns to get comfortable, FS 50-50 is still so scary though
Feeble fakie is really tuff for me rn
Geting all the way up, on 50-50s, thats my biggest struggle.
This is my kinda tutorial
I'm a newb when you're dropping in do you think about stomping the front foot down, or putting all your weight forward and easing the weight off your back foot?
drop your shoulder forward with the commitment of the dropin and follow it with your weight. don't take 100% weight off your backfoot, just ease off and lean into the dropin.
Think about dropping in like your trying to stomp a insect with your leading foot.
What about air tricks?
I was at the skate park da day I was the kid with the curly hair and rose griptape
I struggle with FS tricks the most on mini-ramp. I neglected it too much in the beginning because BS is way more comfortable for me.
Other than that, I cant figure out how to ollie-to-fakie on mini-ramp at all no matter what I try. Not many good tutorials for that.
Try learning ollie to fakie on a bank first and when u feel comfortable move on to ramps
@@vicvicvicvicvic I have it on lock on banks already :/
my personal thing with actually bailing on transition is to not fall on flat surfaces.
Struggle with injuries. Do a “How to look after skate injuries” video
Buttslide is the worst, ive been trying frontside inverts on concrete bowl, it ripped all of my pants and i had to put huge patches with shoe goo lol, You cant knee slide out of a fs invert!
I struggle with anything fs on minni ramps, I guess it's the hole idea of the ramp being behind me.
Keeping speed is my biggest issue
I struggle a lot with air, I can't stay on the board because of the fear
🤙💯
At the angle you’re filming I thought the grate in the spine on that mini ramp was a gaping hole in the flat 🤦♂️
I’m really bad at power sliding on mini ramps. My wheels always stick
I ate it today on a mini ramp. I slid off my board while going up.
Locking in, I’m prolly not getting enough speed tho
What i struggle is with is pool coping
I have good slash grinds but I still cannot learn how to axle stall on a mini ramp I'm better at front side airs lol
Not to hate or anything.. but I'd genuinely love to see a video of you performing a FS air, followed by a video of you failing to do an axle stall.. Just doesn't sound realistic to me. FS air is infinitely harder than an axle stall, even if FS is more comfortable for you than BS..
I struggle with finding a decent skatepark in general… NE Pa is the worst
Falling is inevitable learn to fall safely
5-0 Fakie's is my biggest struggle..m