I found a lot of motivation from this 7 year old girl skater, not that I'm a 7 year old girl skater too but because if a little girl can go from just learning drop ins to having kickflips and 50-50s and a lot of transition tricks in less than 2 years then surely I can learn to skate. I got 50-50 on the same day as discovering such a talented young skater.
As long as you can command your legs/body to move how you want them to, you can learn something. It's a lot of trial and error. Among one of the trials or one of the errors, you won't land it. But you'll experience a *click* in your mind. In that moment, whether you land on it upside down or just land away from the board, you'll get it. First treflip back in 2007 for me, I was skating with a good friend of mine around town, it was pretty late around 2AM. We were both feeling good and I'd decided to try a treflip even though I hadn't landed one before. I landed with the board upside down, one foot on and the other foot near it. I immediately felt that *click* sensation. I then looked at my friend and said "Dude, I just learned treflips". Next try I landed but slipped out, the try after I rolled away. It's an incredible feeling when those pathways unlock in your mind and you can literally FEEL the exact moment you learn something. Don't beat yourself up. Trial and error. You're likely going to suck ass at whatever you're trying at first, that's how it's supposed to be.
Hey Jonny (and his followers)! I want to share something quick. I dont watch much youtube and for some reason a clip from your channel came up as suggestion. I watched it and then another and another and so on.. I got super inspired! Its been 15 years sience i skated, i went and bought a board a month ago, and started skating again! Youre a huge inspiration man and i really enjoy your videos! Greetings from sweden!
I'm right there with ya man. Been stuck in a RUclips warp of is videos and it's got me all fired up to get back on it. And now a days there's alot of skate parks so I won't have to deal with the police! Schools and car dealerships were some great skate spots tho.
Man, that's what happened to me, I had some random skating suggestion pop up and I clicked on it, 50 videos later I dug my 20 year old board out of the garage and am back on it at 40 yrs old..
PK Boricua hey, its pitty, by the way Im from Russia and we havent problems like that. p.s because selling is illegal and very hard, so we are too lazy for it xd
Hey Jonny, great video, man! These tips are great for a lot of other things as well, they apply perfectly for learning to draw too! Confidence: Know that you will get better at art. Baby Steps: Start with drawing simple things and then move on to complex art. Analyze: Study other artists and see what might be lacking in your art. Dedication: Practice makes perfect, keep at it. Visualize: Imagine the thought process of other artists and how they approach things. Great advice Jonny! I used to skate back in high school but chose a career as a character designer, it's great to see your success in skating and your tips show exactly why you are where you are now :)
practice A LOT. I'm still pretty new to cardistry for example, but it took me 3 full days of trying just to figure out how to riffle shuffle. and then you try different things, get the feel of how pressure affects the cards, how exactly you need to place your fingers, even start to think on what advice you would get to others learning like you. same story with the spring, took me a couple of days just to feel which finger is the best for releasing the cards, how to keep the fluid motion and how to catch them. now whenever I'm learning a new flourish or stuff and can't figure it out I just think about that and then have the motivation to try again and again until I get it right
I'm currently struggling with backside and frontside heelflips and those babysteps are bringing me just a tiny bit closer to it each time. Landed a couple today but didn't roll away, maybe tomorrow I'll nail them both ;)
Visualization is SO powerful and has legit helped me in skating! Most skate tutorial channels don't mention this at all so kudos to you for adding that in 🙏
Point three is a good one. I remember trying to learn to kickflip over a (for me) large obstacle (a bench on its side), and a friend who was a sponsored shop rider just looked at my attempts and said "when you set up, have more of your front foot on". Instant result, kickflipped the bench twice in a row with nice catch.
Skating is a perfect model for learning and mastering skills. Just replace anything that you want to get better at with with "skating" and watch this video. Thanks Jonny! Much prosperity to you.
Great video. That is what i need right now. I am now facing this issue of wanting to learn new tricks but way too fast. I am not taking my time in the process. At the same time i feel frustrated of not feeling enough progression in my skateboarding. So it is good that you remind people that is is better to keep the learning process a fun and positive experience.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think sometimes you shouldn't follow baby steps too much : for example, I wanted to learn how to fakie bigspin to manual, and I thought that I absolutely needed to know how to half-cab manual before, and I just couldn't do it. But one day I tried with a bigspin and it just worked, and even today I find this trick easier ! What I'm trying to say is sometimes, when you really feel like you can do a trick, you shouldn't bother yourself with baby steps. By the way great video as usual !
Johnny you are the man I was skating when Frankie hill natas all those guys were big names i gotta you are 1 of my favorite man since watching you inspired me too start back after 15 years I love watching you skate keep ripping it up
Really solid advice. I wish this kind of thing was available in the 80’s when I started skating. I’d be so much farther a long than I ever was. Never too late. 😁
The most important tip to learning tricks is just to not give up, and I know that sounds really cheesy, but just hear me out. With skateboarding, if learning tricks is what you want to do, all it takes is time and dedication. No matter how impossible a goal seems, if you just keep doing it, it will eventually happen. Even if it doesn't feel like you are making progress, even if you know you aren't making progress, even if nothing different is happening, it will help. I remember when I started, I couldn't Ollie. I tried so hard for hours, and just couldn't get it. I turned to a couple other tricks, like the Strawberry Milkshake, Boneless, and No Comply 180, and the only one I got at first was the Boneless. I remember feeling so discouraged because nothing felt possible besides simply riding around, which wasn't what I wanted to do. But I kept at it, and eventually, I did an Ollie. It wasn't good. It was barely 2 inches off the ground, it was rocketed, and I fell off balance almost instantly afterwords, but I did it, and it felt so good. I kept trying, and for the next 2 weeks, it wasn't really getting any better than that. I was so excited to show people, and they all said "That's great, nice almost-ollie!". I knew I didn't really do it correctly. I went back to holding on to a fence and really focused on doing it perfectly. I brought my front foot up higher, I crouched down way lower, I jumped up higher, and they started to get better. I was getting 7 inches off the ground holding onto the fence. I tried it on flat, and I was actually able to replicate it. I was so happy with myself. I remember, after I learned the concepts and technique for ollieing, I went back and tried to learn the No Comply 180 and Strawberry Milkshake again, and completely had no idea how to do them. I tried for No Comply 180's switch, because I thought it would be a cool way to get back into my normal stance after landing switch or fakie. It was really terrible at first. The scoop barely worked for me, and when it did, I would kick it way too far in front of me. I eventually learned it but taking my front foot completely off the board, coming to a stop, doing the scoop, and then stepping back on. I kept doing this, but I also saw everyone else doing it really quickly and stylishly. Eventually I learned the real way, and then I got it quicker and more fluid. Then I focused on making it look good. And then I kind of wanted to learn it regular, and I tried to do it and (I'm goofy) it felt so foreign to have my left foot doing anything besides popping straight down. Everytime I tried to do a no Comply 180, I could not get the board to scoop. I put time into getting it down with my left foot, and eventually, I learned how to do it. It didn't feel as foreign now, and I could do the trick somewhat reliably now. It felt really good to be able to do them back and forth, from regular to switch to regular, down the street. I also learned Strawberry Milkshakes. It was funny because it felt so hard when I started, and I got them first try when I tried them again. My only problem was that I couldn't do them fluidly, so I worked on being able to flip the board over and do the movement without ever coming to a complete stop, which made it more fluid. Sorry for the text wall, but the moral is; seriously, if it's what you want to do, put time into it. It will get better it you try. It's a little bit like riding a bike. It's a skill that takes a really long time to develop, but once you develop it, everything else comes easy. Even with fliptricks, which I still can't really do, and I started skating 8 months ago. When I first tried a kickflip, the board wouldn't flip. I would just kick it in front of me. Eventually, learned the technique (For a kickflip, you want to kick towards the corner of the board. Instead of an Ollie, where you pull your foot up and then stop, you want to just go for a kick. You don't need to worry about pulling it upwards. When you first try this, your foot will probably feel like it has slipped off the top of the board, and the board won't flip very fast. To counter this, you need to kick slightly more downwards. Don't just stomp, but don't kick up like you would for an Ollie.), And now I can reliably flip the board. I have yet to land it, but I can at least get a full flip.
Thank you for sharing your experiences and what you've learnt. I think you're spot on with practicing and knowing that you're making progress every time you try something again, even if you can't see the progression in the moment it's all building muscle memory and confidence.
Is it weird that every time I try to "improve" my ollies, I think of something else that is not even related with skateboarding while doing the trick and when I try to "focus" I always mess up...
Nothing to add Jonny. Thank you sooo much for this help. I took your "baby steps" and dedication advices,so one day I spent three completed afternoons at the skatepark trying to land shoves and finally I got them. I was alone so I had nobody to celebrate with haha I was so happy, feels great landing something but just happens when you fully committ. Namaste! 💪
your right about being confident because i barely started skateboarding on december 2016 and about a month later i learned all the basic tricks from trying really hard and i will be trying to learn more tricks
thanks jonny, du gibst mir wirklich Mut und ich finde es immer toll, wenn erfahrene Skater mir sagen "hey, kein Stress, fang klein an, dauert alles, hat mich auch ewig gebraucht" :P weil manchmal bin ich auch frustriert, vorallem, wenn ich sogenannte "beginner tricks" einfach nicht hinkriege. Der shuvit hat mich ewig gebraucht ... bin ihn auch falsch angegangen, weil ich dachte "pffft, soll voll easy sein", hatte keinen Respekt davor, bin ständig Primo gelandet und hatte dann Angst zu comitten. Aber jetzt kommt er mir allmählich, bin mega happy damit =) Ollies sind schon ganz gut, auch witzig. Die meisten, die ich kenne strugglen eher mit dem Ollie und haben den shuvit längst raus. greetings from germany.
could agree more Jonny! i've been skating for about 18 years, tho i'm not as gifted as you. skatetricks do take time to learn and sometimes when you least expect it you land one or two. stay dedicated stay safe 👊🏼
He is right, learning new tricks is more of breaking mental barriers than anything when you reach a plateau, frustration, stubbornness, self doubt, fear, you hit a point where your anger wont help you land, you're thinking perseverance, but sometimes you gotta take a break, dont stick to a trick for 3 hours in a day it might be a waste of time, learning to move on and having fun while coming back to it later really helps
Smart and intelligent as always man.Thx for your work and the way you analyse and communicate the whole skate thing.Tricks process, mind work and all.No surprise you're a fan of rodney Mullen.I am 46 yo, 30 years of skating and it feels good to be refreshed by younger ones.Skate has evolved so much in the the past three decades that even for oldschool skaters and may be especially for them, we need to relearn how to skate because of the basics we kinda forget with time and take for granted.
LOVE YOU CHANNEL!!!!!! Hi, Ive been watching for a couple years, and you have really inspired me. I recently went to the skatepark and returned home discouraged and upset because I felt that I could not progress and that everyone was so much better then me. This gives me hope that I can achieve the level you have someday
Jonny i saw u in a previous video saying that your views decreased.I rarely like on videos,dont know why but I ll start pressing the like button on your videos to support you more.I apperciate your content and I prefer the current content than changing into something you dont want,just for views.Keep rolling,skate is about freedom afterall!Namaste
Vxious Tooi i am doing nursing atm and i think the less time you have the more you push yourself to learn i have been skating for less than a year and landed a number of good tricks such as fs heel , varial heel fs flips fakie flips and so on good luck with studies though
Vxious Tooi I'm in grad school now and trying to learn skating, so I totally feel you! Just take it at whatever pace you can and use the spare moments you find to get in a little practice each week. What I've found really useful is skating to and from school (whenever possible).
Thank you so much for your effort. This video helped me a lot. Especially the baby step point. Also my confidence is pretty bad. I literally tried to treflip for like 3hours and couldn’t figured it out. After watching this I decided to get my 360shuvits and varial Flips better. Now im landing some sketchy treflips already. But I’m not doing them for hours anymore and get mad after. I think my confidence will increase with the time. After 4months of skateboarding I learnt so much it’s crazy. Last month I began to record myself with my phone. The analyse and visualize part helps so much. Last week I woke up after a frustrating session the day before. My brain saved the movements over night and I landed a new trick like literally first try. I think the only thing you forgot to mention was don’t compare with better skaters too much. This was a huge problem for me(confidence). I give my best to learn a lot in this year. Thanks Mr.Giger!!! 🙏
i'm soo agree with you! i've been 1 year learning (at my 28's) and i've been thinking very much about what has worked for me (even if i'm only able to do ollies and shove its). anyways, those five points make the whoole sense. i mean "practice-practice-practice" is the main scheme, but i think you can focus your effort 100% better if you just stop and think about what you are doing and what you WANT to do inestead of repeating thoughtlessly hoping someday you will land it. motivation is vital, but i spent a whole year trying shove its without any progress except spinning the board until i made myself aware of the DETAILS: the balance of my body and what my arms and my shoulders were doing. but the final step was keeping in mind that i JUST WANTED THE BOARD TO ROTATE 180° UNDER MY FEET. in the end, i was like "ok analyze it but keep it simple and focus on the result". and that made me progress in a month what i didn't improve in a year!!
This video really helped. I was practicing backside blunt slides and this helped me mentally. Thanks bro! Practiceing stalling, like you did with the nose slide really helped.
If you watch Rodney Mullen's TED talks, he talks about inventing tricks through a gradual iteration process where he only changes one variable at a time (be that foot position, body wheight distribution or something else) and at the same time he tries to keep all other variables consistent. This allows him to zoom in on specific problems during the learning process and fix them.. he also talks about kids doing crazy tricks but not inventing them - the thing about skatetricks is that he himself might not be the most skilled skater (I would beg to differ), but just KNOWING that a trick CAN BE DONE - like seeing a video of Rodney doing something new - is enough for youngsters to pick the trick up. It just goes to show that he might invent the tricks through this process, but he is not the only one capable of learning them over time. :)
Great video! I learned a lot from it :) I have been always failing with confidence, as I have been afraid that I will not be able to land a given trick :)
It has been 15 since I’ve been on a board. I could only Ollie, switch nollie heelflip, heelflip and pop shove it. And normal manual. I bought a skateboard again and now my daughter started skating to and the kids in the neighborhood want are j’ai big to because I use the same wisdom you just did in this video. Today, I will get my protection, because I am going on 39years old and I need to land the tricks again I used to but also: I must conquer my fear to skate in a bowl and do my first drop in. I don’t want to learn new tricks. I want to have fun and those tricks do it for me. The kids will have to see where their limits are but never forget that skateboarding is about community and fun, taking it step by step and encouraging others. Stay safe. Greetings from Belgium.
The real key is to understand that in the end, it’s up to YOU to actually figure it out. You can hear all the trick tips in the world for how to actually execute and land a trick, but then you gotta totally THROW ALL THAT OUT in the end, and figure out how the trick works purely from your own trial and error and understanding what’s happening with your board
Recap: 1. Have confidence. You CAN do it! 2. Take baby steps. Build up to the trick. 3. Analyze what you’re doing right and wrong. 4. Stay dedicated! 5. Visualize yourself landing it and how you would do that before you do it! 👍
Love this! Keep up the amazing work. Everything is possible as long as you have the right attitude, passion, comitment, the willingness and dedication to put in the work and effort. And just believe in yourself, because naturaltalent is and outdated and busted myth and excuse. It just takes away from the effort someone put in to perfect that skill, and it hinders people from pushing beond their personal barriers. So believe in yourself, commit and watch as you excell
One tip that helped me learn tricks is imagining myself landing it, and then attempting the trick This is only once Im close-ish to landing it at from there I usually can land it 1st try
I think visualising really helps. Imagine yourself doing the cleanest kickflip, with 100% confidence like its easy and convince yourself you've landed it before you even pop your board. I still don't have kickflips down but I'm getting there.
I started skating 3 days ago. First day I learned to do Ollie and Kickflip pretty consistenty, the second day I did a lot of like pop-shovet and 180 and such. The third day got me really stoked cuz I never did a varial kickflip, but after around 30 attempts I landed Tre flip, and I landed it several times that day. I'm really into skateboarding now :)
Thanks Jonny. Where's the game of skate? You, Rademaker ,Pilz, Dario and Fevang. Lets get it bro! You waxed the Aaron and John...so bad ...... the needed to be REVIVE! lol
Do you do pov trick tip tutorials? I’ve been skating like 5 years and I’m decent but that’s one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever heard that can help a lot super helpful video always trying to get better and this was exactly what I was looking for when I searched “how to land my tricks better”
Hey man, I am happy you're doing all these vids, I just went back to skateboarding from not skating for over 10 years, any tips you have for me to get back in to it?
Waking up and being able to see your feet do a trick also helps ^^ cannot force this thought, it happens when it happens. Also Step 2 is tough ._. motivation is sometimes beyond any imagination, gotta know how to cool down :) Cannot agree more to "Analyze", sometimes I stand there for 10 minutes just thinking ... something is not right yet .. until I get an "aha moment" and land the trick. Visualising the trick, this is super slow progress but it also helps a lot! Sometimes some tricks that are not on-lock yet really need me to see the trick land before I can do it. Weird, but works. But not foreveryone, as there are different type of psychologies o it, some people need to phrase it down, some people can visualise, some people feel it beforehand - anyhow, praring your mind, besides your body, is essential.
Johnny, is that the Cincinnati Chili Spaghetti on your shirt?? Great videos bro, you're a great inspiration as a I get back into skating after 10 years away. Your Rodney videos did it.
I usually try getting passed the mental game telling myself it's not impossible and I can do the tricks despite getting frustrated easily. What I do is keep pushing and maybe a little music to get shit rolling, I found out that keeping your view parallel to the skateboard at all times instead of looking straight forward when you're riding helps. Idk if that made sense but I noticed the difference doing verial kickflip looking straight forward and looking at my feet and board, i think the same applies for when you're moving in motion tricks like 180s and 360s... I've been on and off skating and didnt actually learn real shit until I was a sophomore in high school lol I'm about to be 21 and havent skated too often after I hit 18 but I love getting down still especially on some ledge, many pads, and trying to get used to gaps again but ik I wont ever go as far as anything bigger than 6+ steps lmao. I love doing combo tricks and my buddy is gonna hook me up with a used deck so hopefully I'm not too rusty I actually broke my last deck earlier this year so let's see how far my feet have fallen! Hopefully not too much 😄😄😄 skate is love ❤
"If someone else has done it, I can do it"
>invents tricks that nobody else has done
i cant walk
Eternalenvy dude that sucks
@@G80scourge yo i feel bad for u
@@ayoomike LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Shiro i fell so sorry for you, I hope it’s easy to get around in life
landing tricks in your dreams also helps a lot
yup lol
aimetticsgo REALSHIT
aimetticsgo Crazy thing is that lat night, I had a dream that I was doing bigspins. And I can’t do those in real life yet
just stick to jonny´s tips and you are going to land them soon :)
aimetticsgo it's so crazy but it really works
6. Always land on your board with both feet. Allways.
Antyyy yeah yesterday one of my feet ended on the groung while the other one was on my skate and I did a split. Couldn't get up for like 10 minutes
@@imnotanarmadillo3647 That must have hurt a lot😯
@@imnotanarmadillo3647 bruh i dislocated my ankle on a handrail today worst day ive had in weeks smh
@@Katzedem i quit skating more then 10 years ago and still my shoulder hurt and my ankle creaks :)
Not true there are tricks you can land balancing on one foot with the other in the air
If the tips for learning tricks come from Jonny, you know that shit works haha
I might could have explained it better in my first language :) hopefully it still helps :)
Jonny Giger you should make a skate tutorial for special tricks like late flips and sell the vid as a package like braille
Hans Wouters cool to see you here dude !
Hans Wouters hey dog
I found a lot of motivation from this 7 year old girl skater, not that I'm a 7 year old girl skater too but because if a little girl can go from just learning drop ins to having kickflips and 50-50s and a lot of transition tricks in less than 2 years then surely I can learn to skate. I got 50-50 on the same day as discovering such a talented young skater.
"Learn how to do every trick with this one easy step". "Pro's hate him".
Max Pheby 😂
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I havent seen one of those ads in ages lmfaooo
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As long as you can command your legs/body to move how you want them to, you can learn something.
It's a lot of trial and error. Among one of the trials or one of the errors, you won't land it. But you'll experience a *click* in your mind. In that moment, whether you land on it upside down or just land away from the board, you'll get it.
First treflip back in 2007 for me, I was skating with a good friend of mine around town, it was pretty late around 2AM. We were both feeling good and I'd decided to try a treflip even though I hadn't landed one before. I landed with the board upside down, one foot on and the other foot near it. I immediately felt that *click* sensation. I then looked at my friend and said "Dude, I just learned treflips". Next try I landed but slipped out, the try after I rolled away. It's an incredible feeling when those pathways unlock in your mind and you can literally FEEL the exact moment you learn something.
Don't beat yourself up. Trial and error. You're likely going to suck ass at whatever you're trying at first, that's how it's supposed to be.
Nice comment yo, i felt what you described and liked to read it ^^ greetings from germany
sorry,but i am not reading that
Wheres the lamb sauce?
Nice comment dude, it helped me alot👊
“I know kung fu”
5 Secrets to learn skate board tricks.
1.Practice
2.Practice
3.Practice
4.Practice
5.More Practice
Pretty much.
Casey Jones "and buy skateboarding made simple it's the most comprehensive in depth tutorial and it's a available on iBooks."
And his point with this video is that you can practice smarter.
You won't be disappointed.
Casey Jones You forgot practice
These tips work for more than just skating. They are pro tips for life.
SKATEBOARDING IS LIFE!!!!!!
Hey Jonny (and his followers)! I want to share something quick. I dont watch much youtube and for some reason a clip from your channel came up as suggestion. I watched it and then another and another and so on.. I got super inspired! Its been 15 years sience i skated, i went and bought a board a month ago, and started skating again! Youre a huge inspiration man and i really enjoy your videos! Greetings from sweden!
Kaksmulor glad you made it to this channel :) thanks man 🙏🏼
I read this and got kind of curious... Any updates on how it's going? I also recently bought a skateboard after 6 years of not skating...
Great job man
I'm right there with ya man. Been stuck in a RUclips warp of is videos and it's got me all fired up to get back on it. And now a days there's alot of skate parks so I won't have to deal with the police! Schools and car dealerships were some great skate spots tho.
Man, that's what happened to me, I had some random skating suggestion pop up and I clicked on it, 50 videos later I dug my 20 year old board out of the garage and am back on it at 40 yrs old..
"- I've been skating for more than 11 years"
That's how you learn every skate trick.
that's not true, if u are talented and if u practice a lot u can pretty do a lot of amazing things like in ... less then 2 years ?
Kizu Freestyle its impossible
PK Boricua shit, he should continue skating and end with drugs
PK Boricua hey, its pitty, by the way Im from Russia and we havent problems like that.
p.s because selling is illegal and very hard, so we are too lazy for it xd
KiRuHaN 454 im skating fro 1 october 2015 and i think i pretty got a big amount of amazing and insane trick, being honest ò.ò
1. Confidence
2. Progress in small steps
3. Look at what you’re doing wrong
4. Be dedicated
5. Record yourself
i never think to record myself thats the damn problem
That guy make me coming back to skateboarding at 27 yo. Kickflip is back baby, like old time ! What a feeling.
im 27 too just started around 23
Hey Jonny, great video, man! These tips are great for a lot of other things as well, they apply perfectly for learning to draw too!
Confidence: Know that you will get better at art.
Baby Steps: Start with drawing simple things and then move on to complex art.
Analyze: Study other artists and see what might be lacking in your art.
Dedication: Practice makes perfect, keep at it.
Visualize: Imagine the thought process of other artists and how they approach things.
Great advice Jonny! I used to skate back in high school but chose a career as a character designer, it's great to see your success in skating and your tips show exactly why you are where you are now :)
Luigi Lucarelli WHY ARE YOU WATCHING THIS😂
Jon Gibson can you teach me how to do the trick Sam
You sir are a legend for doing this
practice A LOT.
I'm still pretty new to cardistry for example, but it took me 3 full days of trying just to figure out how to riffle shuffle.
and then you try different things, get the feel of how pressure affects the cards, how exactly you need to place your fingers, even start to think on what advice you would get to others learning like you.
same story with the spring, took me a couple of days just to feel which finger is the best for releasing the cards, how to keep the fluid motion and how to catch them. now whenever I'm learning a new flourish or stuff and can't figure it out I just think about that and then have the motivation to try again and again until I get it right
The location of this skatepark thoooo 😍
I’m just getting my flow down in my local, like learning how to master everything in your local park is key.
I'm currently struggling with backside and frontside heelflips and those babysteps are bringing me just a tiny bit closer to it each time. Landed a couple today but didn't roll away, maybe tomorrow I'll nail them both ;)
Good Luck man
If i can fiqure out how to get the spin thatd be great
Hows you front/back heels dawg
I wish we had internet when I started 30 years ago. 😭😭😭
Thanks for sharing
Visualization is SO powerful and has legit helped me in skating! Most skate tutorial channels don't mention this at all so kudos to you for adding that in 🙏
The park is so beautiful located and perfect!!! Has everything!!!
Holy crap no wonder you are such an incredible skater. Great insight.
Point three is a good one. I remember trying to learn to kickflip over a (for me) large obstacle (a bench on its side), and a friend who was a sponsored shop rider just looked at my attempts and said "when you set up, have more of your front foot on". Instant result, kickflipped the bench twice in a row with nice catch.
Skating is a perfect model for learning and mastering skills. Just replace anything that you want to get better at with with "skating" and watch this video. Thanks Jonny! Much prosperity to you.
Great video. That is what i need right now. I am now facing this issue of wanting to learn new tricks but way too fast. I am not taking my time in the process. At the same time i feel frustrated of not feeling enough progression in my skateboarding. So it is good that you remind people that is is better to keep the learning process a fun and positive experience.
Thanks Jonny, greetings from Chile ❤️
welcome
You're from Switzerland? O:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think sometimes you shouldn't follow baby steps too much : for example, I wanted to learn how to fakie bigspin to manual, and I thought that I absolutely needed to know how to half-cab manual before, and I just couldn't do it. But one day I tried with a bigspin and it just worked, and even today I find this trick easier ! What I'm trying to say is sometimes, when you really feel like you can do a trick, you shouldn't bother yourself with baby steps. By the way great video as usual !
the view behind his back is just awesome!! great place for a skatepark
Johnny you are the man I was skating when Frankie hill natas all those guys were big names i gotta you are 1 of my favorite man since watching you inspired me too start back after 15 years I love watching you skate keep ripping it up
Really solid advice. I wish this kind of thing was available in the 80’s when I started skating. I’d be so much farther a long than I ever was. Never too late. 😁
The most important tip to learning tricks is just to not give up, and I know that sounds really cheesy, but just hear me out. With skateboarding, if learning tricks is what you want to do, all it takes is time and dedication. No matter how impossible a goal seems, if you just keep doing it, it will eventually happen. Even if it doesn't feel like you are making progress, even if you know you aren't making progress, even if nothing different is happening, it will help. I remember when I started, I couldn't Ollie. I tried so hard for hours, and just couldn't get it. I turned to a couple other tricks, like the Strawberry Milkshake, Boneless, and No Comply 180, and the only one I got at first was the Boneless. I remember feeling so discouraged because nothing felt possible besides simply riding around, which wasn't what I wanted to do. But I kept at it, and eventually, I did an Ollie. It wasn't good. It was barely 2 inches off the ground, it was rocketed, and I fell off balance almost instantly afterwords, but I did it, and it felt so good. I kept trying, and for the next 2 weeks, it wasn't really getting any better than that. I was so excited to show people, and they all said "That's great, nice almost-ollie!". I knew I didn't really do it correctly. I went back to holding on to a fence and really focused on doing it perfectly. I brought my front foot up higher, I crouched down way lower, I jumped up higher, and they started to get better. I was getting 7 inches off the ground holding onto the fence. I tried it on flat, and I was actually able to replicate it. I was so happy with myself. I remember, after I learned the concepts and technique for ollieing, I went back and tried to learn the No Comply 180 and Strawberry Milkshake again, and completely had no idea how to do them. I tried for No Comply 180's switch, because I thought it would be a cool way to get back into my normal stance after landing switch or fakie. It was really terrible at first. The scoop barely worked for me, and when it did, I would kick it way too far in front of me. I eventually learned it but taking my front foot completely off the board, coming to a stop, doing the scoop, and then stepping back on. I kept doing this, but I also saw everyone else doing it really quickly and stylishly. Eventually I learned the real way, and then I got it quicker and more fluid. Then I focused on making it look good. And then I kind of wanted to learn it regular, and I tried to do it and (I'm goofy) it felt so foreign to have my left foot doing anything besides popping straight down. Everytime I tried to do a no Comply 180, I could not get the board to scoop. I put time into getting it down with my left foot, and eventually, I learned how to do it. It didn't feel as foreign now, and I could do the trick somewhat reliably now. It felt really good to be able to do them back and forth, from regular to switch to regular, down the street. I also learned Strawberry Milkshakes. It was funny because it felt so hard when I started, and I got them first try when I tried them again. My only problem was that I couldn't do them fluidly, so I worked on being able to flip the board over and do the movement without ever coming to a complete stop, which made it more fluid.
Sorry for the text wall, but the moral is; seriously, if it's what you want to do, put time into it. It will get better it you try. It's a little bit like riding a bike. It's a skill that takes a really long time to develop, but once you develop it, everything else comes easy. Even with fliptricks, which I still can't really do, and I started skating 8 months ago. When I first tried a kickflip, the board wouldn't flip. I would just kick it in front of me. Eventually, learned the technique (For a kickflip, you want to kick towards the corner of the board. Instead of an Ollie, where you pull your foot up and then stop, you want to just go for a kick. You don't need to worry about pulling it upwards. When you first try this, your foot will probably feel like it has slipped off the top of the board, and the board won't flip very fast. To counter this, you need to kick slightly more downwards. Don't just stomp, but don't kick up like you would for an Ollie.), And now I can reliably flip the board. I have yet to land it, but I can at least get a full flip.
Thank you for sharing your experiences and what you've learnt. I think you're spot on with practicing and knowing that you're making progress every time you try something again, even if you can't see the progression in the moment it's all building muscle memory and confidence.
Is it weird that every time I try to "improve" my ollies, I think of something else that is not even related with skateboarding while doing the trick and when I try to "focus" I always mess up...
Nothing to add Jonny. Thank you sooo much for this help. I took your "baby steps" and dedication advices,so one day I spent three completed afternoons at the skatepark trying to land shoves and finally I got them. I was alone so I had nobody to celebrate with haha I was so happy, feels great landing something but just happens when you fully committ.
Namaste! 💪
your right about being confident because i barely started skateboarding on december 2016 and about a month later i learned all the basic tricks from trying really hard and i will be trying to learn more tricks
Continue like this Jonny, you're the best !
thanks jonny, du gibst mir wirklich Mut und ich finde es immer toll, wenn erfahrene Skater mir sagen "hey, kein Stress, fang klein an, dauert alles, hat mich auch ewig gebraucht" :P
weil manchmal bin ich auch frustriert, vorallem, wenn ich sogenannte "beginner tricks" einfach nicht hinkriege.
Der shuvit hat mich ewig gebraucht ... bin ihn auch falsch angegangen, weil ich dachte "pffft, soll voll easy sein", hatte keinen Respekt davor, bin ständig Primo gelandet und hatte dann Angst zu comitten.
Aber jetzt kommt er mir allmählich, bin mega happy damit =) Ollies sind schon ganz gut, auch witzig. Die meisten, die ich kenne strugglen eher mit dem Ollie und haben den shuvit längst raus.
greetings from germany.
thanks man, getting back into skating after 15 years and your videos have been my favorite
could agree more Jonny! i've been skating for about 18 years, tho i'm not as gifted as you. skatetricks do take time to learn and sometimes when you least expect it you land one or two. stay dedicated stay safe 👊🏼
He is right, learning new tricks is more of breaking mental barriers than anything when you reach a plateau, frustration, stubbornness, self doubt, fear, you hit a point where your anger wont help you land, you're thinking perseverance, but sometimes you gotta take a break, dont stick to a trick for 3 hours in a day it might be a waste of time, learning to move on and having fun while coming back to it later really helps
good advice, foreigners always have a great mind set on life and never giving up. commitment is the key.
basically the secret is, try one million times until you can do a trick
Blackstar1701 exactly
Blackstar1701 The opposite of what he said. Did you even watch the video?
Wash,rinse and repeat until it's muscle memory.
I can back flip in my dreams should I try to backflip on concrete
I stopped skating before you began...time goes so fast. Great trick tips!
Smart and intelligent as always man.Thx for your work and the way you analyse and communicate the whole skate thing.Tricks process, mind work and all.No surprise you're a fan of rodney Mullen.I am 46 yo, 30 years of skating and it feels good to be refreshed by younger ones.Skate has evolved so much in the the past three decades that even for oldschool skaters and may be especially for them, we need to relearn how to skate because of the basics we kinda forget with time and take for granted.
LOVE YOU CHANNEL!!!!!!
Hi, Ive been watching for a couple years, and you have really inspired me. I recently went to the skatepark and returned home discouraged and upset because I felt that I could not progress and that everyone was so much better then me. This gives me hope that I can achieve the level you have someday
Jonny i saw u in a previous video saying that your views decreased.I rarely like on videos,dont know why but I ll start pressing the like button on your videos to support you more.I apperciate your content and I prefer the current content than changing into something you dont want,just for views.Keep rolling,skate is about freedom afterall!Namaste
I am in medical school and I love skateboarding but I don't have a lot of time to learn but I think this video will help me out a ton. Thanks
Vxious Tooi i am doing nursing atm and i think the less time you have the more you push yourself to learn i have been skating for less than a year and landed a number of good tricks such as fs heel , varial heel fs flips fakie flips and so on good luck with studies though
Aziz Alsayed Thanks man. I just technically started skateboarding and I hope that I'll progress as quickly as you did🙏
Vxious Tooi daaamn i feel u bro. Im in meds school too. Goodluck to you bro!
Vxious Tooi I'm in grad school now and trying to learn skating, so I totally feel you! Just take it at whatever pace you can and use the spare moments you find to get in a little practice each week. What I've found really useful is skating to and from school (whenever possible).
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this way really works, used it to relearn a lot of tricks. still using this method and slowly learning new things
Damn where was this video when I was younger. Would have been very helpful. This makes me want to skate again. It's been over two years.
Thank you so much for your effort. This video helped me a lot. Especially the baby step point. Also my confidence is pretty bad. I literally tried to treflip for like 3hours and couldn’t figured it out. After watching this I decided to get my 360shuvits and varial Flips better. Now im landing some sketchy treflips already. But I’m not doing them for hours anymore and get mad after. I think my confidence will increase with the time. After 4months of skateboarding I learnt so much it’s crazy. Last month I began to record myself with my phone. The analyse and visualize part helps so much. Last week I woke up after a frustrating session the day before. My brain saved the movements over night and I landed a new trick like literally first try. I think the only thing you forgot to mention was don’t compare with better skaters too much. This was a huge problem for me(confidence). I give my best to learn a lot in this year. Thanks Mr.Giger!!! 🙏
This is a great, thoughtful video. I showed it to both of my boys. Thank you for posting.
This was really helpful bro I appreciate the points you made as a skater who's been doing this for a long time. Thanks Johnny!
i'm soo agree with you! i've been 1 year learning (at my 28's) and i've been thinking very much about what has worked for me (even if i'm only able to do ollies and shove its). anyways, those five points make the whoole sense. i mean "practice-practice-practice" is the main scheme, but i think you can focus your effort 100% better if you just stop and think about what you are doing and what you WANT to do inestead of repeating thoughtlessly hoping someday you will land it. motivation is vital, but i spent a whole year trying shove its without any progress except spinning the board until i made myself aware of the DETAILS: the balance of my body and what my arms and my shoulders were doing. but the final step was keeping in mind that i JUST WANTED THE BOARD TO ROTATE 180° UNDER MY FEET. in the end, i was like "ok analyze it but keep it simple and focus on the result". and that made me progress in a month what i didn't improve in a year!!
6: posture.
Posers be like "where's the secret ?"
Barek Obema lol
There's non its just form and practice
Lmfao fr real while skaters know this is the treasure trove of secret
Barek Omaba deez nuts be like :Don’t hurt us 2
Lol
This video really helped. I was practicing backside blunt slides and this helped me mentally. Thanks bro! Practiceing stalling, like you did with the nose slide really helped.
If you watch Rodney Mullen's TED talks, he talks about inventing tricks through a gradual iteration process where he only changes one variable at a time (be that foot position, body wheight distribution or something else) and at the same time he tries to keep all other variables consistent. This allows him to zoom in on specific problems during the learning process and fix them.. he also talks about kids doing crazy tricks but not inventing them - the thing about skatetricks is that he himself might not be the most skilled skater (I would beg to differ), but just KNOWING that a trick CAN BE DONE - like seeing a video of Rodney doing something new - is enough for youngsters to pick the trick up. It just goes to show that he might invent the tricks through this process, but he is not the only one capable of learning them over time. :)
Hi from Sydney Australia,
Thanks for the time you spent making ya videos.
Thanks Johnny for the very helpful content for me.
Cheers from Brazil!
Great video! I learned a lot from it :) I have been always failing with confidence, as I have been afraid that I will not be able to land a given trick :)
Stfu
i like that !! i play basketball and i did the same secrets that what you do for skateboarding, so much respect for you !
It has been 15 since I’ve been on a board. I could only Ollie, switch nollie heelflip, heelflip and pop shove it. And normal manual. I bought a skateboard again and now my daughter started skating to and the kids in the neighborhood want are j’ai big to because I use the same wisdom you just did in this video. Today, I will get my protection, because I am going on 39years old and I need to land the tricks again I used to but also: I must conquer my fear to skate in a bowl and do my first drop in. I don’t want to learn new tricks. I want to have fun and those tricks do it for me. The kids will have to see where their limits are but never forget that skateboarding is about community and fun, taking it step by step and encouraging others. Stay safe. Greetings from Belgium.
this is exactly what i needed to hear, thanks man! Just waiting for my tailbone to hurt less before going back out there
Thank you for the great inspirational video! You are awesome skater dude!
The real key is to understand that in the end, it’s up to YOU to actually figure it out. You can hear all the trick tips in the world for how to actually execute and land a trick, but then you gotta totally THROW ALL THAT OUT in the end, and figure out how the trick works purely from your own trial and error and understanding what’s happening with your board
You can’t just watch a “how to xyz” video and no matter how well you absorb all the information, expect you’ll be able to just go out and do the trick
Giger you're the man! Keep killin it. Much love from Kansas City!
Recap:
1. Have confidence. You CAN do it!
2. Take baby steps. Build up to the trick.
3. Analyze what you’re doing right and wrong.
4. Stay dedicated!
5. Visualize yourself landing it and how you would do that before you do it!
👍
Ty bitch
Love this! Keep up the amazing work. Everything is possible as long as you have the right attitude, passion, comitment, the willingness and dedication to put in the work and effort. And just believe in yourself, because naturaltalent is and outdated and busted myth and excuse. It just takes away from the effort someone put in to perfect that skill, and it hinders people from pushing beond their personal barriers. So believe in yourself, commit and watch as you excell
This ties in with the confidence tip but I would add to relax. The more I relax while I skate the more tricks I land and the cleaner I land them.
Best suggestions I've heard. Nice work!
Great video, I knew this but now I took it more serious, thank you!
I am always thinking. “One beautiful day, I WILL land it.” ;) ⚡️
Your backdrop there was amazing!
One tip that helped me learn tricks is imagining myself landing it, and then attempting the trick
This is only once Im close-ish to landing it at from there I usually can land it 1st try
I think visualising really helps. Imagine yourself doing the cleanest kickflip, with 100% confidence like its easy and convince yourself you've landed it before you even pop your board. I still don't have kickflips down but I'm getting there.
definitely made me look at things differently , good vid johny
jonny *
Like your Cincinnati chili 3-Way shirt.
Thanks for sharing, always very helpful all your tips.
I started skating 3 days ago. First day I learned to do Ollie and Kickflip pretty consistenty, the second day I did a lot of like pop-shovet and 180 and such. The third day got me really stoked cuz I never did a varial kickflip, but after around 30 attempts I landed Tre flip, and I landed it several times that day. I'm really into skateboarding now :)
Ok. Congrates.
Thanks man all your videos are a big help
Good advice Jonny, thank you for the video!
Thanks Jonny. Where's the game of skate? You, Rademaker ,Pilz, Dario and Fevang. Lets get it bro!
You waxed the Aaron and John...so bad ...... the needed to be REVIVE! lol
Dude when he said that he feels like he knows the tricks better the next day I feel the EXACT same for everything
healthy and smart state of mind
I never tought I would ever be able to popshuv, I can front 540 now :D
Johny big fan please do more tips videos i feel like your a great teacher not like some of these other RUclipsrs we would love to learn from you
I agree
Always like to watch tricks in slow mo, to visualize even better
I would imagine those 5 steps would help with anything they are actually applied towards.... that doesn't mean they are bad, quite the opposite.
Johnny has the best Scenery behind his park(s). Love it lol. We don't have alot of beautiful parks aroun here. Jealous lol. Appreciate the tips man 🤟☠
very helpful tips Johny. also, love that shirt brother .
Thanks for always give us trick and tips , i am yogi from indonesia , specially bali , god bless you
Could you do crooked grind tutorial on Ledges and rails because no other videos helps me
Really good video! And really good tips! These you can apply to learning other things as well!
Do you do pov trick tip tutorials? I’ve been skating like 5 years and I’m decent but that’s one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever heard that can help a lot super helpful video always trying to get better and this was exactly what I was looking for when I searched “how to land my tricks better”
Hey man, I am happy you're doing all these vids, I just went back to skateboarding from not skating for over 10 years,
any tips you have for me to get back in to it?
Waking up and being able to see your feet do a trick also helps ^^ cannot force this thought, it happens when it happens. Also Step 2 is tough ._. motivation is sometimes beyond any imagination, gotta know how to cool down :) Cannot agree more to "Analyze", sometimes I stand there for 10 minutes just thinking ... something is not right yet .. until I get an "aha moment" and land the trick. Visualising the trick, this is super slow progress but it also helps a lot! Sometimes some tricks that are not on-lock yet really need me to see the trick land before I can do it. Weird, but works. But not foreveryone, as there are different type of psychologies o it, some people need to phrase it down, some people can visualise, some people feel it beforehand - anyhow, praring your mind, besides your body, is essential.
Johnny, is that the Cincinnati Chili Spaghetti on your shirt?? Great videos bro, you're a great inspiration as a I get back into skating after 10 years away. Your Rodney videos did it.
Love these tips!! This is really useful thanks!! 😊
I usually try getting passed the mental game telling myself it's not impossible and I can do the tricks despite getting frustrated easily. What I do is keep pushing and maybe a little music to get shit rolling, I found out that keeping your view parallel to the skateboard at all times instead of looking straight forward when you're riding helps. Idk if that made sense but I noticed the difference doing verial kickflip looking straight forward and looking at my feet and board, i think the same applies for when you're moving in motion tricks like 180s and 360s... I've been on and off skating and didnt actually learn real shit until I was a sophomore in high school lol I'm about to be 21 and havent skated too often after I hit 18 but I love getting down still especially on some ledge, many pads, and trying to get used to gaps again but ik I wont ever go as far as anything bigger than 6+ steps lmao. I love doing combo tricks and my buddy is gonna hook me up with a used deck so hopefully I'm not too rusty I actually broke my last deck earlier this year so let's see how far my feet have fallen! Hopefully not too much 😄😄😄 skate is love ❤
super sick, all my support from France ❤
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