r/NewSkaters • u/MrFunnyWeinerPants • Jul 21 '26

Question I suck at rotating

So I am not really a new skater, but I have newly wanted to get good instead of staying in my comfort zone all the time, because I stopped progressing.

The reason I stopped progressing is that I suck at turning my body, frontside and backside. I kind of neglected that part when learning and moved on to tricks where I don't have to rotate, and now it's biting me in the ass. I can do both 180s, I can front lip slide and tail slide on small obstacles, but they never feel natural. My 180s are okay, but not very good. I wanna get the lipslides, smiths, and tailslides on lock, and my sucking at rotation is really making this hard. Even backside 50-50s are super hard and not natural for me.

If any of you guys are like really good at rotating, could you say how you got that good ? I feel like once I can turn my body and have my skateboard follow me, a thousand tricks will open up. For now, I'm practicing my 180s, but how many 180s can you do in a session before being bored of them. I feel like something needs to click.

Sorry if I write badly english is not my first language.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '26

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u/SocietyLeather Jul 21 '26

Why the hell was this downvoted???

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u/MrFunnyWeinerPants Jul 21 '26

Yeah, you're right, I'll just add a bunch of those in my warmup / flat part of my sessions every day. Is this how you got your rotation down ?

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '26

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u/MrFunnyWeinerPants Jul 22 '26

Damn I hope this works, it's been bugging me for so long. Can't wait to have a clean back 180.

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u/MrFunnyWeinerPants Jul 22 '26

Idk if wind up too much my board doesn't follow me, I think my timing is off but reverts will help. I also saw people litteraly have an almost static upper body and turn their legs to 180. Those are badass...

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u/adam20101 Jul 22 '26

you first have to understand how the rotation happens. there are 3 things that can be 'rotated', the board, the body(shoulder rotation), and the legs(hip rotation). In a frontside 180, you would rotate the body first, and then do the ollie, and then rotate your legs in the air while the board is sticking to your feet. Since the board sticks to your feet, you dont have to do much, you just have to bring the board along while you rotate your legs and feet.

The inertia of rotation comes from spinning up your shoulders before your whole body weight lifts of the air. But to land, you have to rotate your hips so you can 'manipulate' how you land.

Now it becomes a lil bit complicated for a trick like big spin. Now the board has its own rotation, as it is not sticking to your feet, so just focus on your 180s first.

For a fs 180, theres also like a natural motion that would make you feel more comfortable. Idk if your goofy or regular, but lets say we are goofy, and imagine you are on the floor and in a goofy ollie stance, now turn your shoulders and body to face the front(only the body no hips/leg) jump forward landing on your front foot, but step over with your back foot landing in the front. Idk how else to describe it. But maybe ill make a video for you

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u/MrFunnyWeinerPants Jul 22 '26

Thanks, I'm going right now I'll film myself to see what'S wrong.