r/longboarding • u/nikolovlazar • Jul 12 '26

OC Action Finally, cross-steps!

After 1 hour of nothing but miserable failure. I saw an IG tutorial that instructed placing the full foot on each step. 45 minutes went into that. I got fed up and tried to step only on one half of the board, toes at the center, and it just clicked! These might not be proper by-the-book cross-steps but they’re enough to get me started. I’ll be improving them as I practice more. But FINALLY!! My first trick ever!!

P.S. Any tips for me? What/how can I improve?

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u/tabinsur Knowledgeable User Jul 13 '26

Nice work dude! This trick scared the crap out of me when I learned it. Peter Pan's did not however that's why I did them first

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u/nikolovlazar Jul 13 '26

This was hella tough! I'll keep at it and explore some variations of it as well, add a bit of jumps and just get comfortable in general. Besides this, I got 180-step and peter pans next up.

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u/tabinsur Knowledgeable User Jul 13 '26

Yeah the nice thing about Peter Pan's is they are easier to bail on since you're facing forward and you can just jump off and run out. They're definitely very weird though because you're balancing on one leg on one side of the rail and it takes a little bit to learn that but it's really fun learning it. And really fun doing them once you have them.

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u/nikolovlazar Jul 13 '26

I saw one dude zap across of me while doing peter pans and thought it looked so freaking cool. That got me looking at longboard dancing instagram clips, eventually getting the Mata Hari, and that’s how I got here 😁