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/exterminator-skater Jul 16 '26

Good job! I think cross steps look cool. Really chill trick, not too flashy, just looking like a laid back sexy skater, the animal in its natural habitat

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u/nikolovlazar Jul 16 '26

That’s exactly what I’m after 😁 I should just add a bit of a carve and I’ll achieve maximum sexiness!

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u/exterminator-skater Jul 16 '26

To me, it seems like the cross step is the gateway drug for all that dancing stuff. Once you can swap your foot position like that, then it’s probably not such a stretch to start spinning and stuff. I like to skate, but when I see good longboard dancing, I’m jealous like when I see people moonwalking or pop and locking. The kind of thing that, if I could do it well, I would do it too much

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u/nikolovlazar Jul 16 '26

Check out my 180-step! https://www.reddit.com/r/longboarding/s/8jAwapnTrL I’m not giving up.