*Awesome location for the video with that bridgd!* 🤙🏽⚡️🤟🏽⚡️👌🏽 I'm still workin on my kick-push, to get it more smooth, efficient and improve my push style. Never saw/heard that walk motion for gettin better at it, thanks!
Mr Linpaul, great video! Here’s a question I have as a beginner. When you’re going down a long hill, (like maybe the Brooklyn or Manhattan bridge bike paths) are you just letting the board get as fast as it can, or do you periodically foot brake to limit your speed? As a beginner I try not to ride faster than I can brake, and my foot braking technique needs a lot of work, so on hills I’m constantly foot braking to limit how fast I get. I’m nervous of going too fast, and not being able to make an emergency stop.
Take your take and go slow to start. Your instincts to only go as fast as you can break is good. Eventually you’ll build up confidence and skill at higher speeds, but for now keep braking so you make it to those days🥴. Eventually you’ll get used to the hills, and be able to go longer stretches without braking, but bear in mind even experienced downhillers are controlling their speeds with speed checks and pendy slides. It’s all about maintaining a speed that you can control confidently.
@@linpaul Let me ask you a more direct question. I recently watched your video of you doing the 5 borough bike tour on your board (which btw that in and of itself deserves a medal). I’m from NY, so I know how long the Verrazano is when you’re riding back into SI at the end of the ride. For you personally, how did you manage your speed for that decline? Are you cool with just riding it at the speed the board took you, or were you taking action to limit your speed?
@@takethecurseOFFwashingmachine if it was dry I’d have sent it as much as I was comfortable, but since it was wet and I didn’t wanna slip out and die, I was braking a majority of the time
Your front foot is your non-dominant foot. It's the one you use for stability while your dominant back foot does the finesse actions. If you think about kicking a ball, for instance, you'll find you want to use your back foot.
It’s the exact opposite and skateboarding is different to football. You balance on your dominant foot. And often you use both feet for tricks so that’s kinda redundant. The only thing you typically use your back foot for is pushing, popping, or scooping. The front foot balances, slides, and flicks. Skating switch is different obviously.
@@linpaul no, you misunderstand me. TL;DR goofy stance is left footed and regular is right footed. The lead leg is NOT the dominant foot. Your feet have a dominant and non-dominant foot, just like hands. This doesn't change for the activity you do. All those tests you show are to figure out which foot is dominant naturally. If you get pushed, you step forward with your NON-DOMINANT foot. This is because its job is to stabilise you. However, the kick test will show that you plant the non-dominant foot for stability and kick with the dominant foot for control. Same with your hands, you grip the jar with your stabilising hand and twist the lid with control hand. I'm a sports therapist who specialises in side dominance!
i used to have a lot of problem with foot stops UNTIL last week when i realized if you point your toe up so your stopping foot is more heel down first. that made it 10000% easier to figure it out and to modulate. one thing thats still getting me though, is i get mad foot cramps(just the feet, moreso front. rest of leg is completely fine) while boarding, and thats only like 2 miles. what do i do?!? am i trying to balance with my toes too much?
I’ve noticed that switching my push feet helps stretch out the fascia on the bottom of my feet. Like the act of pushing ACTIVELY STRETCHES the foot muscles. Also you could take short breaks and roll out the bottom of your foot with a tennis or lacrosse ball. And to be honest the best way is just to push through the pain (incrementally) and slower skate more and more. So like if you usually skate 2 miles, do 2.5, then work up to 3, and so on. Eventually your muscles will fatigue less at lower mileage and your stamina, tolerance, and muscular endurance will increase!
@@linpaul let it be known. Boarders United 🙏🏽, short or long it’s skateboarding. ROLLER SKATE BOARD from roller skates. The first ever commercially sold skateboard was 22 inches “long” so if you think about it everything after 1955 was LONG 😀
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Thanks! I've never owned a skateboard before, and my longboard arrives on Saturday!
YURRR HAVE FUN DUDE
*Awesome location for the video with that bridgd!*
🤙🏽⚡️🤟🏽⚡️👌🏽
I'm still workin on my kick-push, to get it more smooth, efficient and improve my push style. Never saw/heard that walk motion for gettin better at it, thanks!
Ayyy things take time, best of luck on your journey!
Mr Linpaul, great video! Here’s a question I have as a beginner. When you’re going down a long hill, (like maybe the Brooklyn or Manhattan bridge bike paths) are you just letting the board get as fast as it can, or do you periodically foot brake to limit your speed? As a beginner I try not to ride faster than I can brake, and my foot braking technique needs a lot of work, so on hills I’m constantly foot braking to limit how fast I get. I’m nervous of going too fast, and not being able to make an emergency stop.
Take your take and go slow to start. Your instincts to only go as fast as you can break is good. Eventually you’ll build up confidence and skill at higher speeds, but for now keep braking so you make it to those days🥴. Eventually you’ll get used to the hills, and be able to go longer stretches without braking, but bear in mind even experienced downhillers are controlling their speeds with speed checks and pendy slides. It’s all about maintaining a speed that you can control confidently.
@@linpaul Thanks so much, I appreciate the advice
No problem!!
@@linpaul Let me ask you a more direct question. I recently watched your video of you doing the 5 borough bike tour on your board (which btw that in and of itself deserves a medal). I’m from NY, so I know how long the Verrazano is when you’re riding back into SI at the end of the ride. For you personally, how did you manage your speed for that decline? Are you cool with just riding it at the speed the board took you, or were you taking action to limit your speed?
@@takethecurseOFFwashingmachine if it was dry I’d have sent it as much as I was comfortable, but since it was wet and I didn’t wanna slip out and die, I was braking a majority of the time
Your front foot is your non-dominant foot. It's the one you use for stability while your dominant back foot does the finesse actions.
If you think about kicking a ball, for instance, you'll find you want to use your back foot.
It’s the exact opposite and skateboarding is different to football. You balance on your dominant foot. And often you use both feet for tricks so that’s kinda redundant. The only thing you typically use your back foot for is pushing, popping, or scooping. The front foot balances, slides, and flicks. Skating switch is different obviously.
@@linpaul no, you misunderstand me.
TL;DR goofy stance is left footed and regular is right footed. The lead leg is NOT the dominant foot.
Your feet have a dominant and non-dominant foot, just like hands. This doesn't change for the activity you do.
All those tests you show are to figure out which foot is dominant naturally. If you get pushed, you step forward with your NON-DOMINANT foot. This is because its job is to stabilise you. However, the kick test will show that you plant the non-dominant foot for stability and kick with the dominant foot for control.
Same with your hands, you grip the jar with your stabilising hand and twist the lid with control hand.
I'm a sports therapist who specialises in side dominance!
i used to have a lot of problem with foot stops UNTIL last week when i realized if you point your toe up so your stopping foot is more heel down first. that made it 10000% easier to figure it out and to modulate.
one thing thats still getting me though, is i get mad foot cramps(just the feet, moreso front. rest of leg is completely fine) while boarding, and thats only like 2 miles. what do i do?!? am i trying to balance with my toes too much?
I’ve noticed that switching my push feet helps stretch out the fascia on the bottom of my feet. Like the act of pushing ACTIVELY STRETCHES the foot muscles. Also you could take short breaks and roll out the bottom of your foot with a tennis or lacrosse ball. And to be honest the best way is just to push through the pain (incrementally) and slower skate more and more. So like if you usually skate 2 miles, do 2.5, then work up to 3, and so on. Eventually your muscles will fatigue less at lower mileage and your stamina, tolerance, and muscular endurance will increase!
Longboard is a type of skateboard
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@@linpaul let it be known. Boarders United 🙏🏽, short or long it’s skateboarding. ROLLER SKATE BOARD from roller skates. The first ever commercially sold skateboard was 22 inches “long” so if you think about it everything after 1955 was LONG 😀
For sure
when u ready for the esk8 world? 😝🫡
Haha maybe not for a little while, but maybe soon…