How I learned Inverts...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- The skateboard trick that changed my life, inverts!
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This was a life hammer, and ya'll truly helped me accomplish it!
Love it zack. Fuuuuuuucm you rule. What size aces you rockin?
See my invert trick TIP/invert hack in comments⬇️ mate. It should seriously help you, a lot, on them!🤙
@@marcusprince3999 where at?
@@marissac870 In "comments." You are currently in "replies" under the very first "comment."
dude hell yea thank you for this! Im in a similar scenario trying to learn these. Thanks again bro
Nice one Zack! Great mentality! If I may say, on your best makes, you ride straight up and down the transition. On your worst bails, you have too much approach angle and that makes the board fly away and it is harder to bring it back under you.
Keep it up dude. It is great seeing these progress videos. Maximum stoke for you from Sweden!
This was so awesome to see! The battles in skating are so intense and it's so rad to see the moments of victory. Your videos are always inspiring and encouraging. Inspired me to try to learn spine transfers this weekend. A trick I've been scared to try.
Congratulations!! Now you've got this 52 year old wanting to do them again
Almost fifty here and feeling the same.
Let's go!!! SO hyped to see this! Really inspirational man! I have to try to get better at these as well. Thank you for this video!
I work on a computer all day as well and know that feeling of my eyes getting sensitive and watery. Usually I just need to close them. Rest them for a few minutes and that helps.
Congrats man!!! Your video captures the struggle, the persistance, the almost-there-but-not-quite and the subtle changes in your approach really well. And the grand finale, the moment you made it! I actually jumped up from my chair and cheered for you.
My dude I just spent 14mins and 8seconds cheering you on shouting at the TV!! Genuinely happy you smashed it man, so stoked for you. Love watching your journey keep it up. Hyped dude
So rad. Sweet victory! Thanks for sharing the battle. Inspiring!
Repetition, with corrections untill exhaustion to turn it into perfection.
I am stocked for you Dowdy.
Congratulations brother. Enjoy your new trick.
Really really happy for you man.
These two videos are so great to watch! Have battled the invert low on transition and have always dreamed of doing it on coping. So inspiring! great to see the first video and your progression and loved that you posted it even without the make. Was rooting for you the whole time! Awesome!
so rad dude! hard work paid off!
Congrats!!!
Mad respect to you Zack at how old you are learning inverts at how old you are 👏 👏 👏 ❤
Hell yeah dude, congrats on finally landing that 🤘🏼
Maybe try magnesium supplements for the locked up muscle thing, might help
Hell yeah man, I’ve been dreaming of that trick myself. Glad you got it done
Yes, yes, yes...go one step at a time. This will definitely help you avoid injury and help master the trick.
Congrats Zack!! So dope!!
Awesome!!! So happy for you. Inverts are my dream trick. Been working at them for about 10 months. Just started grabbing the coping 4-5 days ago. Your video might help me finally get them.
Well done Zack. Felt enough emotion to think I had landed the invert. Inspiring stuff
Zack you are a warrior for shure! Such a great sucess story i love it
So glad to see your progression! Thnx skateboarding, thnx Dowdy! I'm gonna start learning it from the beginning! So encouraging
Congratulations! So happy for you!🔥💯💪
Thank you for the inspiration! As someone who started skating at age 38 your videos are such a great resource.
Thanks Eddie!
LOVED THIS! so happy for you dowdy! the hype in this video is so contagious!!
Amazing! I’m happy for you landing your dream trick. So sick!
My man! Great video felt like I was there cheering you on!
So proud of you brother!!!!! That was sweet. Man I would Have Been so chuffed to do that under the coping. Well done sir, smooth!!!!
Yes!!! Stoked for you Zack! Also about the brightness when skating I advise moving to the UK and you will never have that problem again. Awesome effort, first make looked rad too
Thanks for sharing your battle with us Zak , cool to watch your moment
Of celebration with your friend Big Al
Special times🙌
Loved watching your process! Inspires me to get my backside airs and inverts too! Congratulations!!
Great invert Zack I'm so proud of you Brother!!!
Gaaah! I'm so excited for you, man! I've been working on these on my miniramp and it was sooooo great to watch you get it. I feel like it's possible now! Dude, I don't know you but I'm so stoked for you right now!
Yes that's so rad, super happy you got it. 😍👊🥳 Brought tears of joy, thank you skateboarding. 👑
Ive been using a strap that i can loosen and tighten for my glasses/sunglasses so they dont wiggle around at all when i skate. Helps when my eyes are super sensitive (mine get real bad). love watching the process
Dream trick! Definitely going to try this one on Go Skateboarding Day! Regarding the tight thigh muscle I have two suggestions. Try the couch stretch to loosen the muscle. And check out kneesovertoesguy's ATG Split Squat. Not only does that exercise stretch the hip flexors but strengthens your knee.
for cramping, try to make sure you are drinking enough water, maybe even a banana before hitting the park. For the eye issue, Oakley full turbos have been the only shades. I can skate in. Will also wear a hat with a bandana underneath blocking the sun out of my peripheral vision. As for the invert, landed a couple late last year and it gave me an even stronger love for skateboarding. Hoping to have my knee and wrist healed up soon so i can be doing more. Love your videos, keep it up!
Congrats! Such a motivating video
hey Zack! another cool video, thanks and congrats on the invert! I've faced the same problem with my eyes from time to time, when its bright out not being able to see and have to keep the eyes closed. I never heard of a remedy for this, and think you just have to sit it out and wait till the eyes get used to the sunlight..
Yes!! ! so sickkķ!¡ congrats man. that's definitely a bucket list trick for so many skaters. but that learning process can be discouraging at times.
Congrats man. So sick. Good job.
Congrats bro!! Stoked
The thigh issues is happening to my too when practicing a lot of early grabs, it comes from your legs pushing to get you into air. About the bright light issue. I use regular sport sunglasses made of plastic, they never move alot, but you also can get like a rubber strap to keep them in place. Only issues i noticed, with helmets they can be annoying and also if you are sweating a lot, the drops can fall in there.
I get that eye issue a lot in the mornings when I leave my house. The best thing that has helped is to begin adjusting my eyes to brighter light as I get ready to leave. I’ll open the windows, turn the brightness up on my phone, and adjust the brightness in my room to 100% using my smart bulbs.
I nearly cried… great job!!!
Inspiring to watch. Great self-efficacy!
Loving this Zack and what an achievement!... it's amazing that you talk about a move being scary then proceed to perfectly execute that rock & roll way up high on that bowl! I do it on a 2 foot ramp and am traumatised!
fuck yeah Dowdy!!! that invert was awesome keep it up ur killing it🔥🔥🔥💯
Yeah dude that was so good! So happy for you 👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼
Sick. Really showing the battle it can take for tricks.
Congrats man! Love to see it!
Awesome journey bro. Congrats. You were spending a lot of time going up quite sideways. In the end you need to go straight up and down. Also to start off it's less a sad type of grab/position but more stinkbug which helps to lay the base. Then your rear part goes up straight and board comes down more centered. I used to do'em 25 years ago. Now it makes me want to try again ! 😊
Love doing inverts. I find it’s one of those tricks where i have to try to get it but I end up doing at least one every session
Congrats Brother! I never learned it on the coping myself. Only on the transition. Can't wait to you progress and do ba sadplant next! Keep bringing the Heat! 👊💥🤘
I had the biggest smile on my face when you started getting close. Congratulations man, hope the trick was worth all that effort... because i'll definitely be making this journey one of these days :D
1,000 times cooler and more satisfying then going to the gym. Your a legend dude. They all look like inverts in my book. Stoked you got it. Time to get it wired now. Hyped or what?
The sun seems so much brighter this summer. Been having a hard time keeping my eyes open here in AZ
Stoked for you dude well done !
I think as skateboarders we can all relate to the hours, days, months, years or hard grind (pun intended 😉) it sometimes takes to get that illusive dream trick that you can’t seem to imagine actually finally happening. And then when you actually land one, the rush, disbelief and total amazement that it truly happened is incomparable to almost any thing else - this is why we do it!
Totally inspirational stuff keep doing what you do 👊🏼🔥
Hell yea man !!! Congrats!!
Hell yeah, dude! That was awesome!
Knee slide you’re thigh is locking up when you run away
al going 'YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH" on the replay loooll
Wow congrats dude. That sick.
Great to see the journey to success!
I'm sure the surf homies can recommend some shades.
Nice editing by the way, slo mo of the make has the audio at full speed so we don't get the Cow voice. Thanks
big day !!!
I'm on the journey to !
try miller flip now ;)
Awesome video, good vibes too, makes me want to get out and skate, I've recently started skating at 28 years old and uploaded a few progress videos but no where near as good as you aha maybe one day
Slow and steady wins the race. You did it basically without any bad bails. I would count those “tile” attempts, because it was just like 2 inches under the coping, but I understand that wasnt “it”. I think those invert tricks are a huge mental game. I would probably never try it myself
Yeahhhh duuude!!! Been following your journey...I actually yelled out loud when you landed it!! Woo hooo
👏👏👏 keep being super, man ! I’ll keep watching. Shred on !
nice. there's a park with bowls reasonably close to me, i'd love to learn to ride them but they're pretty intimidating. been on my board a bit lately and it feels good. maybe i'll get some knee pads and try it
Something that bothers me and I need to watch out for as a 35 year-old skater, stretch out your IT band. Putting one of your pinky toes on top of the other and crossing your legs, then bending towards the hip of the leg that is crossed over the other is a great stretch for the IT band. Look into stretching that muscle to see if it helps with your locking up symptoms. Also, water helps with me with feeling stiff or tired after a few attempts at something.
I use knoxville xl from electric visual and they dont move at all when skating, but it took me a while to get used to and now even if i dont need them i have to use them to skate otherwise i feel weird.
I second magnesium, i take one pill before skating in the morning and one pill at night, supposedly it helps with recovery too, so you dont feel like sht if you skate for 2 consecutive days or more.
This is what skating is about!
Dream of mine since I was a kid in the 80's....., need to work on this #lifehammer 🔨
Hell yeah dude!!! ❤️🔥
I can just do inverts on a small mini ramp without the holding my hand on the coping....Man I really wanna learn to do inverts on coping!
Zack i have a pair of happy hour Herman's that put a lil like strap of elastic that clips on the arms of the glasses behind my ears the like make them more like goggles in a way so I can skate in AZ summers and not trip on my shades flying off
Yeah Man! You did it! I'm second hand stoked!
Mate I don't know for others but for me this is something. I feel like a kid that has just watched a skate vid (VHS) and runs to the street to skate.
I've set the alarm and tomorrow super early I'll be at the Bowl before adult life kidnap me for the rest of the day.
Thank you!
Stoked!
So learning on a steeper wall will be easier to get the board up?
You just have to pull like a backflip as hard as you can when you get on the coping... It's really easy Kind of because like i skate for only a year and I can barely 50 50 on coping and I can do handplants... And they took me about 3 monthy
hell yeah man! so gnar
Hell yeah dude!!
I feel like I just learned inverts from this lol congrats that was sick to see the progress!
TIP: Fling out, and for the last half of the invert pull your hands towards each other (basically like you are trying to connect them to each other). I achieved a ninety something percent make rate on my inverts when I figured that out. I might have actually explained this tip more in depth (in comments) under your last video.👍🤙 For more, see my "reply" to my own comment here⬇️. Lol.🤷♂️🤪
Part of what helps so much by realizing this, is that you are taking the arm and hand that you grab the board with, and pulling the board directly to the spot that you need it to be (to ride out) and placing it, setting it down RIGHT there. This technique works better on a fairly straight up and down invert, than say a super carved out invert, ally oop, etc. Good luck and happy inverting sir.🤙
My dumbass was looking for a video. Silly me
@@marcusprince3999 I'd say that's why alley ooping it gives a good swang
@@marissac870 Lol. I'm actually thinking of starting a channel. Maybe i will end up making a video on them some time. Yes sir, any of the inverts that i stalled out back in the day, i slightly ally ooped into them, just enough that they probably looked super straight up and down. If you know Zack, please tell him check out my trick tip. I've left it in "comments" under both of these "invert" videos.🤙
if your visions blurring while skating you should prob take a break. and wait for your eyes. most sessions if my visions giving out, its a sign to take a break, if you force it youll hurt yourself.
It happened to me a lot
help with knee pad cramps ?i hate em they ruin the sesh
No way. sweet! Very nice.
I need a helmet like that
Knee is locking up because of all that impact running down that huge transition. Knee slide, mate. That's what the pads are for.
You’re so right! Once I started knee sliding more it didn’t lock up as much.
@@ZackDowdy love it! Cannot underestimate the power of the knee slide.
@@kyotogenerator bro I totally underestimated what kneesliding from 9am to 9 pm the other day, all day at my homies 10 ft vrt ramp would do to my ankles cause I don't pad up all the time. Whooooo my feet were burning the next day. I was like damn. Kneesliding/ pads love em. Getting used to it.
Congrats ✌️
I worked outside for years, the brightness issue could be a squinting issue, try relaxing your forehead and look through the landscape instead of at the landscape..
Whats that song you always have?
I find them easier if I go a little ally-oop-ish towards the coping:)
what musik is this at 4:30 ?
INSPIRATION
thats my local
Awesome
Congratulations!
Just a fun question. How many tries do you think it took?
Over 300
@@ZackDowdy nice. That gives me a good grasp of how long it will take me. Thanks mate.
And then it becomes a 1 out of 200. 1 out of 100. 1 out of 90. 80 75 72. TRIES , to get the one that is like the picture perfect one you know was " perfect" stalled out and stretched . It's one of those tricks / moves. Definitely a marathon thing. Mind melting discouraging , one I've punished myself by not doing , depriving myself cause then the one you throw down randomly.. Usually the first on an occoasion . . It's like that was the one. Taking time away and then just throwing it Ahhhhh when the handplant becomes the invert. Sorry for my ramble. But yeah I'm just learning how to bail out of them weirdly enough. Basically I did ones I wasn't proud of but were up to par. I feel proud when I toss one away. That means I'm going somewhere further with it. Congrats 👏 zack
@@jens-peterjensen2585 oh yeah. And alley ooping them !!! Gets you upside down