Some other tips that helped me that Chad has also briefly touched upon in other mini ramp related videos would be: - Start trying to eliminate set up tricks, or replace them with others. The most common set up tricks would definitely be a fakie tail stall, fakie disaster or straight 50 stall and when you're doing multiple ones of those in a row it gets boring. Try skating a mini ramp with the intention of not repeating any tricks and you'll quickly learn what tricks are easier than others, and what tricks can lead into others. - Get used to sliding your wheels, you can start by just chucking powerslides across the ramp but this can quickly be developed into other tricks; nosestall/tailstall reverts, and then reverts out of rocks/disasters. Once you get those you can start stringing them together in lines for some variation, and the same goes for learning pivot's ie 5050 or 5-0 fakies, nosepicks etc. Fakie smith reverts are a really easy one to learn. Once I learned that trick I learned fakie tailstall bs reverts and fs 5050 reverts in as it's all a similar motion. - If you have a preferred side for tricks on a mini ramp whether it be fs or bs, try learning tricks in the opposite way. For me frontside tricks tend to be alot harder and it took me years to get over the fear of FS 5050's , but once you get them you can then learn all the variations out of it. - Watch older videos, there's a lot of mini ramp tricks that don't have as much prominence today but you can throw in ramp lines such as sweepers, tailblocks etc and they have a whole host of variations. - Don't be afraid to put your hands down, laybacks are some of the most fun tricks you can do on a mini ramp. - Most importantly, have fun - if you think a trick is fun and enjoyable, do it. Once you start stepping out of the realm of standard mini ramp tricks and put your own twist on it you can really start having fun with it.
When you say "get light-footed," what do you mean? Like what are the mechanics. I think I know what you mean, but I'm not sure I'm on the right track. Do you mean sort of hop up without actually leaving contact with the board? I'm sure it is probably intuitive to you (and understood by a lot of viewers), but I'm a bit of a wonk sometimes when I'm learning.
You described what I mean by “light footed” pretty well. Try to picture someone coming out of a fakie manual... they don’t necessarily Ollie but they do a little hop to push it off the end.
Try it on some pavement crack that sticks out like a kicker. You do a fakie ollie motion but your tail never hits the ground, board pops of wheel hiting the crack or coping, it's the same motion (somebody called it chinesse ollie)
I hate how I've been skating for like 20 years but cannot do anything frontside on transition. i can do like front rock and roll, tail stall, 5-0 slashes. but that is freaking it.. nosestall revert frontside.. but thats IT. and those flip in tricks look sooo fun i gotta practice more.
Always was a street skater growing up and getting back into skating but mostly just skating mini ramp. You’ve been a huge inspiration with your videos to motivate me to try to learn new tricks
Good there's some people out there willing to share some of their experience,place o go to learn is seem to be packed with stuck up their ars teenagers that forgot they had to learn same stuff at the beginning...and I pay huge respect to all you out there for indeed that's one of the most painful sports out there trying to learn😄
Do you keep your feet in about the same spot on the board when you are just doing grinds and trying to keep a flow? Or do you change it slightly for different grinds, etc? When I try to use my intuation from street skating, it's all wrong. For instance, when I try to air out/pop up onto the deck (over the coping), I put my foot too far back (like a street ollie) and my balance get thrown off when I hit the ramp.
Tip #5 definitely valuable found this out watching someone do nollie bs bigspin to 50-50, gave it a try myself and nowhere near close yet after about 200 attempts it now spins into position in another 200 attempts I can see I'll get at least 1 foot on landing it
Big disagree with tip 5. My tip 5 would be a willingness to wear pads. I see so many skaters out there unwilling to pad up. If you're learning new tricks, get them locked with pads on, then take the pads off. I learned that from rock climbing a lot. You don't go free solo a climb immediately. You climb it with a rope until it feels automatic, then you free solo. To each their own, but don't be afraid to try--good helmet and pads are relatively cheap these days. Thanks globalization!
Hey man - I used to skate Oil City with you after-hours w/ JJ & Anthony like 10 years ago. Good to see you're still skating and the channel is awesome! Nice work bro!
So, a Chinese nollie is a effective thing to learn. Everyone thought I was dumb for doing them cause it's not a "real" trick. But helps for mini ramp...
To everyone who just started or has been a skating for little time. Remember, all these good skaters say the amount of time they’ve put in. So you wanna be good, 10+ years is the goal.
I've got a decent amount of flip tricks on mini and it just blows my mind that the fakie flip disaster was the first one you learned. I've been trying that forever and just can't ever get it to work!
That was great Chad, learning to pop your wheels off the coping changes the game. Do you think we could get a how to bs/fs air on transition. I'm just getting the hang of fs but bs scares the shit out of me.
Thanks dude! I can't wait to try some new mini ramp tricks. I'm mostly into manuals and grinds cus I usually fall hard on any attempts of vert tricks so I'm usually very hesitant. But these tips just might do the job. 👌
Could you do a video covering crooked stall reverts? Straight up struggling with them at the moment. Or a three part vid on skating ledges? Great content by the way.
Such a casual cap. You can't do any of these. On the off chance you can, you should be fking happy - because noone's learning a fakie flip disaster after only riding for 5 months.
I think it’s really cool that Vince Vaughn got into skating.
This guy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Omg now that's all I hear
Lol sick
LMFAOOO
Holy shit this is hilarious and amazing haha
For years I've been wondering who he reminded me of, and you have just figured it out.
Amazing 🤣
Great info about bumping the wheels. I HATE going fakie on a mini, but that fakie inwards heel to tail stall looks so damn sick.
why not go switch instead
for some reason I'm way more comfortable riding down fakie than I am doing a kick turn and going down regular.
Oooh hi! The Kid on bike, it was me 😃
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Nice to meet u
PrincipiantesBMX we don’t care
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Hard earned golden eggs of knowledge. Thanks man. If there is a 'magic circle' for skateboarding secrets they will be after you Chad.
Mr Ed join me in
I’ll get here eventually. I just started learning some mini ramps things and I’m excited to learn more on it
So glad I found your Chanel after 5 years of only flat ground and street skating all I wanna do is look comfortable on transition
5 is key.
All about that scoop vs pop, in my opinion :D
Awesome tips Chad! You explain things so good, makes me wanna try shit immeditatly. 💕
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Some other tips that helped me that Chad has also briefly touched upon in other mini ramp related videos would be:
- Start trying to eliminate set up tricks, or replace them with others. The most common set up tricks would definitely be a fakie tail stall, fakie disaster or straight 50 stall and when you're doing multiple ones of those in a row it gets boring. Try skating a mini ramp with the intention of not repeating any tricks and you'll quickly learn what tricks are easier than others, and what tricks can lead into others.
- Get used to sliding your wheels, you can start by just chucking powerslides across the ramp but this can quickly be developed into other tricks; nosestall/tailstall reverts, and then reverts out of rocks/disasters. Once you get those you can start stringing them together in lines for some variation, and the same goes for learning pivot's ie 5050 or 5-0 fakies, nosepicks etc. Fakie smith reverts are a really easy one to learn. Once I learned that trick I learned fakie tailstall bs reverts and fs 5050 reverts in as it's all a similar motion.
- If you have a preferred side for tricks on a mini ramp whether it be fs or bs, try learning tricks in the opposite way. For me frontside tricks tend to be alot harder and it took me years to get over the fear of FS 5050's , but once you get them you can then learn all the variations out of it.
- Watch older videos, there's a lot of mini ramp tricks that don't have as much prominence today but you can throw in ramp lines such as sweepers, tailblocks etc and they have a whole host of variations.
- Don't be afraid to put your hands down, laybacks are some of the most fun tricks you can do on a mini ramp.
- Most importantly, have fun - if you think a trick is fun and enjoyable, do it. Once you start stepping out of the realm of standard mini ramp tricks and put your own twist on it you can really start having fun with it.
When you say "get light-footed," what do you mean? Like what are the mechanics. I think I know what you mean, but I'm not sure I'm on the right track.
Do you mean sort of hop up without actually leaving contact with the board? I'm sure it is probably intuitive to you (and understood by a lot of viewers), but I'm a bit of a wonk sometimes when I'm learning.
You described what I mean by “light footed” pretty well. Try to picture someone coming out of a fakie manual... they don’t necessarily Ollie but they do a little hop to push it off the end.
And move your weight to the tip toe AND the balls of your feet
Try it on some pavement crack that sticks out like a kicker. You do a fakie ollie motion but your tail never hits the ground, board pops of wheel hiting the crack or coping, it's the same motion (somebody called it chinesse ollie)
Like the scraping the tail up the transition tip. Fakie pop board slides use to be one of my favourite tricks. Want to get that back.
Great content in this video. Have not seen any other tutorials mention the things you just did. Keep up the good work!
Appreciate that Andres!
I hate how I've been skating for like 20 years but cannot do anything frontside on transition. i can do like front rock and roll, tail stall, 5-0 slashes. but that is freaking it.. nosestall revert frontside.. but thats IT. and those flip in tricks look sooo fun i gotta practice more.
Always was a street skater growing up and getting back into skating but mostly just skating mini ramp. You’ve been a huge inspiration with your videos to motivate me to try to learn new tricks
Good there's some people out there willing to share some of their experience,place o go to learn is seem to be packed with stuck up their ars teenagers that forgot they had to learn same stuff at the beginning...and I pay huge respect to all you out there for indeed that's one of the most painful sports out there trying to learn😄
tom penny killed it in menkimati i think it was. or pj ladds horrible wonderful life. wait no yeh. lol
That last tip wasn’t just about skating, but also about life in general.
I know it sounds dumb when I skate for 4 years but I am new to mini ramps and always bail on a mini ramp
Do you keep your feet in about the same spot on the board when you are just doing grinds and trying to keep a flow? Or do you change it slightly for different grinds, etc? When I try to use my intuation from street skating, it's all wrong.
For instance, when I try to air out/pop up onto the deck (over the coping), I put my foot too far back (like a street ollie) and my balance get thrown off when I hit the ramp.
My feet basically stay in the same position. Sometimes there are small tweaks but for most of the grinds I would say my feet stay the same
@@ChadCaruso Rad- thanks for the super fast response!
I learned bs feeble fakie out on mini ramp today , I love ❤
Just gotta send it! And practice more and more haha
Wish my park had a mini ramp, I'm still too sketched of dropping in on the bowl
I like this guy seems down to earth
Verry helpfull chad
Why this man is showing only fakie / nollie pop tricks wtf
Hey! Sorry about that l! I’ve done many videos at all different levels and this one was to try help people flip there boards on ramps nollie or fakie.
B/c he's epic.
Tip #5 definitely valuable found this out watching someone do nollie bs bigspin to 50-50, gave it a try myself and nowhere near close yet after about 200 attempts it now spins into position in another 200 attempts I can see I'll get at least 1 foot on landing it
I assume u got it by now 😂
absolute fucking gold
Whats a good wheel for transition?
Big disagree with tip 5. My tip 5 would be a willingness to wear pads. I see so many skaters out there unwilling to pad up. If you're learning new tricks, get them locked with pads on, then take the pads off. I learned that from rock climbing a lot. You don't go free solo a climb immediately. You climb it with a rope until it feels automatic, then you free solo. To each their own, but don't be afraid to try--good helmet and pads are relatively cheap these days. Thanks globalization!
Great insight, Chad. And always gotta just try... you never know if you don't give em a go.
Hey man - I used to skate Oil City with you after-hours w/ JJ & Anthony like 10 years ago. Good to see you're still skating and the channel is awesome! Nice work bro!
So, a Chinese nollie is a effective thing to learn. Everyone thought I was dumb for doing them cause it's not a "real" trick. But helps for mini ramp...
To everyone who just started or has been a skating for little time. Remember, all these good skaters say the amount of time they’ve put in. So you wanna be good, 10+ years is the goal.
Hey Chad, Our local mini ramp was built in the 90s and the middle really rough. Have you got any tips?
Great advice, been having problems with fakie kickflip disasters and have fakie ollie disaters on lock. Thanks Mate!
too stoked to skate the mini now..!!!!!!
I've got a decent amount of flip tricks on mini and it just blows my mind that the fakie flip disaster was the first one you learned. I've been trying that forever and just can't ever get it to work!
will be givin that fakie flip disaster a go next skate! I learned bs feebles on quarter pipe today, love your content mate!
Love your channel bro hell yeah
That was great Chad, learning to pop your wheels off the coping changes the game. Do you think we could get a how to bs/fs air on transition. I'm just getting the hang of fs but bs scares the shit out of me.
Fakir flip disaster🔥🔥 definitely gonna try these
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is that hempstead skatepark? live in florida but from new york cant wait to visit to skate there! big fan of u chad!
03:40 demon voice
can you show us some flat ground trick tips in details? Thanks
Tip 5 is the one
thanks man. love the way you trim this one video to exactly correct length
Thanks dude! I can't wait to try some new mini ramp tricks. I'm mostly into manuals and grinds cus I usually fall hard on any attempts of vert tricks so I'm usually very hesitant. But these tips just might do the job. 👌
Chad is very good and persistent similar to old-school manu chayms, Great
Could you do a video covering crooked stall reverts? Straight up struggling with them at the moment. Or a three part vid on skating ledges? Great content by the way.
I haven't skated in years but these trick tips were clear and made perfect sense👌
Aces Chad
Awesome advice man! Thank you
And here I thought we'd be learning some axel stall tips lolol. K fakie inward heel up a quarter here we go 😂
Sorry about that. I have a bunch of beginner mini ramp tutorials on my channel as well.
I’m actually first wtf
awesome tips.....and real advice!
Mate.. that fakie inward heel.. Great vid Chad.
Your videos are so great- good info and a lot of upbeat inspiration! Thanks!
Trying the bumps next time I skate :)
Thanx Teacher! Great video, has always! 👌
Great as always! The last one especially in some occasions some tricks might come easy to you that are hard for others.
Love your vids dude thanks so much
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Great video!
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Nice Chad
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Hey
Tip #5 is my biggest problem ☹️
For the first time ever since I started skating 5 months ago, I feel like these are too easy. I'm so fking happy to know that I made amazing progress.
Such a casual cap. You can't do any of these. On the off chance you can, you should be fking happy - because noone's learning a fakie flip disaster after only riding for 5 months.
3:25 was so clean
Good insights and always helpful!