Dreamt I was doing switch manual, switch front 180 outs, very casually and STEEZ AS FUCK.
I was doing them on the pavement of a really damaged street full of cracks and rough ground but it wasn’t effecting me at all.
I can’t switch Ollie up a curb IRL so won’t be attempting to recreate
Please, please, please treat yourself and work on your switch ollies up curbs, switch axle stalls on quarter pipes, switch board slides (back to switch) on flat rails. There’s something extremely satisfying about doing basic switch tricks. Not holy-shit-I’m-killing-it satisfying like when you do a switch 360 flip, more like wooaaaah-this-feels-incredible.
It’s kinda like learning how to speak Russian or Arabic or something, it feels so foreign at first then you get into it and after a while it feels less awkward and you feel like you’ve just entered another dimension.
One of the last times I kicked it with @andy_smoke he had redrilled his wheelbase to make a DIY symmetrical board (a twin nose or a twin tail) and told me about wanting to learn how to carve switch and it totally opened my mind and I started seeing basic switch stuff differently. Been working on that since. Thank you so much smoke!
You know what? Switch backside 5050s on ledges feel fanfuckingtastic. It’s a trick nobody really cares about, I suppose people prefer working on SSBSTSs and switch tres but it feels so awkward in the best way possible. And doing them will make you feel like Quim Cardona and Bobby Puleo, two of the rare people seen doing that one.
Bonus clip from January 23 in order to tell you to get your thumb out of your arse:
I would absolutely love a bit of basic switch. Maybe this summer…
(Not really, I’m too lazy hehe)
@franc stoked!
i’ve been pissing about with switch tictac-ing. it is hilariously hard, humbling, and occassionally easy to progress at. score
Splendid. I do switch tic-tac for fun every once in a while and it is pretty special.
A couple weekends ago a mate and I were at the skatepark quite late, we’d had some beers and started pissing about doing laps in the park, trying to push switch and do switch kick turns on the quarterpipes, it was super fun!
Treat yourself!
