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All tricks learned on the ground will improve your chances of doing them on the vert. So this is nearly an easy move for those who can do them on groun...
All tricks learned on the ground will improve your chances of doing them on the vert. So this is nearly an easy move for those who can do them on ground.
The 360 should only be tried on halfpipes that have a vert section. Pump the vert until you reach the coping on the other side of the vert. The attempt should begin as soon as you leave the transition area. It's important that your start here doing the trick, so you have the time to complete the move, before you hit the transition area.
The beginning time is no longer crucial once you start getting air above the coping, but for now, make sure you commit as soon as hit vertical. The crucial here is timing and commitment. Don't think of yourself as being vertical, rather look at the perspective relative to the ramp. When you look at it this way, you are not vertical at all, if fact it's like skating on the ground. Now just as if you were on the ground, do a 360, making sure to take your hands from out to in (from the body). As I said earlier the timing is important as well as commitment. Give 100% there is room to pull it off! You want to finish the 360 before hitting the transition area. Coming down the transition at an angle backwards is not easy to control. A clue to timing is this:
If you haven't passed 180 degrees before you are on your way back down, you have done it too slow and your chances of completing the move are minimal. At 180 degrees you should be seeing the ramp below you. Once the 360 is complete and you are facing the sky above, put your feet in a spread stance from forward to back. You are now coming down backwards and the spread feet stance will give you stability. Ride down backwards like normal…
540: The 540 is a bit harder than the 360. Some skaters have troubles in the beginning doing this trick. It is not that they can't do it, but they will not let themselves. There isn't that much to it!
Like you would with any spin, you should also practise this trick on flat ground first. Think that you are going to spin like in a 360, but you are also going to land the opposite of what you were facing when you started to turn. For instance, if you are going forwards, think of spinning a lot, and landing backwards. So it is same thought like a 180 that should go through your head – but spin like you would with a 360! That's it!
When you have got the spin, and feel comfortable with your landing, you can add grabs too.
Written by Anders Toxboe on August 4, 2003
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Kevin Parsons
22 Jul, 2004
This trick is kinda hard :(
sam knight
13 Aug, 2004
i love 540s they fun can anyone tell me if theres any flips i can learn on a 6ft mini?
zach caldwell
1 Sep, 2004
If you learn to do a fakie 540, and a frontflip (which is easy). You can easily mix the two to make a 540 misty flip.
Skylar Johnson
13 Nov, 2004
wow you guys are still learnign spins? i can do 900's
Sam Knight
14 Nov, 2004
i can 720 havnt reached 900 on vert yet
nick jacobs
8 Dec, 2004
jesse clark
22 Dec, 2004
540 are the best man especially with a front flip…..i learned them thanks to my freinds trampoline:D
stan swanny
20 Jan, 2005
i know it sounds stupid but i cant get around enough on flatland to do a 360. I can do it on vert but its really bugging me on launchers. Any tips? :(:(:(
Chris Johnson
13 Apr, 2005
540's when done with grabs like lu kang or mute grabs can really make a more so "simple" trick look really good. For most of you people on this site, you guys are like pros so… props to you people.
Lyndon Play
1 May, 2005
I just want to see my name here….. wheelbarrows
Lewis Wundenberg
21 Jul, 2005
your all fags who like ur cuzins child
RAMI ALDOURI
22 Jul, 2005
dis trick is really hard cuz um still a begina so i busted ma nee:(. i hope i could be friends with the other commenters onthe web so my email is ramio_rules@hotmail.com im 13 male cool and is gonna be sombody somtime
jurgen ipple
26 Jul, 2005
i have been blading for 1/2 a year and i just learnt how to 540 and they r easy oh and my email is inlinefreak@hotmail.com and i am 13 male
Taylor NunYourBiz
9 Aug, 2005
i just started to try the vert at my skatepark, i can almost reach the coping pumping from the bottom, idk why everyone thinks 540 are harder than 360, isnt landing fakie from spinning harder?
Jonathan Oram
20 Aug, 2005
I was trying to 360 on to the coping but im a beginner and thats pretty hard, got any tips?
Tom Bedwell
6 Nov, 2005
my legs always cross up when i land and come down the ramp fakie, ne1 got ne tips on how to stop this happenin?
Tanner Aldridge
3 Jan, 2006
U people brag way to much
JOHN castro
7 Jan, 2006
for all the beginers just keep tring your spins you'll get it .
Tony Rutz
20 Jan, 2007
It sucks… I ALWAYS end up going off axis when I hit what would be considered our flybox. (Really its just a 4ft quarter, with a 3ft top and a ramp on the otherside.) Tips?
slim shady
25 Apr, 2007
try fakie 360 its way easier