Higher Ollie and Vlog

 Higher Ollie and Vlog

                Last week, we learned how to pop-shuvit. this week, we learned how to Ollie higher than before and clean the Ollie itself up. To start off, we wanted to start our forward foot closer to the middle of the board and further back. This way, when you pop the board up by pressing down on the back of the board, the board has more room to come up rather than be limited by your foot placement. Therefore when you even out, you have Ollied much higher and looks much better. Right now, we are working on creating a YouTube channel to further our reach out to kids that need inspiration. This will be a great platform for us to post more videos on our journey. Furthermore, we hope to grow our audience by doing so.

Now here is a vlog we made talking about our experience with our Genus Hour project so far.

College Effect

        
           

 College Effect

 
                        This week, we will be talking about the effect this project will have on our lives through college. For me, Cameron, Genius Hour is a great opportunity to express what we love and show the passion we have for it. Being able to show off to colleges and stand out is very important for a student to do and this project will help us accomplish that. While our personal project may not change the world, it will however, change peoples opinions on life. Motivation is very important and if colleges look for someone who created a movement for people to get out and do what they want to do, that is exactly what we are trying to convey.  Given that there are scholarships for everything, we could also seek a scholarship that would help us along the way in college. As a sophomore, I struggle to decide which college I may want to attend but that is the benefit of Genius Hour. If we take our project and push it to the limits, the colleges will be coming to us.  Finding something that can help you in not just college but also in life is very hard but Genius Hour helps you do exactly that. Also, while the aspect of skating itself is not very logical in the end goal of life, our aspect of the tenacity of trying something new that could potentially hurt or injure us with no experience at all... That is what will help us in life from this project. I am so glad we have the opportunity to do Genius Hour in our English class and we cannot wait to see the benefits toward college.

Update #3

Long term goals

This week, we looked in at the long term affects this project will have on our lives. 

            Out of all the things and possibilities to do on this project, why would we chose skateboarding, it won't deeply affect peoples lives and change it forever. It has the possibility to motivate, however. The process of this project is to demonstrate to people that anyone can do almost anything they set their mind to through the help of others such as professionals. Through the rest of high school, moving into college, we will be able to reflect on this experience and have a feeling of success knowing our accomplishments and how we learned something new. Learning something new is always an accomplishment especially when it is a task which will give much fruit from its labor. Our fruit being learning new tricks and being able to teach others.
            For this coming week, Cameron and Alexander will be focusing on board control, with is basically feeling comfortable on your board. Board control is key to skaters because if one does not have good board control, it will be very hard to perform almost every trick.

The Pop Shuvit

update #2

The Pop Shuvit.

            Last week, we learned how to ollie, one of the most important tricks to learn. This week on learning to skate, we taught ourselves to shuvit, here are our tips to landing it! The shuvit perhaps is the most basic trick in the book, even simpler than the Ollie (which we explained and taught you how to do in our previous blog). The shuvit is simply rotating the board  180 degrees (aka.  half or semicircle). The first key to successfully landing a shuvit is keeping your balance, then you want to keep your front foot steady in the middle of the board while you kick back your rear foot resting on the tail. Even when your board is in rotation, the front foot should remain in the middle, the middle foot serves as a guide for the board so it will not flip out or backwards form your feet. Major key two- always, always, always make sure your feet are a good width apart. If they are right beside each other, you have a really good chance of the board coming out from under you and that's not good. The pop shuvit is simply combining the Ollie and Shuvit into one trick. At the moment, we are working on making connections with our mentor. Tune in next week, we hope to perfect our ollie and learn to jump higher than before.