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.