Update: Board Control

            Hey guys! Welcome back to learning to skate. Alexander here and to day I'll be talking to you guys about our what we did this week, what were working on now, and our plans coming up.
             Last week, we learned how to Ollie higher.
             This week, we worked on board control. Board control is crucial because if you don't know how to control your board, you will not be able to land tricks or even ride around. As we were riding around on our boards, we learned that the best way to stay on and gain control is if you have one foot perpendicular to the board and one foot parallel with the board keeping them spread apart about food and a few inches, rather than having both feet parallel to the board and having them very close together, you wouldn't want the board to slip right out from under you.
            We currently are working on going down ramps which so far has proven difficulty because the speed really takes of and the sudden slant change going from the ramp to the ground. We have made pads a staple and helmets are always good you you can keep your head safe. Hopefully we will master slanted ramps and move on to vert rams shortly.
            Coming up in this series will be more advanced tricks such as doing the basic tricks but moving, which will prove to be a monster in itself. Also, we will be focusing on riding off things such as small wooden boxes, low to the ground of course.
Hope you guys tune in next week to see our progress, Tanks for watching!

Alexander Gales