Name: 5 Simple Steps to Start Pumping on a Surfskate
Uploaded: 2021-07-01T07:27:37.000Z
Duration: 11 min 23 s
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- Hey friends, Steve here with Surfskate Love,

and simple ways to get started pumping on your surfskate.

This video is for beginners who are really just having

a hard time getting your board moving and you feel

like your whole body is uncoordinated and you feel

like you're kind of just fighting against yourself

in the process and nothing's clicking, nothing's flowing.

And if you find this little tutorial helpful

out my brand new video course, "Surfskating for Non-Surfers."

and it covers everything from foot placement to stance

and posture, to how to pump out a turn and how to stop.

and detail than what you're going to see here

and you can check that out at SurfskatingFornonSurfers.com.

So basically how we're gonna go through these five steps

So step one is I'm gonna show you what to do

Step two is we're gonna show you what to do

and finally step five is what we do with our shoulders.

So step one is what do we do with our feet?

And this is about our posture and our foot placement.

So the first thing we need to know is posture.

So I came from longboarding and my rule to longboard,

if I were skating this way, I would be facing this way

on my longboard and kind of cruising this way.

you wanna be facing the way that you're skating

but it gives you coordination and balance.

But one of the biggest benefits is that it gives

So if I were to be skating this way and facing this way

any knee bends that I did would look like this, okay?

of my knee bend simply by shifting my feet

where I can point my knees, my hips and my shoulders

Now watch what happens to this flexibility, okay?

to our knee bends and it adds a lot of balance.

Now there's three principles that I want you

to remember when it comes to foot placement

Principle number one is you want your front foot

if you are too far forward on that truck,

what's gonna happen is you might tip your board even

but really it means you're just not gonna

Second principle is you don't want your toes hanging

You want your toes to be right on the edge of that board

both your front foot and your back that like so.

what happens is when I try to move my board with my ankles

then I'm gonna be very heavily weighted on my toe side.

The third principle is that you want your feet

at an angle because of the reason we just said.

If my feet are like this, I cannot be skating forward.

How I look at it is as a goofy-footed rider facing this way.

Just like so, if you are a regular-footed rider

it means you're gonna cover this bolt just like so.

I've heard a little bit of debate about this

and I think that there's a range of personal preference.

I've heard some people say you want it clear back

as far back as you can get it on the tail like so.

I've heard other people like it really clear up here

it kind of depends on the deck on this Carver Greenroom,

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