I'm a sponsored skateboarder from the San Francisco Bay Area

And today I'm going to teach you

How to pop shove-it

Now the first thing to this trick

Is making sure you're feeling really comfortable on your board

Just riding around and pushing

I want you to have done this a lot so you feel really comfortable

And this is a beginner's trick

So this is really something you can learn

Right after you get really comfortable pushing around

And just riding your board

One thing that might help you for this

And any other flat-ground trick that you're going to learn

Is putting your back wheels into a nice crack

A nice crack that holds your wheels tight

So your board doesn't roll as you work on it

Now the next thing is the foot placement

Notice my right foot, it's just down from those two bolts

It's at a little bit of an angle

Just kind of like a kickflip would be

And my left foot is on the tail

And I really want you to notice how my toe is off the side of it

The toe hanging off the side is very important

To getting a really nice scoop of the board

So the foot position on this particular trick is very important

And that is what it is right there

Now the next step is really how you're going to do that

Motion of your back foot

Notice how my foot curls under and my foot kicks straight back

On this particular shove-it the board does not pop

It just goes straight back

It's just a shove-it, it's not yet a pop shove-it

So I want to show you this motion again

My foot curls down and then it just kicks the board back

My front foot stays on the board the entire time

Just guiding it as it goes around as you can see there

It barely even moves. It just comes up off the board a little bit

And the back foot does really all the work

I want you to really get the importance of the foot placement

And the scoop of your back foot

It's called a scoop because your toe curls underneath

Like to the side of the board

And then you kick it back

It's just the most appropriate word to describe it I guess

Because it's not really a sweep but it's more of a scoop

Practice this a lot because it's going to help you later

Now the next thing is putting the pop

Into the shove-it to make it a full pop shove-it

This is really the exact same thing

But only this time you're going to pop your board off the ground

So after you practice tapping your board on the ground a little bit

And you feel like you've got that motion

The next step is just going straight for it

And scooping the foot like it's shown right here

Notice the motion of my back foot as it scoops the board around

Spinning it into a 180. The next step is your front foot

Notice my front foot, it barely comes of the board right here

And it just guides it around the whole time

It's very important to leave that on because your board can flip

And you can land with your board sideways or upside down

And obviously this is not going to work

And now, notice my back foot right there on that scoop

So put your feet in the position and then just slap it around

You don't have to hit your tail super hard

Just hard enough to get it lifted off of the board

Also this is going to be the first trick that you really learn

Where you're going to be jumping up into the air

And your board is going to be doing something under you

This is going to help you to learn kickflips later

360 flips and many other tricks

So definitely practice this one a lot and get it really down

Feel free to leave me a comment asking for help on this or any other trick

But what I really want you guys to do is video your best attempt

Upload it to your own YouTube and then send me the link

So that I can really see what you're doing and help you out with it that way

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