Bloqué à 90° : ton buste tourne trop tôt sur le frontside 180, quel repère corrige ça ?

On December 26, 2012, the Trickipedia video of The Berrics, the private skatepark of Eric Koston and Steve Berra in Los Angeles, posted 77 seconds of Stacy Lowery doing a frontside 180: one jump, one half-turn in mid-air, the board that stays under her feet. The series has a written black-on-white goal: that future generations understand in what sense they turn.

You launch yours and your body finished its turn while your frontside 180 remained stuck at 90°. One foot out, you pose aside. You spin harder, it’s worse.

The thing is, Aaron Kyro, the Braille Skateboarding professor, told me to turn my head and shoulders before the pop. JB from Skatepark Lessons, too. So how can your bust spin too early if everyone tells you to spin before? The answer lies in a reference point, and we reach it after six steps and four fails.

Frontside or backside: why your 180 has the same flaw?

Frontside is your chest opening the rotation. Backside is your back. On the backside 180, you lose your point of view in the middle of the turn, and fear makes your body move ahead prematurely.

In frontside, it’s not fear. You see where you’re going, you feel calm, so you launch everything at once. Same symptom, different cause.

The other difference plays out on the feet. Your ollie placement doesn’t work as is: Kyro and JB both shift the back foot into the tail corner, letting the front toes stick out. If you’re starting from zero, our complete frontside 180 guide lays the groundwork. Here, we’re fixing just one flaw.

Frontside 180: the 6 steps in the right order

1. Front foot: heel slightly beyond the edge

   Just behind the toe caps, the tip of the front foot slightly beyond the edge. When turning, your front foot wants to slide backward: this small offset keeps you on balance.

2. Back foot: in the corner of the tail, heel side

   From this corner, the pop pushes the board into its first quarter turn. With the foot in the middle of the tail, you just do an ollie.

3. The armament: shoulders departing backwards

   You bend your knees and bring your head and shoulders opposite to the rotation. You tense the spring. Nothing has left yet.

4. Launch and pop sticking

   Shoulders re-depart just before the pop, the tail snaps, you truly jump. A full ollie, not a sideways hop.

5. In the air: feet stay on the board

   Front foot rises like on an ollie, back foot pushes the tail to finish the turn. Your shoulders continue, your board follows.

6. Landing: put all weight on the front foot

   Mark your drop zone as soon as you can. Shoulders above the feet, knees bent, and if the turn isn’t finished, the front foot pivots the rest.

Frontside 180 blocked: the 4 fails, and what they betray

Alors, quel repère dit que ton buste tourne trop tôt ?

Le repère, c’est ton épaule avant au moment où le tail claque : elle doit être revenue pile dans l’axe de ta planche, au-dessus du nose. Si elle a déjà dépassé la planche à cet instant, ton buste est parti trop tôt. Si elle est encore en arrière, tu es en retard.

Kyro et JB n’ont pas tort, tu les as juste mal entendus. Eux parlent de l’armement et du lancer, pas du demi-tour. Tu dois commencer à tourner avant le pop, pas avoir fini. JB dit « juste avant », et tout est dans le « juste ».

Ce repère n’est pas une loi mesurée au degré. C’est notre façon de rendre visible ce « juste avant », parce qu’une sensation ne se vérifie pas, et qu’une épaule sur une vidéo, si.

Pour le voir, cale ton téléphone face à toi et filme. Mets au ralenti, arrête-toi sur le claquement du tail. Kyro conseille même de passer ton clip à côté du sien, en boucle : tu vois tout de suite si tes épaules tournent trop ou pas assez.

L’exercice à l’arrêt, pour caler ça sans te la mettre

Kyro says: start completely at a stop. Place your board on grass or a mat so it doesn’t roll. Ten times in a row, you arm the shoulders, tap the tail and slide the front foot without jumping. You look for one thing: the shoulder in line during the pop. 51: he says: better not turn too much, because then you have no front foot left to finish. 52: Then add the jump, with only a quarter turn. Pop, 90°, you rest. JB repeats: it’s better not to turn too much than too little, since that leaves you with the front foot to finish. 53: Then switch to Kyro’s variant: right pop, put all your weight on nose, and rotate 180 on the ground. He warns that many beginners find it harder, but it’s the one that shows where your weight should go. 54: Three clean catches at a stop, then you roll, gently. When you start to force it, you stop. You come back tomorrow.

Passe aux curbs, going parallel to the edge to avoid catching the nose, as JB advises. Then go for the other side with the backside 180, and on the day you want to add a flip, the kickflip backside waits with the same order question.

Frontside 180, it stops at 90° or goes too far? And you’re already filmed to check your shoulders? Dis-le en commentaire ↓

We lost three clean stops, then you roll gently. When rolling, it’s often easier: momentum helps the wheels slide. When you start to force it, you stop. You come back tomorrow.

And once he got back in?

Pass aux curbs, en arrivant parallèle au bord pour ne pas accrocher le nose, comme le conseille JB. Puis va chercher l’autre sens avec le backside 180, et le jour où tu veux ajouter un flip, le kickflip backside t’attend avec la même question d’ordre.

Your frontside 180, does it stop at 90° or do you go too far? And you’ve already been filmed to check your shoulders? Say it in the comment ↓