Hello all - I am pleased to announce that neednotollie.com &
bestboards.co.nz will be hosting a video competition!
To enter this competition, you must learn a few simple tricks and film
yourself doing them.
Once all the videos are in, all site members will be able to vote on
their favourite with the winner taking away a free set of wheels - seismic speed vents thanks to bestboards.co.nz
Everyone who enters can also get themselves a neednotollie.com email
address if they want.
Seeing as winter is making skating a little hard at the moment I'm giving you 3 months to complete the video.
Rules:
1. You must be wearing a helmet
2. You must complete all the tricks, but be creative - add your own stuff if you want
3. Competition starts on Tuesday 1st July 2008 and submissions are due by 30th september
Tricks:
Here is the list of tricks that must be included - I will be posting
tips on how to complete these as the competition progresses:
1. Footbreak
2. Cross step
3. Parallel carve
4+. to be announced later
These tricks are all much easier than the loaded challenge ones, but I will be posting some tips as the competition progresses.
So I had some nice video footage of some super smooth cross stepping all ready to show off to you guys! But alas, my movie editing skills completely failed, so instead adam & adam can teach you this trick.
The only thing I would add is that this trick is a lot harder than it looks, especially if you don't know any others. It was the first trick I learned and it took me many many tries to get it.
P.S. sorry about the incredibly slack updates on this comp - hope everyones vids are going well!Trick #1 for the NeedNotOllie video challenge
Foot braking is the most important skill you can learn as a longboarder!
I know it's not exactly an impressive 'trick' but it is a very important and easy skill to learn.
A very effective way of stopping/slowing down at high or low speeds.
I like to think of it as a 'foot drag' rather than a brake - you really need to think of
it as skating on one foot, with your other foot dragging on the ground - do not try to push your
foot to the ground or put wieght on it.
Whichever foot you push with will most likely be your braking foot also. Push yourself to a small speed
and practice balancing with just one foot on the board facing forward. You can then lightly lower your
other foot to the ground (also facing forward). Experiment with using your whole foot or just your heel
or toe.
For the video, you must foot brake from a reasonable speed to a complete stop.
Attached is a video of me doing a foot brake. (such a crappy vid that i couldn't bare to upload to youtube.)
Here is a more detailed tutorial:
http://skateboard.about.com/od/tricktips/ss/HowToFootbreak.htm