how do you drop into a bowl or quarter pipe?sorry im new so please help me.

[gorrilaman]

how do u drop into a quarter pipe or a bowl? !sad another question.im new and i can only bunny-hop.what do u guys suggest i learn next?i could 180 bunny hop but only when im not moving.im very interested in tail whips !amazed do i learn it soon?and im goofy.do i make the deck spin fronside or backside.uhhh in other words,do i kick the deck in front of me or like kick my butt manner. thanks for reading and please help me if u can. :|

 

[ojfross]

oki learned how to drop in like this. im goofy and push mongo. so when i learned i put my right foot on the coping and left on the deck had my deck on the coping and just leaned forword enough to get it going down. tial whips u want to kick behind u so u can se ware ur going to catch them and spin with ur rist

 

[farmboy uk]

yup try and kick whips with your front foot it'll be faster. Try not to worry too much about whips and stuff yet. For now just get used to the feel of riding and doing hops etc. Dropping in properly is mainly just leaning in and having balls. It will all come with time

 

[scooterpro]

Well my way of teachin people to drop in is normally u start from the smallest quarter to the biggest and use 1 foot on the deck and the other scrappin the ground so if u fall off u can bail quicker and its works for other rider ive teached

 

[gorrilaman]

For dropping in guys,the middle of the deck(seems like the place where people board slide)will be on the coping pointing down a little so that the back wheels are not touching the platform behind me(or on the thing i WAS stepping on)then i lean forward and let the back wheels roll past the coping?Wont the deck start to board slide on the coping?

Thanks for the tailwhip trick tip and thanks for your help guys!im very happy and appreciate your help.

 

[Pete Pachota]

Shanghai? Dude youre more exotic than me.

Wont the deck start to board slide on the coping?

Do you ride a quaterpipe that's set on uneven ground? Haha, you must mean sliding into the quaterpipe. The answer is not, if you do it quick enough. You have to be self confident about this and it might be hard cause firstly, dropping in is a do-it-or-not thing like jumping a big stair set that needs a minimum skill but it seems scary if youre not used to it and secondly, dropping in might need something that might be described as general scooter riding skill, which means being familiar with riding ramps, transfers, controlling the scooter, flowing the park etc, and if you say you 'can only bunnyhop' you might not be advanced in this kind of stuff. But dont worry, it all comes in time.
As for dropping in, if youre scared find a smallest quaterpipe possible, and then progress to bigger ones. You can also put your foot on the coping first and drop in like that, then learn to do this without your foot.

 

[farmboy uk]

Well my way of teachin people to drop in is normally u start from the smallest quarter to the biggest and use 1 foot on the deck and the other scrappin the ground so if u fall off u can bail quicker and its works for other rider ive teached

lucky you in my park we don't even have a qp let alone different sizes. I have to go straight from mini spine to 14ft vert!!!

 

[dre]

that takes some balls lol. The most I've dropped from is 10-12 foot and it was scary as shit. But how I learned to drop in is start by rolling up to the pipe at a 45 degree angle and jumping in and do a small turn in midair. This way you don't land near the bottom of the pipe. You can also put your board on the coping and slide/jump in, but I don't like doing those. Once you get the hang of it, try going at the pipe straight on, and do a little manual thing right before you hit the coping, and pull up the back wheel and lean forward in midair. It took me a lot of practice but it was worth it in the end. And a tip: don't put one foot on the coping and push off when dropping in because you'll lose a lot of speed. Trust me, I started off by dropping in like that and it doesn't point you in the right direction at all... God damn, that's the second novel I've written today, I could start the SR book series lol.

 

[scooter4life]

when i first dropped into a bowl or pipe i rode up and just bunny hopped in and yah im goofy to so u will have to kick the deck backwards to do a tailwhip so u can c wen to catch the deck

 

[gazza707]

yea just put one foot on the ground at all times and you wont stack it..

and for tricks just start learning barspins, tailwhips and stuff like that