switch riding.

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has anyone, or anybody rode switch? i know it's not as hard as skateboarding, at least not for me, but i was wondering if you can ride switch, what tricks can you do? i can do all my tricks i do now switch, but it's hard.

 

[Madis]

haha, i can do opposite whips in switch and thats all. Once i tried to ride down a roll-in or a ditch or smth in switch - i bailed hard.

 

[Nate Grant]

switch isnt hard really at all. flat i can do whips, heels, double heels, barspin, 180, opp. decades.
off my kicker i can do all my normal tricks except tail (heel haha) to fingerwhip and briflips.

 

[jonathon]

these are off stairs and such

180 to fakies
360
dubwhip
indy
barspin
manual combos
and blahh dont feel like going on

 

[Dylan Kasson]

yea switch is not hard at all and if you put it in a video most people dont even realize it because most people dont stand like toes pointing exactly to the right or left its kinda parallel

 

[Nate Grant]

martins mini has some pretty sick switch stuff in it.
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[JoshToy]

Switch isn't so much hard, it's just awkward. Pushing off isn't but the tricks are. It's nothing like regular if you're doing the right tricks. Erik Carlson and I did a little footy release awhile back, I did a switch superman grab. I released more on my old grindbox the day it officially broke. Switch feeble to manual to barspin. RVM3 I did some switch stuff, sadly Ricky didn't use most of it.

EDIT: I never thought that "ski" stance no matter how far your footy is counted when doing switch cause it's just the same stance eitherway, like different foot placement for a tailwhip compared to a heelwhip. But going from a true regular to goofy stance or the other way around is totally different.
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[Pete Pachota]

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[Brian Boston]

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I think ski is dead, i stopped doing it. I think i was the only one left haha

 

[Thomas Agasid]

I can catch switch whips. I've gotten really close to switch doubles flat, but I can't get the deck to get back under me.

 

[Tyler Boner]

EDIT: I never thought that "ski" stance no matter how far your footy is counted when doing switch cause it's just the same stance eitherway, like different foot placement for a tailwhip compared to a heelwhip. But going from a true regular to goofy stance or the other way around is totally different.
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cary

 

[A-Brad]

i can do switch dubs flat, barspins, dub barspins, 180s, little manuals, feebles, not too good at 360s but i just went out and did one to make sure i could and ive triple whipped off my kicker switch...
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[brandon kilbury]

switch barspin, scooterflip, fingerwhip (opposite hand too) on flat even sometimes, flat doubles, 360s both ways, 360 x ups, 360 one foot x ups and some other little 360 combos, barspin, feeble, manual combos, like barspin manny whip and small things like that, umm, i cant think of anything else

i acctually like riding switch, and during the summer i went a week where every time i picked up my scooter i rode switch, even if i was just riding up the road. i gotta do that again
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[mattM]

Switch stuff ive done:
heelwhips
flat dubwhips
fingerwhips
360s
feeble manny to whip
triplewhips
feeble to dubwhips
tailwhip a 7
bigspin a 10
backlip and frontlips to bigspin out(on flat rails)
frontboard and boardslides (on handrails)
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[Dylan Kasson]

erm bigspin? is that a tailwhip 360 or a tailwhip 180?

 

[mattM]

its a whip with a sexchange, my skater friends always call it that so ive gotten used to it... its alot easier to say than switch tailwhip sexchange haha

 

[Dylan Kasson]

eww sexchanges are so ugly

 

[JoshToy]

EDIT: I never thought that "ski" stance no matter how far your footy is counted when doing switch cause it's just the same stance eitherway, like different foot placement for a tailwhip compared to a heelwhip. But going from a true regular to goofy stance or the other way around is totally different.
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For the mostpart it just looks nasty haha. You have more control when standing over the fender, at least in my opinion. I rode "ski" stance for three months when I first started riding. Haven't gone back since. Plug manuals standing in ski are harder, no brake to help you.

 

[CodyChirichiello]

i can do switch back 360's more than my regular stance

 

[JoshToy]

That's because your body is used to spinning fs in regular. It's the same way with tailwhips/heelwhips or fs or bs grinds.