{"id":56,"date":"2021-10-12T22:45:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T22:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/carpet_skating\/"},"modified":"2021-10-12T22:45:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T22:45:39","slug":"carpet_skating","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/carpet_skating\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpet Skating"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rightcol\">\n<div id=\"navigation\">\n<h3>ARTICLES &#038; TRICK TIPS<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"nav\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/skateboarding_beginners_1.html\" rel=\"tag\">Skateboarding For Beginners, Part 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/skateboarding_beginners_2.html\" rel=\"tag\">Skateboarding For Beginners, Part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/skateboarding-sponsorship.html\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Skateboarding Sponsorship\">Skateboarding Sponsorship FAQ<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/how_to_kickflip.html\" rel=\"tag\">How To Kickflip<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/skateboarding_articles.html\">More Skateboarding Articles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/index_php.html\" title=\"Board Crazy Home\">Home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricktionary.html\" title=\"Skateboarding Trick Dictionary\">Tricktionary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/contact.html\" title=\"Comments &amp; 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I mean really, who has the space to actually skate around in their bedroom?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s great because not only does it give you something fun to do while your board is (for whatever<br \/>\nreason) without trucks it&#8217;s also a useful device for learning tricks with a bit more confidence.<br \/>\nThis is because there isn&#8217;t much that can go wrong, and tricks are easier to land, which is nice,<br \/>\nand the board is obviously lighter. But it isn&#8217;t all easy &#8211; popping is way more difficult, which<br \/>\nmight be a good enough reason to do it, because if you can<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_p.html#pop\" title=\"Define : Pop\">pop<\/a> and catch some air without trucks<br \/>\nyou will be able to do it much higher with them.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nIt&#8217;s not an official thing or anything, but I&#8217;m sure most skateboarders do it and it&#8217;s a lot of fun.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nAs already discussed in previous articles, shuvits are a piece of piss without trucks for obvious<br \/>\nreasons. You can use the opportunity afforded by the smooth bottom to try some more gnarly shuvit<br \/>\nvariants. Doing a 360\u00b0 shuvit is one option. Others include the big spin, and the &#8220;corkscrew&#8221;<br \/>\nand &#8220;360\u00b0 corkscrew&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"bigspin\">Big Spin<\/h2>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nA <a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_b.html#bigspin\" title=\"Define : Big Spin\">big spin<\/a> is a combination of a 360\u00b0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_s.html#shuvit\" title=\"Define : Shuvit\">shuvit<\/a> and a<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_b.html#bodyvarial\" title=\"Define : Body Varial\">body varial<\/a> in the same direction.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a lot of spinning going on making it look pretty cool but it isn&#8217;t too difficult to learn.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"tricktip\">\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n1. Plant your back foot right on the middle of the tail and your front foot somewhere around the<br \/>\ncentre point of the deck. As with most tricks involving rotation of the rider, you&#8217;ll have to wind your<br \/>\nbody in the opposite direction to your spin.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n2. Unwind your body and kick your back foot in the same direction. This will be backwards for a<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_b.html#backside\" title=\"Define : Backside\">backside<\/a> big spin which is easier<br \/>\n(I&#8217;m fairly sure, through experience and reading, that all shuvit variations are easier backside).<br \/>\nBecause of the added force of your own spin, you don&#8217;t need to kick anywhere near as hard as you<br \/>\nnormally would to get the 360\u00b0 rotation.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n3. The skateboard should spin twice as fast as you do. The most difficult part of this trick is that you<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t really see what the board is doing until the last moment when you&#8217;ve finished turning 180\u00b0 and can<br \/>\ncatch it. Until then, you have to trust that it&#8217;s spinning its 360\u00b0.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"corkscrew\">Corkscrew (?)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nNow, I&#8217;ve trawled the net looking for a name for this trick and nothing has come up yet so I am<br \/>\nprovisionally titling it a <a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_c.html#corkscrew\" title=\"Define : Corkscrew\">corkscrew<\/a>. (EDIT &#8211; I<br \/>\nlater started calling this trick a &#8216;boomerang&#8217; and it has emerged that it could also be called a &#8216;kastelerial&#8217;).<br \/>\nIf anybody who reads this knows the proper name for it assuming there is one) then feel free to inform me.<br \/>\nThis is basically a shuvit and a body varial in <em>opposite<\/em> directions, and it&#8217;s a gem of a trick.<br \/>\nIt feels fairly weird at first but again is very simple.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nWhen you think about it, it makes a lot more sense than spinning in the same direction as your board,<br \/>\nbecause you will be kicking against the direction of the shuvit to make the varial, which is more<br \/>\nnatural.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"tricktip\">\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n1. Wind up front side. Normally you would wind up in order to quickly unwind in the opposite direction,<br \/>\nbut with this trick it&#8217;s almost as if to get a headstart on the body varial before you actually trick.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve just done a couple and find I am winding almost 90\u00b0, so I can actually look at the back of my<br \/>\nback foot.  This is where your front foot has to be any second now&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n2. Jump the other 90\u00b0 to complete you body varial.  As you do so, make sure to kick your back foot<br \/>\nbackwards to do the shuvit.  Because you have wound up beforehand as well, you can see the board spinning<br \/>\nand have plenty of time to spot the landing.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n3. 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