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flatland is.  Once comfortable with<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_p.html#pivot\" title=\"Define : Pivot\">pivots<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_s.html#shuvit\" title=\"Define : Shuvit\">shuvits<\/a><br \/>\nI could do anything with the board &#8211; it didn&#8217;t seem to matter how small or insignificant the trick &#8211; generally I<br \/>\nhadn&#8217;t seen it before and it felt like <i>my invention<\/i>.  I also began to appreciate the greatness of smoothly<br \/>\nstringing together a few tricks &#8211; if a trick fits into a line, it doesn&#8217;t matter how small or easy the trick itself<br \/>\nis, the challenge comes from combining it with a trick either side.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nEverything seems to be about getting either the skateboard or myself or both to <a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_v.html#varial\" title=\"Define : Varial\">varial<\/a><br \/>\nin new and interesting ways.  It&#8217;s really very difficult to flip the board seamlessly in the middle of a string.<br \/>\nGiven this, here are some of my recently developed freestyle tricks that I&#8217;m particularly pleased with.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"pivot\">Pivot<\/h2>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nOk, this one isn&#8217;t mine, I just thought I&#8217;d clarify what a pivot is before I delve any further into the article &#8211;<br \/>\na turn on the front or rear wheels.  This can be accomplished frontside or backside, rolling or stationary.  If you<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t know what a shuvit is or how to do one, I also suggest you read the<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/shuvit.html\" title=\"Article On Shuvits\">shuvit article<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"corkscrew\">Corkscrew<\/h2>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nRemember that trick I learnt way back when?  I wrote about it in the<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/carpet_skating.html\" title=\"Practice Skateboarding On Carpet\">carpet skating article<\/a>.<br \/>\nA shuvit in one direction with a body varial in the other direction, Corkscrew was a made up name.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve since discovered that if you do this on a BMX it&#8217;s called a Boomerang, so I&#8217;m calling it a Boomerang for<br \/>\nnow.  I imagine this is because you &#8216;throw&#8217; the bike or board out in one direction and because the rider goes<br \/>\nthe other way, it comes back to you from the other direction&#8230; kinda like a boomerang. *Shrugs*.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s mildly more descriptive than Corkscrew anyway.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nAs mentioned before, this trick feels very much like a flatland thing, so I&#8217;m still doing these now even though<br \/>\nI learnt it during my generic street skater days.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"boomerang\">Boomerang Pivot<\/h2>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nThis was something I learnt pretty early on in my experimentation.  It&#8217;s essentially a quite strange way to<br \/>\naccomplish a shuvit &#8211; you end up with the same net effect as a shuvit (ie, a skateboard that has done a varial<br \/>\nand you still in the same position) but you do lots more work to get there.  Undoubtedly though, it looks more<br \/>\ntechnical and you look cooler as a result.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nFrom a basic standing position, you can choose to a boomerang pivot in four ways &#8211;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_b.html#backside\" title=\"Define : Backside\">backside<\/a> off the nose,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_f.html#frontside\" title=\"Define : Frontside\">frontside<\/a> off the tail, frontside off the nose or<br \/>\nbackside off the tail.  Anything off the tail feels like switch. I&#8217;m going to start by explaining the frontside<br \/>\noff the nose variant because that&#8217;s the first type that occurred to me. Remember that I&#8217;m goofy, so if I write<br \/>\nclockwise, it&#8217;ll mean anti-clockwise to the vast majority of you who are regular footed.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"tricktip\">\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n1. You need to do a frontside pivot on the front wheels.  Stand in<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_n.html#nollie\" title=\"Define : Nollie\">nollie<\/a> stance, with front foot on the nose and back<br \/>\nfoot over the bolts.  Wind backside slightly, then unwind.  As you do so, shift your weight on to the nose<br \/>\nslightly.  This should set you doing the desired pivot.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n2. The full pivot is usually going to be 180\u00b0, and you&#8217;ll end up in switch, but before you get to there,<br \/>\nyou have to jump back to your regular stance while the board finishes the pivot.  You can do this at any point<br \/>\nreally, but it seems to work best at around 120-140 degrees.  At this point, you need to do a backside<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_b.html#bodyvarial\" title=\"Define : Body Varial\">body varial<\/a> back to the same position as you<br \/>\nstarted in.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n3. The momentum of the pivot will keep the board turning to the 180\u00b0 mark, at which point you will land back<br \/>\non it neatly and have accomplished a &#8216;boomerang pivot&#8217;.  It&#8217;s very straight forward.  The only problem you may<br \/>\npossibly encounter is that your jump off the board interrupts the momentum of the board itself so that it doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\nturn a full 180\u00b0.  To stop this from happening, you have to make sure you are also lifting the leading foot<br \/>\n(left foot for me, with this variant).  It&#8217;s natural not to lift that foot since it&#8217;s already in the air.<br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t though you&#8217;ll drag the board as you jump back.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nThe most difficult way of doing this is backside off the tail, however it&#8217;s all fairly easy and makes a nice part<br \/>\nof a string of tricks.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"pivotbigspin\">Pivot Big Spin<\/h2>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nThis is actually a simpler version of a <a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_b.html#bigspin\" title=\"Define : Big Spin\">big spin<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe first 180\u00b0 of the shuvit and the body varial are all done just by doing a pivot.  You then tack a shuvit<br \/>\non the end to complete the 360\u00b0 varial of the board.  The difficulty lies in making the transition from the<br \/>\npivot to shove it nice and smooth. Trick tip that follows again assumes you are doing it frontside off the nose.<br \/>\nOther variants are much harder.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"tricktip\">\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n1. Follow step 1 of the pivot boomerang above.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n2. As you rotate with the board crouch down a little as if are going to ollie.  Again when you get about two thirds<br \/>\nof the way (120\u00b0) through the pivot you need to do something &#8211; this time a<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_p.html#popshuvit\" title=\"Define : Pop Shuvit\">pop shuvit<\/a>. As long as you&#8217;ve already crouched<br \/>\nit shouldn&#8217;t be a problem making the shuvit a smooth part of the pivot. Five minutes practice and you&#8217;ll have this<br \/>\ntrick nailed.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"fakiedog\">Fakie Walk The Dog<\/h2>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nNo point in a trick tip for this one &#8211; if you can already <a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/flatland_skating.html#walk_the_dog\" title=\"How To Walk The Dog\">walk the dog<\/a> then it&#8217;s a simple enough progression to do it backwards as well.<br \/>\nSimply start in your natural stance with your front foot in the middle of the board, and pivot on the back wheels, but<br \/>\ninstead of turning with the board allow your legs to cross. Then step back into natural and repeat as many times<br \/>\nas you can.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"n360dogshuvit\">360&deg; Dog Shuvit<\/h2>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nNow this thing rules. Put this on the end of a string of walk the dogs and you&#8217;ll be the shit nuts.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nThe thing about a walk the dog is there is a lot of momentum generated by unravelling your crossed legs which<br \/>\nnormally you either simply waste when you stop doing the trick or you actually have to fight against the momentum<br \/>\nif you want to do another walk the dog afterwards.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nThe idea behind this trick is to use that momentum by simply doing a pop shuvit after you unravel your legs.<br \/>\nLike the pivot big spin above, the difficulty lies in getting the two movements to look like one, but if you can<br \/>\ndo it you are effectively doing a 360&deg; shuvit where you start cross-legged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"resources\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=http:\/\/www.board-crazy.co.uk\/developing_flatland.php&amp;title=Developing Flatland Skateboarding\" title=\"Post This Article To Your Del.icio.us Bookmarks\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/files\/layout\/delicious.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Post To Delicious\"\/>Post To Del.icio.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/myweb2.search.yahoo.com\/myresults\/bookmarklet?t=Developing Flatland Skateboarding&amp;u=http:\/\/www.board-crazy.co.uk\/developing_flatland.php\" class=\"popup1\" title=\"Add This Article To Yahoo My Web 2.0\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/files\/layout\/yahoo.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Add To Yahoo! 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