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cut into<br \/>\nthe grip tape (I was drunk and thought it was a good idea at the time). Many failed nosestalls<br \/>\ncaused the fishtails to develop large splits as the nose would smash into the obstacle at<br \/>\nhigh speeds. It only took a bad ollie or two to snap off one end and the other wasn&#8217;t far<br \/>\nbehind.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nI&#8217;m now looking at the new deck, resplendently clean and smooth. To be honest, I&#8217;m quite<br \/>\nreluctant to put trucks and grip tape on it because Martin and I have been having so much fun<br \/>\non it this morning without it. I actually landed a kickflip or two, and<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_s.html#shuvit\" title=\"Define : Shuvit\">shuvits<\/a> are a piece of piss.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s much like riding a snowboard (I&#8217;ve never actually got on a snowboard but I at least imagine<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a similar experience).\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nDoing all these smooth bottomed shuvits has really taught me something today. For the<br \/>\nlongest time, any shove-its or pop shove-its I was doing always flew around about a metre to<br \/>\nthe side (away from me forwards in the case of backside shove its and away behind me for frontside).<br \/>\nTo counteract this, I thought I had to try and balance the actions of both feet so both were shoving<br \/>\nthe board equally so it would rotate on the spot. To see how this is wrong, it may be useful for you<br \/>\nto have a board in front of you.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nI&#8217;ll use a backside shuvit as my example because I&#8217;m more familiar with it, as I find it<br \/>\nmuch easier than doing one frontside. The same principles will apply for a frontside shuvit though.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nWith the back foot on the tail, and the front foot in the middle of the skateboard, my bad shuvits<br \/>\nbecome apparent as you imagine the front foot pushing forwards equally as the back foot pushes back.<br \/>\nThe axis that the board will then be spinning around is approximately over the back truck or just in<br \/>\nfront of it. This means that there is far more weight on one side of the axis (the side with the nose)<br \/>\nthan on the other. The result is that the greater weight at the nose end takes the spin out of control,<br \/>\nmaking it harder and much more scary to land as you have to consciously jump to the side to land on it.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"shuvit\">For A Better Shuvit, Then&#8230;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tricktip\">\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n1. You want the board to spin right around an imaginary axis that is drilled straight through the middle<br \/>\nof the board. That way, it will stay right below your feet. To accomplish this, you&#8217;ll either have to have<br \/>\none foot on each fish tail and push equally in opposite directions with both, which is possible (I just<br \/>\ntried it) but extremely impractical, or, as in the following method, place your feet so that the back foot<br \/>\nis on the tail and the ball of your front foot is slap bang in the centre of your board.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n2. Shove the tail back (or forwards for a frontside shuvit) with your back foot. Your front foot, almost<br \/>\nacting like the axis you want the board to spin about, should make no shoving movement and barely leave contact<br \/>\nwith the board. If you cut a circle of grip tape out of the middle so you have smooth bit of deck (which also<br \/>\nhelps with some other tricks, especially in <a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/flatland_skating.html\" title=\"Freestyle\/Flatland Skateboarding\"><br \/>\nfreestyle skateboarding<\/a>) I imagine you wouldn&#8217;t have to leave contact at all.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n3. The ease of this trick becomes apparent, as all you now have to do is let the skateboard spin around and plant<br \/>\nyour back foot back on it. Your front foot really doesn&#8217;t do a lot at all.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n4. If you want to do 360&deg; shuvits (of course you do) all you need to do is shove the board harder with your<br \/>\nback foot. You will probably have to jump a bit too, otherwise the decks friction with your font foot will probably<br \/>\nslow it down before it reaches the 360&deg; mark. Your front foot should still maintain contact, but not heavily.<br \/>\nKeeping contact with the skateboard like this is kind of reassuring because you know it&#8217;s under you.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"popshuvit\">Pop Shuvit<\/h2>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\nIf you are jumping up a bit to try and accomplish a 360&deg; shuvit, you&#8217;ll probably end up doing a<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_p.html#popshuvit\" title=\"Define : Pop Shuvit\">pop shuvit<\/a> (360&deg; or otherwise). I don&#8217;t imagine<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll be complaining about this since it&#8217;s a much more impressive trick.<br \/>\nThe difference here is simply that the board spins higher in the air because you pop the skate board as you shove it<br \/>\nwith your foot. 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