HOW TO ROCK "N" ROLL IN THE MINI RAMP (2021)

What's up, welcome, hello, and how are we? Welcome back to Trick Tip Tuesday, the series where I teach you tricks as efficiently as possible. Today, we're learning how to rock and roll. Let's get straight into it. Okay, the things you're gonna need to learn first before this trick, you're gonna need to know how to kick turn on the ramp, how to rock to fakie is gonna help massively as well, dropping in is gonna help, and obviously this is assuming that you can already ride the board pretty comfortably. Okay, so first things first, we're gonna find ourselves a nice ramp with no coping on top. By the way, the coping is the metal bar at the top of the ramp for those of you that don't know, and we're gonna use this to practice the trick nice and risk free. Basically, it's a lot easier to do it on the ramp without a coping because there's no chance of your wheels hanging up on your way back in, so find yourself one of these and we're gonna get used to doing the movement. What we're gonna do first and foremost is we're gonna ride up, get our front wheels to come slightly over the top of the ramp, and then we're gonna use that kick turn that you already know how to do, and just go straight back in. That is essentially the movement of rock and roll, and we're just gonna practice it a few times on a ramp like this, so it's nice and risk-free, you're not gonna hurt yourself at all. If you want to go one step further, what you're gonna do is, as you ride up the ramp, you're gonna lift up your front wheels slightly so they go over the top of the ramp and onto the flat bit, and then you're gonna lift them back and over as you kick turn back into the ramp. Make sure to bend your knees as you go back in to keep that speed. So my biggest tip for turning back into the ramp is making sure that when you come up, you already slightly have your shoulders turned back into the ramp so that your lower half of your body can just follow it around. It helps massively, and I honestly recommend doing this technique to anyone trying to learn this trick. Next, I want you to find a ramp not too big, but not too small. This is a free foot, and we call it the Goldilocks ramp. Why do we call it that, babes? Um, I don't know. Because it's just right. Right, so once you find that ramp that you're comfortable with, what we're gonna do is we're gonna practice riding up, just putting our front wheels over the coping slightly, and then kick turning back into the ramp. That's gonna be how we get used to doing the movement on this kind of ramp. All right, so like I said, when we're going up the ramp, we're gonna already have our shoulders slightly turned back towards the inside of the ramp, just to make it a lot easier for our lower half to follow around. Doing so is gonna make it so much easier for you to get that full rotation back into the ramp. The worst thing you can do is go up, get yourself into a rock with your body still facing totally forwards. So when you're at this point on the ramp, you're gonna want to have your shoulders already facing almost all the way into the ramp. Doing this means that your lower half of your body can literally just follow it around, and it feels so much more natural to get back in like that. Okay, so now that you know how to get back into the ramp, what we're gonna practice now is getting a nice rock on the coping. So the rock in the rock to fakie and the rock and roll and all those kind of tricks, the rock basically just means that when you push your front wheels over the coping, you then put a bit of weight on the front foot. It lifts your wheels up from the ramp underneath. So basically, it just means that you're rocking on the coping like that, like a rocking horse. And then once you're leant over like that, you are then fully prepared to get yourself back into the ramp and turn it around. And that is 100% a legitimate rock and roll. So to recap everything that you need to do, you need to ride up a fair bit of speed so you can get those front wheels nice and over the coping. And we're gonna lift up that front bit of the board, push it down, release some of the weight from the back, push some of the weight onto the front so the board rocks, back wheels come up. At this point, we're already gonna have our shoulders mostly turned back into the ramp. And then as we come back down, we're just gonna put that weight back onto the back foot and turn it like you would a normal kick turn on the ramp. Well, there you have it, guys. That was the rock and roll. I know you guys got this one. It's really not that complicated of a trick, but it can take a bit of a mental agility to get through the steps and get it done. Either way, I know you guys got it. I believe in you. Again, apologies that we couldn't film this yesterday. The skate park was in some very drastic conditions. Obviously, it's not exactly perfect now, but either way, we still managed to get the video done today. But other than that, guys, thank you so much for watching. Join our Discord. Links in the description. We'd love to have you. Let me know what you want to learn next, and I'll see you in the next one.