HOW TO RAMP SKATE FOR BEGINNERS / FIRST TIME AT THE SKATEPARK - Planet Roller Skate Ep. 23

Flamingo grind We're here at Houghton skate park in Long Beach, California, I'm Indy pigeon We're here to teach you how to Handle your first time at the skate park. Were you nervous at all when you very first went? Yes, I was nervous. I Didn't want to do anything that I wasn't ready to do. I was really timid Of a skater. Yeah, I was definitely nervous too in the beginning You can actually start small build up the confidence and it's actually really really fun and exciting and not so scary at all So we're gonna help you with a roller on a windy Let's go do it The first thing you want to do is be sure to wear your helmet and your gear Got my knee pads my elbow pads and my wrist guards to make sure I stay super safe Before you go to the skate park, you want to be really comfortable rolling forwards backwards Squatting low and stopping so you should be able to skate boards It's best if you're able to squat all the way down and even sit on your bottom and then get back up But it's okay if you can only squat to this point you'll be okay But just know that you need to work on getting that cannonball but if one of the things that makes you nervous about the skate park are all of the other people flying around you can always Come really early in the morning when it's empty or find a time that your park doesn't have a ton of people that makes it Way easier when you're first starting it makes it a little bit makes me a little less nervous Now that I've built my confidence in the parks and I'm totally comfortable coming to like a crazy session At first I was a little nervous about all the other people But then come to find out 99.9% of everybody at the skate park is really nice and awesome and supportive and I've made so many friends here, right? You guys have made friends at the skate park Hey guys, it's your first time at the skate park. You don't have to drop in right away When you first get to the park, you don't have to start from the top So there's no need to try to rush and drop in from the highest ledge at the very beginning The best thing to do is actually start from the bottom and work your way up I'm gonna start on something a little bit smaller So this is why I left Houghton because we have all of these different banks that are different sizes, so That one's a little bit too big, but these guys are good for getting real comfortable So first you have to learn how to get down these banks Sometimes to even get into the skate park you have to be able to go down a bank So you don't need to jump headfirst right away. The safest way is actually turn around and go backwards So get a deep lunge, use one toe stop and roll forward If you're feeling nervous at all, you can actually put your hands on either side of your foot Walk yourself down The most common mistake when people are learning this is that they let their feet come side by side. That looks like this Make sure that this base leg stays perpendicular to the ground So once you get down, absorb and get low Absorb This is when the pumping tutorial that Peyton and I did before is gonna be really really helpful Use the bank a bit Practice carving and then it's like to go down the bank without starting from the very top Comfortable doing that then you're actually ready to go down the bank So the first time you go down you don't want to stand up. For some reason a lot of people tend to go like this If you stand up it's gonna make you lose your balance and potentially have one of those really big butt slams That just aren't much fun. So to avoid that in the beginning You want to mush down? So keep it mushy Reach forward and drop low and don't forget to stagger those feet Whenever I go down I think stagger reach much If you're not able to squat low enough to butt slide you can actually go on one knee This will help you get used to the feeling of the bank Once you're comfortable going up and down the banks, which is a straight flat ledge like that's up over there. Those are all banks That that's a bank That's a bank That's a bank and then that's a bank. So then you're ready to come to the transition This is called a transition because it curves from horizontal to vertical so it transitions between two planes If you don't have banks in your park, that's totally okay You could do all of this stuff in a similar way in a bowl or on a regular transition The first thing again that you're going to do is learn how to go down backwards Look, if you do like this, all you have to do is put your toe stop up Once you're down backwards You're gonna start from the bottom and get comfortable carving around and feeling out the ramp working your way higher and higher The only thing about getting in a really big bowl is that you have to get out again So in order to get up you're gonna run as fast as you can and then keep running on those toe stops and Plop your shoulders over and then all you gotta do is get one leg up Stop don't stop don't stop. Don't stop. So you're all the way to the top I'm gonna go do it on that big one so that you can see how fast you have to actually run to get up It's also good to be respectful of everybody else in the park So what I try to do when I'm here is especially if there's a big bowl I get in only when it's my turn I take my turn and then I get out as quickly as possible once I'm done And then as long as you're not standing in the middle of everything, you're totally good. Everybody's You're totally good so Here I am. I'm gonna take my first turn in the bowl Now there's some kiddos, but today it's a little bit of a different day. Everybody's kind of chill right now So I'm gonna go ahead and go in and skate around with them a little bit But I'm gonna ask first I won't like I'm not doing anything crazy. I just want to roll around that part real fast. Thank you Sissy Even though I'm not carving the bowl all crazy. I'm starting small and building my way up I can still take my turns and have a lot of fun at the skate park Once you're doing these things I would recommend just pumping just getting that mini ramp and pump back and forth and back and forth and really Work on your butt slides so that you have the muscle memory of falling correctly It's only once you're able to pump your way and jump out of the ramp That you're ready to learn how to drop in but that's gonna be next time All right, you guys have been shredding in the skate park Yeah, you're doing awesome. Can you tell me about your first time at the skate park? Awesome what about you ash? One time I was at the skate park and you were there with me and I couldn't get it But the next time I tried I had fun and I got it. Oh my gosh That was awesome. My first experience skating at a skate park was pretty rough She didn't know how to skate either so we were all falling on each other And they taught us how to get it right and teach us to have fun Awesome. Well, thank you guys so much for demonstrating today and for being awesome and I can't wait to see you again in class soon Hey guys So these are some of your kiddos over there, but what's just as awesome is that you guys are skating, too So I wanted to ask you the same question I asked them and what was it like your first time at the park My first time was taking my daughter watching her be ballsy and do everything that you know Everything that she wanted to try and I was like, she's looking like she's having so much fun. I want to go to That's that's been it. It's just Getting out there. Yeah, I get in my head a lot and I don't like drop-ins But if I find a route and just keep on going it just makes me feel like I'm speed skating rather than ramp skating And I like hills so that works for me and I just find what works instead of being focused on what I'm afraid of Yeah, absolutely. Oh, thank you guys so much