For my senior project, I am going to be learning how to skateboard. I want to not only be able to ride comfortably, but also be able to do many tricks. By the end of this project, my goal is to be able to kick flip, grind, and board slide. Skateboarding is not an easy skill to learn. Professionals spend years and years to get where they are at. A lot of work is required, but I am dedicated and I enjoy doing it. As long as I can continue to have fun while skating, I will not have a problem getting my work hours in. I have spent hours researching skateboarding, because I want to have a full understanding of what I need to do to reach my goal, but also because I have to do the research for this class. I am going to need to put in many hours if
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This was because I wanted to start at the bottom and work my way up. I learned the basic beginner tips, such as finding out which way I should ride and how to properly push while riding (Nollie Skateboarding). I already knew that I rode goofy, however, I wanted to understand how somebody starting from scratch would feel. Most of my research has been on the internet, and more specifically, YouTube. For skateboarding, YouTube helps more than any other site. That is because I can actually see what is going on in a video. I learned proper foot placement for an ollie from a YouTube video titled “How to Ollie the Easiest Way” (Aaron Kyro). This video was only a couple of minutes long, yet, it helped me more than reading any article or book would have regarding how to ollie. When trying to learn how to skateboard, it is clear to me that reading about it is not going to help. Another example of this is another video that I watched. In the video, “How to Frontside 180 the Easiest Way Tutorial 2.0”, it demonstrates how to do a frontside 180 (Aaron Kyro). He goes over the steps in detail and I am currently working on mastering this trick. Because I can watch Aaron Kyro do the trick, I am then able to do my best to replicate it by examining everything that he does. However, reading about how to do a frontside 180 would not yield the same results. Now, I have found a website that mixes an article with a demonstration of a trick. While searching for websites that would help me, I found Nollie Skateboarding. I looked at a page called “Kick Flip” and on the page there was a video of a skater performing a kick flip (Nollie Skateboarding). Below the video, there was information on each step and tips on how to improve with the trick and hopefully help the reader. At the moment, I am not ready to do a kick flip. However, when I am ready, I will be using Nollie Skateboarding as a tool in that
This was because I wanted to start at the bottom and work my way up. I learned the basic beginner tips, such as finding out which way I should ride and how to properly push while riding (Nollie Skateboarding). I already knew that I rode goofy, however, I wanted to understand how somebody starting from scratch would feel. Most of my research has been on the internet, and more specifically, YouTube. For skateboarding, YouTube helps more than any other site. That is because I can actually see what is going on in a video. I learned proper foot placement for an ollie from a YouTube video titled “How to Ollie the Easiest Way” (Aaron Kyro). This video was only a couple of minutes long, yet, it helped me more than reading any article or book would have regarding how to ollie. When trying to learn how to skateboard, it is clear to me that reading about it is not going to help. Another example of this is another video that I watched. In the video, “How to Frontside 180 the Easiest Way Tutorial 2.0”, it demonstrates how to do a frontside 180 (Aaron Kyro). He goes over the steps in detail and I am currently working on mastering this trick. Because I can watch Aaron Kyro do the trick, I am then able to do my best to replicate it by examining everything that he does. However, reading about how to do a frontside 180 would not yield the same results. Now, I have found a website that mixes an article with a demonstration of a trick. While searching for websites that would help me, I found Nollie Skateboarding. I looked at a page called “Kick Flip” and on the page there was a video of a skater performing a kick flip (Nollie Skateboarding). Below the video, there was information on each step and tips on how to improve with the trick and hopefully help the reader. At the moment, I am not ready to do a kick flip. However, when I am ready, I will be using Nollie Skateboarding as a tool in that