Name: プロスケーターが「スケボー」の技術を21のレベルで実演 | Levels | WIRED Japan
Uploaded: 2025-03-19T09:45:49.000Z
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Hey, I'm Tony Hawk, pro skater, and I have been challenged to go through levels of complexity in skateboard tricks.

様態の副詞

In the interest of time, we are only covering flat ground tricks and ramp tricks.

There are so many variations here, but I'm trying to give you the foundation from which the other ones are built.

And just remember, this is my personal interpretation of this challenge, so let's hit the floor.

Level one would be the flat ground ollie.

Ollies are the foundation to almost every skate trick.

There's hardly any tricks that you can think of that don't start with an ollie first.

So if you're gonna start skating, that's gonna be the first trick that you actually learn.

The motion of an ollie is using one foot to snap the tail of the board downward, and then you have the board sort of aiming up, and then sliding your front foot at the right time in order to bring that board up and level it out in the air.

It's a simple technique, but it's all about timing.

There are all kinds of different ways to ollie, but the bottom line is you're trying to get the board up in the air only using your feet.

People who first try to learn ollies, the number one mistake is they won't commit to it.

So you see kids trying ollies, and they land with their foot off to the side.

People do that for years, and it's just all about committing to actually landing on top of the board.

Frontside refers to the way that you're turning, and it all stems from surfing.

So if you're frontside to the wave, you're turning literally with your front facing the wave.

That translates down to skateboarding, where that same motion is frontside.

On a frontside ollie, 180, you can actually see where you're going.

The motion of it is basically an ollie, and as you ollie, you're moving your shoulders, and you're turning your upper body 180, and making your lower body follow.

It's a little bit of finesse with your feet, because your feet have to move a little bit differently in order to make that board come around, and it's very easy to have your back foot move too far, which I did plenty of times during this demonstration.

Once you land, you're actually riding backwards.

That makes it more complex as well, because you're starting the trick forward, you're landing backwards, and a lot of people are not comfortable going backwards.

So level three, I say, is a backside 180 ollie.

It's not that it's more complex than a frontside 180 ollie, it's just a little bit more difficult, because you can't see your landing zone.

So you're going literally on blind faith, that you're gonna be landing straight, and going the right direction, and then your head sort of catches up at the end.

So it's almost like you're going with the force.

You're using the force to land properly, and then using your other senses to figure out where you are, and how to adjust.

It takes a little bit different technique too, with the snap on the ollie, because on the frontside ollie, where you hit your tail is a little bit different than on the backside one.

Your feet will move a little more on backside generally, and depending on how late you turn the 180, is really how much risk you're willing to put out there.

My level four is a backside pop shove it.

What that means is turning the board a 180 under your feet, while keeping your body in the same position.

When I say backside direction, that means your board is going the backside direction, but your body stays forward.

I would start with a backside pop shove it first, because I feel like that's the easier way to do it.

So 180s is the opposite, but when you're doing shove its, it's actually easier to go backside, because you can see the board come around.

The idea is that you snap it, and as you snap the board, you're giving it a little nudge in that direction, and then you keep your feet out of the way as it comes around, and as you see it come around, you put your feet back on the grip tape, where it needs to be, and then push it down on the ground.

As a reference, the first couple that I tried today,

I overturned it, so you can see where my board goes a little bit too far.

I caught it with my feet, but my feet kept going with it, and it's just not suitable for landing straight.

And it just takes a little bit of finesse, because it really doesn't take a whole lot of effort on your tail when you push it to make it turn.

In fact, some people that learn how to ollie, accidentally do pop shove its, because they can't keep their board straight.

My level five would be a frontside pop shove it.

It's the same idea in theory as a backside pop shove it, but you're pushing the board the other direction.

You're pushing it more of an unnatural way, because you have to sort of kick it in front of you, yet the board stays so far under your feet, it's hard to see.

So this trick is more based on feeling than sight.

You'll see that when my feet are set up, my feet are very exaggerated off from one side of the tail and off from one side of the nose.

I need that in order to keep the board flat as I kick it around.

If you keep your feet in the general ollie position and try a frontside pop shove it, it's very likely the board will flip, and not flip in a good way.

You're gonna land either upside down or what we call primo, which is on your wheels sideways.

And that usually doesn't turn out very well either.

I feel like some people find a trick that they're comfortable with, and that becomes their go-to, even though it might be a few levels above what's basic.

He doesn't skate regularly, but when he does skate, he can do frontside pop shove, it's easily clean, catch some high.

And it's just like this muscle memory he has, which is fascinating to me, because mine are terrible.

It's crazy to think that many people understand what a kickflip is these days, because when we first saw Rodney Mullen do it, we didn't understand how he made his board flip.

That was literally the name of it at first.

He called it an ollie flip, because he did ollie first and then flipped the board.

And that is the technique, and the baseline of it is an ollie.

But as you're ollieing, and as your foot is sliding forward to level out the board, it actually slides out to the side and starts it flipping.

It's a foundation to skating, but it also can be one of the hardest things to learn.

The whole idea is that you're doing an ollie, and you're making the board flip under your feet.

I did that plenty of times when doing this segment.

And the whole reason for that is that you either didn't flick it fast enough, or you didn't ollie high enough.

The idea is that you want to catch them high.

You want to get to your feet so you're still under control of the board as you're in the air.

If we had levels of kickflips, the first level is just doing it, the second level is catching it, and the third level is doing it over stuff, over stairs, over fire hydrants, flipping into tricks.

It's a little bit misleading to say it's an actual heel flip because you're not using your heel to flip it.

So you see that the kickflip turns this one direction, and when you see a heel flip, it turns the opposite direction.

You're not actually flipping it with your heel, but that's the only way to separate those two terms.

And as you see, my foot is set up actually with my heel off to the other side of the board.

I'm actually scraping the side of my foot diagonally, the opposite direction of a kickflip, but I'm not using my heel.

I'm still using the toes of my shoe to make it happen.

And sliding it that way and then making it flop over.

Number one mistake of heel flips is not getting it around, landing primo and falling backwards.

Some people find it easier to flip heel flips, including one of my kids.

It's really more personal preference, but in my head, and I learned kickflips first.

Ironically for me, heel flips are easier on vert, but I'll get to that later.

Level eight is what is commonly known as a varial flip, which is actually a misnomer because to do a varial, you have to grab your board and turn it with your hand.

That is what it should be called, but I'm gonna go with the general population and say, okay, it's a varial flip.

Basically, it's a shove it and a kickflip all at once.

What happens is you flick the board, you actually position your foot so that you're kicking it and giving it a little twist at the same time, so that when it does come around, a kickflip ends up landing like a heel flip.

Sometimes that's easier than a heel flip because you get to see the board come around and you can decide when you wanna actually put your feet down on it, like when it's gonna be safe to land.