I'm a skateboarder from the San Francisco Bay Area

I've been skateboarding for a very long time

And today I'm going to teach you guys

How to do a backside 180

Just like all the other tricks

I want to make sure that you've been riding around your board a lot

You're very comfortable, you've been pushing, turning

You learned your hippie jumps

You learned how to ollie

You learned how to do frontside 180s

And the next trick up is backside 180

So in order to learn this trick

You need to find yourself a good crack

Get comfortable on the board

Set your feet up like this

Your front foot is in the ollie position, same thing

And your back foot is basically the same as it is for an ollie

Basically all this trick is is an ollie

But what you're going to do differently is going to be up in your shoulders

And how you turn your body

So I'm going to give you a little preparation for that

So the first thing that I want to go over is

What you're going to do with your upper body

Because you've got your ollies down so there's no problem with that

So the thing you're going to be paying attention to mostly is your shoulders

So as you bend down and you do that motion right there

So you're going to bend down

And you're going to pop up, slide the foot

And then you're going to turn your shoulders like that

Usually the easiest way to learn this trick is to learn it like an oille

And as you're already in the air and your upper half your body is twisting

And then the lower half which is your left legs just follow through

And then you can go all the way around and do the 180

So I'm going to show you this one more time just to make it very clear

Because this is the most important part about it

Is really those upper half of the body, the shoulders

So you got your ollies down so now you're going to bend

With a lot of attention on your shoulder

And how you're turning the upper half of your body

So bend down, pop up and then turn backside which is towards the toes

Just like as shown right there

It's a little bit of a timing thing too and how I get used to it is I ollie

And then I land on the nose and then I turn

So you can see how the upper half of my body turns already

And then I just slide my feet around

This is a good way to practice the trick

Because you don't have to be able to do the whole thing in the air

Some of you guys might have a little bit of a hard time ollieing

And then landing on the front trucks like that

But I think it's a little bit easier to do it and learn it this way

So I wanted to show you this as a little bit of a gradient step

To doing the entire backside 180 in the air

Because all it is is basically you ollie

And then your shoulders are already turned as you're ollieing

And then you can bring your legs around

So once you've got that and you feel like you've got comfortable with that

Then you learn how to do the whole thing in the air

So you're going to pop up

And you see how I'm turning my legs the whole time?

But my shoulders turn first as you notice right there

And then I just bring it around

This is also one of those tricks that you can kind of look

And be watching the whole time

It's very easy to see your feet and your legs the way that you're going around

You can see my head right there

But notice how the shoulders are always turned first

That's the most important part

I think if you guys get really down where your shoulders are pointing

In terms of how your board is going to work

It's going to help you out a lot

Sometimes I have kids ask me

"Why is my boarding turning when I do a kickflip and I want it to just stay straight?"

And the usual reason for that is because you're turning your shoulders

So make sure you keep your shoulders in line with your board

If you're doing just a straight ollie, a straight kickflip

And obviously if you're doing a frontside 180

You want to turn your shoulders frontside with the board

If you're doing a backside 180 you want to turn your shoulder backside

This is something that you're going to just have to practice and get used to

And you'll get it down in no time. Don't worry

Now one tip if you're going to learn this over something

Is really just take it at first like almost like a late backside 180

Ollie up and then turn your shoulders and then turn your legs afterwards

And you can even do how I showed you the first way

Where you ollie up, you land on the first truck and you do what's called a pivot

And you just land on the front truck and then slide that back foot around

That'll also help you just learn how to do the whole thing in the air like I said

So practice this one a lot

Do it going fast, slow, just do it all over the place

Up curbs, down curbs so you get really good at it

Later on when you start learning the flip trick variations

Like you learn backside flips or backside heelflips

This is a solid fundamental trick so you're going to want to learn it well

I want to make sure you guys are practicing a lot

Like one thing is if you can get out every day

And do all the tricks that you learned before every time you skate

That's what I did and it really helped me out a lot

If you guys need help with this or any other trick

Upload a video of yourself attempting that trick to youtube and send me the link

That's always the best way to get help because I can see exactly what you guys are doing

And then I can help you out the best

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