When you're up there looking down, it looks so much steeper.

i was teaching a friend how to drop in and told him you gotta lean forward. after about 3 weeks of him chickening out, he finally decided to do it because his sister dropped in on the 6 footer and only took her about 6 minutes to get the courage. he felt he had to redeem himself so instead of doing it on the 3, 4, or 6 foot ramp he went to the 8 footer that had about 3 feet of vert. he leaned so far forward that he did a nose manual down the ramp and did a full body slam.

these skateparks looks so sick...

I heard this saying that “ If you wait till your ready, you’ll be waiting forever,”

one thing that helped me drop in was instead of thinking 'shift weight forward' i thought 'lift weight off back foot'

i'm 37 and just started skating again, today i learned to commit and dropped in. I've never been on a ramp in my life, thanks lance for showing how i could die which helped me commit sooner.

anyone else been binge watching skateboarding vids and now wants to try it?

GO FAST AND COMMIT IS THE SECRET OF LIFE

Lance skate supports are the best thing braille came up with. That said, I think the easiest way to learn to drop in is to have a friend lend a hand.. literally. After a couple times you can do it by yourself easily. That's how I learned.

Someone said “act like you’re grabbing the nose of the board” and that helped me a ton since it’s a lot of your shoulders leaning to get you stable on the board

I never managed to get the bottle to do this as a kid and ended up quitting skating. Now I'm 22, I've just bought a new board and endlessly watching Aarons videos to try and get rid of my ingrained fear of dropping in.

HOLY SHIT THAT PARK! I COULD ONLY SKATE THERE IN MY WET DREAMS

I just dropped in!

the girl in shorts keep walking back and forth so she could be on camera

I like how completely honest with Lance that Aaron was about the dangers though, that's a good teacher right there.

Good Street skater, maybe not so good vert teacher. This is a whole different type of world. 1.) This is vert. Wear protection. Helmet, pads etc. not only that it protects you like the pros use but it gives you balls and confidence!

I did my first drop in today! It's my 3rd day skateboarding! I'm soooo happy

This video really helped me! Nailed the drop-in yesterday at 33 yrs old (we didn't have this stuff when I was a kid), same day as my 8 year old daughter, our first time at an indoor (or any) state park as we've only been skating for a week. The support from all the people there is pretty amazing, we've made lots of friends already.

This is useful stuff. I'm 27 and haven't rode a board for 12+ years. Took my son (7) to a skatepark for the first time last week and some 17yr old had a pop at him for getting in the way so I volunteered to skate with him, watching these videos has certainly helped. Thanks Aaron/Team Braille

A helmet would’ve probably made him a lil bit more confident

when I was 14 I dropped in on a 5 ft. quarter pipe my buddy's dad built. We didn't know anything about leaning that far forward. I slipped right up at the lip and slammed my back right on the coping. Its because I didn't' commit to it. I'm 25 now and over all these years of skating that is the one bail I can remember. I thought I broke my back for real. I couldn't breathe and my arms and legs were tingling. Aaron isn't kidding when he says this is dangerous. I'm actually surprised Lance didn't fall backward. He was actually lucky to get away with it as many times as he did.

i love these videos cuz he’s not only teaching the people in the video, but he’s also teaching us.

what the hell he almost did rock to fakie 10:36

Why no pads/helmet? - builds confidence for a fall to be minor

People dropping in for the first time is the funniest thing ever

Every time I watch a lance live skate support I just want to go skate, lol. Or any brallie video really.

You should start from the bottom and do kickturns and little grinds for a while before you drop in. It gives you a feel for the transition. After that dropping in comes naturally.

As a returning skater (stopped at 17 and picking it back up at 44), this was incredibly helpful in mentally preparing to drop-in again. Thank you for your insistence on basic principles to follow, helps when I'm staring down the quarter pipe.

I don't think telling him he can die if he falls is going to help x)

People who have never been on the top of a ramp thinks it’s easy, it’s so scaryyyy

It motivates me to practice more when I see professionals learning new tricks!

3 years later and I can still learn a lot from this video Ty for everything, I tried doing a drop in but I ended up just trying it once and just quitting. Now I actually want to go back to the skate park and try it and do it finally. Ty R.I.P Lance you will be missed

you have to slam your front wheels down before gravity pulls the whole board down, faster than you would freefall. i bend my knees alot more, which helps me balance plus i get a huge pump out of it. of course that might not do any good on a mini ramp, the bowl im used to is like 6' i think. i had the opposite problem as lance though, i leaned too far forward and face slammed alot.

When you're about to drop in just think: "I'm a PITBULL!" That's it

Its so awesome watching Lance progress. He has made so much improvement and learned so much since he started

Am loving these Lance Live Skate Support series - I can totally emphasize with him that fear of standing up the top the moment before dropping in... it's awesome having Aaron demonstrate first and then Lance's go - it feels as though I'm actually there watching it and participating too! Glad he made it out alive, looking forward to seeing more of these videos!!

3:34 Jeeeesusssss

Dropping in was like riding a bike for me, I never forgot it.

Back on a board at 50 after like 35yrs. Never did this. Just started on the shallow ramp this morning. So heart warming to see a goofy gangly guy like me fail on repeat..like me. Thank you Lance!!

Wish the skateparks near me had a lil mini bowl. All the ones out here are like mega ramps 😂🤣

anyone else notice that girl that kept on walking past behind them?😂

FINALLY! The skate support I always wanted to see :D

Greetings from Poland Lance :) People from all over the world watch you, you are the best Lance!

dropping in as a beginner really teaches you on how to commit and not commiting will bring you a near death experience

A hot girl walked by just when he fell the worst of all the falls

its important to fall tho, then you definitely know what not to do

Wow I love how at your skatepark there’s skateboarders..but at my skateparks we have BMX and scooters, and I can make the Braille army grow in Australia, so turn those scooters and BMX’s to Skaters. LET THE RISE OF THE BRAILLE ARMY BEGIN!!!!.

I practice dropping in on my neighbors driveways. It's really helpful

5:54 When you get caught Mall Grabbing 😂

I reckon Lance is an undercover pro skater

After soooo many years i just discovered this channel arron is sssuuuuuch an awsum teacher and lance live skate support is my faves and im finally getting me a skateboard.💝🙌😭😷💞

I learned how drop in into a mini ramp last saturday. I was so excited, I started skateboarding last 18 th october

I'm 61 and trying to drop in on my concrete 4' ramp, lance is doing exactly what I have done, pussing out.i fell back and hit my helmet really hard, living in the forest in Mexico with no one around, pads and patience.

Here's a little word of advice for all you new skaters who are just starting out, if Lance would've just kept his weight FORWARD like Aaron TOLD HIM TO from the VERY BEGINNING, he would've learned how to drop in after just four or five attempts instead of like 20 attempts.

Great video, shows what are the fears/difficulties one has to overcome before doing the first drop in. Usually we think it is easy when a pro does it, but mistakes are what I am looking for which is clearly shown here.

lance is very lucky to have you teaching him. I appreciate you and your videos. awesome!

Dude, seriously, the entire time, I was like, "LANCE, LEAN FORWARD!!"

I applaud this dude though. He looks old enough to be a dad.

it helped me alot to have a friend standing at the bottom and holding my hands. thanks braille for inspiring me to start skateboarding! it's sooooooo much fun!

I give Lance props. When I first learned how to drop in my friends kept pushing me to do it after 1 million times I landed it and it felt great. Commitment is very crucial in skating. Good job Lance 😁

Who else saw the babe skater

I also thought about not wanting to fall backwards when dropping in, so I just committed, but then pressed a little too much and fell forward because of it.

Wow, what a throwback. A video Gabe was filming without talking.

You absolutely nailed it. I decided to wear pads and a helmet, but I got there, thanks Aaron you're the best!

I now have matching scars on both hips from repeated failed drop ins

The way I teach people to drop in, is think of focusing your board, but instead of snapping it, you just ride away.

I love skateboarding and as I am now 25 and havent been actively filming or skating with friends for nearly a decade now some recent events that hit me personally has given me the final push to get on my board starting from getting back into the scene with videos like braille and berrics to my dear friend that i skated with every day when we all skated passing away. he passed away this exact day last year in 2016. His names was Darrin Joe and he is in almost all of my skate part edits. Darrin was one of the best in our group and like most of us, we lost our connection to skating while growing up. Darrin passed away and watching his old parts I made really got me feeling nostalgia and happiness seeing and remembering how much fun we had riding this piece of wood. It made me think about how much more fun we could have had if I was able to skate as well as my friends so I could also participate in games of skate or just go have a sesh without my camera holding me back behind the scenes. In early June, leading up to Darrin's memorial of passing away I entered in Daewon Song's daejavu adidas and almost contest. Darrin's favorite skater was Mikey Taylor because of his part in Skate More and we would always watch and talk about that video part as Darrin literally would only buy AWS Mikey boards and even buy 2 pairs of his DVS pro models, one to skate and one to keep completely flawless and wear only on the most special of occasions. I entered in on the contest not thinking of actually having a chance to win and just so happened to require me to pick a Daewon part and trick that he was redoing a trick on. I used his Skate More intro section of him falling on his tricks as it was a very memorable part and video to me and Darrin since I had a huge fandom to Daewon because of his Korean background while Darrin who is also Korean loved Mikey. We would both laugh so hard at Mikey's intro and Daewon's falling section. I ended up winning the contest winning a free pair of Adidas Daewon colorways and a complete Almost deck during the time I was really missing my friend as his one year anniversary since his passing was coming up. When I realized I won, I had a sudden flashback about the time Darrin and I met Daewon at our local shop, Liberty Boardshop and remembered how stoked we were to see Daewon randomly walk in and finally meeting one of our favorite skaters. Winning the shoes and board had a huge impact on me as it felt like it was such an unforseeable coincidence that I had won the contest from that specific skater using that specific video. A combination of nostalgia and watching videos like Braille's has gifted me with the motivation and will power to skate again. This is when I stumbled across Lance's hardflip landing video, which once again had a huge correlation to my friend who's most memorable trick landed was his hardflip down the Chino 3 block that we weren't even filming, but I just so happened to turn on my camera while sitting down on the four block and captured Darrin's banger with the most lucky angle ever. Darrin was known in our community because of this trick being such a perfect land and we used to think doing any flip trick down a set was the most gnarly achievement. To basically sum up this ridiculously long story, all of these events in the order that they happened and in what nature it was being skateboarding, I felt as if I had an enlightenment or a sign from my dear friend Darrin to get up off my ass and stop moping around being sad about life in general as I have been in a stagnant stage of doing nothing after work and being so inactive both socially and physically. I want to thank Braille and Lance and all those involved in these events that have most likely saved my life from spiraling down into a dark abyss of sorrow and being stuck in the past. I have now decided to re-open my interest in both skating and video production by using my KZfaq account that I started back in 2005 when we first started filming and skating. It means the world to me that my channel stays alive as it has all of my memories of skating with my most close friends and especially having the ability to see Darrin whenever I am missing him or thinking about him. I don't know why I am writing this to Braille, but today being his anniversary had me thinking a lot about him and the memories, which I have now committed myself to creating new videos for the sake of keeping my channel up and running for the world to see my will to learn how to skate and hopefully to show the world that didn't know Darrin will watch his skating. I am so very excited to regain my passion of skating and video production. Rest in peace Darrin Joe, I will learn how to do a hardflip and I will do a hardflip down the Chino 3 block by following Aaron's guide to skating and follow along Lance's progression. If anyone wants to be part of this, please feel free to join me on my personal endeavors to honor my late friend and hopefully revive my old times into a modern day version that Darrin would be proud of.

This was great....and hilarious! Nice job, Lance !

who else didn't watch the skating at 3:32 to 3:38... be honest. 😂

I can't even balance myself on flat ground ugh

dude!! I was a skater when i was 15 years old, now Im 24 and start skatebarding again, and somehow I learn more seeing Lance skating

Just gettin into skateboarding again at 34. Having so much fun. So glad I found this channel. Looking forward to more progression.... how you say.. FIRST TRY!!!!

Can someone please give that girl some attention. She walks by so "casualy" carrying her board like a pro xD

the simple term "slam your front wheels down" would have sufficed. "Commit" is a difficult term for someone to understand who isn't fully sure how to execute the move.

This video has gave me confidence to do a drop in thank you Aaron :)

I literally just tried dropping in for the first time yesterday, and got a few sketchy tries, and then absolutely 💯 got bodied! Now I've got another few days to heal so I can get bodied again!

I saw Aron seeing that girl hahaha

Get lance to ollie a 3 stair! :D

I haven't skated since I was a teenager. Now in my 30's I want to try and start again thanks to these videos but I could feel the fear even though I wasn't there trying to drop in myself haha. I hope I'm not too old to start up again!. Great informative videos though!

Way to go lance. Ive been trying to drop in on a local mini ramp and after watching this video im 100% gonna do it.

Personally I learned how to fall in first. Or as Aaron would put it (1:02) Die

God I fell in love with the girl on 10:57

Snowboarding actually helped me a bunch because doing the quarter pipe there is really fucking easy and i didnt really have to learn anything just keep your body on top of the board, like in skateboarding. I learnt the vert half pipe 3 days after i began learning the mini ramp and im glad i got the experience of balance and weight distribution from snowboarding. That definetly saved me from a lot of battle scars!

Hey braille team. I've been binge watching your videos recently and I just want to say they helped me a lot. Today I dropped in on a ramp for the first time and it felt great to finally beat the fear. Even tho it's still scary every time I drop in again

Hi this steven from Uganda of East African countries, i felt overwhelm with how you were teaching your friend on how to dropp in. I am having passionate about getting more skills on skateboad but the problem i don't own one. would you mind to get for me one

Lance, Braille needs to hook you up with a helmet dood!

Dude, dropping in has been one of my major goals for so many years. I stopped skateboarding in 2015, and i made a comeback last friday (august 10th). I'm fully commited, i will do it this year for the first time. Just so you guys know, i've been skating since 2006. It just so happens that skateboarding wasn't so popular in Brazil back then, and also there were not too many skateparks around the city. Thanks god that's different nowadays. Thanks, guys!!!!

Best thing I did... and after 3 years off the board and starting to get back into it, was learning first how to fall properly and controlled into a bowl with full pads and helmet. Takes alot of the scare factor away from actually dropping in.

Lance: omg I won a billon dollars Aaron: ok cool

who was that chick

Yaaaa Lance! Doing AMAZING!! Keep up the good work!!!!!

I've not yet seen the whole video so I don't know if they have adressed this, but there is one thing I noticed. Aaron and others lean forward and down for a while before moving any weight on the front foot and slamming it down. If you just try to lean forward and slam your board down, you will be slamming it too soon and you will straighten your legs and fall. So lean forward and down before the board even starts to move. It is like it is lagging behind. Then you can land your board on the ramp with bent legs, making it easier to keep your balance.

I learned to drop in on my 2nd try

3rd ever drop in and pulls off a rock fakie haha

it realy helps when u hold hands to begin with so u get the fealing of doing it

This is the best video tutorial I have ever seen. I'm coming very late to skate boarding 30+ and it's terrifying to drop in as u feel like ur gonna die and to be fair I went down a slope and did the thing I shouldn't have done and that was to lean back and boy did I get hurt.

0:08 look at lances hand XD

I wonder why they never padded him up. Like that seems the most basic safety thing a professional skateboard teacher would do with a student.

Have been going to the skatepark a couple of weeks now, but still haven't done any drops in a pipe. Going to train this tomorrow. Wish me luck! :) Thanks for the videos and the skating lessons. I have been your stuf into practice and like it!

Lance Skate Support is my bread and butter. I’m a beginner at a similar level as Lance, so everything he learns, I also do learn.