As a skater who is hovering on the beginner to intermediate level, I have enjoyed your trick tips, but also these recent videos within the past year discussing different aspects of skateboarding (the skate community, mentality/perspective, and other skateboarding idiosyncrasies). Keep up the great work and I’m glad to hear you are doing okay after that concussion.

When you landed that back 360 down that gap.... that look into the camera was Straight Gangster!! Your covering principals with skating that really no one talks about. Thank You.

Thanks man, I’m really thinking about skating in different ways now, I’m squatting more and trying to be more conscious about maximizing my energy usage throughout my board, the whole kinetic chain etc. thanks man. You’re actually the best at this. It’s real, it’s not holding your hand, it’s just explained and broken down in a way that someone as poor as comprehension as me really gets it!

the whole x an y axsis thing was great! you have a unique way of talking about skating that has totally changed my perspective, thanks man

On My Mother's Account, But YOU'RE AWESOME NORMAN!!!!! Great VIDEO!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

Quality shit right here 🔥

Love your videos bro! Stellar work keep it up!

Great explanation, thank you!

Greetings from Norway. Fucking great skating, and high educational quality on your videos. Its helpin my 40 year old body to progress in tandem with my 23 year old brain. If you put in the time to actually practice all your tips and exercises in these rookie mistakes videoes. You can actually sense that your executing your trix better and better by the minute! Thx man! I wanna betone a patreon! Pardon my french! Lars.

Love the series!

Your videos are really helping, thanks a lot

Thanks for doing those Rookie videos. I really appreciate you putting in all the work.

All the information you're saying really makes me think of smaller things like squatting also, i like what you said about our skateboards being anatomic objects they only respond to the energy we put into it

Love these, keep up the great work!

Love these tips! I appreciate you for taking the time to create and upload these. I have already seen huge improvement in my ollies from your squatting video. This video was also easier for me to follow since the background music was a bit softer. Keep it up!

Finally!Great stuff man ! Thank you

Love these rookie mistakes videos.

Rewatching all the rookie mistakes videos, they help a lot, thanks Norman🙏🏻🤙🏼😎

Thank you so much for the tips, I’m working on my squatting, and shoulder rotation for 180* Ollie’s up and down curbs🙏🏻🤙🏼😎

love the pics on the wall, the monk/priest is hillarious

Excited to try this pop timing in my backside 180 practice! It’s been so weirdly hard to get that one to work.

Great video as always! When looking really carefully at your 360 at 4:20, it looks like it's the shoulders / upper body that are leading the way the first 180 degrees of the rotation, and dragging the hips / lower body / feet (in that order) along. Then, for the remaining 180 degrees of the rotation, it looks like it's the feet that are leading the way and dragging the hips / upper body / shoulders (in that order) along. So it almost seems to work like this: Wind up shoulders 90 degrees in the opposite direction, turn shoulders 180 degrees in the desired direction, wait for the lower body to rotate 360 degrees, which will (eventually) drag along the upper body to the full 360 degrees. A thing I realised quite recently, and I think the clip at 4:20 confirms this, is that it's THE BACK shoulder / arm that's doing most of the work when it comes to initiating the rotation. It kind of looks like it's the front shoulder / arm, but I actually think it's the back arm / shoulder. The back arm /shoulder is "turned behind you" (towards your back), rather than turning the front arm / shoulder "in front of you" (towards your chest).

Very down for the next parts

Good stuff!… it took me a while to figure this out. I’ve found now I do my back 180’s a little late. But even then I’m rotating my shoulders through the trick, im just letting my legs linger for a split second before I rotate my legs. So the top half of me is still rotating. Honestly though I like how they look when there a little late. Plus that skirt sound of the wheels is addictive!… lol

Norman...you're 100% fcking rights.

Had to drop this for you big homie, Braille Skateboarding has a couple videos with Ebon Turner, gnarliest barefoot skater I've seen on YT

How to flip out of nose manuals? That would be a good one!

Get better, bless you, I am taking all your advice

I have that issue with nollie 180's. My lower body completes the rotation but I'm usually looking the wrong direction when I land. Thanks for this video!

yo i watched the other video on crouching more and letting yourself be a spring as you land I gotta tell you that I can ollie higher now and land softer, I thought that my squat was as low as I can go but I heard what u said in that video and it works my g, thanks

I definitely have issues with shoulder rotation with many frontside tricks. Especially Nollie Frontside 180 and getting out of blunts frontside. Also switch backside is tough.

Personally, I'm coming from learning to surf skate to broadening my skills to street boards. Much of my pumping is still a work in progress and teaching myself the basics does flow back. Lately my focus has been on 180 turns, which I still need much work on, especially when it comes to rotation of my shoulders.

i have the propblem backside that i stop rotating and then pop and try to continue to rotate. ive had the backside rotation epiphany, im binge watching your videos atm haha, theyre soo good.

🔥🔥🔥💯📈📈📈

Talk about tight trucks vs loose trucks? Especially in grinds, if it’s benefits you to grind with them loose or if it doesn’t matter

Hey Norman can you make a video on how to keep your Ollie straight? I have a good pop and front foot side but I’m twisting my body when I pop up and it’s turning my board frontside every time. I try hard to focus on not twisting/turning my hips and shoulders but I keep subconsciously doing it, causing me to land sideways every time

I teach middle school math and my kids love to ask "when am I going to need to know this?" Im going to play them a clip from this video...

yoooo hahaha i just realized the photo behind you come on now hahahahahaha

Do fakie rotations operate the same way?

what is that monk doing in the picture above your left shoulder ?

Shoulders rotating was my biggest downfall when i started skating, kept landing parallel with the board till my homie held my shoulders while i tried to ollie so i could get that muscle memory lol

I am beginner and i alawys try to skate like a pro and this cause alot off learning problems

I skate goofy. I can ollie sideways up a curve to the frontside but I can’t ollie up a curve backside