What transition tricks do you want to learn next?!?

Protip: if you're worried about trying these on any sort of bank or transition first or don't have access to one, you can get a feel for decking & turning back out on curbs, just do them slowly so you're not bashing your trucks & baseplate into the curb too hard. I know this seems & looks gross, but I actually enjoy practicing tricks in a really "gross" manner or environment like this so that the brain & body constantly gets different feedback for what's happening when a trick is being done. Like right now this idea makes me want to go out, slap my board across a curb, and practice 180s out from a stationary, decked out position just to force my body & brain to think & move in ways it's not used to. Would this look gross to most people? Yep. But are you learning something? Yep. I feel if you operate too "cleanly" or consistently sometimes that you become too familiarized with the processes and stop being aware of them. Sometimes you have to put yourself in an environment that is unorthodox or fights with you to really feel what is happening.

Dear Zack! I was having trouble doing rock-n-rolls in miniramps for more than 2 years. The basic technique wasn’t working for me personally. But decking and and swaying shoulders in the opposite way before the actual turn has revolutionary effect on the execution of the trick. More then that - it gives a wow effect due to a bigger amplitude of the movement. It’s much more stylish then basic technique. Thank you so much sir 🤙🙏

It’s so nice to relearn all the details about these tricks, these vids definitely help so much

That’s a proper and stylish way to rock’n roll. Back foot tip was!👌

i've been learning rock n rolls the last few weeks! this is perfect timing

Bro you’re the man I love your videos they help so much.

Great breakdown, I appreciate this so much. I am more ready to get this now 🙌

Thanks for your advise to skate early!! God bless you!!

"Banana to opposite of banana, then back to banana" made way too much sense Seriously though, love these super detailed explanations!

I just learned these decked out the other day 🤣

Wow man, you explain it so well. Thanks a lot!

I love watching your videos, thanks for making them! And i just want to say, you've got great hair;)

Love this trick. Just learned both ways last summer on a small QTR I'm still trying take them bigger so thanks for this!

Trying to learn these over the summer and the decked out part is what I need someone to tell me! Snowboard season now, but I'll be on it with these tips when the snow melts in the spring. Thanks Zack!

YOU ARE THE BEST ! THANKS BRO

I will go and relearn this trick today. Thanks!

"Decking it" in England means falling off - hitting the deck..! :D

1. Practice backside stationary kick turns on flat to 90 degrees to get forward motion on flat. 2. Learn to kick turn off of a kerb to 90 degrees. 3. Learn to get 180 from a kick turn off a kerb using the back truck as a stop to push off from

I can't express how much i am thankfull for your videos. Because of You i came back to skate transitions. Great work bro!

I wanna learn these so perfect timing:)

Good timing, dude! Back in the day I never touched vert/tranny, so a lot of these basic but fundamental tricks aren't even in my repertoire and I've been slowly adding them in this summer and this is one to work on lately. Problem is I haven't tried them in weeks because I bought a small quarterpipe to practice on and when I went up to do a reeeaaally laid back one, I pushed the whole damn ramp out from underneath me and ate shit. Makes me wanna cry that I can learn these in a day but have a ramp that will try to kill me if I try lol.

You are the man

This is just what I needed, especially the reminder to hunch up when coming back down. I just started skating transition and got rock to fakies down on a little practice ramp this weekend, making sure to deck it. Then I took it to a 3.5' halfpipe and got a few good slams. Now I realize that it's because I was straightening up too much on the descent. I'm going to try rock-n-rolls next time I go out... I feel like they'll be easier than rock to fakie.

Been busy all summer with class but just got out yesterday, wanted to try this one NOW I CAN!

great vid!

When dowdy uploads a video that’s how u know it’s gonna be a good day

Great!

I just learned about “decking” the other day! It does seem scary to get so much of the board up there, but right now I’m only comfortable with rock fakies where it’s mostly my front trucks over the coping and I don’t rock too much. Decking actually does look like it’ll feel more stable, and definitely more stylish 😅 I’m gonna try this in my next sesh!

Top style

Swoosh factor 😎

I’m learning so mich

I needed this. I can rock fakie and rock n roll but only by tapping the wheels over. Gonna work on this this week!

Thanks man,I've been avoiding this trick for a long time. So -decked out, ankle angled, stall and move shoulder, ankle leverage. OK I'll try.

Can finally do rock and roll, new skatepark opened up in my home town and they had smaller quarter pipes so was easier to learn.

I think learning the rock-fakie precedes the rock n roll

Good vid

Thanks for the useful tips. I've restarted skateboarding after many years with a street surfskate and I've been trying to rock roll for 2 or 3 sessions with some painful results, luckily I had all my pads on. On a surfstreet skate this trick seems to be easier than the rocknroll to fakie because the front truck makes the fakie so unstable. So I'll put all your tips into practice today! :)

when you lock in the rock and roll its so much more fun

Hi Zack, nice video, this is the trick I‘m currently learning. May I ask what wheels you are riding?

i actually learned frontside rocks easier. i can do both ways but backside just feels harder for some reason lol. thanks for the tips tho hopefully i can get em locked in.

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Doing them alleyoop is super fun. And easier , think.

Great video! As always. I have never met a skater who finds frontside Rocks easier than Backside :-) I'm in the process of learning frontrocks. I can do them without fully decking, but hope to be able to do that one day... Backside is so much easier, but a little less steezy in my opinion.

Yes! I need to deck my rock n rolls. Thanks for tip. I agree that it is more dangerous to not deck them. I just got psyche myself up to deck it! I’m also still too scared to rock to fakie.

Can you do a video about front tail or back tail slides on transition? Thank you Zach, appreciate the content.

Really great video, somehow this makes it seem less scary to learn. Would you say that decking also makes rock-to-fakies more manageable? I hung up and took a big slam on those so I'm trying to figure out how to get back to working on them. A friend also told me he thinks rock and rolls are actually easier than rock to fakie

That's a fun little park. They need to put a flat bar or something in the open space.

Ah these are how ramp banks should be : smoothly curved transition. Not like overhere in our skatepark : ___/ no curve, just flat and square up. It sent me flying past weekend. Ribs bruised, ankle sprained.

Interesting, thanks for the video. I’ll try decking it but I don’t have coping where I’m at so… I donno but thanks for the ideas, sir.

Do you/should you deck your board for rock to fakie ?

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Go Slap a Rock! Tail tap next :)

Yo can I know what music you have in the background?

What's the name of the background song at the beginning?

I’m sorry, what is the name of the park? I am new to the area and having trouble finding it in my list of SD parks. Thank you!

Turn your head your shoulders will follow some people do it slow others go fast truck jam ok thanks

Where’s this park?

My friend recently broke his ankle doing a rock and roll, he was drunk, so that probably had something to do with it.

Would you learn these before rock to fakie?

Please

but when I deck it i look like duane peters