Indy Stage 10 Low vs Standard?

[stewpidphuck]

hanging up has nothing to do with kingpin, at least thats the case for me. im down for krux i guess. ron whaley is a badass

[Brent212]

i skate krux downlows. low trucks are better for snapping ollies quick since they aer closer to the ground.

It seems like the lower the truck, the more difficult it'd be to ollie. At least, carpet ollieing a deck with itself is hard as fuck. Maybe I'll give some downlows a try to see what's up though. My ollies suck balls.

do you snap your ollies or stomp your ollies? standard trucks are easier if you stomp your ollies. you should try learning to snap your ollies...they won't suck balls anymore. i started as a stomper. it just makes things difficult and sloppy.

What is this snapping of ollies that you speak of? I totally need to do that.

[Paper/Scissors]

I tend to shred (no pun intended) my stock bushings. And it's either from Turning, or rough lands.

I then buy red doh-dohs. That's all I seem to use.

This happens to you too? My indy bushings are shredded as well as my cores. I don't bother to swap em out, but maybe one day.

[the redline]

i skate krux downlows. low trucks are better for snapping ollies quick since they aer closer to the ground.

It seems like the lower the truck, the more difficult it'd be to ollie. At least, carpet ollieing a deck with itself is hard as fuck. Maybe I'll give some downlows a try to see what's up though. My ollies suck balls.

do you snap your ollies or stomp your ollies? standard trucks are easier if you stomp your ollies. you should try learning to snap your ollies...they won't suck balls anymore. i started as a stomper. it just makes things difficult and sloppy.

What is this snapping of ollies that you speak of? I totally need to do that.

Get really hyper (Red Bull, coffee, Sparks, beer) and go skate and you will usually end up snapping hecka high ollies.  Get them feet up, jump around a little bit, get retarded...

Stomping ollies leads to bad skating, I have found.

[elastic back]

hanging up has nothing to do with kingpin, at least thats the case for me.

i don't mean hanging up in the sense of coming back in from a disaster or rock in tranny but where your kingpin digs into a ledge or something on a smith grind. if the ledge is not super smooth or uber waxed, regular kingpins can dig into them and stop you, no matter how fast you go...assuming they are dipped properly. that has been my experience from when i used to skate ventures at least. but it has been a while since i have skated anything other than krux. it has probably been almost 10 years since i skated a set of indys.

What is this snapping of ollies that you speak of? I totally need to do that.

a lot of thunder footed people stop their ollies and their boards detach from their feet and look really ugly. you might be able to get those high, but the timing and accuracy on them is horrible. if you user your toes or maybe even t he ball of your feet and just snap/flick your tail, you can work on your timing and get a much cleaner ollie, which helps will all your other tricks that involve popping. make sense?

[Brent212]

a lot of thunder footed people stop their ollies and their boards detach from their feet and look really ugly. you might be able to get those high, but the timing and accuracy on them is horrible. if you user your toes or maybe even t he ball of your feet and just snap/flick your tail, you can work on your timing and get a much cleaner ollie, which helps will all your other tricks that involve popping. make sense?

Totally sounds like my ollies. I don't know when it happened, but somewhere along the line my feet started coming off the board when I ollie, and it sucks. I got no control. It probably has something to do with getting old, getting stiff joints/fucked ankles. I'll try paying more attention to the whole "use your toe instead of your whole foot" thing, which I think is what you're saying.

[hardcoreskates]

if you user your toes or maybe even t he ball of your feet and just snap/flick your tail, you can work on your timing and get a much cleaner ollie, which helps will all your other tricks that involve popping. make sense?

A couple too many letters in spots, but yes...  it makes sense.  I snap ollies with the ball of my foot and my big toe.  That's how I get up curbs anyways.

[the redline]

a lot of thunder footed people stop their ollies and their boards detach from their feet and look really ugly. you might be able to get those high, but the timing and accuracy on them is horrible. if you user your toes or maybe even t he ball of your feet and just snap/flick your tail, you can work on your timing and get a much cleaner ollie, which helps will all your other tricks that involve popping. make sense?

Totally sounds like my ollies. I don't know when it happened, but somewhere along the line my feet started coming off the board when I ollie, and it sucks. I got no control. It probably has something to do with getting old, getting stiff joints/fucked ankles. I'll try paying more attention to the whole "use your toe instead of your whole foot" thing, which I think is what you're saying.

There's another thread about "ollie souths"...I filmed myself and instantly picked up the problem...I was snapping out with my back foot instead of down.  Now my feet usually stay stuck like glue.  It's pretty great.