In this instructional skateboarding video, the presenter shares a personal warm‑up routine for stair sets, outlining seven core tricks that he cycles through before attempting larger obstacles. He begins with basic ollies and 180s (front and back, both regular and switch), then moves to nollies and fakie variations, and finally incorporates flip tricks such as 360‑flips, switch front shoves, and hard‑flips. Throughout, he emphasizes adapting the sequence to the size of the stairs, listening to one’s body, and using intuition to decide which tricks to prioritize on a given day. The video also covers mental strategies for overcoming fear—encouraging skaters to start a flip even if they doubt they’ll land it—and physical preparation, including stretching, leg swings, mini‑ramp squats, rock‑and‑rolls, and 50/50s. He notes practical considerations like board grip, dusty or slippery spots, and the importance of gauging surface conditions. The presenter wraps up with a reminder to take it slow, stay flexible in the routine, and invites viewers to like, subscribe, and watch future content.
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All right, these are 7 tricks that I like to do when warming up on stairs. We'll start with ollie. Ollie, of course. Get those legs warmed up. And then I always switch 180. And then after that, I might do a 180 frontside or backside. Let's go backside. Ollie back 180. It's 3, and then after that I'll do switch heel. All right, then we'll do switch heel, uh, 360 flips. All right, it works. Final one, I'll do non-big So there's 7 tricks that I do when warming up, jumping something. This is fairly small for me, so compared to like a 9-stair or 10-stair, the tricks start to change sometimes. Let's just say, so with my warm-up for PSL, it was always— I start with ollies. Ollie, front 180, back 180, switch ollie, switch front 180, switch back 180, and then I go to nollies. Nollie, nollie front 180, nollie back 180s. Lately I've been doing more nollie back 180 before the front, but for me they don't matter, they feel the same. And then fakie ollie, fakie front 180, and then fakie half cab. So after that, then it's usually I go to either 360 flip or switch front shove. Switch front shoves feel better down a bigger stair set like PSL, but something like this It doesn't matter, I can kind of interchange it. But for PSL, I was usually doing switch front shove, switch heel, and then go on the tre flip, and then maybe nollie heel, nollie big spin, nollie back heel, switch hard flip, switch varial heel, and then just kind of figuring out different tricks from there. A lot of times you got to feel your body, like, ah, try a couple on flat. Maybe I'll go switch front 3, maybe I'll go nollie back 3. Maybe I'll do Molly front heel next. But you know, each trick that you do on different days, they're going to feel a little different. So just kind of go with your intuition. Sometimes you're like, I really don't want to try this trick, and you don't have to. But sometimes you just need to like go for one where you just flip it and kick it out, and you know you're not going to land it, but you just need to kind of like get past that fear. Just start the flip and see, you know, kind of how it starts to flip, and then from there you kick it out. Come back to it or not. But there's always going to be a little resistance, or just that feeling of, I don't really feel like doing this right now. But if you're trying to learn something to move up, then you got to push yourself just a little bit out of your comfort zone. Even if it's a trick you've done before, they— the tricks don't feel the same every day. Maybe the shoes are getting old, maybe the board grip. As you can see, it's real dusty on here, so, you know, Maybe you gotta spit on the ground and you want to hear the squeak. You know, some parts are really slippery, so, you know, just kind of gauge it, feel how your, how your body feels, and then eventually you'll just have a routine like me where maybe you don't even start with the ollies and 180s and go straight into the switch heel after a warm-up. Sometimes even warming up on a mini ramp is good. You're getting the blood flowing, you know, you're just kind of doing a bunch of squats going back and forth. Doing some rock and rolls, 50/50, and you know, just see how it feels. Sometimes you, you really got to stretch, do some leg swings and get the hips open, get on the ground, really just like sit there for a minute and be like, all right, today I'm feeling a little achy. Instead of rolling around right away, I'm gonna stretch first. And then other days I'm going and rolling around and and just pumping, maybe doing a couple little ollies, nothing crazy, just like ollie out of the ramp, or, you know, ollie up this little step up right here, and then maybe ollie on the hip over here. But, you know, if I'm still feeling stiff after doing a couple ollies and just rolling around, then maybe I'll just stop and sit down for a second, you know, start to stretch in different ways, uh, butterflies are also really good, just in the hips, you know, you're just feeling it out. But take it, take it slow, take your time. Every day is a different day. And as always, like, subscribe, and stay tuned for next week. Look at this screw, it looks like it came from a rollerblade. I used to rollerblade. All right, one more trip. Oh, it didn't feel that great. Let's do one more. I don't know if you could tell, but I was kind of leaning forward when I landed. Till next time, like and subscribe.
