Inverts

[sam]

Im going to the vert again on saturday, and i wanna get the inverts down, but theyre too damn hard! last time i tried it (planting on the ramp, not the coping) i kinda fell all the way onto the flatbottom and landed on my ankle in an awkward position...fun. :mrgreen: anyway, anyone got any pointers, on balance or anything?

[David Schexnayder]

I use to have problems with inverts too, the best thing to do is to start just doing them lower on the ramp, not at the coping, then as you get more comfortable keep doing them higher until you make it to the coping.

[sam]

i practised them on the ramp, at the moment theyre kinda like skateboarder style eggplants, but just wait till I get to vert again!Thanks for the tips

[hcb101]

yeah the best way i found out how to practice inverts and plants were on the wallride cause it taugt me to keep my feet away and out over me instead of in and over.

cause if you were to get your feet caught in and over the coping on an invert its going to be a bad landing in store.

To practice tweaking and working on your invert work on your inverts and plants on a wall ride it helps it did for me.

[sam]

do you mean on a flatbank to wallride kind of thing? i saw chris farmer doing that

[KYSkater]

i just said fuck it and did the invert on the coping. burned my armpit one time when I did it, but i do inverts all the time on my little 4' at home.

[hcb101]

no im talking about going up a vert wall or wall ride and doing an invert plant on the vert wall.

but yeah the wall ride trick by chris farmer was pretty cool.

[KYSkater]

i was thinking about doing an inverted handplant over a quarterpiep wallride.....but i havn't figured out the rotation and speed i need yet.....but i'm getting closer.

[sam]

on minis/small verts i can only do invert to fakies, i never get enough speed to keep me up on normal inverts

[Andy Chase]

There are 2 ways to do inverts. The first is less scary, you put both hands down and carve around them, gradually making it to one hand and then into grabs. This way also allows for hip hops and gap to inverts once you are good at them. The next way is to let your feet slide out as you lean back. The lean is like a back flip. as you slide out look over your shoulder and that should put you facing the right way. These inverts look much better and are much easyer if you don't have a big ramp.

[sam]

that backflip style one would be scary...lets give it a try :mrgreen:

[PCPaul]

Once I tried that 2-hand plant on a concrete embankment and kinda slid down skinning 'em up, then toppled, heh heh.

Backflip-steez tho huh... hmm, perhaps some duct tape on zee helmet first for me... :?

[Andy Chase]

I've tried eggplants and missed completly. Another fun one is when you go too high and the coping is out of arms reach and your hand grabs air and your like "oh crap"

[sam]

ooh thats gotta be fun

[Paul]

egg plants are awsome and fun to do, i have the 540 eggplant and trying a 720 eggplant but having a little trouble getting the last 180 in

[sam]

I tried those on a 3 foot mini didnt work out

[10]

hmm...methinks the newbie way of pushing-off-the-ramp-about-an-inch-under-the-coping-to-do-a-handstand would be incorrect.

Just outta curiousity...how long has anyone held an invert? ie longer than a few seconds

I got this crazy idea of doing windmills on the coping--too bad my arms aren't strong enough to support 160 lbs.

[hcb101]

windmills you make me laugh not at u but at when i saw my friend trying to do a windmill in an 8ft lol good times good times.

[hcb101]

yes ive been so happy now that your talkin about tricks i landed my corskrew 2 times at dirtwood on the vertwall so its starting to get more and more consitent. Not only that i have new flip when i accidentall rotated the wrong way and back. an inverted 540 keep in mind i dont have the luxury as some of yall to constatnly go to woodward so just from hucking its a tough way to learn new flips.

[10]

Me again. Could you elaborate on what they mean by "allow your feet to go over your head"? Do you have to be completely upside-down before you grab the coping? Or do you dip your head down well before the coping, then grab it at the last minute, while your feet drift over you?

Do you have to be able to get air to do inverts?

[KYSkater]

i can't get airs but i can do inverts.......i'm working on getting them all the way vertical......cause they're kinda like flatspins right now.....

[10]

pimpsmack some knowlege on me. learn me how to do dem inverts without having to get air. and the flatspins too.

[KYSkater]

just go up the ramp and watch for the coping......i do inverts different from everyone else....i put both hands on the coping(like your sitting on the top) so your facing away from the ramp....let your feet go over your head....and bring your feet back through your hands........

[10]

I see....well it wasn't exactly the advice I was looking for, but I am grateful anyways. IMO 2-handed inverts look tacky. They are a display of a lack of discipline. When you look at the pros, you see them doing perfect lui-kang or mute inverts on the coping, balancing their entire body weight on one arm, floating some 12 odd feet above the earth. That's what I want to do. Doing a 'headstand' on the coping impresses no one, nor is it a challenge.

[KYSkater]

well i'm working on getting the strenth to do one-handed....but i need to get higher in the vert cause i'm still kinda jumping to get to the coping........

[10]

ditto.

[Anonymous]

it sounds like your describing a sand plant if you are thats one of the ways that helped me learn inverts then i just slowly worked on it with one hand,

[KYSkater]

yea....i think i've heard them called that before......sand...or sad.....something like that......