administrator
08-26-2005, 01:55 AM
For anyone trying to turn pro I have a few tips. From what I've seen the judges look for how smooth you are and how powerful you are.
Be sure to start your run and end your run strong.
Try to avoid doing too many really low tricks. .Put extra set up airs if you have to to keep good height. also avoid doing backside stalls it makes your run seem lazy. Keep your run mixed up but make sure you have good momentum throughout the run. Try to use the whole ramp too.
End your run on a high point. If you can finish on the deck of the ramp. It looks better like you kept up your speed and skate til one wall after the buzzer. You'll beable to get about 18-20 walls in a run.
If you don't know a lot of different tricks and want to do the same trick twice do it on the opposite side of the ramp so the judges see the trick from the other side. It will look different enough. change the grab or carve one and not the other.
I in my runs I do the tricks I can get good pumps after close to back to back maybe with one set up. Then I do a few grinds, set up another spin, setup, grind, set up and a finishing trick.
Here's the run that turned me pro in 2002.
3 airs, Mctwist, 900, air, flat 5, air, fishbrain, air, true topsoul, air, backside backslide, air, true x, air 720.
Looking back I had a lot of grinds, too many but they were all pretty smooth so it was okay. The run might be on trueskater.com
Here's the run I did in Cincinnati last May
3 airs, Liu Kang 5, Air, Mctwist, 9, air flat 7, fakie, true X, air, air, flat 9, air, 270 topacid, air, flat 5, flat 3, fakie 900
Be sure to start your run and end your run strong.
Try to avoid doing too many really low tricks. .Put extra set up airs if you have to to keep good height. also avoid doing backside stalls it makes your run seem lazy. Keep your run mixed up but make sure you have good momentum throughout the run. Try to use the whole ramp too.
End your run on a high point. If you can finish on the deck of the ramp. It looks better like you kept up your speed and skate til one wall after the buzzer. You'll beable to get about 18-20 walls in a run.
If you don't know a lot of different tricks and want to do the same trick twice do it on the opposite side of the ramp so the judges see the trick from the other side. It will look different enough. change the grab or carve one and not the other.
I in my runs I do the tricks I can get good pumps after close to back to back maybe with one set up. Then I do a few grinds, set up another spin, setup, grind, set up and a finishing trick.
Here's the run that turned me pro in 2002.
3 airs, Mctwist, 900, air, flat 5, air, fishbrain, air, true topsoul, air, backside backslide, air, true x, air 720.
Looking back I had a lot of grinds, too many but they were all pretty smooth so it was okay. The run might be on trueskater.com
Here's the run I did in Cincinnati last May
3 airs, Liu Kang 5, Air, Mctwist, 9, air flat 7, fakie, true X, air, air, flat 9, air, 270 topacid, air, flat 5, flat 3, fakie 900