G-Snap

So I was out “street skating” tonight. New board tonight. I like it. Anyway, I notice this particular little thing I do. And when I say “noticed”, I mean I’ve been doing this forever, but never really thought about what is going on. It’s such a little move, but it has a nice feel to it. Lots of directional changes.

Anyway, I slowed it down in this video.

Anyway, rolling forward, I set up like I’m going to do a g-turn, and you can actually see that the front trucks does make a very quick little arc, rather than just being an endover. That’s why I like doing this, I realized, because it sets up some physics where you kind of “sling” yourself out of it. Not saying it’s awesome, but it is a fun thing to me.

G-Snap from Bob Loftin on Vimeo.


3 comments

  • Lately I ma discovering all kinds of subtle things I do and never paid attention to. Such as arm postion during wide open carves. Skateboards are a never ending learning process. We are always finding little things that are second nature yet we never really think of while doing them.

  • There are certain elements of style that are just inherit to skaters of a certain age…where we came from. Not bragging, but I get told, “I like watching you skate. Just how you get up the wall/carve/whatever, it’s different” a lot. It always surprises me. “I like watching you skate.” There’s something we learned that maybe isn’t taught that much anymore.

    So, hey Bob! I like watching you skate.

    • That’s weird, isn’t it? I like watching you skate too, Paul!

      I’m not sure what it is. I’ve really been thinking about this a lot lately, watching old videos from the 70s when I can find them, and early 80s, and looking at old magazines.

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