How To Shove It

Another trick which every good skater needs in his or her arsenal of tricks is the shove it.  The shove it and pop shove it are actually two different tricks, not a huge difference but in skateboarding their really never is.  A shove it is when your skateboard does a 180 degree turn and a pop shove it is when you pop the board up into the air and it does a 180 degree turn.  In order to visualize this trick picture kicking your board 180 degrees, so when done successfully your tail of your board will then be the nose.  Doing this trick is fairly simple and we will go over both variations.  Like the other tricks I explain in my blog this trick is part of your skating foundation.  The shove it is used in such tricks as big spins, tre flips, and varial flips.  This trick should be learned after the Ollie and before the kick flip.  Now that we have an idea of what this trick is and what it will do for you skating lets discuss how to do them.  To do this trick you will have to be on the balls of your feet, have your back foot on the top of the tail, and your back foot just slightly behind the front bolts. In order to do the shove it you will have to kick your back foot behind you while taking your front foot and kicking out away from you.  Doing this correctly will spin the board 180 degrees on the ground.  When doing this trick typically the board will shoot forward in front of you about the width of your deck so while doing the shove it motions jump forward in order to land on the deck.  A pop shove it is done the same way except you pop the back foot as if you were doing and Ollie.  The motions of the pop shove it would be popping the deck and kicking your feet the same way as the shove it.  This trick like any other requires patients and practice, but if practiced diligently can be learned in about a week.