Trick Tips

Frontside 360 Melon

This is possible one of the best feeling tricks out there and if you get it right it can look amazing. You wanna get comfortable with any jump your riding first. No point blasting in and hoping for the best. Do a couple of straight airs so you know the exact speed to take to make the landing. Plus this gives you a better understanding of how you'll feel when your in the air. Remember when your spinning of your heels you'll need to take a little more speed than normal. So here goes. Approach the kicker flat based and when your about to leave the take off put slight pressure on your heel edge so your toes lift up. As you leave use your leading shoulder to start the rotation lowering your hand to grab melon (between your heels on the heel edge). This will initiate the spin but you'll have to keep spinning to make the 360 complete. Use your head and upper body to keep the spin flowing. When the 360 is complete you'll be able to spot your landing through your leading arm, let go of the grab and put your board flat based on the landing. It might take you a while to get this right but stay focused and keep motivated as you'll definitely get it. Something else to consider is when your leaving the take off don't through your arms to hard as you'll start to over rotate and you'll come down more than a 360. The idea is you want to walk before you can run. Once you've got 360's nailed you can start to move onto 540's then 720's. That's when you start to wind up a tad before the take off but I'll get to that later. Have fun.