My name is Aaron Kyro
I'm a sponsored skateboarder from the San Francisco Bay Area
And today I'm going to teach you
How to pop shove-it
Now the first thing to this trick
Is making sure you're feeling really comfortable on your board
Just riding around and pushing
I want you to have done this a lot so you feel really comfortable
And this is a beginner's trick
So this is really something you can learn
Right after you get really comfortable pushing around
And just riding your board
One thing that might help you for this
And any other flat-ground trick that you're going to learn
Is putting your back wheels into a nice crack
A nice crack that holds your wheels tight
So your board doesn't roll as you work on it
Now the next thing is the foot placement
Notice my right foot, it's just down from those two bolts
It's at a little bit of an angle
Just kind of like a kickflip would be
And my left foot is on the tail
And I really want you to notice how my toe is off the side of it
The toe hanging off the side is very important
To getting a really nice scoop of the board
So the foot position on this particular trick is very important
And that is what it is right there
Now the next step is really how you're going to do that
Motion of your back foot
Notice how my foot curls under and my foot kicks straight back
On this particular shove-it the board does not pop
It just goes straight back
It's just a shove-it, it's not yet a pop shove-it
So I want to show you this motion again
My foot curls down and then it just kicks the board back
My front foot stays on the board the entire time
Just guiding it as it goes around as you can see there
It barely even moves. It just comes up off the board a little bit
And the back foot does really all the work
I want you to really get the importance of the foot placement
And the scoop of your back foot
It's called a scoop because your toe curls underneath
Like to the side of the board
And then you kick it back
It's just the most appropriate word to describe it I guess
Because it's not really a sweep but it's more of a scoop
Practice this a lot because it's going to help you later
Now the next thing is putting the pop
Into the shove-it to make it a full pop shove-it
This is really the exact same thing
But only this time you're going to pop your board off the ground
So after you practice tapping your board on the ground a little bit
And you feel like you've got that motion
The next step is just going straight for it
And scooping the foot like it's shown right here
Notice the motion of my back foot as it scoops the board around
Spinning it into a 180. The next step is your front foot
Notice my front foot, it barely comes of the board right here
And it just guides it around the whole time
It's very important to leave that on because your board can flip
And you can land with your board sideways or upside down
And obviously this is not going to work
And now, notice my back foot right there on that scoop
So put your feet in the position and then just slap it around
You don't have to hit your tail super hard
Just hard enough to get it lifted off of the board
Also this is going to be the first trick that you really learn
Where you're going to be jumping up into the air
And your board is going to be doing something under you
This is going to help you to learn kickflips later
360 flips and many other tricks
So definitely practice this one a lot and get it really down
Feel free to leave me a comment asking for help on this or any other trick
But what I really want you guys to do is video your best attempt
Upload it to your own YouTube and then send me the link
So that I can really see what you're doing and help you out with it that way
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