How To Do A Frontside Air

Today, we're going to learn about frontside airs. Frontside airs are one of the staples of any good ramp run and have been around pretty much as long as pool skating and ramp skating have been around. To perform a frontside air, it helps if you can fontside ollie on a ramp.

You can practice this by starting halfway up the transition, popping your board like you would for a normal ollie, bringing a slight angle to it so that you come up at a frontside angle. So, your front is facing out of the ramp. That is the definition of frontside.

Once you've practiced ollie-ing off the transition, you want to practice bringing your knees further up towards your chest because the further you knees are from your chest, the less traveling the top part of your body has to do to get a grab, which is very important in grabs. If you move the top half of your body too much, you could throw yourself as far out in the air and that would be and that would lead to failing to grab. Yeah, so, bring your knees up as much as you can.

Less work for the body to do to do and if you cover it, we'll have some frontside airs. The trick to frontside indies is to frontside ollie inside the ramp first without trying to reach out the top. Come up with a nice, sort of, carved angle up the ramp, pop a some ollie, bring your knees up toward your chest and continue the rotation.

You don't always have to land straight as long as you land at a good enough angle to keep your speed, you should be okay. Further to that, once you start getting higher out of the ramp up near the coping, start bringing your knees up proper towards your chest and leave a few centimeters gap so you can indie grab or whatever grab you're trying to do. Starfish.

Front nose. Whatever grab you're trying to do will be easier because you'll have less tread distance to travel. That's how we do frontside airs. .