How To Drop In On A Skateboard

Hi, I'm Bryce Campbell a sponsored skateboarder and an employee of LCB Skate Surf and Snow, and we are here to look at how to drop in. Now dropping in is the first trick you will add to your skate park arsenal. It's a trick you will be able to use from the streets to the skate park.

Once you learn the method on a small ramp you will be able to take it to something bigger eventually ending up to something mammoth. It's the same idea behind everything, just slightly more pressure applied depending on the gradient of what you're dropping in on. Now it's a really scary trick, but the trick behind learning it, is to let go and to really throw your body into it.

If you hesitate a little it will not work, so this trick needs complete confidence to be able to work. Now dropping in on a ramp; you want to find something that's suitable for your ability, so we've got a little mini ramp down at LCB. This is what we're looking at; perfect size to learn how to do it on.

You know, you're looking it's about two feet, the grade or the transition on this ramp is very mellow, so it's means you're not going to have to apply too much pressure to get down. But also if you do happen to fall off it's not going to cause too much harm. As we're looking at it on here again; foot on the tail, that's going to hold the board firmly in place.

Once you're in this position you can stay there. All you've got to do is balance and you can hold that position for a long time, until you get the motivation to actually drop in. So taking this foot again here; a right hand foot and we're going to place it up here, and now this is the point where you start to shift your body weight from on top of the ramp to end of the ramp.

So one, two, three, and body weight forward. So again, taking the foot up, lifting it over those front bolts, shifting your body weight all the way forward. Now what you want to hear, what you're aiming for is for those front wheels to hit before you actually start moving.

So you'll want to hear a loud thump. That's what you want to hear. If you can make the board do that you've applied enough pressure, and there's enough body weight in the movement to allow you to go down, and counteract the transition and keep gravity floating away.

So we're looking at it; one, two, three, body weight forward, and

. And that is how to learn to drop in. If you can learn how to drop in, you'll get a lot of satisfaction from this trick, because it is one of the best things to learn.

Once you learn how to do it, you pretty much are a skateboarder, you've sorted skateboarding out. It's a scary one to get over, but lots of fun.