Learning Freestyle Pogos With Sean Burke
Learn the basics in freestyle skateboarding with one of the world's best freestyle skateboarders, Sean Burke. Sean Burke rides for Delicious Skateboard Shop (www.deliciousskateboardshop.com), Original Skateboards (www.originalskateboards.com) , PF Flyers (www.pfflyers.com) and Glamour Kills Clothing (www.glamourkills.com).
Step 1: Pogo-ing
Pogo is a freestyle trick made in the eighties. What you're going to do is have your back foot on the truck and your front foot is going to be pinching, putting pressure on the board. The same time you're going to be hopping, just to keep your balance.
Step 2: The board:
As you can tell, it's a very different shape of board. It's a freestyle board. There's not really a nose, it's very short, and you can tell it's also squared at the tail. This board is also about twenty-seven inches long and about seven and a half inches wide. There's also these plastic things called skid plates that prevent the board from going down too fast. Let me show you the best way to get into a pogo.
Step 3: The basic technique:
The best way to do pogo is you're going to put your front foot on the board and your hand on the tail. Straighten up your body and you're going to hop into it. And your back foot is going to land, rest right on that truck. Your front foot is on that, on the centre of the board, putting pressure on the board as well. You're just going to keep your balance and do a few hops. When you're going to land it, you're going to kick out your back foot and let the board fall. Your front foot should be right around where the front bolts are. The hard part is getting that back foot on. It'll take you a few tries, but once you get it, you've got it good.
Step 4: Wrap around variation:
Wrap around is one of the first pogo variations I learned. What you're going to do is take your hand and wrap it around the nose, you're going to bring your front foot around the board. Once it's around three-fourths the way around, you're going to let go the top hand and let it rest back onto your back foot. You're going to pinch the board back in your regular pose. And that's a wrap for now.
Step 5: The fan flip:
Another pogo trick is a fan flip. A fan flip is pogo, finger flip, and back to pogo. And what you're going to do with this is, your hand is going to be twisted around your board. But then you actually flip it, flip it back, back to the way it should be. So it might be uncomfortable to grab it that way, but that's the only way to really get a smooth, fluid flip. So what you're going to do is kinda kick out of your back and front foot a little while it spins. Move quickly and pinch those back together in a pogo, and that's a pinch.
If you can flip it, you'll land a pogo.
