When doing a cartwheel, whats a good way to make your legs go straight instead of curving down?
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tighten your abs and point your feet/toes to the forward direction.....good luck
1129988
dont kick it, push it up. move your foot up quickly then pull it back down and around, you'll get the hang of it. my biggest problem while learning it was catching soft enough on the way down, make sure you go pretty straight upwards.
1113409
The back handspring...First, start with your arms above your head, then bend your legs like you are sitting in a chair, while you are bending your legs, swing your arms down by your side.  Then, jump backwards while swinging your arms back up to your head.  Pretend that you are jumping to a handstand, then snap your feet to the ground and stand up.  The other flip...the cartwheel looking thing is a round-off, basically a cartwheel ending with your feet together, followed by either a back handspring or different no-handed flips (back tucks, layouts, etc.)
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spin around really fast
818893
Lay on your left side. Now press yourself up onto your left elbow keeping the elbow in line with the shoulder. Place your right hand by your right ear. Widen your feet so your right leg is a little bit infront of you left leg. Pick up your hips keeping the body is a straight line. Exhale as you twist the right elbow towards the floor while sucking the belly button into the spine. Inhale and untwist. Repeat 12-15 times and switch sides.
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Stand on a step on the balls of your feet and your heels hanging over.  Hold on to the handrail for support. Let your heels drop down slowly then lift them up and stand on your toes as high as you can then slowly let your heels down again..  Repeat 15 times, rest for a minute or two, repeat and rest again.  Do two sets a couple of times every day and increase to three or more sets.  Make sure you've had lots to drink so you don't get leg cramps.  And remember to stretch too.  :o)
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Ok, seriously, turn so that you are facing downhill horizontal to the slope of the hill, and lean back onto the blade on the back side of your board (your heel side).  And bend your knees.  Don't give up, and avoid rails and pipes until you've mastered all types of hills!
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backward leg lifts, and also at the gym, lifting weights backwards with your legs... it really helps (i do this but it's killing me...)
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Lay on your side, bend lower leg for stability, raise top leg and lower slowly, ten reps, (point toe downwards)\nchange sides. Good luck.
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it seems better if you run and flip then slit.  it will help you practice without the flip.  Like a cartwheel or roundoff then fall into the slit.
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try the figure 8 dribbling, just dribble around your legs in the form of the number 8.\ntry dribbling with one hand behind the back, \ndribble lying down on the floor\ndribble with eyes closed\nsleep with your ball lol
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try doing a pivot into your spin, and then pull in very tight, you should get about five more revolutions, and your spin will get better in time\nit also helps to stay on the balls of your feet, it's the best place to spin on
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Sorry, no.  You'd splat at the bottom of the hill in real life.\n\nThe reason for this rests in a physical law that says if you're going straight, you'll continue straight (down hill) until a force stops you from going straight.  Spinning is not that force.\n\nThe momentum (which is the thing that keeps you going straight) is linear (straight).  Spinning is angular (it goes around, not straight).  So the forces required to start spinning are not straight (they act over angles) and will not affect your straight march into that wall at the bottom of the hill.\n\nOf course, if you simply fall down, the ground pushing on you as you hit it is a linear force.  Your linear momentum will be changed (stopped in this case).  Thus, it will in fact stop you on your downward destiny with that wall at the bottom of the hill.\n\nI tried to keep equations and such out of this, just the one notion: momentum will keep you going straight downhill until you apply a linear force (not angular like spinning) to stop your run.
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do situps, only dont go just straight up and down, go to the left when you sit up, then the right, then the middle(like normal)
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My best friend and i tried this one recently. A  backwards kick will do the trick. I speak from painful experience!
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Assuming you're a beginer, practice all your simple "J'' turns using both your toeside edges and heelside edges. once you have your edges down start pointing your board down the hill, each time going further and further. but remember you must have your turns and stopping down before you start shooting down the hill. \n\nIf you post another question telling exactly what you need work on, i could answer better.
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I learned by \n1. Practicing just turning my board 180 degrees\n2. Then lifting the front edge of the board as I turned\n3. And then finally by going off a bump and jumping as I began to turn.   \n\nAbout.com has good information on basic tricks- here is what they say:\n\n1.   Ride straight at a small bump or roller with the base of your board flat.\n\n2.   Stay flat-based until you're just about to take off.\n\n3.   At the lip of the jump, spring off of your toes.\n\n4.   Rotate slowly because you're only going to spin 180 degrees.\n\n5.   Look down between your legs to spot your landing.\n\n6.   Let go of your grab and extend your legs for the landing.\n\n7.   As you absorb the landing, continue looking uphill for just a second until your board is firmly planted. Then turn and ride away smoothly.\n\n(I deleted a step- they threw in an Indy grab...)\n\nAlso, check out some of their other basic trick instructions- they're pretty good!