Top 3 Health Benefits of Switch:
- Riding Switch Balances the Body. Huge factor in adding 10 years of skating at your prime.
- Takes Away Pain. Twisting the body in one direction brings pain eventually. It wears at joints and leads to loss of stability. Twist the other way and pain goes away. It’s that simple.
- Twice as Many Tricks in Your Bag. More than 2x because of combo’s.
Top 3 Reasons for Low Switch Pop
- Learning switch differently than regular. Solution: Try Switch similarly to how you learned regular. Push around and skate small gaps. Ollie up curbs. We learn fast this way.
- Too Many Switch Front 180’s. Some kids hardly learn to sw ollie, then learn front ones, then that’s their only switch trick. This creates an imbalance. They might have a decent switch kickflip, but it all turns frontside. Can you imagine doing that regular, you couldn’t skate around town doing front one’s every stop on the way. Solution: Need more nollie front 180’s or switch back 180’s off drops. These go the opposite way from fs, are cool and fun.
- Not trying.
Don’t shoot yourself in the other foot, then good foot overworks.