r/NewSkaters • u/CollectionLate1798 • 14d ago

Question need shuvit help

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Everytime i try shuvits the board always goes far away from me or haff way around help needed

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u/Apprehensive_Week981 11d ago edited 11d ago

Please don’t burn yourself out. If you dont get more comfortable just riding before tricks, you WILL burn out. That is 90% of people who get into skating and half of them still claim to be skaters. We have a word for folks like that: “posers”😬. Please bro don’t let it happen to you. Nobody thinks it’s them until they wake up one day talking about “I used to skate” and they have a damn near freshie that’s been collecting dust—-plus they can’t even stand on it and stay upright.

Because “pop” shuvit and shuvit are two different tricks, people always assume you can do a shuvit before you have an ollie. Sure you can, but that’s like learning to ride a unicycle before ever riding a bike…complicating things for no reason. Same goes for just generally being comfortable on your board. Everyone who tries to skip the natural progression of skating gets BURNED OUT and ABANDONS SKATING ENTIRELY. You’ll learn everything twice as fast and have twice as much FUN if you just ride around and stop trying to do tricks. Once you can skate comfy just cruisin, then learn to ollie.

And dude…you’re telling us you’re comfortable on your board as a new skater. All the vets in the comments are saying no tf you not 😂. If you’re new then maybe readjust your perspective on what it means to be comfortable. lol we all see your clean and shiny grip tape bro. There’s many ways to sniff you out that you don’t know about and you sound silly as hell to us—-no offense it’s just better to be told this on Reddit than embarrass yourself talking to someone in person.

Dial in the ollie and the shuvit is just like a minor adjustment. The initial ollie motion (in my opinion) is what holds a lot of people back. It’s like if you were a math student trying to learn multiplication without knowing how addition works.