 You got it, dude. Guys, what's up? Shawnee Knox here. Welcome back to the channel. Hope you all are having a good day. Hope you all are staying safe wherever you guys are. Shout's out to all the new subscribers, what's up? So I shot this footage about two weeks ago. I've only been able to sit down and edit it and take a look through like now. So we're gonna watch this footage today of Khan and I, he's a subscriber. He wanted to come skate and try to learn a few things. So I was more than happy to kind of guide him in a way. But anyway, I'm gonna stop blabbering on. Let's check out the footage, guys. What's up, guys? We're out here at Iron Park today, obviously. The skate park lockdown in Australia's been lifted. So we're able to go out and skate. I'm here with a subscriber today. His name's Khan. What's going on, guys? He reached out to me on Instagram and wanted to have a session and I offered to help him out with a few things. Teach him how to drop in and kick turn and stuff. Get the basics down. So that's what we're gonna do today. So shout's out to you, Khan. Basically, guys, talked to Khan a little bit about foot positioning and weight distribution. Just to kind of fine-tune any kinks here and there while skating around. Foot positioning does make a big difference when you're learning to skate because if you do start learning bad habits from the jump, it's gonna be harder to eradicate those bad habits. Show us before how you had your foot when you were just cruising around. I kind of just had it flat on the edge. So what happens, guys, if you're kind of flat-footed on the back of your tail when you're cruising around, it limits the use of your ankle pretty much. It locks it off. It feels pretty tight, like just like I can't bend anything. Yeah, but when you're on the ball of your foot, it kind of gives you a lot more freedom to kind of move about and wiggle your toes and your ankles and stuff. So he's only been skating two months, so he can already ollie. I couldn't ollie after skating for two months. I didn't ollie till I was about 10, actually. All right, so at this point in the video, guys, I went through a bit of foot positioning with Khan, a bit of weight distribution on your board. I decided to get him to do some rolling around on the banks just to kind of get the feel for rolling in and out of transition. Let's check it out. If you're feeling like confident enough, you can even add in a pump and then turn around. Oh, really? Yeah, that'll kind of get you further up the bank. It's a kind of a lot to do in one hit, but once you figure it out, it'll be second nature, to be honest. Oh, God, that's a bit too fast, man. You got it? There you go. I'm in your way. As you go on, you'll find that you'll be able to just turn in one axis. You won't be like, kind of, yeah. But, you know, we all start somewhere. Just make sure to use your shoulders, because as I'm watching you, your body's kind of staying stiff. There you go. I'm trying to have someone to, like, spot me. Yeah. See that? There you go. Because if you're using the full rotation of your arms and your shoulders, the rest of your body will follow. There you go. Whatever you learn this session, the next session, it'll also be there. Yeah. That's crazy. Good work. We're putting in work today. We'll try, try. Well, after I got kind of warm up a little bit on the banks, we decided to head down to the bowl, just because the transition in the bowl is a lot smoother. It's not so rigid, like a bank, so I figured if he's gonna learn to pump, it'll be in a bowl where it's, like, nice and smooth as opposed to, like, rigid banks. So, yeah. See how it's a little bit smoother than the bank? It feels less, like... Less, yeah, less rigid. Is this your first time in a bowl? Yes. Yeah, see. Oh, finally. I just wanna use your momentum and you keep going in between the two transitions like that. How much you're compressing when you hit the transition and then you're standing and then compressing in again. Yeah, there you go. Look where you wanna go to, because I can see you're looking at the... Round. Yeah, so whenever you kinda look, turn your head and shoulders, your body's gonna follow on your skateboards. You're kinda teaching someone to ride transition. I know for a fact this helped me when I was learning how to ride transition. I kinda had this skate coach to kind of hold my arms and guide me through. I was able to do this with Khan, so then that way he was able to kinda get a feel for the transition, as well as having me there. So if he fell, I would be able to, like, save him from, like, falling on his face or something, but yeah, I think it helped out a lot because he was able to get the feel for the transition a bit more and kinda understand timing a little bit also. That's a good way to win, I'd say. Yep. Oh, shit, I wanna go and get him. So after we had a little bit of a roll around in the bowl, guys, we decided to head over to the little quarter. I think it's about one and a half foot of water. I demonstrated a few drop-ins for him, and then I was there to kinda help him drop in as well by holding his arms, and then he had a few guys that were dropping into the one foot by himself, which he did really, really well on, so let's check it out. You'll kinda step on your board and you'll naturally figure out how to have your feet, but once you drop in, your back foot might turn a little bit. What you wanna do is, you wanna press down into the transition. So like before, when you're pumping in and out, you wanna kinda press down and keep your weight forward and look where you wanna go. So basically, you just wanna kind of keep your shoulder parallel with the board and then just kinda transfer, I wouldn't say stomp, but transfer your weight from your, this side of your body. Yeah. Just into the front like this. I can do it. Regular feet. It's gonna rain a lot. There you go. You got it dude. There you go. That was a good one. I reckon you got that. So as you can see guys, Khan was pretty steady dropping into the one and a half foot quarter. They talked him into trying it out on the three foot. I think it's a three foot quarter, just because the length of the quarter is a lot longer. So you have more time to kind of take that transition whereas a one foot is you kind of drop in and then you're already at the bottom. So there's not much time to really understand the logistics of how your board's kind of dropping into the transition. You kind of drop in and then you're at the flat. So we headed over to the three foot quarter pipe. Let's check out the footage. Push your weight into it. As you guys can see, he did manage to get a few drop-ins on the three foot with me guiding Khan. He did wanna try it alone, but he was kind of feeling a bit scared and he was feeling a bit tired too. So we decided to call it quits there. As you can see, it took a bit of a tumble and I didn't wanna push him any further because today had already been a big day of like learning and taking things in. So I didn't wanna cramp too much information in him, but all in all, it was a sick day. Khan's a really nice dude. I think we're actually gonna catch up again to film the second part of this video to kind of continue where we left off. So make sure you guys stay tuned for that. Thanks for coming up man and hanging out and everything. Nice to meet you dude. Nice to meet you bro. Cheers for being a subscriber. I feel like proud or like, I feel rewarded for helping you out today skating and stuff. Honestly, like, I never thought I would even drop in on a small ramp like, it's like, I don't know. Just me being able to teach you and seeing you hyped on learning has like sparked me wanting to learn more stuff. So it's been a good day. Like seeing progression. Yeah, exactly. Yeah man, awesome. Thank you bro, thank you. So that brings us to the end of the footage on that day guys. I had a blast kind of coaching Khan. Like I never thought I'd be able to kind of be a coach, you know, or it's not really coaching. It's kind of me offering advice on skating. So yeah, that was sick. Definitely keen to do it again. We did work through a lot of things. Like I said, it's always helpful to have someone there with you while you're skating. To kind of look at how you're kind of skating or doing the trick or whatever and kind of break it down for you to understand and show you how to go through the motions and stuff. So if you enjoyed this video, leave a thumbs up. If you're new to my channel, make sure you subscribe and check out the rest of my videos. Khan had only been skating for a couple of months at this point and just seeing him get hyped over learning new things. It's really rewarding. It's really cool. Awesome feeling. I remember when I first learned to drop in, it was at the Sydney Royal Easter show. It had like an X game set up and there was Street and then Vert. I went into the Vert for some reason. I was in a group of like 12 other kids were all skating around and doing kick turns and stuff. But if it wasn't for the instructor, I can't remember his name because like a 90s Australian pro skater, Michael something had Brown Kelly hair. After the clinic had finished, he actually said like, if you want to stay back and I can help you out and teach you how to drop in. I still hadn't figured it out at that point. So if it wasn't for him spending another 10, 15 minutes with me on that day, teaching me how to drop in, I probably wouldn't have learned to drop in. Hope you guys enjoyed this video. Smash the thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Make sure you follow me on Instagram at enuckism. But until next time guys, cheers for watching the video. I'll catch you all in the next one. Bye.