 So I come down to Ponderosa skate park this morning to try to learn back smiths. Perfect little ledge spot here for me to learn back smiths on. All that's missing is my ability to do back smiths. Oh! G'day guys, just doing a bit of a voice over here. Otherwise this video would be extremely boring to watch. So sorry about the footage in the beginning. It's kind of messy. I don't know why it wasn't as clear as these clips here. This is me just getting warmed up, doing some basic stuff. Trying to get my legs warm. Trying to get my body warm. Little front board. I think I was trying to figure out how to lock in this trick. It's like a toe side pinch. So this is me figuring out the lock in and trying to figure out where to put my weight. That's me being scared to jump on a back smith. It's my first attempt. I got stuck. Second attempt, I didn't even lock. Third attempt, didn't even lock in at all. Fourth go, locked in the wrong side. Just quite a tough trick for me to learn. It requires a few different things and I suck at them. So yeah. That one wasn't bad, but it was kind of a smifty 50. What I mean by smifty 50 is that I can back smith, but the board isn't deep, so it looks really lame. There's a smifty 50 right there. And the last one was kind of it, but it was kind of a smifty 50 as well. So it's day two back at Ponderosa today. I feel like a few of the smiths I did the other time I was here, they were dipped and my board was on the ledge, but they were few and far between. I've been getting heaps of smifty 50s and I don't like that. I want my board to be dipped and I want to be able to grind longer than just a foot and a half of the end of the ledge. The last one, I just, look at my eight dollar haircut. The last one I did, I feel like that was pretty dipped. I feel like there's a kind of motion you do to get into the back smith. It's kind of like a weird ollie kind of back 180-ish motion obviously because it's backside, but that was on the small ledge. I'm going to go to the main ledge I was skating the other day and see how it goes. So I feel like that was kind of, I'm starting to kind of grasp the idea of the trick now. So yeah. This is day three out at Ponderosa. I got my long lens with me this time I bought a long lens just for this video. So hopefully this video gets some views. So I can make my money back on that lens. But yeah, I'm kind of scared to jump into back smith right now. The smaller side of the ledge is like rusted as and I don't have wax. So I'm just going to have to put my big boy pants on today and try to hit the regular side of the ledge for the back smith. Another day, another back smith. And the same problems just keep happening. I either lock in on the wrong side or I completely miss my lock and my heel and my heel side wheel just kind of falls down off the ledge. I keep getting stuck. That was a decent lock in. I need to have my weight pushed back in the back seat. I feel like this trick is all back seat and I'm struggling with it. So the ones you see me getting are mostly smith 250s and I hate them. That was a good dip, but I just stopped. That was a smith 250. That wasn't even anything. That was terrible. And that was another smith 250. So yeah, I'm really good at smith. I got stuck on that one. I'm really good at smith 250. I feel like I'd probably be good at that. There's another smith 250. I think it's a back salad or something. Probably be good at that trick because I think it's the same lock in but you just turn it. That was kind of another smith 250. That was a good back smith but I just fell out of it. I could back smith way better on this side of the ledge because it was shorter. I didn't have to pop as high and it felt more comforting popping out of that crack just there. So that was the best back smith that I got that day. Day three or day four, I don't know what day it is. Now I've been trying this back smith at Ponderosa. Someone took the biggest bog at the bottom of one of the banks here at Pondie and the whole park just reeks like shit. So having to battle the smell of shit today. Same bloke, same ledge, same trick. No results. Yeah, kick the board away, mate. I feel like some of that one was decent but it wasn't as dipped but maybe it's just the camera angle. That one was smith 250 again. That one was dipped but my weight went forward. Your weight needs to be back. That one was decent too but I just fell out of it. These ones get a bit better. That one was dipped really nice. That one was kind of better. And I think that's the best one that I got. You have to commit to like popping and throwing your shoulders that way. That time I was still like stiff but you have to really commit to like getting your weight kind of up and over the ledge. I just, my weight wasn't right. So that one could have been good but I fell out. I'm trying to like get a nice controlled pull out. Some things I couldn't find on any YouTube tutorial on a back smith is like the pocket. So if I'm back, if I'm goofy, right? I'm back smithing. You want to pinch. Your weight has to be on this side of the board. I mean, I feel like your front foot can be like anywhere but your back foot, I feel like has to be more this way and your weight has to be here too. Look at that pinch. Because my problem was I was getting on like this and because my heel is over here, I just stop or pop out or just fall out. So I feel like your weight has to be pinched right here. That's a pinch you want on this side. So away from the ledge. Everyone's just like, just only at the point you put, that's all they say. I couldn't find a good back smith tutorial. So if this helps you in any way, please let me know. Yeah, I feel like I've explained it horribly but just this is how it works in my mind. I can back smith kind of, like I back smith from this ticket here. I don't know how many meters that is. That's probably like almost two meters. Yeah, they're not where they want them to be. I want to get like a nice pop out but I'll take what I can get. I might try a few more to get like a cleaner one. And then yeah. That was better. Trying to get my board on the ledge, you know? Just the hillside border on your, trying to get the hillside edge of the board on the ledge. Can't speak English anymore. I've been in America too long. I'm trying to be like this, so. How does that make sense? What? Because you guys don't speak English. Oh. Come here. So if you can imagine there's like an invisible line where the ledge is right here. I feel like that's where your weight needs to be. Is this invisible line right here? Between this pocket here, pressing down. And then this side of your hillside edge diagonally or catty cornered is what Americans say. To be like that. So then you're standing center of the ledge with the board's crooked. If that makes sense. I don't know. I'm figuring it out. So hopefully you guys figured out too. Let's go. It's not like shooting a score. I was just ringing because I was at Ponderosa skate park earlier today. And it appears that someone has defecated on the bottom of one of the ramps and it's quite smelly. And it's been there for a couple of days now. So I don't know what. Okay. Yeah. Yes, it's in the skate park. Can't miss it. Cool. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Bye. What happened? He said whoever took that shit has some major GI issues. Like they have some intestinal problems. I think it was so dark because it was just left in the sun. It was black. It was black as the ice spades. And that's what happens to human turds if you leave them in the sun. They get sunburned. They get burned like a subway cookie. You know those double dark chocolate subway cookies? That's what happened. So that's the video. I still can't backsmith. But I feel like I'm getting more confident at trying this trick. I wish I could just, you know, snap an Oli and then sit into like a really nice backsmith. But I can't. So that's something I'm just gonna have to keep chipping away at. I'm a little bit sunburned. As you can see, I went out skating all day today with no sunscreen, like an amateur. So now I'll look all shiny and blare. If you guys enjoyed this video and you guys found that it helped in any way, please comment below. If you have any tips or if you can see what I'm doing wrong, please comment below. Let me know. I'm trying to learn this thing with you guys. Unless you guys can already do it. And yeah, check out eveningmob.com. Pick something up. It's one way to support your boy. Yeah, hang tight. New video on the way after this one. Cheers for watching this one. I'll catch you guys in the next one.