POOL PARTY

[LeCloNe66]

Here is my new vid.
I'm not a "vert/pool" specialist but i wanted to try so yes, it's not really creative but i had fun doin' it.

Comments and critics are welcome to make me improve.

Hope you'll enjoy it !


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWZXRqWqx14

[Antwan]

Liked the vibe of it. Maybe work on coming back into the ramps earlier so youre not going from the coping to flatground. fliptricks are hard to pull off too, just keep at it, its all timing. :cool:

[LeCloNe66]

Ty for the advices and the vibe !

[PoppySquidJr]

"but I had fun doing it"
That's all you need in the end, enjoy your game and the rest will follow.

You had a couple neat tricks in there, but here's some tips for pool skating especially, but some will help with everything.

1) Pool skating is all about flow. You should probably work on not keeping clips where you end the trick at a dead stop.
2) The slow rotating pivots in grinds are quite frankly pretty ugly, I'd work on trying not to make them too apparent
3) Maybe a personal preference, but vertical fliptricks don't really make any sense to me, especially without a grab. Popping them before the vert or onto a coping makes sense, but the animations for fliptricks make them look odd coming out of vert.
4) Jumping out of the pool onto the deck isn't really pretty, it kinda gives the impression that you just missed the coping and decided to keep the clip anyway. I'm sure that isn't the case, but just saying how it looks.
5) If you're going to film a lot of airs, try to do some more complex tricks than some fliptricks and one grab. Try mixing it up with the more complex grabs, maybe even a flip or a 540 (720s are really hard to get without launching stupidly high up into the air or flipping)
6) You want to avoid lines with nothing but airs. Really, you want to avoid lines with all of the same type of trick. Mix it up, throw in a slash grind, powerslide, stall, or even handplant for cinematic effect.
7) If you show yourself bailing a trick, and then follow up with the exact same spot and a similar trick, you should probably try to land the same trick. Bailing a noseslide and then landing it as a switch smith is kinda off putting
8) Do not be afraid to spend more time redoing a trick to make it look prettier. A lot of these tricks look "settled" for. Several of us spend a ton of time on a single trick, hell I've spent an entire day getting a line before (then I lost the clip before I could use it :( )
9) Just to emphasize, I'd personally cut down the amount of fliptricks done in a pool video (especially since you can't flip to grab in skate), you really looked like a street skater that just happened to be in a pool, it didn't really feel like a vert video if you catch my drift

And last but not least
10) Ignore all of this if you're done filming and/or don't mind what we think and you're just posting this out of courtesy. It's your game, and if you're having fun then that's all there needs to be.

[m.seven]

Luft is a pool god,he hit every point I was thinking

[crni1976]

That's some solid Luft advice right there. Basically, keep at it, as long as you're having fun. There are plenty of vids on here to get you started.

[LeCloNe66]

Luft : WOW ! That's what i call advices !! Thank you so much for your time ! I had fun doing this vid but honestly, even if i have not the level of you guys, i think i'm better in street fakeskating than in the vert one (as you said at point 9 :) ). You're right on every points and i'll keep that in mind if in my future vids i want to make some pool session. thanks again !
m.seven : so, thank you too... :D
crni1976 : thank you for the encouragement (can i say that in english ??) !

I'm here since a few weeks only and i can say that this community is really great !

Thank you all and keep skating...

[PoppySquidJr]

Luft : WOW ! That's what i call advices !! Thank you so much for your time ! I had fun doing this vid but honestly, even if i have not the level of you guys, i think i'm better in street fakeskating than in the vert one (as you said at point 9 :) ). You're right on every points and i'll keep that in mind if in my future vids i want to make some pool session. thanks again !
m.seven : so, thank you too... :D
crni1976 : thank you for the encouragement (can i say that in english ??) !

I'm here since a few weeks only and i can say that this community is really great !

Thank you all and keep skating...

Like crni said as well, there are a ton of videos on this site and watching other videos is the best way for you to get an idea of what we all look for. Watch a ton of different people's videos and even read the feedback on their videos if you really want to improve quickly, it helps a ton. :)

[crni1976]

thank you for the encouragement (can i say that in english ??) !

Bien sûr ça marche en anglais ;-)

[XImortalDEATHX]

This thread is heartwarming.

[LeCloNe66]

Bien sûr ça marche en anglais ;-)
ok merci :D

[crni1976]

ok merci :D

De rien mon brave

[LeCloNe66]

Mais je vous en pris mon bon