Topside help?

[dag.]

you can't learn from what other people tell you with this kind of thing. Just go out and skate, try them over and over, don't be a pussy. Just make yourself progress. skate fast, it'd be best to learn them on ledges first to make it harder, which makes it easier on rails later on. sometimes people just can't find the right foot they topside with. I did topsouls on handicaps with my right foot when i was learning and realized 3 years later that doing them with my left was sooooooo much easier after i got used to it.

[DcharSSS]

you can't learn from what other people tell you with this kind of thing.

you sound like an idiot man, me and my friends help each other to learn tricks all the time

[CerealGuy]

With shoes on.
when ever you are waiting for something or just standing still, practice the motion of bending your foot right over.

use a crack in the concrete and practice jumping onto that. your foot should just miss the crack so your imaginary frame can lock onto it.
walk along the crack, sweat stance - top acid - sweat stance, you will look a little weird but other people watching shouldn't think your too strange.

[wil747]

you can't learn from what other people tell you with this kind of thing. Just go out and skate, try them over and over, don't be a pussy. Just make yourself progress. skate fast, it'd be best to learn them on ledges first to make it harder, which makes it easier on rails later on. sometimes people just can't find the right foot they topside with. I did topsouls on handicaps with my right foot when i was learning and realized 3 years later that doing them with my left was sooooooo much easier after i got used to it.

me too anything topside is twice as easy switch

[J_Soda]

i have a real problem doing topsides on coping - im right footed but im left handed, so i naturally want to spin left, this makes doing a regular footed topsoul damn near impossible unless i do a 270. i can do switch topporns, though, but thats just like a unity with your foot switched.

also i stopped trying to topsoul after my soul foot slid out and i fucked myself, full force all my body weight onto my hip. then again onto my knee. the box i was skating was coping, it was a rainbow on one side and a regular box on the other, my foot slid across the top, so i fell onto the ground with my feet still on top. shit hurts man.

[HollyBoni]

wow, so many replies! thanks guys! i'll try everything today. but my right shin is fucked up, it's twice as big as the other.

i'm left handed and right footed too. but it's weird, because i do everything with my left foot except in skating.

[Muppet4Eternity]

I had a lot of difficulty learning to topside, and I found a really useful trick was to imagine that instead of trying to catch the side of the ledge with my soul, I would try to catch the top of the ledge with my frame. Worked a treat, I find them a lot easier now.

[marshun]

what helped me when i was younger was visualizing myself doing the trick.
then doing stalls till it felt close to my visualization.
then trying that trick.

hopefully that helps.

[*ROYALwithCHEESE*]

I can only do topsides souls on coping because I alws have to have that soul foot on a second before my front foot.

Screws me up when trying them on any ledge without something like a bank to launch off of.

[HollyBoni]

i did my first topsoul today. im so happy now! my brain almost exploded, i practiced for straight 3 hours and couldn't lock in that shit. then i watched my fav video (Eisler-Vine St), and did a shitty topsoul. feels good man!

[austin from texas]

i learned topsouls like back farvs. try locking on your front foot first, then use it as a guide for your soul foot. also, ive learned that personally, i have to almost lean backside, turning my hips till im almost backwards.

also try using your other foot if topsides arent happening.
ie. i do regular souls with my right foot and topsouls with my left

hope that was helpful

[HollyBoni]

fuck yes. i did 5 topsouls today. i can lock it way more better!

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