Ollie
- Psoas to lift leading leg and then back leg.
- Explosive quick force: Calf strength, quad strength - prevent inhibition of these.
- Hamstring flexibility.
- Core strength - essential for all skateboarding.
Flip Tricks
Kickflips:
- Tricks benefit from controlled foot eversion.
- Free fibular head and fibular nerve.
- Strengthen and lengthen fibularis and tibialis anterior muscles.
- Help prevent ankle sprain.
- Proprioception exercises.
Heelflips: In addition to general conditioning: allow stable inversion of talus and calcaneus, promote toe extension.
360 Flip & 180 Flip Tricks: Lengthen adductors to promote hip mobility, QL and its influence on hip position, psoas for keeping legs above the board.
Manual Tricks, Transitions, Grinds, and Slides
- Balanced MSK system, address asymmetry especially in the lower extremities, pelvis, erector spinae group.
- Proprioceptive exercises, core strength maximized, shoulder girdle, cranial base (if off, body attempts to keep eyes level and may be setting up an imbalance to battle).
- Nobody's perfectly balanced right-to-left, but the closer you get the less work your muscles need to do to keep your balance and could help with all of skateboarding -especially manuals that take even more balance. (Not to mention help you feel better by taking stress of the body through the day, making more energy available for repair).
- Turns and varial tricks - core strength to keep torso centered.
Impact
- Improve quadriceps, Iliotibial band, hamstring, gluteal, and multifidis strength, prevent inhibition.
- Spine alignment sacrum to cranial base. Stabilize knees and ankles- remove fascial or arthroidial strains and ensure stable, free joint play.
- Hip stabilizers supple without spasm, sacrum neutral. Foot arches maintained medial and lateral.
- All to promote proper absorption of impact.
Other
- Cervical- mobility to spot landing.
- Thoracic- allow "wind-up" for 360 Ollie's, ledge/rail set up. Expand thoracic area and lead with chest and shoulders on transitions.
- Lumbar- Influence hip motion for board control, psoas and erector spinae attachments effecting Ollie's, stability, and impact absorption.
- Any additional movement allowed in these areas helps with controlled counterbalancing to keep you on your board. More flow, less effort, more margin for landing tricks.