We hope you enjoyed seeing the process of Ricky Glaser learning how to skate the mini-mega ramp. Ride out the landing ramp and you can begin to adjust your posture to prepare for the kick-turn on the quarter pipe. Land on the bolts, bend your knees deeply and keep your body low.Spot your landing, bend your knees to brace for the impact, and once again, stay low. Drop-in on the main ramp, stay low and lift your front wheels slightly as you ollie out of the launch ramp.Now that you know what it feels like to drop in, hit the launch, and ride out the landing, it’s finally time to air over the mini-mega ramp gap. This will give you the same speed and feeling of hitting the gap for real. Instead, once you clear the launch learn forward into the ramp so that you ride out the launch instead of getting air. When you drop in for the first time and hit the launch ramp, don’t lift the nose of your board on the launch.At this point, all that’s left is to drop in on the main ramp and go for it. Drop-in on the launch, kick-turn on the main drop-in ramp, and use your speed to ride over the mini-mega gap. You definitely don’t want any wheel-bite when skating the mini-mega ramp. If you have even the slightest bit of wobble, you’re going to want to tighten those trucks. The best way to do this is to drop in on the landing ramp, kick-turn on the quarter pipe, and get a feel for how tight your trucks are. Now that you’re ready to hit the mini-mega, you’re going to want to check your trucks.Once you’ve done all that, you’ll be more than prepared to hit the mini-mega ramp for real. If at all possible, you should also work your way up to the mini-mega ramp by first skating it or something similar to it into a foam pit. Learning backside airs in vert helps too, as it will build your confidence. Before you skate a mini-mega ramp, you should be comfortable skating mini-vert and vert ramps.
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