I’ve said it in the past. Your ability to bail/fail/fall/slam without major injuries is absolutely your greatest skill. Riding switch is insane. You can skate bro. Love your videos.

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Many thanks for the feedback dude!

@davidtrindade1858

7 ай бұрын

I second that!

You’re crushing it! Out of everyone I’ve seen on KZread progressing middle aged or not your commitment and range of speed, tricks and skills on surf skates and normal boards is impressive! Thanks for sharing mate! Would love to hear more about how to fall with pads and without to stay safe and prevent injuries

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Many thanks for the kind words dude! Great suggestion, need to think of a way to do a video on bailing ?!

Great progression and great video! THX

LEGEND!!✌....Missed a trick there😜: LEDGE-END!!🤣

Inspirational! I'm also a middle aged surfskater learning to skate, just at the very start of this journey. Have improved my carving both sides and been working up the courage to go for the carve grind. Your step by step details are very helpful. I'm sure once I commit I'll get emotional some times😅😂. Also been learning traditional skateboard but am more used to the surfskate trucks. Really cool to see your progress and that you use both styles.

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Many thanks for the feedback dude!

Our bassist Greg fully approves of your carve grind progress!

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Ha ha! Great stuff !

😮😮😮 that fs one right after the drone footage was HECTIC

@JonBishopSkate

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, luck not judgement there, could have been proper nasty ?!

🔥🔥🔥 great vid! now got me saying emotional when i wreck it

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Ha ha !

That was fully sik man,your switch grinds are next level, keep doing that and you will grow another testicle, dude thats like learning how to play guitar left-handed with a right-handed guitar using only your tongue. Awesome tutorial,you explained everything so clearly plus you is funny as,with your emotional slams, those were some heavy slams dude !!! Dude u got freaky skills gnarly af.

@JonBishopSkate

12 күн бұрын

Many thanks for tuning in dude !

Top video dude 👌

I can’t stop watching your videos You’re a legend 🤙🤙🤙

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Many thanks for tuning in dude !

Frontside scares the crap outa me...

I don’t know when you started skating, but I started at 14. I still skate now at 51 but I have a lot of fear of hurting myself. It’s getting better but it looks like you really have the confidence now that you’re not going to hurt yourself. Looks like you’re having a lot of fun I stopped for 15 years because of three knee surgeries and finally got back on the board. I’m very glad I did in the past six months. I’ve been able to learn to ride pools drop, but I am scared to hurt my knee again, so I hold back sometimes or at least on the drop these videos thanks for all your help salute the states of the united. lol Atlanta, Georgia.

@JonBishopSkate

20 күн бұрын

Nice one dude! Many thanks for checking in. I started from scratch at 44. Snapped my ACL learning to drop in. Separated my shoulder trying to frontside grind the Vert. Done both ankles, knees, elbows and hips multiple times. One K-O and one torn hamstring and broke my ribs 😢 but it’s been worth it. I’m getting more comfy, and was very much of the opinion that if I skated within my limits I was very unlikely to get injured now. But a few weeks back I took a routine pump round the bowl and slipped out on some unseen dampness and fractured my Patella? I honestly don’t think about injury as I recon that attracts it. I try to embrace whatever happens. I do find the faster and harder I go it the better off I am ??

Jon I feel that the action of grabbing the board bs and fs is such a feat in itself! Can seem simple but to me is not at all! Great video.

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

Thank you for making these Rad videos, and sharing your experience! You’re so SICK! I hit my first backside carve grind just the other day. Feeling that grind got me SO STOKED! Im working on being more consistent and smooth with my carves, and going faster. I definitely need to bend my knees more, especially frontside, and embrace the speed. 🙏🏽🤙🏽

@JonBishopSkate

3 ай бұрын

Great stuff dude !

Thanks Jon. I am 5cm below my first ever BS carve grind. I 've been there for a few weeks. Now that I saw your video I might finally get the courage to do it.

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Yeah dude!!

I really enjoy your skateboarding tutorials! I use to carve with no problems in the 70s and then kinda neglected them for a long period! So now im trying to re learn them again and watching your videos helps out in spades! 🤙

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Many thanks for tuning in dude !

Man id love to see you ripping backyard pools

@JonBishopSkate

6 ай бұрын

It’s a lifelong dream/ ambition to ride a real life pool, that used to be a pool !!

Nice! This inspires me to keep practicing my carve grinds. I've recently been getting more comfortable zipping around my local bowl and one of my favorite tricks is the backside early grab on the hip. I can get them over the coping now! Because of my ability to do that trick, it naturally gave me more confidence to start flirting with the coping. I've been able to do little slash grinds on the straight parts of the bowl, but I want to see if I can bring it into the round parts. One of my biggest challenges is coming off of the grinds with ease, I always feel like my feet kind of slip off of the grip tape a bit. As for frontside, I can carve fast around the bowl frontside, but front grinding seems like a next level challenge for me, for now I'll stick with the backsides. This video breaks it down very well, thank you! Love your style, your skating style and boards are awesome!

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Many thanks for tuning in dude!!

Superb timing with this one Jon, I’ve been throwing myself round the bowl of late… lots of work to do 😂 I shall heid the 10 commandments 👍🏻

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Ha ha, nice one 😂

I really enjoyed seeing your carve grind progression!

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Many thanks for tuning in dude !!

I’ve not had chance to try carving a bowl, and the concept sounds frightening, but then I stop to think that I do both backside and frontside carves whenever I go to the pump track so it shouldn’t be that different 🤔

Yes Bro, good video! Definitely will help me to get my first carvegrind. Tell me how did you manage to skate the bowl at XC? Those bowls are wicked but unskatable for me because how slippery they are. No friction at all. Like riding on the glass.

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Many thanks for the feedback dude. Yeah for XC I start with a good brush out. The rest seems to be in the lap of the gods. I think atmospheric conditions can wildly effect the grip in there. I also slightly change my technique for indoor as opposed to outdoor riding. If it’s slippy a slightly more finessed carve works well?

Flying out the top? 😮

Nice recap. Do you find that you had a steady progression on it, or did you have periods where you would regress and have to rebuild your technique? I had been carve grinding like crazy, then took a couple of slams that scared me off. It has taken close to a year to really get them back to where I was! Sometimes it feels like herding cats - I’ll start working one thing and then let another trick get away from me. When I try to focus my efforts to get that trick back, something else will inevitably get away. 🤣

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Yeah Rob! I recon that sums it up 😂 it’s a battle of wills. There is plenty to go wrong!!

Been working my fakie frontside. Fakie backside is no where close 🤣

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Nice one dude !

I saw you where on some carver CX trucks in some of the clips. How do you find those compare to just regular truck set loose?

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Well spotted! Yeah it’s a different feel on the RKP trucks, but tbh I’ve found loose Indy trucks are just as good for carving as the surf skate really ?!

Hey John. I was curious what wheels you use?

@JonBishopSkate

3 ай бұрын

Hey dude, 58mm and 55mm spitfire F4 OG classic

@Ryan-mf4sq

3 ай бұрын

Thanks Jon. Keep making the videos. I love them!!!

Yeah man.. this is rad. I can't explain why, but I simply can't do loose trucks. I find it much easier to carve with them pretty much as tight as they can be. As a surfer too, it might just be being used to digging in hard on the back toe or heel that compensates (rather than just leaning from one side to the other)..

@JonBishopSkate

7 ай бұрын

Yeah dude, I find if go really fast on bigger sections then tighter trucks work fine. Also bending the knees seems to help.