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How to skate bowls | Pumping and Carving

Mac Daddy2 skaters recommend it · 2 mentions, 2024 to 2026
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26K views · 3 years ago · Tutorial · Beginner

Three-minute tutorial from Mac Daddy on pumping and carving a bowl for speed and flow. Guest skater Brendoggg demos lines through different transitions and curves.

Why skaters like it

Linked in r/NewSkaters when people ask how to pump through a bowl or carve a full 180 turn. Short, with clear demos of lines.

“I was trying to describe how I’d approach a complete round 180 turn in a bowl…but I think it’s better described at 2min40secs in this clip …”

u/hinduhendu · Full comment

What skaters said on Reddit

u/costaricabl2024 · 3 points

If you know how to pump its all about the lines you take through there. You should be able to go fast and pump through while gaining more speed. When you go over those side humps I would ride high on it while going somewhat light footed and as you going over the backside of the hump throw all your weight down it pumping through into that back wall. Same thing on the hump where you come out but maybe not hit it as high as the one going in, go light footed as you roll into it and as your coming down throw all your weight down as you pump through. Hope that makes scense. You can find a ton of tutorials on youtube for pumping bowls. I typed in bowl pumping found this linked that seems good [VIDEO]

u/hinduhendu2026 · 2 points

I was trying to describe how I’d approach a complete round 180 turn in a bowl…but I think it’s better described at 2min40secs in this clip [VIDEO]

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