1985 Rage in the Badlands part 2 of 5

use the ball of your foot as the pivot point. You also want to get comfortable actually lifting your foot off your board and moving it. Later in skateboarding tricks you are going to have to move it a lot because your feet move all over the place with ollies, airs, hell even kickturns. You can practice by putting your back foot on the back bolts (so you dont do manuals aka wheelies) and just lifting your front foot a

Ok so you are only riding a halfpipe. How big is it? If its like 3 feet, its generally a little harder to maintain speed compared to larger pipes. Yes you should be raising your arms for extra pumpage. As you go up the wall you should stand up almost straight(but leaned into the ramp) and becoming weightless, your feet guide the board but you are not putting any pressure on it. you should lean into the ramp for kickt