Bag Types & Throwing Styles
3 Bad Habits Ruining Your Roll Bag
The three habits killing your roll, and how to clean them up.
If your roll bag won't cooperate, it's almost always one of these three habits. Fix them and the bag starts dropping.
1. Too much arc
Throwing the roll too high makes it land hard and dead instead of rolling. A roll bag wants a flatter, lower trajectory so it lands softly and keeps moving. Take the loft off and let it crawl.
2. The wrong landing zone
Land it too short and it stalls before the hole; land it too far and it slides right past. The fix is boring but decisive: pick one landing spot a foot or so short of the hole and rep it until you hit it without thinking.
3. The wrong side or too much spin
Rolling on the slick fast side, or whipping on heavy spin, kills the crawl, the slick side slides instead of grabbing. Use the grippy slow side down with just a touch of fingertip rotation and let the board's incline do most of the work.
None of these are talent problems, they're reps problems. Clean up your base mechanics, copy how the pros roll, and the bag will start finding the hole.
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