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There is NOTHING hard to landing a 360, all you have to do is jump and spin. Easy enough, well, it's just as easy as it sounds.

First off, you need to know what a 360 is. If you don't know, i suggest you spend a little more time in school, It it one complete rotation in the air. More into it, you stand facing north, jump and turn, and land back the same way your jump started, north.

Know what a 360 is yet? Good. The key to doing this is how high you jump and how fast you spin. I suggest you get on your shoes and try to spin as far as you possibly can and do that over and over and over and over and over, until you feel comfy spinning, then try doing it while running. After all that 15 minutes of pracice, put on your skates, and do about 30 180's (1/2 rotation in the air) and then, move on the trying a 360. (Practicing in the grass may help too). Now after you have the 360 down, read the rest of this page.

Now on the the FAKIE 360. Oh, no. It's not very hard. A fakie 360 is just going backwards and doing a 360 and landing backwards.

Back to the shoes. Put 'em on, run backwards (be careful) and jump, spin and continue running then stop, and do it agian, and agian. NOW, go put your skates back on, and slowly roll backwards and pull a 360. Do that for a few minutes, and go a little faster, then faster, and faster, then, finally, after about 20 minutes, skate as fast as you can and do it(360).

Next, you need to jump off a curb and do a 360. It's not as hard as you think. First off, you should get used to jumping off stuff. Try that then come back.

Back so soon? I will assume you can jump off something? Ok, now you may not believe me, because many other people will disagree, but jumping from a much higher ledge is a better way to learn to do this. Why, well, you will have more time to spin and prepare for your landing. Don't get this wrong, the next sentence is important. High ledges are out when learning to do a 180 because you are landing backwards.

On to the point. Start on a small curb and jump off and do a 180. If you go slow enough, and have decent balance, you will not crash. Don't get too much speed or you will faceplant. Just like before, do 180's over and over again. Then when you feel comfortable landing a small spin, backwars, and off a curb, you are ready for the 360 (landing a 360 is easier than a 180 because you don't have to land backwards). Skate slowly off the curb or whatever you are jumping off and jump as high as you can and spin as fast as you can. This will give you about 1/4 a second to prepare for you landing. After the spin, land it! duh. Now again I say, do it about 30 times and you are ready to take on some bigger tricks.