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The Trick Part Of This (this is where you see how to do the tricks)
Postitions
Ollie Postion
The ollie position is the postion that you use the most. It is you put your front foot in the middle of the board where it is comfortable. Then the back foot in on the peak of the tail. You use this for jumps and most moves.
Blunt Kickflip Postition
The blunt kickflip postiton is ONLY for my move the "Blunt Kickflip". You have your back foot AT THE VERY BACK OF YOUR TAIL. Then you put your front foot an inch or two away from the back screws.
Ramp Postition
You use this postition for ramp pumping. You put your front foot on the front truck bolts and put your back foot just behind the back truck bolts
Shov-it/Other Postitions
You must put your back foot on the tail on a outward angle. Put your front foot in the middle with a little angel to it.
Stance
Normal
There are ONLY two types of normal stances and they are goofy(left foot forward) and Regular(right foot fawrd). I am goofy. You use the more comfortable one. Once you figure out your Stance it will tell you all of your fakie, nollie and switch possitions are.
Switch
What you first need to do is figure out what your normal stance is. Then once you did that if your goofy if skate (or do a move) regular than you have done a switch move. You must have reacted very excellent level of sk8ting to attemp switch sk8ting.
Fakie
Fakie is very easy to understand. You determine what your normal stance is and then you just ride backwards.
Nollie
Nollie is the combition of a switch and fakie stance but with a ollie. Stand switch and ride backwards. Then you must smack your tail down. push your back foot up to the screws. Level out your board. land flat. You can combined nollie with a move like "nollie kickflip" "nollie flip" ect.
Street
Body Varial
This is a simple trick. Jump into the air and turn halfway around. Yeah you heard us right. You don't usually do this trick on it's own. You add moves like kickflip body varial.
Ollie
Ollie is the first thing you should learn to do before you do anything else. First place your back foot at the top or close to the top of your tail. place your front foot in the middle somewhere. The ollie is timing. Bemd your knees. The more you bend them the higher you go. Snap your tail down with your back foot. Drap your front foot up your board to about the screws. flatten out your board by putting both feet stright. land with your feet over the screws. Bending your knees when landing. It helps to bend your knees when landing stairs or a big gap. Start small then work your way up.
Manual/Ollie Manual
For a manual you have to put your back foot on the tail and your front foot over past the middle but not up to the trucks. you have to ride along and then you shift your weight from your front foot to your back and press down on the tail. center your weight over the back trucks. To land press down on your front foot. Next is the Ollie Manual. To ollie manual come up to the crub or what ever you use. Ollie up and center your weight over back truck. When your back trucks land try to keep your balance. Manual to you come to the end. when you go off center your weight over the back trucks and land on all four wheels.
Nose Manual
Set up for an ollie with your front foot near the nose of the board. (How far from the nose you wish to put it is up to you. Keep in mind that if you are trying to do this trick on a ledge or other high object, you need to be able to ollie high enough to get onto it, so you might not want to put your front foot too far towards the nose.) Do an ollie while sliding your front foot forward and onto the nose. Push the nose down faster than the tail so that the tail is sticking up in the air and the nose is pointed into the ground. Be sure not to point the nose too drastically into the ground as you only want the wheels to be touching the ground and not the actual nose of the board. Keep your weight balanced over the nose in a nose manual position. When you are ready to finish the nose manual or you come to the end of the ledge/object, there are two different ways you can come out of it. If you are coming off of an object, you may want to push the nose over it quickly so that the back trucks don't hit the object as you come off. You if you, it takes off a lot of style and doesn't look nearly as good. If you are not on an object simply put more weight on your back foot and lean back a little bit until your back wheels hit the ground. Be sure not to put too much weight no your back foot because you might slip out. When you are finished, keep your balance and ride away.
Kickflip
To do a kickflip place your feet in an ollie postion. Bend your knees and when you strighten them out smack your tail down. Drag your foot up and to the screws of your board. Kick or flick your foot out toward your right hand. STAY OVER TOP OF YOUR BOARD. When the board does the full spin touch your feet to the grip tape. the land and bend your knees. DON"T LET THE BOARD SPIN ANY LONGER THAN A FULL SPIN.
Blunt Kickflip
A blunt kickflip is a kickflip that spins on its tail. First you have to put your back foot striaght at THE TOP OF YOUR TAIL. your back foot looks at the board. Your front foot is an inch or two away from your back screws. Face the tip of your foot foward. Smack your tail down then right away kick your foot STRAIGHT OUT. The board should spin on its tail. Grab the board with your feet when its done a 360 on its tail. STAY OVER YOUR BOARD. push your front of your board with your front foot.
Heelflip
Keep your back toe on the center of the tail. Your front foot should be at a little bit more than a 45 degree angle. It should be in the center of the board with your toe hanging over the toe edge. Hit the tail. As you do this, slide your front foot forward at an angle and just before it hits the nose, bend your foot/angle it and flip the board over the toe edge with the toe of your foot. Jump. Wait for the board to rotate. When it comes around, bring knees up and stop it with your feet.
Backside Heelflip
Get going at a moderate speed so you do not lose the board when flipping it. Place your feet as you were to do a regular inward flip (Varial Heelflip). Ollie and throw your backfoot away from you and slide the front foot straight down. The board should begin to spin backside and flip like a heelflip if done right. Jump forward and catch the board.
Frontside Heelflip
Set up with your back foot like you would normally have it for a frontside 180. Put your front foot over the toe edge with only your heel on the board. Hit the tail as you would for a frontside 180 but at the same time flick your heel over the toe edge so it spins the 180 and flips at the same time. Continue your body movement in this direction until you have rotated a complete frontside 180 with your body. By this time, the board should have flipped all the way around and spun the 180. Once the board has flipped, catch it with your feet. Keep the board attached to your feet and land in the fakie stance. Ride away clean.
Inward Heelflip
Place feet in backside heelflip position. Basically put your front foot like a normal heelflip and put your backfoot like you would for a backside 180. Pretty logical stance. No reason to complicate it. Pop a shuvit with your back foot. When it is at 90 degrees flip the board with your heel (kick your heel forward rather than towards the nose and out). Tuck your legs up high so the board doesnt hit your legs. You almost have to wrap your flipping foot around the board (like a saran wrap) if you don't. When you see the griptape side up slam your feet down hard over the trucks to prevent slipiing out and falling.
Outward Heelflip
Place your front foot hanging over the toe edge with only your heel on the board with your back foot on the tail like you would for a frontside pop shove-it. Hit the tail and push your back foot forward like you would so it would rotate the 180. While doing this, kick your front foot off the edge of the board to make it flip. when it has finished flipping, catch it with your feet. If by this time it has not rotated the complete 180, push it around all the way with your feet. Your wieght may tend to be on your back foot and towards the tow edge, so be sure to evenly distribute your weight across the board. Land and ride away cleanly.
Sex Change
First Have your feet in a kickflip postion. Kickflip your board and then do a body varial. Now land it.
Pop Shov-it
Put your back foot on the tail. Angle your front foot in. Bend your knees and start your pump. Smack your tail down put kick it with yout feet. Watch it rotate under you. Grab it with your feet to stop it from over rotating. It takes some practice to learn much it takes to kick it. Land straight and roll away.
360 Shov-it
You must be able to do a pop shov-it too be able to do this trick. First place your feet in the ollie postion. Smack your tail and use your back foot to drive your tail around(in a pop shov-it motion) but put a lot more force into it than a pop shov-it. ALWAYS STAY OVER THE BOARD. Let in spin 360 degrees (one full turn) grab it with your feet. Land start so you can roll away.
Hardflip
For a hard flip, place your back foot on the tail and your front foot pointed somewhat forward near the heel edge. Hit the tail while sliding your front foot off of the board making it seem to come straight up at you. It will look like it is going to do a flip and land upside down, but with practice you will learn to make it perform a half-flip and land on its wheels. (You may want to try this without trying to land it the first couple of times.) At the same time, you will want to be rotating your body 90º in the frontside direction letting the board flip between your legs. When the board has finished rotating, rotate your body back to your normal stance and catch the board before it hits the ground. Land and ride away clean.
Frontside 180 Ollie
First have your feet in the ollie postion. Bend your knees and turn your shoulders and arms opposite side of your 180. As you straighten your legs for your jump swing your arms around in the 180. Smack your tail down like a ollie but when you drag you front foot up pull your front leg around in the 180. Then with your front foot push out toward the nose and push your back foot out to level out. You should be 90 degrees, half of your 180. To complete the 180 pull your front foot back giding the nose the rest of the way around. Push the back foot forward to help the nose along. Land in fakie so you can roll away.
Backside 180 Oliie
This move is the excate same as the FrontSide 180 Ollie but just reverse the motion to go the other way.
360 Flip
To do a 360 flip, you should first be able to do a varial flip and 360 Pop Shove-it. First put your back foot on the back right edge of the board (back left edge if you are goofy) and put it at an angle so it is on the very edge of the tail. Then put your front foot a couple inches towards you from the middle of the board and then slant your foot the same way you did on your back foot. Now it's time to do the trick. Set up bend your knees and hit your tail while sliding your front foot forward. Through your back foot behind you as quickly as you can as you hit your til spinning the board till it rotates all the way around. While doing this slide your front foot off the edge of the board using your toe to flip it. Your board does not have to go high just as long as it gets around. You can work on the hieght later. Once it has finished rotating catch the board with your feet and land on it. That's pretty much it. Oh yeah, and then ride away. Bet you didn't do it. If you did, good job.
Varial Flip
The best way to put your feet is with your back foot on the toe edge of the tail, and with your front foot at about a 45 degree angle and your toe on the heel edge. It should be about 2 or 3 inches from the bolts. This whole thing is simultaneous. Hit the tail (duh.). Push your back foot to the heel edge like a pop shove-it. Slide your front foot forward and towards the edge, flipping the board. Try to keep your board underneath your feet. Try to keep your feet out of the way while it is flippin' around. Then when it has turned a 180 and flipped "catch the board", as in get your feet back into the normal position for riding in the air. Land and keep your weight centered.
Nollie
What you have to do is ride a switch fakie. Your ridin' backwards and in the switch postion now what you have to do is bend your knees. The lower you bend the higher you will go. Smack your front foot down and then push your back foot to the back trucks bolts. Move your front foot over the front truck bolts. Leave out and land striaght. This impresses judges more than and ollie and a move. Nollie then do a move like Nollie-Flip or Nollie Kickflip or something.
Nollie-Flip
Set up going forward just like you do a kickflip, but in the nollie position. You should already know how to nollie and flip the board, nollie. Before you try landing them going nollie, try switch kickflips on carpet or on grass. Once you can land them, try them going nollie. Hit the nose and flip the board whichever way you feel most comfortable. It helps to jump really high to have more accuracy when you land on the board. Balance your weight and ride away.
Half-cap
A half-cap is a fakie (riding backwards) with a 180 ollie. Check out how to do a backside 180 ollie.
Half-Cap Flip
Start out by riding in fakie position with a good amount of speed. The ball of your back foot should be on the edge of the tail and your front foot should be in the middle of the board with the front half of your foot on just like a varial flip. Crouch down to get power but make sure you don't lose your balance. Slap your tail down and bring your back foot under you to make it spin 180. At the same time kick your front foot off the side just enough to get it to spin. Remember, when you make the board flip, try to keep your feet above the board and don't flip it too hard. During all of that, spin yourself backside 180. It's very important that you turn all the way 180. When you and the board are finished spinning, land and keep going.
Big Spin
A big spin is a 360 pop shove-it with a backside body varial. OR... a backside 180 with an extra pop shove-it.
To do a big spin you should first know how to do backside 180's and pop shove-it's. Once you can do those you should be ready to attempt a big spin. Even though a big spin sounds hard, it really isn't. You should first try a big spin riding fakie (backwards). Ride fakie. Then wind up your body like you are going to backside half-cab. Then ollie and unwind. As you spin around towards your stomach and are about to land kick your board ian the same direction you are spinning. In other words you should make the board continue its previous spin and speed up faster than you are so that it spins another 180 really quickly before you land it. Ride away cleanly.
Big Spin Flip
Ride really fast. Put your feet the same as a 360 flip. Turn your upper body in a backside 180 and when in 90 degrees pop a 360 flip but dont lose your turning momentum. Its important that you wind up your body and not begin the flip trick until you have already begun to spin your body and your body has turned 90 degrees. I.e. You feet are following your upper body around. Your upper body is not following your feet. Land with style. You must have as much momentum as possible when turning. Now do it into a nose bluntslide.
Cabalaro
This trick, along with the Half Cab, was invented by a professional skateboarder, Steve Cabalero. A cabalero is a fakie (riding backwards) 360. Your body and board ollie, and then turn all the way around in the air. Ride fakie. The easier way is to try this backside. Hit your tail, jump high, and swing your body around 360 as fast as you can. Your feet and board follow closely behind you. Try not to let your board flip under your feet. Land. If you did it right, you'll be riding fakie again. Just remember, you have to spin real fast.
Carbalaro Flip
Place your back foot on the tail of to the edge a little bit *(if you skate regular, your right foot on the top edge part of the tail, switch is the exact opposite). Place your front foot in a kickflip position. Crouch for power*, and snap the tail and kick it hard behind you *(when crouching, if you notice pros they move their front foot back a little bit before they flip it. Its easier that way). Give the board kickflipping action by kicking the board hard, but not to hard as to over-rotate the spin. Try and stay above the board and watch it spin underneath you. When you see the grip tape, aim your feet towards it and land anyway you can - you can perfect that later. at the point where you pop the board, begin a frontside armswing and go for it. You must spin a full 360 and land.
on the board.
Phobia Flip
Its like a hardflip but the half-flip goes in the direction of a heelflip. Roll along at a moderate speed with your back foots toes and ball of the foot on the the edge (like for a popshuvit). Your front foot should
be just about anywhere from the middle of the board to towards the front truck bolts. Pop the tail hard an sort of jump forward, to allow the board to flip around without you knackering yourself. When its flipped around try and put you feet on it and roll away. Note- this trick is fuckin hard to land so just keep at it and dont smash your board or anythin'!
Thats it fellas, if you don't have a name for this trick its called a phobia flip.
Ollie Impossible
The ollie impossible is a hard trick to master but once you master it all your friends will think that you are the pimp so read this! The first thing to know about this trick is that you can roll at any speed to accomplish this trick. You will place your front foot either right in front of the nose or way back where you would put it if you were to do a 360 flip. If you are a beginner you should place your foot right in front of the nose, advanced riders should do the other method. Your back foot should be placed on the tip of the tail and your toes should hang off the tip of it. You don't really pop your board like an ollie but sort of drag the tail momentarily on the ground and make contact with your toes and the ground. With your front foot all you do is kick it way out of the way otherwise you'll screw up your ankles when you land on the side of the board. by this point your board should be almost on it's side. Now you will sweep your back foot under you and make the board flip around your foot. The board will do a 360 and should be touching your foot the whole time. After the board is done rotating bring your front foot back to tip the board back so that it is no longer flipping around on its side. The board should now be under your feet and you are landing on the ground. Now go and tell all of your friends about it.
Ollie Impossible Flip
Place you feel like you were doing a reg kickflip. Pop the tail and slide your front foot directly down. When your front foot hits the ground jump and push forward with your back foot. Your board should do a Full Back-Flip. Hop with your front foot diagonal to the direction going and your board. Spread your legs until the board is horizontle. Land with your knees heavily bent if going of a drop so you don't crack open the tail like I have done.
Front Foot Imposssible
Put your feet in like a kick flip position. Ollie and kick like a kickflip but not all the way just so the board go sideways on your foot. And while its on its side,you make your leg go in a circular motion so it can rap 360 degreez around you foot. Now you gotta land it,just catch it with your back leg and and stomp down with your front foot. This trick isn't that hard,just practice and and you'll eventualy get it.
Frontside Flip
For a frontside flip, put your front foot on the heel edge of the board and have about half of your foot on the board. (This may vary for different people on how the prefer to place their feet. This is how I (Feeble) do them. Put your back foot on the tail, as you normally would for a frontside 180. Hit your tail like you would for a frontside 180 while sliding your front foot off the edge of the board flipping it around. It can either go between your legs or it can stay below your feet. I think that when it goes between your legs it gives you more style, but its not always as easy. If it stays below your feet, make sure it rotates a complete 180 and flips all the way around. When it has completed it flipping, catch it as soon as possible. If at this time it has not finished rotating the 180, push out your back foot to make it finish and ride away fakie. If you want to flip it between your legs, flip it like you would a hard flip, but instead of lnading in your normal stance do a body varial and land fakie. It may be easier to perform the body varial if you put your front foot more towards the edge of the board.
Backside Flip
Now, the first thing you should do is to either put your foot like you would for a kickflip or for a varial flip. Try both, it is different for different people and different boards. Now wind up your body in the opposite direction you are going to turn (towards your back) then unwind and spin your board like a varial flip. To do this start to turn the way you are spinning (towards your stomach) then kick your front foot out and kick your back foot backwards). Spin your body and stay above the board and turn with it the whole time. When you and the board are turned in the air, catch the board and land as cleanly as possible. Absorb the shock of the landing with your knees.
Heelflip-Late-Front-Foot-Shovit
Be rolling along at a good speed. Put your front foot in a heelflip position-only a tiny bit of your toe should hang over. Ollie and flip the heelflip but then snap your front foot back as the board completes the flip and kick the side of your board with your heel. land on the trucks. roll away. This trick is easiest off a curb or dropoff. It takes a while to get the snapping motion down, but you'll get it.
Pressure Flip
Place your back foot on the edge of the tail and your front in the middle of the board just like an ollie. Pop the board with your back foot and slide your front foot forward to straighten the board out (just like and ollie). Heres the hard part, while in the air, kick your BACK foot out flipping the board with your back foot. Be sure to get that foot out of the way while the board is flipping. When the board flips in one full rotation, plant your feet on the board and ride away smoothly.
Late Flip
Place your back foot on the edge of the board and your front foot on the middle of the board (just like an ollie). Pop the board up and bring your front foot forward to straighten it out (still just like an ollie). Now heres where you have to think. You must now the latest time to flip the board while in air. So I guess you should try to practice before hand. Now, at the LATEST time you could. Flip the board with your front foot, fast and hard, really hard. This should cause the board to flip faster and you would just have done a late flip.
50-50 Finger Flip
Start by standing on the tail of the board so the nose is in the air. place your front foot under your front trucks. Swing the board around so that you can catch it in your back hand and just the tip of the tail is touching the ground. While this is going on you should be balancing on your back trucks with your front foot. Balance for as long as you can. Now, flip the board, with your hand, so it's right side up. Land on the board and look for a spot to bust another sick trick.
Sall Flip
Get used to doing this trick on flat first because it's to do in the air first go. Prepare for an ollie and hold leading hand out in front of you ready to grab the nose. Have your palm facing out so that your hand is twisted. Ollie and kick the board up into your hand. Make sure your hand grabs the board with your fingers on the grip side. Twist your wrist around so the griptape is facing upwards. Spin the board in front of you in a 360 shov-it motion. Once the board has done a full 360 and your wrist can't turn anymore put the board back under your feet. (NOTE- when ramp skating do SAL-FLIPS TO FAKIE, they look even sicker)
Rail Flip
You stand the board up on its side so the wheels r facing out. Now stand with your front foot on the front wheels and the side of the board. and put your back foot on the side of the tail (a little past the truck)with most of your weight on the front foot. Now the tricky part, push down and backwards with your back foot and lift your front foot. The board should do 1 and 1/2 flips and a 360, try to stay above the board while it flips and land on the griptape when it comes around. Ride off knowing u just pulled off tight trick!
Emerald Flip
THIS TRICK IS EXTREMELY HARD TO DO BY FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS. IT'S AN EXTREMELY HARD TRICK. YOU MUST SEE SOMEONE ELSE DO IT OR HAVE SOMEBODY SHOW YOU HOW. You must ollie REALLY high for this trick. Start in the position of a heelflip, front foot all the way across the board and behind the screws. Snap the tail and do 1/4 of a heelflip - let the board. Rise higher than your feet in between your legs- your front foot must go outward and your back foot must go behind you, the board should go verticle with the top facing away from you. While in the air, make your front foot go down past the bottom of the board where the bolts are on the top side. Keep the bottom of your front foot parallelto the ground and perpendicular to your board. Your heel should be near the bottom of the front bolts. At the same time as this, lift your back foot up and put it behind the tail with your toes at the bottom of the deck. In the air, your board should be on its side and your feet should be on opposite sides of it - front foot on grip tape side and back foot on the wheel side behind the tail. Now pull both feet up to you while pushing back with your heel and pushing foward with your toes. Be sure to pull your feet above the board at this step or you'll land casper and smash your toes. The board should spin like a backside shove-it while leveling out and move right under your feet - that should be in normal standing position now. Ride away and sit down so nobody asks you to do it again.
Wall Ride
First you gotta learn how to ollie, an' you gotta be able to do it at least like two feet high or so. Ride towards a wall at about a 45 degree angle with your body facing it. that means that the front of your body is facing the wall. get it? Get ready to ollie at the wall, and keep your eyes on the spot where you want to wallride at all times. Ollie up, but don't level out. instead bring your back foot up in line with your front foot while pushing it towards the wall. while you do all this push your heels forwards and your toes back. The board should now be more or less parellel to the ground. "snap" your toes forward which will put the board up against the wall. when you are actually riding the wall, you only want to have the balls of your feet on the board. otherwise it'll be too hard to stay upright. you only want to ride the wall for like a second or two. Now there are two ways to get off. actually, both are the same way, except in one you grab the board and in the other you don't. i can only do it with grabbing the board, so that's the only way i'm gonna tell you. (cont.) bend your legs a little if they're not already bent, and grab the center of the frontside of the board, like an indy grab. pop the tail and jump away from the wall. level out the board with your hand by pulling your wrist inward (it's not that hard), and keep your feet flat against the deck. Extend your legs a little to absorb the impact, and ride off. actuall, the first few times i gaurentee you'll fall on your ass because you'll be off balance and loop out. but that's all good, cause' you'll get it eventually.
Twisted Flip
Ride along at good speed Ollie as high as you can. Kick your back foot away from you like a pop shuvit. Almost immediatly kick your front foot out as far as you can like a kickflip - Your board should now be doing a varial. As soon as you kick out, spin your body to the left like a body varial. Stick it and ride away like a pro.
Grinds
Put your feet in the ollie postion. Ride up at a little angle. Ollie up with the middle of your board on the object. As you slide center your weight. Go on and grind. To get off press down on your tail and gide the nose with your front foot. LAND STRAIGHT and roll away.
Frontside Board Slide
The Frontside board slide is the same a the Backside one but just the other way. Reverse everything with the other foot.
50-50
A 50-50 is where you grind with both of your trucks. You go up to the object striaght. Ollie up and touch down with both trucks. Grind till the end. And just go off the rail.
5-0
a 5-0 is a when your back truck grinds and your front truck is up but your tail doesn't touch(Like a manual). First come up to object. Ollie up and KEEP YOUR FRONT TRUCK UP. Hit the object and keep your tail up. Balance yourself. When you come to the end come out and land by pussing your front foot down and land with all four wheels touching the ground.
Nose Grind
Come up to the object at A VER SLIGHT ANGLE. Ollie up higher than the object. Press forward with your front foot so when you land on the object your front truck and nose are grinding. DON'T PUT TO MUCH FORCE WHEN PUSHING YOUR BOARD FORWARD. Land on the object and lean forward. Keep pressure on the nose of the board. When you come to the end just press back with your back foot and land with your weight centered over the center of your board.
Nose Slide
Roll at a good pace toward the object. Try and be either parallel to the object or rolling towards it at a slight angle. When you're close enough, pop the board up and turn the board so it meets the object with it's nose. Tip - When trying to turn the board, use your body and your legs at the same time, you want to have your body facing sideways to the object. Slide, Slide, Slide. If you want to loand regular, simply lean your back foot backwards 90 degrees near the end, as well as your body and legs. If you want to land switch, lean forward when your sliding and turn your body and legs 90 degrees forward. Roll away.
Tail Slide
First look at your board (the pic on the bottom and decide what is the tail). Come up to the object like a 50-50. Ollie up and turn 90 degrees. To do this just lead your front foot around. Land on the object with your truck not on the inside of the object. SLIDE BABY SLIDE. When you come out just turn around.
Feeble Grind
Approach the object parralell. Ollie up and get some pop into it. Concentrate on getting yourback truck on the rail. Your goin' to have your weight back like a 5-0 grind, but you'll also be touching your board like a boardslide. This next postition is the feeble postition. Lift your back truck to pop out. Roll Away.
Lip Slide
Approach the obstacle kind of parallel so your momentum is goin' forward. Now start your ollie. Get enough pop like a 50-50. Now turn 90 degrees. What makes it a lip slide is your popping over the lip of an object. Keep your weight forward. Now when you reach the end of the object turn your board around.
Salad Grind
Approach the object. Ollie up like a 5-0. Land put shift your board so that your nose is facing a in digonal direction. Then just pop out and turn the nose of your board around.
Smith Grind
Approach the obstacle from a slight angle. It helps to have a little bit of speed to be able to slide well. Hit the tail and ollie onto the obstacle, but turn a little similar to a 180, but not all the way around. The smith grind is kind of between a lipslide and a 50-50. Get your back truck on and point your nose down so your board is sliding as well. Keep your back foot on the tail and your front foot as near to the front bolts as possible. remember to keep some weight on your back foot so that you canslide, because if you put too much weight on your front foot you will stick and fall forward. Also remember not to put too much weight on your back foot, because then you will go into a 5-0 grind and you dont want to do that damnit, because your doing a smith. Slide until youre ready to come off, or until the obstacle ends. If the obstacle ends, simply slide off and adjust your weight level over the board to land and ride away. If it doesnt end, try to do a sort of ollie off the obstacle by hitting your tail and popping off. Land level and ride away.
Barley
Well okay, a barley grind is a frontside 180 switch smith grind... To be able to do this trick, you have to learn frontside 180 ollies and switch smith grinds... So here`s the trick: You`re riding parallel to a ledge or curb with a good amount of speed (fast), and try to be as close to the curb as possible, but not too close.Then do a frontside ollie, but be careful not to pop too big, because then yout front truck will fly over the curb.So pop a solid one, and if your done it right, your front truck should be locked in the switch smith grind position.But if your weight is not centered over your front truck you won`t be able to grind.And lean a little bit back. You can help with your other leg by pushing the board to the side of the curb or ledge, this will help to keep your board in the grind position... That`s it, and if you want to see it on video check out the Toy Machine:Welcome to Hell video (if you haven`t seen it!!!) Donny Barley pops a normal and a switch one on a double set stair rails in the video... Then you`ll know why did they name this trick after him.
K-Grind
A k-grind is where your doin' a 5-0 but your back trucks are touching teh object.
Crooked Grind
This move is a nose grind but the tail is on a outward slant. Ollie up to the object. Swing your tail around 45 degrees. Land your front truck down. Have your tail twisted. At the end pop out and turn your board around.
Hurricane
A hurricane is the hard grind. A Hurricane Grind is where you do a 180 into a fakie Feeble. So go find a rail, parking block, etc., and try this. First, 180 so you're above the rail and only land on the back truck so you're doing a fakie feeble. Your front truck has to go over the rail and be on the other side while grinding. Keep most the weight on the back foot and a little on the front to keep it in the feeble position. This trick is all sick looking. If you want to see one look in Transworld Magazine, they usually have them. Now try a 180 into a fakie Smith. A different trick, but I don't know the name.
Blunt
Roll towards the obsticle at a good speed and at an angle between 10 and 35 degrees. Snap the tail and pull your front foot up and in as high as it will go. Bring your back foot up with it but as the obstacle comes beneath you, push your back foot down so that you land on the ledge/curb with your tail down and your board pointing close to vertically. On contact, push your back foot forward and lean back. Compensate this lean by keeping your shoulders straight and forward. This should let you slide. Slide. As you near the end of your your slide, put a bit of extra weight on your front foot so that the board tilts to less of a vertical angle. This prepares yopu to be able to snap out of this trick. Push your tail down hard and jump away from the obsticle. Bring your back foot in as close to your body as it will come and pull up and in with your front foot.
Push your front foot forward and down while rotaing your ankle. Land cleanly and roll away.
Nose Blunt Slide
Practice become farmiliar with frontside 180 ollies and regular ollies. Approach the block at a slight angle. Then ollie to a 90 degre angle sticking your nose into a noseblunt slide position. Keep most of (but not all) of your weight on the nose. Make sure that your body stays facing forward. At the end of the block, give your nose a little nollie - Come out forward or fakie. Ride away cleanly.
Kickflip Backside 50-50
Approach the object at a speed that you feel comfortable at. If you go slow you will stick and not grind. If you go fast it hurts like hell when you fall. So go at a medium speed. Ride a little away from the object because when you kickflip, the board will rotate to the object because you kick it out that way. Kickflip. Now catch the board in the air and land to a b/s 50-50.
While grinding you have to be quick with your feet because it is very hard to set up your feet to pop out unless you catch the board just perfect. Pop out and show off.
Kickflip Blunt Slide
Approach obstacle at 10-30 degrees with your back foot on the kick tail and your front foot about 2-3 inches behind your truck bolts. Kick down on the tail and scoop your front foot as in a kickflip, BUT keep your back foot lower than your front so the board flips on a 45* angle. Catch your board and turn your body and the board to be facing the curb, still on a 45* angle. Land the board nearly vertical with the tail on the curb as in a blunt slide. Slide along and come off the end (see blunt-slide). Watch all spectators lower jaws hit the floor with amazement at your sic trick.
Dark Slide
To do a Frontside Darksilde first you need to know how to boardslide, kickflip, and how to do shove-its out of boardslides. Start by aproaching the object (flatbars are the best) as you would for a fronstide boardslide but more room for the ollie. Start by putting your front foot near the bolts (this is so when you kickflip the board will not spin all the way around) next, ollie and do a kickfip. Make sure it only goes half way around, duh! now the hard part. You have to catch your board by the trucks with your feet on the opposite ends of the board. After you manage to do this slide the rail as far as possible. Getting off is no easy task either. I find the best way is to pick up your front foot and move it out and up. The board will then turn rightside up. After this turn your body and come off fakie.(this sounds harder, but trust me, its alot easier this way.) Land with your knees bent and roll away.
Dark Side Nose Slide
roll up to your object you want to stall such as a picnic table curb etc, then put your feet into a kickflip position but with your front foot more toward the middle so the board doesn't spin all the way around. Then when your getting close start your kickflip and before your board gets all the way around put your wieght on the nose and the board should be upside down. Now to pop out i squeeze the trucks with my feet and pop the board up and back around and land with my feet on both trucks.
Casper Slide
To do a casper slide, you need a high rail that's square shaped.Ollie, then kickflip your board halfway to make it upside down. Squeeze the front sides of your trucks to hold your board, then slide the board like a 50-50. Try to slide all the way to the end of the pole. When your at the end of the pole, do another kickflip halfway to catch it rightside up. Bend your knees as you land, then roll away.
Stalls
Nose Stall
First ride slowly towards the obstacle, probably a curb if you are learning. Keep your back foot like you would for the ollie. Keep your front foot like you would for the ollie also except move it forward so it is on two of the bolts (close to the nose). When you get close to the object, maybe a foot or two, ollie! Land with your nose on the curb and simultaneously apply pressure. Stall. When you want to come off, slide your nose off and land on the ground.
Tail Stall
The first trick, a 180 to tail stall requires that you be able to ollie and 180. So learn those first. And it would be helpful if you could do an ollie nose stall. The first thing that you do is ride towards the object, (hopefully for your first time it will be a curb, or something of the nature) at a slow pace. A little bit faster than you would for an ollie nose stall. Then wind up for your 180, a little bit more than usual. And always keep your eyes on the target place where you want to land on your tail. Hit your tail, ollie, and unwind, twisting your body and swinging around your legs in a 180. As you're swinging around jutt out your back foot, the one that started off on the tail. Then slide your back foot up onto the tail, if its not already on it. Aim it for the curb/other obstacle and try to land right on it. Try to keep your weight even. Don't go to fast while approaching the obstacle or you will get the tail on, and then fall over onto the other side of the curb from too much momentum. Stay on the curb for a second or two to show everyone that you have successfully done the stall. (i.e. stall.) Then, try to shift your tail off the curb and land on the ground with all four wheels at once. (i.e. tail drop the curb.) What you have to do is slide your tail off by shifting your weight correctly. This is a difficult concept to explain, so I'm going to hope that you got it already. Next, the switch ollie to tail stall, is much like an ollie to nose stall except well... its switch. What you have to do, is put your front foot way up towards the nose and cover two of the bolts with your front foot. Then try to ollie and if you aren't that good at switch ollies, it's okay, just hit your tail and then push down on the front of your nose. Then aim it for the curb. When you stall on it, just come off the same way as I explained on the 180 tail stall above.
Tail Stall Kickflip Out
Find a small ledge to try this on first. don't do a curb cuz it's too small, but don't try this on anything over a foot and a half at first. Skate towards the ledge or whatever and 180 into a tail stall. it doesn't matter if it's frontside or backside, but do whatever your're best at so you can be ready for the flip. As you stall get your feet into a solid position. you want your back foot on the tip of the tail, and your front foot in front of the bolts (in front) with the heel hangin'. Do all this very fast: drop the nose about 5 inches then jump up and forward a little really high and pop the board as hard as you can. like, really really hard, otherwise you'll just fall out of the stall. anyways, as you are popping slide your front foot up a little on the blade. have the bottom of your front foot 90 degrees to the board. once you feel the tail leave the ledge or whatever, snap your front foot out really fast. the board should spin as it drops to the ground. You should've jumped high enough so that you are over the board as it flips. the board may hit the ground as your feet catch it, so just make sure that your body is right above it. Land and skate off.
50-50 Stall
Approach the curb, rail, ledge, etc., straight on at a decent speed. Ollie and turn 90 degrees(frontside or backside) at a fair distance away from the object. Land with both trucks on the object, keep you weight centered, and balanced. Might help to lean a bit forward, so you won't fall off your board. Stall. When you're ready to come out of the stall, hit your tail, ollie, and turn from 45 to 90 degrees. When you land, bend your knees, and ride away.
Rock n' Roll Stall
In this case, we're talking about on a curb. You just sort of ride towards the curb slowly and ollie and land on the edge of the curb, with one truck up on top of the curb, and one hanging off. If you are doing this on higher things, it can be useful to get up. Just ollie, land in the position, then put your foot on your nose and push yourself up onto the ledge/obstacle. Generally this trick is seen more on vert. See the vert section for a "Rock 'n Roll stall.
Blunt Stall
Slowly roll up to a curb, step, parking block,
about anyiting that you could grind on. (it is hard to do this going fast). Lean back a little, and ollie. Land between the back truck and tail on whatever you want to stall on,do anoze grab as you land.(your board should be at near a 45% angle.) Hold for a second. To get off jump backwards and pull your board under your feet, by the noze with your grabbing hand.(this may take some practice)
Pop Shov-it Nose Stall
