Tricks

This is the tricks section. Try the easier ones first then work your way to the harder ones.

Tricks Ollie: To do an ollie you must first put your middle and pointer fingers on the board. Then snap back the tail with your middle finger and it should pop up. When the board is a little past 90 degrees, slide your pointer up to the nose and move your whole hand foward and the air resistence should keep the board on your fingers.Be sure to keep your hand juust a bit angled so the board will stay on.

Ollie impossible: To do this trick you must first snap the tail like you would on an ollie, but instead of keeping your fingers on the board, let it flip . The board should flip nose over tail many times in the air. Then land it. Keep practicing!.

Pop-Shovit: First do an ollie, then when it is in the air, take your pointer finger and pull the tail towards you. The board should spin wheels down, grip tape up under your fingers. Then follow the board and land it with your pointer and middle fingers.

360 flips: Start off just like an ollie impossible, but instead of pushing the tail so the board flips nose over tail, pull your finger towards you like a pop-shuvit but a little more up angle so the board will have a different spin and fly higher. Once you learn the pop-shuvit this should be easy.

Kick Flip: KICKFLIP: This one is just like the ollie. Put your index finger on the front trucks screws and this time put your middle finger on the edge of the tail that is facing you. Then just push down hard and fast with your middle finger on the tails edge. The board may spin but it takes practice to get it just to flip. The board should flip and then you should land it. Then land it. 1080* tail grab: This trick is EXTREMLY hard but amazing to see. It's worth the practice you'll put in to it. First put your fingers in the starting position(your pointer in front and your middle in the back) then push down and as you are pushing quickly pull your finger towards you(this is also how you can do 180, 360, 540, 720, and 900's depending on how fast and hard you pull your finger) the board should spin sideways 3 full revolutions in the air. That's only half of the trick. Level the board out with your pointer and take your thumb and grab the tail just under your middle finger. Then land it. Special thanks to Jared for sending in this trick!.

Heel Flip: Just like a kick flip except push on the side from underneath.

Hard flips: Put your fingers like the other tricks and then really slam down the tail. Pull out your hand so the board does a backflip. Then land it. It's easier than it sounds.

Grinds: Grinds are easy. Just ollie up onto a rail such as pen or pencil or something like that and slide across it.A description of the grinds are below.

50-50: When your front 2 trucks are on the rail.
K: When only the front truck is on and it is crooked.
5-0: When only the back truck is on.
Darkslide: When you grind with the grip tape down.
Boardslide: When you grind on the board with the 2 trucks on either side of you.
Nose Slide: When you grind on the nose w/o any trucks on.
Tail Slide: Same as tail slide except on the tail.
Keeg Grind: When you grind on the front truck with your back truck off the rail and rubbing against the side.
Rockslide: Same thing as the keeg but with the back truck on.
Nose Grind: When you grind on the front truck.

Grabs: To do a grab you must ollie or go off a ramp, then grab the board with your thumb in either the 2 sides, nose, or tail. They can also be combined with other spins to form your own tricks.

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