Your right there are a million trick tips on slappy crooks but something about your explanation of the weight shift made more sense to me. Subscribed. Raining here today but I'm excited to give these another go once things clear up. If you ever read this and if you can slappy blunt I would love a trick tip on those, there don't seem to be a ton out there. Will check past videos now to see if you've already done one. Thanks man!
Thank you I was practicing these today and I couldn’t figure out why my board would hit the curb before my trucks could I wasn’t leaning on my toes enough 👍
Great video! Does it matter how tight the trucks are? I'm guessing that if the trucks are tighter, it makes it easier for that wheel to lift off the ground?
I think most people who skate curbs regularly would say loose trucks are the way to go. I'd tend to agree. With that said, there are plenty of variables like curb height and shape that might offset how tight or loose your trucks are so it doesn't hurt to try both!
I'd say it's more of a wallie to get on. You want to lift up a bit but still let your truck and nose bash into the curb. By doing the manual, you're taking some of the pressure off the nose and letting it scrape up onto the top of the curb a bit easier.
I found it very odd how you said that the term “frontside” and “backside” can be dropped for many grinds/slides as that’s completely false. A frontside feeble grind and a backside feeble grind are 2 COMPLETELY different tricks. The same is true for board slides, bluntslides and any others that you mentioned. Not trying to be rude, as the rest of your video is solid, but I’ve never heard ANYONE else in my 20+ years of skating say that you don’t have to specify between a front crook and a back crook.
@@OneClipAtATime I never said you drop the frontside and backside distinctions simultaneously nor did I say they are the same. Some tricks only use the frontside distinctions and drop the backside distinction. Those would be feebles, crooked grinds, boardslides, noseslides, and bluntslides. In these cases, you would specify if it’s frontside, but you would not say backside if it’s backside because it’s implied. Conversely, there are some tricks that only use a backside distinction, otherwise it’s implied that it’s frontside. Those would be lipslides, smith grinds, noseblunt slides, or tailslides. If you were doing them backside, you would say backside. Otherwise it’s assumed you’re doing it frontside. To put this in context, if a homie told you he lipside a rail, he obviously means frontside. Otherwise he would have said he “back lipped” it.
how do you shift your weight back to your heel once your on the curb? i have no problem getting into it but then i just stick because all my weight is still on my toes once im up there
You kind of have to rock your ankles and hips backwards. It's definitely a balancing act but I'd recommend trying to stand over the heel side of your nose like you're doing a nose manual.
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Your right there are a million trick tips on slappy crooks but something about your explanation of the weight shift made more sense to me. Subscribed. Raining here today but I'm excited to give these another go once things clear up. If you ever read this and if you can slappy blunt I would love a trick tip on those, there don't seem to be a ton out there. Will check past videos now to see if you've already done one. Thanks man!
Thank you I was practicing these today and I couldn’t figure out why my board would hit the curb before my trucks could I wasn’t leaning on my toes enough 👍
Looks awesome!
Great video! Does it matter how tight the trucks are? I'm guessing that if the trucks are tighter, it makes it easier for that wheel to lift off the ground?
I think most people who skate curbs regularly would say loose trucks are the way to go. I'd tend to agree. With that said, there are plenty of variables like curb height and shape that might offset how tight or loose your trucks are so it doesn't hurt to try both!
Easier for the wheel to lift off the ground and climb up the curb if your trucks are looser*
Thanks! Will use this next time I try these. Have got into them sporadically but never out .
You bet, it's definitely one of the funnest curb tricks.
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When the curb is bigger and you have to manual, do you mean just lifting your front truck onto the curb? Or does that make it not a slappy?
I'd say it's more of a wallie to get on. You want to lift up a bit but still let your truck and nose bash into the curb. By doing the manual, you're taking some of the pressure off the nose and letting it scrape up onto the top of the curb a bit easier.
best tip for this is to have smaller wheels and super very loose trucks
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I found it very odd how you said that the term “frontside” and “backside” can be dropped for many grinds/slides as that’s completely false.
A frontside feeble grind and a backside feeble grind are 2 COMPLETELY different tricks. The same is true for board slides, bluntslides and any others that you mentioned.
Not trying to be rude, as the rest of your video is solid, but I’ve never heard ANYONE else in my 20+ years of skating say that you don’t have to specify between a front crook and a back crook.
@@OneClipAtATime I never said you drop the frontside and backside distinctions simultaneously nor did I say they are the same.
Some tricks only use the frontside distinctions and drop the backside distinction. Those would be feebles, crooked grinds, boardslides, noseslides, and bluntslides. In these cases, you would specify if it’s frontside, but you would not say backside if it’s backside because it’s implied.
Conversely, there are some tricks that only use a backside distinction, otherwise it’s implied that it’s frontside. Those would be lipslides, smith grinds, noseblunt slides, or tailslides. If you were doing them backside, you would say backside. Otherwise it’s assumed you’re doing it frontside.
To put this in context, if a homie told you he lipside a rail, he obviously means frontside. Otherwise he would have said he “back lipped” it.
how do you shift your weight back to your heel once your on the curb? i have no problem getting into it but then i just stick because all my weight is still on my toes once im up there
You kind of have to rock your ankles and hips backwards. It's definitely a balancing act but I'd recommend trying to stand over the heel side of your nose like you're doing a nose manual.