i love the way if your a skateboarder its considered un-cool to where a helmet and pads but if your a long boarder its the done and normal thing im glad
This is the most helpful video on coleman slide I've seen so far. Breaking down the slide in slowmotion is much more helpful than showing dry practice and a really quick slide.
This is one of the best tutorials on doing a Coleman. Adjusting the transfer of weight back to the lead foot aids in coming out of the slide to continue on. Great work Dan!!
Make sure all of your movements are smooth. If you go down too fast, that will translate into a spin. Also, be sure to look where you want to go, and maybe go a little faster. Other than that, try to meet up with some local skaters, that's the best way to learn!
Awesome tutorial 6 years later! I didn't realize that folding my foot down would be such an important detail. I'll try that, maybe it'll help me pendulum out further.
Make sure that you're not coming down too fast or trying to push it out too hard. Either of those will give you too much momentum and you end up spinning around.
Check out the first pause in the video before the slide. It's all about doing that stuff slowly and smoothly. Getting low or turning your body too quickly gives you a lot of momentum so you end up just spinning. Also, be sure to have your puck ON the ground before trying to initiate the slide.
I tried this advice about having the puck on the ground before initiating the slide and it works so well for me. I wish someone had told me this earlier. Thanks bro!!
what a great video, i was trying this tonight but i was 'squatting' on the board so couldnt get low enough. now i have the method to try again tomorrow, thanks!
Like your mentioning of the helmet. I fell trying a backside slide and landed on my head and had unfortunately put my board and helmet in the car. Fell and got knocked out. Had a bleed on my brain and needed surgery on it to fix it. Spent like 2-3 weeks in the hospital and 6 months in rehab. Still going to therapy for my legs. Haven't been able to longboard since I fell. Just hoping one day I can get this all behind me and get back on a board
Finally! Someone that rides Goofy! Hazaa! Thankyou mate, so much easier to understand when someone rides the same way as you do, it's a very informative video and i could slide within 2 days of watching this video! cheers mate! Big Help!
great tut! How fast should you be going to make the slide work well? I have Otang in heats and they always want to throw me off the board when Im starting to slide
best vidio i have seen of a Coleman slide i wanna try it out but im just wondering I dont have good like road in the nearest hill would that effect my slide alot or would it go just fine? im a bigginer and i have been on cruches because i fell of my board once (i did not break anything) Thanks for the Video man Keep it up :D
@DeepBlue10055 nice vid! my wheels are sayshun plasma A+ 78a and i cant kick my board hard especially that it is heelside and it is a puckdown slide so how fast should i go?
When learning, try to start at a solid running pace. This should be just around 15 mph. And those wheels are pretty grippy, a board with no flex and good concave will help lock you in. Otherwise, just lean back more to compensate!
Hey man, it's a bit daunting doing it at speed... anything that you could say to help me get over that stuff (fear and all of that) because it's pretty scary!
Focus on keeping your weight on the front foot for the initiation of the slide. In the middle of the slide the weight distribution will be a little more balanced but that comes once your slides start getting a little longer and faster.
Which kind of wheels are you using in this movie? I have a 81a and I'm having a lot of difficulty to do it! I simply don't slide and I'm getting afraid of going faster because I can't stop safely!!
I can't bring the board back in, I can do a 180 perfectly but to get back in my goofy stance I have to switch 180 stand up. How do you do the other part of the pendulum motion and bring it in? Do you kick out your front foot? Do you lift your back leg? I've tried both
One thing he doesn't explain quite well is the weight. How do you balance your weight after the first step of the slide? I got that at some point you only have your weight on the front foot but what happens afterwards?
i have tried this slide and i just cant do it i think is because of the gloves that hold to much and i wanted to know what hlove would you recomend me for doing this slide.
I'm trying to learn how to slide and heard this was a good one to start with. Whenever I try to do this, I get in position, but my board doesn't slide, it just does a really sharp turn on 2 wheels. Any suggestions?
Hi, I just recently learned how to do this slide, I had the same problem as you and I learned that I was simply not going fast enough, also make sure you have most of your weight on your forward foot.
BANANAMAN3620 Hey Banana, your trucks are way too tight dude. If your wheels come off the ground odds are you arent getting enough board lean to trigger the board to break free, though it also sounds like you might need to move your weight more onto your sliding hand and more off your board. Loosen your trucks up, but becareful of wheelbite. Some boards don't have enough clearance to easily generate board lean without the wheels biting on the deck. See if that helps!
MrBrodady Weight on the front foot is absolutely critical. Speed helps too if you know how to commit, it also increases the risk... but hey, you gotta pay to play.
@@belfastmike2250 If you try it you'll see what I mean. They just don't slow you down enough to bring you to a stop unless you're going super slow or you're not on a hill.
Speed helps since it pushes you down into your board the sharper you turn, but definitely consider your flexibility. For most people the issue is hip flexibility, but with a little bit of stretching over a week or two you can improve that a lot. There are tons of good videos here on youtube for hip stretching.
I literally have tried this bc I was told this is the easiest slide to learn for beginners and I can't slide the board like I'm getting down and everything hut it doesn't slide it just turns. am I not going fast enough? am I not kicking the board? it's kinda hard to kick the board when my arm is restricting me from really moving. I want to slide bc I'm scared to go down hills without knowing how to properly stop. plus I wanna show off to my friends that I can go down the hills they're scared to go down simply bc if I need to, I can stop. any suggestions?
Yea go in the turn sharper then Give it a little bit more of a kick mainly takes practice I didn't get it down for a while ether I started thinkin it was my board but I jsr needed practice
Im just learning how to slide and I tried this slide. I did it a few times but then I tried it one more time and the board just stopped mid slide and I went flying forward and split my chin open. Do I need thicker riser pads so I won't get wheel bite? Or what went wrong?
It happened to me but I think its just that I wasn't going fast enough. If you fly forward again just slide on your gloves and keep your face up. Good luck!
Absolutely, if you're not going at least jogging speed it won't work. Anyway, this slide is meant to kill speed, so is most useful when you are going fast and want to stop.
I keep trying and trying but all I do is either turn widely or the board kicks out a little. Could it be that the board is too long or my wheels are terrible?(they are bad wheels)
Harrison Leishman i do have the mini zombies hawgs yellow(82a) and i always come from slow slides and it struggles.do i need to breka it in?if so for how long?
I learned to slide with longisland wheels: Those were BAD. Wheels won't make you magically learn how to slide: Just try to go a little over your confort speed, then get confortable, then go a little bit faster etc... At some point your wheels will start sliding ;)
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i love the way if your a skateboarder its considered un-cool to where a helmet and pads but if your a long boarder its the done and normal thing im glad
theduckster1804 thats what i really like about the longboarding community, no judgement and even the professional videos are stressing safety gear
You get fun of for not wearing a helmet, and not the other way around.
@@rustyshackleford3278 try LIAM morgan :D
Yeah and if you don’t wear a helmet they often won’t allow you in groups, the longboarding community is way better then skateboarding community
@@arvinghamami no in skateboarding at least in some places you get made fun of for wearing pads, but in long boarding it’s the other way around
This is the most helpful video on coleman slide I've seen so far. Breaking down the slide in slowmotion is much more helpful than showing dry practice and a really quick slide.
This is one of the best tutorials on doing a Coleman. Adjusting the transfer of weight back to the lead foot aids in coming out of the slide to continue on. Great work Dan!!
Funny, can't coleman slide but can do all the heelside standup slides over 30ft. Found this helpful, thanks!
I used to live in Clark hall. Class of 2010. Thanks for the video!
Make sure all of your movements are smooth. If you go down too fast, that will translate into a spin. Also, be sure to look where you want to go, and maybe go a little faster. Other than that, try to meet up with some local skaters, that's the best way to learn!
Go faster, lean back more, and put your hand farther behind you on the pavement. Good luck!
This was the best tutorial i have seen yet
Awesome tutorial 6 years later! I didn't realize that folding my foot down would be such an important detail. I'll try that, maybe it'll help me pendulum out further.
Make sure that you're not coming down too fast or trying to push it out too hard. Either of those will give you too much momentum and you end up spinning around.
Check out the first pause in the video before the slide. It's all about doing that stuff slowly and smoothly. Getting low or turning your body too quickly gives you a lot of momentum so you end up just spinning. Also, be sure to have your puck ON the ground before trying to initiate the slide.
I tried this advice about having the puck on the ground before initiating the slide and it works so well for me. I wish someone had told me this earlier. Thanks bro!!
thank you so much! ive just been out side and done it after an hour of practicing, your video was very helpful:)
as lose as you are comfortable with. More turn = easier slide
what a great video, i was trying this tonight but i was 'squatting' on the board so couldnt get low enough. now i have the method to try again tomorrow, thanks!
Like your mentioning of the helmet. I fell trying a backside slide and landed on my head and had unfortunately put my board and helmet in the car. Fell and got knocked out. Had a bleed on my brain and needed surgery on it to fix it. Spent like 2-3 weeks in the hospital and 6 months in rehab. Still going to therapy for my legs. Haven't been able to longboard since I fell. Just hoping one day I can get this all behind me and get back on a board
Finally! Someone that rides Goofy! Hazaa! Thankyou mate, so much easier to understand when someone rides the same way as you do, it's a very informative video and i could slide within 2 days of watching this video! cheers mate! Big Help!
wearing pads really helps. if you know that you won't get hurt when you fall it definitely gives you confidence.
Anybody else think he looks like a slightly cooler McLovin
yes!!!
im right handed and ride goofy
Same here.
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SollyMonster same
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one of the best how to's of the colemen slide
Thanks best video i've seen to show techniques on how to slide.
Thanks, that was a really helpful tutorial!
First video that helps me to improve my slide, Thanks!
Thanks a lot! I will replay these words in my head next time I'm practicing
I want to learn some variations of this slide.
spooks walrus Then go ahead! practice makes perfect
Harry I don't know any and I haven't seen any :(
Then make some up! Do some spins and stuff ! Haha
Harry I'll try a spin next time I'm riding :D
Haha sick man! Let me know how its goes :)
This really helped me improove my coleys :D thanks
Great tutorial! What is your wheel's durometer? I have 80 a that are quite grippy so i can initiate the slide but cant bring it back
really comprehensive for someone learning to slide well done!
I feel you man. I hit a guardrail a month and a half ago and I'm a long way from 100%. Hope we can both get back on a board soon.
Dang, u make it look soooooooooooooooooooooo easy. And u are really good.
Thanks bro!!!!!! Bought some blood orange gloves and learned it today. Very helpful.
Best tutorial hands down
great tut! How fast should you be going to make the slide work well? I have Otang in heats and they always want to throw me off the board when Im starting to slide
Thank you so much I been trying to get it down but I don't think I was going fast enough
I having trouble doing this one I will try your tips
best vidio i have seen of a Coleman slide i wanna try it out but im just wondering I dont have good like road in the nearest hill would that effect my slide alot or would it go just fine? im a bigginer and i have been on cruches because i fell of my board once (i did not break anything) Thanks for the Video man Keep it up :D
Having trouble bringing it back straight I always do a 180
thanks man! this is essential for all downhill riders to come to a full stop *~
I learned to do a Coleman from this video.
Yo...very informative ...what area are u in?
I ride goofy been practicing the Coleman slide today I finally started getting it.
@DeepBlue10055 nice vid! my wheels are sayshun plasma A+ 78a and i cant kick my board hard especially that it is heelside and it is a puckdown slide so how fast should i go?
Very nice tutorial!!! Thank you buddy. You did it nicely!!!
What are some good slide gloves that are around $50 for a guy just learning to slide?
haha yup. There's no other takeover like that but I'm buddies with Comet guys so it's easier for me to get a hold of unique stuff from the factory.
Straight to the point! Thanks!
When learning, try to start at a solid running pace. This should be just around 15 mph. And those wheels are pretty grippy, a board with no flex and good concave will help lock you in. Otherwise, just lean back more to compensate!
Hey man, it's a bit daunting doing it at speed... anything that you could say to help me get over that stuff (fear and all of that) because it's pretty scary!
thanx for the video, it really helps! one question: should i put weight on the toes or heels of my front foot, or just evenly distributed?
ok, so even if i cant kick my board i just puck down and sway my upper body to the direction i want to go? and put some pressure on back foot.
can you do this without putting your hand down? I usually dont ride with gloves. Can you do like a standup slide and how would you do it?
Not likely. Gloves are really useful for sliding. Standup slides are fun but as with all things take practice.
GET. THE. GLOVES. Believe me. They'll make your life a lot easier.
Daniel do you do pressure on the front and back foot or just the front foot or the back foot or no pressure at all?
Focus on keeping your weight on the front foot for the initiation of the slide. In the middle of the slide the weight distribution will be a little more balanced but that comes once your slides start getting a little longer and faster.
Ok my slide works perfectly now thanks. Now to practice it without grabbing the board :)
Thanks for the video. The slow mo is really helpful
Which kind of wheels are you using in this movie? I have a 81a and I'm having a lot of difficulty to do it! I simply don't slide and I'm getting afraid of going faster because I can't stop safely!!
ok ill try both, i dont think i can shorten the base too much.
After doing a colman slide i am at the 180 and i cant bring the board back to my original stance while keeping the slide going, how do i do that?
Did you place your whole left foot on the board,( the one that is not bent)?
I can't bring the board back in, I can do a 180 perfectly but to get back in my goofy stance I have to switch 180 stand up. How do you do the other part of the pendulum motion and bring it in? Do you kick out your front foot? Do you lift your back leg? I've tried both
One thing he doesn't explain quite well is the weight. How do you balance your weight after the first step of the slide? I got that at some point you only have your weight on the front foot but what happens afterwards?
It's something that comes with practice, but go faster! More speed gives you more slide time to work with.
Well illustrated...
Haha. Were you the guy trying to sell that board on East Coast BST?
The faster the better, the first attempts I did were at a snail pace just going down my street and I fell so many times
i love this vid it helped alot thank you
Great video I got the slide down now thanks
i go really fast and look forward like u say to do and i end up doing a 180 help please thanks !!!
If you could do a 'goofy'/left-handed version I'd appreciate it!
Hahaha Learned to do it with both already. I think all you standard riders are just as crazy as you probably think us goofy riders are.
+Alex Sarglepp if youre on a tutorial video you probably didnt know how to slide regularly therefore youre too dumb to figure it out as well
Coleman slide with seismic trucks. Yes or no?
it helps to hang a bit of heel, but everyone is different. My heel is pretty much flush with the rail.
when I do this I just get really tight turns not sliding am I not going fast enough?
Thank you ! Finally a good tutorial. :)
Which is the best wheel to slide like that?
How much weight is on your hand vs. the board?
i have tried this slide and i just cant do it i think is because of the gloves that hold to much and i wanted to know what hlove would you recomend me for doing this slide.
Any slide glove. The slide glove isnt whats stopping you from sliding.
I have a 48" fishtail do you have any tips on how to do this in a bigger board
keep your stance pretty much
Thanks for the upload! Super informative and really helps :)
Can I create a video response so you can help me out,because i can coleman 180 at any speed but i can't
come back?
I'm trying to learn how to slide and heard this was a good one to start with. Whenever I try to do this, I get in position, but my board doesn't slide, it just does a really sharp turn on 2 wheels. Any suggestions?
Hi, I just recently learned how to do this slide, I had the same problem as you and I learned that I was simply not going fast enough, also make sure you have most of your weight on your forward foot.
BANANAMAN3620 Hey Banana, your trucks are way too tight dude.
If your wheels come off the ground odds are you arent getting enough board lean to trigger the board to break free, though it also sounds like you might need to move your weight more onto your sliding hand and more off your board. Loosen your trucks up, but becareful of wheelbite. Some boards don't have enough clearance to easily generate board lean without the wheels biting on the deck. See if that helps!
MrBrodady Weight on the front foot is absolutely critical. Speed helps too if you know how to commit, it also increases the risk... but hey, you gotta pay to play.
i actually did it thanks to this video
I cant get out of the slide and keep going, any idea of what im doing wrong?
im 5'6" 120, with a 45.5 board and 80a abec 11 zigzags 70mm, am i doing something wrong or what? but i cant slide it just grips
Thanks for that duct tape tip! My shorts are shredding when i do ass slides
Can you use the slide gloves to stop or slow yourself without actually having the board slide?
No, they're called "slide" gloves for a reason. They slide.
@@DeepBlue10055
Yes but i thought you could use the gloves as a drag to slow the board without having the wheels slide
@@belfastmike2250 If you try it you'll see what I mean. They just don't slow you down enough to bring you to a stop unless you're going super slow or you're not on a hill.
@@DeepBlue10055
Ok guess i have to learn the full technique then Daniel!
I have a huge problem with puttung my hand on the ground. Maybe the speed is to low or im not flexy enough
Speed helps since it pushes you down into your board the sharper you turn, but definitely consider your flexibility. For most people the issue is hip flexibility, but with a little bit of stretching over a week or two you can improve that a lot. There are tons of good videos here on youtube for hip stretching.
@@DeepBlue10055 hip stretching 🤔 I'll give it a try.
Thanks
I literally have tried this bc I was told this is the easiest slide to learn for beginners and I can't slide the board like I'm getting down and everything hut it doesn't slide it just turns. am I not going fast enough? am I not kicking the board? it's kinda hard to kick the board when my arm is restricting me from really moving. I want to slide bc I'm scared to go down hills without knowing how to properly stop. plus I wanna show off to my friends that I can go down the hills they're scared to go down simply bc if I need to, I can stop. any suggestions?
Yea go in the turn sharper then Give it a little bit more of a kick mainly takes practice I didn't get it down for a while ether I started thinkin it was my board but I jsr needed practice
never been a problem for me. Just regular wear, unless you're pulling up on the rail.
Im just learning how to slide and I tried this slide. I did it a few times but then I tried it one more time and the board just stopped mid slide and I went flying forward and split my chin open. Do I need thicker riser pads so I won't get wheel bite? Or what went wrong?
ummmm you probably were leaning too far forward lol
It happened to me but I think its just that I wasn't going fast enough. If you fly forward again just slide on your gloves and keep your face up. Good luck!
Please help me, is speed a vital point to do it?:)
i can't!! since two months!! I just finish in 180! it'a impossible to roll back the action and just return in the initial position. Why?
the problem i have is that i can only do a 180 coleman without grabbing my board, but i cant slide my board back so i can continue riding :(
Like how this is in my recommend because I watch a lot of longboarding videos
Will butterballs work?
lmao
bro they're made for sliding
Parker Morrow brain cells lost s
How fast do you need to go ?
Absolutely, if you're not going at least jogging speed it won't work. Anyway, this slide is meant to kill speed, so is most useful when you are going fast and want to stop.
Is this slide possible with a 44 inch pintail?
how slow can these be done at? and can they be done on 77a wheels?!
uncomnizm Could get hard on 77a wheels but it's possible
I keep trying and trying but all I do is either turn widely or the board kicks out a little. Could it be that the board is too long or my wheels are terrible?(they are bad wheels)
Harrison Leishman i do have the mini zombies hawgs yellow(82a) and i always come from slow slides and it struggles.do i need to breka it in?if so for how long?
Step one: More speed, Step two: more and more speed, Step Three: GET MORE SPEED AND IT WILL BECOME TEN TIMES EASIER
Gogies777 go faster, go faster, go faster, go faster, go faster
I learned to slide with longisland wheels: Those were BAD.
Wheels won't make you magically learn how to slide: Just try to go a little over your confort speed, then get confortable, then go a little bit faster etc...
At some point your wheels will start sliding ;)
How lose should I set my trucks?
I get stuck in a pendi how do I complete it? Btw I'm not going downhill so tell me if that's the problem
you don't have to be downhill to do a slide but it makes it a lot easier
help i m falling down when i m trying to put my arm on the ground
Try grabbing the rail
Have you tried turning it off and back on.
MLG PRO i cant really put my hand on the ground if i m grabbing the rail
You should be crouched really low to the board with your butt slightly off, and with your hand fairly close.
Eric Schatz i cant do it.