Carl, thanks again for your input in this thread, due to your little detail about having your ground hand closer to your body when doing pendys, I finally gained control over mine.
It`s sooo fun doing them, even though my wheels aren`t too happy.
Carl, thanks again for your input in this thread, due to your little detail about having your ground hand closer to your body when doing pendys, I finally gained control over mine.
It`s sooo fun doing them, even though my wheels aren`t too happy.
congrats. i find myself keeping my forearm right up against my lower back to kind of keep my hand stable. and letting go of the rail and kicking those feet out make for some loooonnnngggg smooth ass slides.
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Carl, thanks again for your input in this thread, due to your little detail about having your ground hand closer to your body when doing pendys, I finally gained control over mine.
It`s sooo fun doing them, even though my wheels aren`t too happy.
Thanks dude! Damn! Aren't they fun though? Once you get them dialed you don't even have to think about it, just bust one out and get them wheels-a-screamin!
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ok so I have heelside pendy's down... i've been trying to snap in toeside pendies but this is what happens:
if I use 1 hand, I grab rail near my front foot (i'm regular) and put my right hand at a 45° forward angle, and lean into it. the board hard-carves right, maybe loses a little grip, but mostly just turns right, hard.
if I use 2 hands, i put them down flat as i got into a toeside carve... this always ends in a shutdown or 180, no matter the speed.
i want to nail my toeside pendulums baaad... i can toeside predrift just fine but getting it out and then back is becoming a challenge... any advice welcomed.
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Carl, thanks again for your input in this thread, due to your little detail about having your ground hand closer to your body when doing pendys, I finally gained control over mine.
It`s sooo fun doing them, even though my wheels aren`t too happy.
i feel like this is some good info for pendys that im just not able to translate at the moment, so you want your hand close to your body i.e. if im goofy and am doing a heelside pendy keep my right hand and puck on the ground close to my body? someone clarify pls, thanks for all this info btw i love this thread
i feel like this is some good info for pendys that im just not able to translate at the moment, so you want your hand close to your body i.e. if im goofy and am doing a heelside pendy keep my right hand and puck on the ground close to my body? someone clarify pls, thanks for all this info btw i love this thread
yeah start the slide with your hand out a wee bit, then bring it in and it will swing smoothly.
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Yeah, really fun! And also makes going fast less scary, knowing you have some control if needed. Feels less scary than footbraking at speed. Got to work more at fotbraking at speed as well of course...
if you dont grab rail you are a steeze master. looks so sick. but meh, im comfy footbraking at speeds up to like 50.... but its more effective to get low and bust a niiice slloowww pendy. I'm getting mine SOOO SLLOOWWW they blow minds. the faster you go the better they feel
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I feel like the faster they go the skinnier the pendy is, too. Today I was pulling some that were no wider than the width of my board, and at that point becomes less of a swing (the loooong, slow pendies) and more of a push forward/snap back, as if the front wheels only move after you've 180'd it.
Helpful for city riding, though they definitely don't scrub as much speed.
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I feel like the faster they go the skinnier the pendy is, too. Today I was pulling some that were no wider than the width of my board, and at that point becomes less of a swing (the loooong, slow pendies) and more of a push forward/snap back, as if the front wheels only move after you've 180'd it.
Helpful for city riding, though they definitely don't scrub as much speed.
because the faster you are moving, the easier it is to break your wheels loose, which also means that you'll need to hold it sideways longer to scrub the same amount of speed. i find myself not really even doing pendies anymore. i just put a hand down and kick my back foot out and hold it as long as i need to.
and with toeside pendys you are starting it right but you need to kick that back foot out HARD and get as much weight on your hand as possible. if you just think about the body positioning, a lot of your weight stays over your board which will make it harder to break loose.
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i feel like this is some good info for pendys that im just not able to translate at the moment, so you want your hand close to your body i.e. if im goofy and am doing a heelside pendy keep my right hand and puck on the ground close to my body? someone clarify pls, thanks for all this info btw i love this thread
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i find myself keeping my forearm right up against my lower back to kind of keep my hand stable.
there's your answer. close to body=smooth sliding hand with lots of weight on your hand=more control.
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I didn't mean the faster you are rolling, but instead the faster the pendy goes out. I can pull either style at pushing speed now, I feel it's in how you initiate it.
What I've come to prefer is what you're talking about... hand down, push out and hold. It'd be a speed check except my board usually 180's in that process then gets pulled back.
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speed checks are a lot easier for me to control for some reason. on long ones, it feels like im just sitting in a lounge chair. its so relaxing and such a rush at the same time. what ill do to avoid flatspots to is kind of just move my feet up or down in opposite directions at the same time to avoid keeping it at 90 deg. hopefully that made some sense i've actually even had the wheels grip back up on me after going 180 during a pendy, then i ended up going into some rocks while trying to break it loose again.
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I just want to add the importance of having a decent shutdown/pendy slide down, it really got me out of a sticky situation just now today. I was skating this cool narrow road and as I was approaching this almost 90º turn I say the lights of a coming car.
Knowing there was possibly no way I could stick the turn on the outside on the shitty pavement and slippy Durians, I just automatically did a hard heelside shutdown, ground hand a bit out so I could keep the deck at 90º , sliding hard on all 4 wheels and stopping in like 10-12 feet and managed to get out of the road just before the car came...phew.
American is higher with your front straight and your back foot angled while having straight legs and bending forwards with you upper body.
Euro is more angling your front foot and resting your beck knee against your lower leg thus getting lower.
There are pics somewhere i just cnba too find them
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oh and carl, i cant get toeside predrifts down....any words of wisdom on it?
sorry dude, i havent been checking this thread like i should!! Ok so find a big hill and get some tricky toeside pendies down. You wanna grab rail and act like you wanna drift a toeside corner, but keep your ground hand closer to the board, this will make you spin on a tighter axis. You'll do a pendy, I promise. Anyway, get those down then head to a nice corner. Keep your hand close to the board like in your pendy, buy as soon as the board slides, shift your hand TOWARDS the apex of the corner and it will force your board back straight. this will end up looking like half a pendy = boom. predrift.
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delish!
im gonna grab some once my bday rolls around for all my setups.
ya dude. they are great. if you want more info just ask mark.
guys quick question. why are my slides smoother when i grab the rail? is it because im putting more of my weight over the wheels? when i slide without a hand on the rail, it will honk a bit. maybe beause im laying to far back and my hand is not against my body?
thats for pendys and colemans.
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congrats. i find myself keeping my forearm right up against my lower back to kind of keep my hand stable. and letting go of the rail and kicking those feet out make for some loooonnnngggg smooth ass slides.
i've actually even had the wheels grip back up on me after going 180 during a pendy, then i ended up going into some rocks while trying to break it loose again.
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