safety slide stance

**sidewalk surfer** · 01-20-2007 12:45 PM

just got a caften and getting into dh. at the end of a run when you need to safety slide to stop is it best to widen your stance or move your back foot up so both feet are closer to the nose? whats the best technique for low friction (no flatspots) safety slides? thanks

**K-Rimes** · 01-20-2007 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by sidewalk surfer

just got a caften and getting into dh. at the end of a run when you need to safety slide to stop is it best to widen your stance or move your back foot up so both feet are closer to the nose? whats the best technique for low friction (no flatspots) safety slides? thanks

Put your feet wherever you feel they are most comfortable. There is no proper place, nor a place that is any better, just the place that feels best FOR YOU.

**satori** · 01-20-2007 01:29 PM

low friction saftey slide is an oxymoron. if you need to stop fast you want a lot of friction and in situations like that, flatspotting should be the least of your worries.

**blink2wice** · 01-20-2007 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by K-Rimes

Put your feet wherever you feel they are most comfortable. There is no proper place, nor a place that is any better, just the place that feels best FOR YOU.

couldnt have said it better

**Andrew in Ontario** · 01-20-2007 02:20 PM

i would say you want yo keep your feet where you normally ride, which should be at the front an a little behind half.

when you pull a coleman you want to do a big sweeping carve across the whole road and get a good pendulum rotation to keep it controlled. roll your knees, kick the back end out with the carve while turning your upper body and swinging the arm in the air across your body 180 then 180 back. you can usually vary the speed depending on how fast you need to stop. if you do a slow rotation, the wheels are gunna slide a lot more, but if you pul a really quick one leaning back on your glovea lot, there wont be as much weight on the board so u wont slow down as much

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t=MOV05710.flv

If you feel the need to hold onto the board while youre sliding, dont grab in between your knees, drop teh back leg onto the deck and grab over your shin.

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...31/th_sf30.jpg

**Crappysurfer** · 01-20-2007 05:27 PM

k rimes nailed it, do whats comfortable, dont ask people on a forum, go out and learn....
LEARNING is the fun part of skating
a wise slalomer said to me once (while i was failing at slalom)
"Nick, if you were good at everything, then it wouldn't be fun."

**Longbord1** · 01-20-2007 09:22 PM

well said nick,

If you want to get good at something just keep practicing. It's what keeps skateboarding interesting and it's what makes it so fun. You get to improve everytime you ride!

**Jam** · 01-21-2007 09:39 AM

So teh JimZs don't make me teh b3st???

**BrutuS** · 01-21-2007 06:36 PM

It might help to spread your feet apart, and slide with two hands.

**nick** · 01-21-2007 08:23 PM

Intuition says that you'll want your feet spread apart to minimize the torque your board could have in guiding your slide in directions that you don't want to go.

As far as when I go for it, I haven't taken a mental note of my stance so much more than I know it's a natural feeling way of doing so. Like people above have said, if you commit with your feet wonked up in some shape you don't feel confident in, chance are that you're going to bail.

**wombat boarder** · 01-22-2007 07:53 AM

what i do is a a big sweeping two handed toe sided slide, thats what feels more comfortable and secure for me, but many prefer a coleman style approach.
get out there and ride and see what you prefer
oh, and have fun

**tsmith25** · 01-25-2007 10:01 AM

for me what works best is to drop my back knee onto the board and grab rail by my back ankle and just sit hard into a heelside turn with your leading hand on the ground. to me it seems like the pendy does itself. as you slide you can move your hand on the ground away and toward your board to control how fast the rotation is. farther from the board means less weight on the wheels and a faster 180. oh and you dont have to do anything wehn you have come around 180 just stay in the same position for the first one and it should come right back around.

i also advise not doing pendys at more than 30mph unless you have to. i have done a few at about 45(to a stop) and each one coned all four of my wheels in the same direction. right now two of my wheels are about 2mm smaller than the other 2. i did that on 75a flywheels.

**Deo** · 06-17-2007 12:38 AM

So...if I wanted to slide to stop abruptly, not really a slide for helping me reduce a lot of speed if I were to do a hill, but rather just an abrupt stop on a flat area, would a front-side powerslide be sufficient? Or should I still learn the Coleman slide (in which case I would have to buy some slide gloves).
How much more difficult would it be with loose trucks? I ride pretty loose.

**trestles126** · 06-17-2007 08:31 PM

what durometer wheels are you guys braking loose with to do safety slides....78a flywheels seem to take alot to brake loose......guess it just takes practice practice and more practice....cant seem to make it click

**JibeCity223** · 06-17-2007 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by BrutuS

It might help to spread your feet apart, and slide with two hands.

teehee......sex joke

**Belak4life** · 06-22-2007 09:48 PM

yah how come many people don't do toeside safety slides?, it seems much easier and safer

**gaztick** · 06-22-2007 10:02 PM

i think its because you can control where you are going a lot better, and being able to look totally down the hill is helpful too

**bighillbomber** · 02-21-2008 10:25 PM

when i safety out i have a hard time bringing the penduleum motion back and i end up riding my evo with the wedge in the back witch you may or may not know is a bad thing. should i be shifting my weight allot because i tried and still cant bring it in.

**hexagon5un** · 02-22-2008 12:04 AM

To the original question, I move my back foot a little more back and angled out before dropping knee. But if you already skate with a pretty wide stance, then you don't need to I guess.

Cliff would have you get into a perpendicular squat first, with legs about shoulder-width apart.
YouTube - How To Coleman Slide

But it's hard to argue with "do what works" and "practice."

**tsmith25** · 02-22-2008 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by bighillbomber

when i safety out i have a hard time bringing the penduleum motion back and i end up riding my evo with the wedge in the back witch you may or may not know is a bad thing. should i be shifting my weight allot because i tried and still cant bring it in.

do you still have speed after the first or are you rolling backwards at like 3-5mph? depending on your setup it usually take a little more speed or a steeper hill for there to be enough energy after the first 180 for the return.