pendulum tip

[dach]

Hey, Ive just started to make my pendulum slides a little more consistantly, and thought I'd share a tip for those trying to make them... Ive found doing it on wet or damp roads is great practice, its much easier to get the board to slide. Also, dont be afraid to keep increasing your speed, the falls are usually pretty soft, and the extra speed really helps in making it for the second half of the turn.

For those on really long boards like mine (140cm) I find that when doing the first 180 its good to keep your weight and crouched position near the nose, and the pivot point will be somewhere near the front truck. When going backwards and into the second part of the slide, its nice to move your weight towards the middle or rear (now downhill) truck. Just stay in a nice little tight ball and hold on, and you'll come sliding around

Of course, different things will work for differnet ppl so try whatever works, but i hope its useful to someone

[joseph]

my biggest tip. dont take any weight off the rail during the slide. turn as hard as you can till you slide to 180 and keep all your weight on the edge of the deck. once you get used to pendulums you can do more tricky stuff like sliding into sharp corners and taking them fakie but i found when learning that if i took the weright off the board's rail and tried to ride backward for a while that it didnt work.

[justzoos]

I read about this slide in the race talk and some people dont dig it cause racers are all over the place. Ive never seen anyone do it. I know how to Bert slide so what is this slide. Cause people talk about using it in races to slow down in to corners. Please inlighten me.

[marko]

jostzoos:
Bertleman slide and pendulum slide are basically the same slide. In both slides, front hand is planted down to whip the tail in frontside direction. The only difference is that in Bert, the riding direction is changed during the maneuver, i.e. they are pulled on banks, while in pendulum nose of the board continues in same direction after the move and they are usually done on sloped roads.

Cornering is referred as a simple technique to lean on one's hand(s) on tight curves without doing any 180's. Then, in really tight corners, when pulling the 180 before the corner and riding the corner in fakie and pulling it back, it's called Coleman slide. This is illustrated in an old Thrasher article probably already linked here in the silver forums, but once again.

All in all, if you already know how to Bert, there's not much left to learn except the names (and flow when pulling those slides).

[justzoos]

Thats a classic article, dig reading up on some original old skool sh*t thanks.

[VA]

I've been practicing sliding around corners (drifting) and straightening them out, so far I've been pretty succesful with it in the TC Garage. Sometimes I overslide a little, which just makes for a kick ass toeside slide that usually puts me on my ass. It's really easy to do if you can get your rearend loose enough, and can learn to control the slide.

[joseph]

i find drifting harder then general sliding. you have to be a lot more controlled in your weight distribution.