Tricks that get you noticed at the park.

[xspaceghostx]

So I've been skating for all of 8 years now. 7 of which has been growing up through adolencence and college on a short board and for the last year have been transferring over to the longboarding realm. So my current set up is a Brad Edwards 40" with independents and some Gravity snaps. I am the only guy not to skate a pop-sickle at this park and skate street regularly with all my old shortboarding companions, and just want to know what tricks do you do that turn heads at your park?

For me on the Brad Edwards, its in between layback sliding a 6 foot long section of 4' tall concrete QP and a cross-step to backside boardslide on a ledge made of a row of cinderblocks stacked 2 high with angle iron on top.

[OMGWTFBBQ]

360 flipping the 6-stair

[krayola]

Originally Posted by OMGWTFBBQ

360 flipping the 6-stair

Doing kick flips on a 40" or 180 ollies to 50/50 lock up.

360 kickflip now that would be part of a serious world domination plan. I've revise my plan now thank you very much.

[LongboardSkillz97]

Some nice long nose or one foot manuals finishing off with a kickflip.

[tbone16]

I am not any kind of a "good" park skater, but the trick that gets me noticed the most in the park is rolling in off the big bank, pumpin the fun box and headin toward the quarter with a #### ton of speed. Right before I hit the quarter, I pull a little fs 180 to fakie slide, and hit a tail stall (sometimes with a nose grab, and workin on liftin the front foot). Do em fast and they look tight.

[mc99david]

any airs, grinds, handplants, even some fast carving seems to get everyone pretty stoked in the park

[BergaLiden]

Back tails. Done the right way and your wheels scream like mad.

[Dain Bramage]

huge bonelss 180s or 360s in a bowl will do it.

[juachoutnow]

ditto on the boneless. for me, everyone seems to like my ollies off the ramp and over stuff. that and my heelflip to fakie on the banks.

[AGENT WD-40]

Originally Posted by mc99david

any airs, grinds, handplants, even some fast carving seems to get everyone pretty stoked in the park

Yeah just keeping your speed and riding good lines really fast will gain you plenty of respect and will even turn a few heads...But in all honesty, I ride a park because it is fun and fast, I dont go to impress people.

[speshlspeclsteak]

just bombing the bowls and stuff going twice as fast as anyone else. layback/coleman boardslides mega bonelesses into a tail tap. disasters on the BE or the power tool. skating gravity super sliders

[msk]

Originally Posted by tbone16

Right before I hit the quarter, I pull a little fs 180 to fakie slide, and hit a tail stall (sometimes with a nose grab, and workin on liftin the front foot). Do em fast and they look tight.

That's been one of my favorite tricks since the 70s (never did the front foot lift. Have to try that one!). Used to do them in the deep end of pools, but getting pitched just hurts too much these days.



My other favorite, also from back then, is doing a tail tap on the coping, and then sliding on the tail most, or all, of the way back down the wall backwards, and then popping around forward when the rear wheels touch down. I used to finish contest runs with that back in the 70s. I can rarely slide them now as far as I could back then, but on a good day I can slide at least halfway down the wall...

[mc99david]

Originally Posted by BergaLiden

Back tails. Done the right way and your wheels scream like mad.

any loud wheel skreaching will turn heads... if nothin else then just because people are wondering what the hell that sound was