First Day Sliding: Success! Got a couple Q's

[eMximeR]

Got some Loaded Sliding gloves yesterday and i took my dervish out sliding today for the first time. I found that I learned to coleman slide pretty fast, but I'd like to learn to do it more narrow, and I wasn't able to swing it back around like pendelum style I guess, any tips?

I also tried toeside sliding a couple times and most the time I could do a 180 but I'd just come to a stop, I couldnt revert it back to regular.

Anyways it was a lot of fun, to anyone new to sliding i say just get some good slide gloves and start with some colemans, it's pretty easy. One thing I was doing wrong at first was trying to my from front hand down before I even started turning, which doesn't work too good for someone pretty unfelxable like myself.

[RothToAnExtent]

You really gotta commit to the slide if you want to coleman faster. You gotta have a quick snap straight out and you have to be very confident in the slide for it to happen the way you'd like.

As for heelside pendys: remember the good tip, punch the parrot off your shoulder. You're back arm should swing across your body to you're opposite shoulder and swing back accordingly after the 180 point is hit.

And toeside pendys: it's easy on a dedicated slide deck. On a longboard, although harder, use the same general idea. Get enough momentum to swing a full 180 and use your legs to rotate the board back quickly instead of trying to swing your entire body back at once.

That's how I find I do those slides. Maybe you won't do them the same way, maybe you will. Go try it and find out yourself.

[cuna123456]

That's a good way of describing it!

For toeside slides, (I'm talking about Pendy's, for 180's or 360's you'd just need more speed and more rotation) I find it is a lot easier to bring it in before you slow down way to much. Save some momentum to bring the board back under you with your feet. And EXTEND, for me when I extend more I feel I have more space to bring it back comfortably.