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

Go Back   Silverfish Longboarding - The Longboard Skateboarding Community > Longboard Disciplines > Skateboard Sliding

Skateboard Sliding The elusive, yet necessary, art of sliding. Learn how to slide, share tips and setups.





Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 08-30-2008, 08:04 PM   #1 (permalink)
Addicted Cruiser
 
eMximeR's Avatar
 

Join Date: Aug 2007
Age: 18
Posts: 209
eMximeR is on the right road.
Default First Day Sliding: Success! Got a couple Q's

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.
eMximeR is offline  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!Spurl this Post!Reddit! Wong this Post!
Reply With Quote

Sponsored Links

Old 08-31-2008, 01:02 AM   #2 (permalink)
Addicted Cruiser
 
RothToAnExtent's Avatar
 

Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Calgary
Posts: 729
RothToAnExtent is creating a great reputation.
Default Re: First Day Sliding: Success! Got a couple Q's

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.
__________________
We got one chance, so I live for the moment
I'm just one man, what I wouldn't give for this moment
We got one world; still we take it in stride
In this life we stand still waiting to die


Made by SteveC
RothToAnExtent is offline  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!Spurl this Post!Reddit! Wong this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 08-31-2008, 09:37 AM   #3 (permalink)
Addicted Cruiser
 
cuna123456's Avatar
 

Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Toronto Ontario
Posts: 670
cuna123456 is on the right road.
Default Re: First Day Sliding: Success! Got a couple Q's

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.
__________________
Quiver!

- KS M1, R180, Flashbacks 78a or No Skoolz 96a -
- Comishin, Bear 1040, Lemon Bigzigs or Monster Hawgz 82a -
- EW Bigfoot Drifter, Tracker 149, Slide A's -
cuna123456 is offline  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!Spurl this Post!Reddit! Wong this Post!
Reply With Quote
Reply





Thread Tools
colspan="2">
Display Modes