in need of some sliding tips

**rancid51** · 08-08-2005 09:19 PM

I've just started to get into sliding since i got my no skoolz and made some sliding gloves and I need a few tips. I can do colemans and laybacks pretty well with a good amount of speed but I'm having trouble getting the board back around (i just do a 180 or slide to a stop). I did manage to bring the board back to regular a couple times tonight just by going real fast but i still feel like i have no control over it b/c I did it a bunch of times with just as much speed or more and the board didnt come back around. Any tips would really help and if my terminology is off i apologize cuz I'm just getting into this but a love it

Thanks in advance

**Dozer** · 08-08-2005 09:32 PM

I have the same problem. What works best for me is to get a lot of speed and carve as hard as possible...keep your weight on one edge throughout the first 180 and once you start going backwards, if your weight is still on that same edge, it will eventually reverse.

**MalakaiKingston** · 08-10-2005 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by rancid51

I've just started to get into sliding since i got my no skoolz and made some sliding gloves and I need a few tips.

If you can do a 180 you can do a pendy, just keep your weight on that edge and make sure you bring your arm back around. If you have enough speed you should pull off a pendy, once you have coleman pendy it's way easier to do laybacks cause you knwo the feeling of the deck returning back to reg.

Try doing your 180's at faster and faster speeds when you finally feel the deck try to return start brining your arm back around

**Crappysurfer** · 08-10-2005 08:34 PM

i find pushing with your rear foot helps bring the slide back around

well not really pushing but ponder it

**AGENT WD-40** · 08-10-2005 08:35 PM

when i was first learning, i found out that you need a ton of speed...go faster than you think you should and you will find it much easier to slide and you will go farther...

**rancid51** · 08-11-2005 07:10 PM

I went way faster and I can do em now. Kind of bummed tho because I think my no skoolz are ALREADY starting to flat spot after less than a week. Is there any way to prevent that or any wheels that u guys reccomend as being more durable (i hear youre likely to flatspot your wheels while learning to slide and i dont get it)