How to Do a Frontside Half Cab Rock and Roll on a Skateboard

The Frontside Rock and Roll Half-Cab is a freestyle skateboarding trick that is done by more advanced skaters since it is a combination of two harder tricks. It is best done on ditches but doing it over parking blocks works just as well. You should be able to do Ollies, a frontside Half Cab and a frontside Rock and Roll with confidence before you attempt this trick.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

1. Begin rolling Fakie toward the top of the ditch or a parking block set at the edge of a wall. Fakie means the skater is standing in his normal stance but the board is rolling backwards toward her destination.

2. Turn your body and the board frontside right before you get to the block. Frontside means you are facing the block while you move toward it. Smack the board into a Frontside Half Cab Ollie. The Half Cab is where you go into a 180 pivot from rolling fakie that keeps the nose up in the pivot into a nose manual (wheelie).

3. Set down on the parking block or curb. With your nose in the air from the Half Cab, press harder on the tail to get the front wheels over the block then let the underside of the board stall out on the block.

4. Use your balance. This is where you are going to kind of teeter-totter back and forth on the block to get in the Rock portion of the trick before you Roll off of it for the Rock n Roll part of the move. Keep your center of gravity over the board. Stay on the balls of your feet.

5. Come off the block. Getting off is not as easy as getting on. Raise the front wheels by shifting back on the tail. Pivot around the block to go off the way you came. It takes a great amount of control to do this.

6. Touch the forward wheels down and roll away, knowing you just performed a radical move.

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