How to Do a Board Stall to Fakie

The board stall is a trick you can throw into your skate park routines. To do it you'll need a ramp with a well-defined lip and is lined with coping. Once you've got the basics of the stall down, you can use it to transition into other tricks and moves. For starters, do the board stall to fakie.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Ride toward the ramp or bank with enough speed to get you to the top. If you're new to skateboarding, find a small mini-ramp or quarter pipe where you can practice the stall without needing to go too fast.

2. Wait until you're close to the coping, then lift your front trucks up and over the ramp's edge.

3. Set your front trucks down on top of the ramp and shift your weight onto your front leg. Remember to keep your front knee bent.

4. Spend about one second standing on the board as it rests on the coping. Make sure the deck itself touches the ground; stalling on the trucks or wheels isn't a proper board stall.

5. Move your weight back onto your rear leg and lift the front trucks off of the coping.

6. Ride back down the ramp face in fakie, or with your good foot forward. This is exactly like riding switch; "fakie" simply means that you came out of a trick in the switch stance.

7. Bend your legs and keep your weight centered over the board as you ride away from the ramp.

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