What Is a Boardslide?

Series Summary

The sport of skateboarding is a far cry from its humble beginnings in the suburbs of a 1950s America. The skateboard started as nothing more than a wooden plank with wheels. We can now thank the radical, perception-altering influence of the 1960s for the increased popularity and production of skateboards. Certainly still holding some cache as an activity with instant street cred even today, skateboarding has been passed on to a third generation of shredders and grinders, who have taken the sport to a whole new level.

If you decide that you’d like to take up thy skateboard and ride, you have to learn how to do some tricks. Once you’ve figured out how to stay up on the board and keep your balance, you’ll need to learn how to ollie, a fundamental skateboarding trick. We do have a video series on that as well. In this particular series, learn how to do a boardslide, which is when you ollie up onto a rail or other object and slide across it on your board. Our expert skater will show you step-by-step how to do this trick, and then teach you how to put it all together. Also learn some techniques you can do to add a little style to the trick and make it your own.

Video Transcript

"This is Kyle Hovercamp in Skatechurch in Portland, Or on behalf of Expert Village this is a tutorial on how to do a skateslide on your skateboard. In this chip I'm going to show you how to identify a boardslide on your skateboard a boardslide is when your on top of an object with your skateboard and your sliding in the middle of your board. Let me show you what that is. You have 3 different sections of your board where you can do slides there's the nose where you do nose slides, the tail where you do tail slides, and in the middle of the board between your 2 trunks is where you do boardslides and lipslides. What the boardslide is going to look like is when your approaching the flatslide you pop your board get your front trunk over the rail and in the center of your board on the rail slide you can pop out really right off to the rail. The difference between the front side and backside boardslide all depends if the rails in the front of you like it's in front of my right now or it's behind you. It doesn't matter if when your sliding your facing front ways or backways so if I've gotten to the rail this way it would be a frontside boardslide because the rail was in front of me before I popped my trick before I got onto the rail."