How to Boardslide on a Transition When Skateboarding

Video Transcript

"This is Kyle Hovercamp in Skatechurch in Portland, OR on behalf of Expert Village this is a tutorial of how to do a boardslide on your skateboard. In this clip I'm going to show you how to do a boardslide on transition. Transition is a ramp with a smooth transition and it's meant for somebody to ride up it and do a trick and then come back down. So this is just a mini ramp there's coping on the top and a coping is just a bar on top of the transition that is meant for to do stalls on, or slides and that's what you're going to be doing boardslides on. Something that you should be comfortable with before trying a boardslide is just riding in transition you should be able to ride up it and ride down to fakie, do front slide and backside, kick turns. A trick that you might want to learn before you do boardslides is rock and roll and rock to fakie, and what that is pretty much a boardslide without moving. So you ride up it for a rock to fakie, you ride up it get your front trunk over and then come back into fakie. A rock and roll is get your front trunk over and then you pivot out of it and ride down regular. Now that you have the rock to fakie down for the rock and roll down this will be pretty easy the only difference is to get that momentum speed. Just come at it you can't really go parallel kind of like a flat bar so you ride up it still at a angle get onto it you start sliding, you can't have it's really hard to have your wheels touch the top and still slide or your back wheels touch the transition and still slide. So you have to keep the coping in the middle of your board and keep it balanced. Main thing is you have to stay on top of your board over it you can't lean forward, you can't lean back or you're going to slip out like a flat bar. So just practice sliding and once you get the sliding part just push down on your tail, your front trunk will come up and you ride down to fakie."