Skateboarding Tricks: Frontside Noseslide Fakie Mistakes

Video Transcript

"Some of the common mistakes you'll experience while learning how to front side nose slide to fakie will usually have to do with your weight going in the wrong direction, and sending you forward. Sometimes it has to do with sticking, and sometimes it has to with things that you could fix. Like setting your shoulders in the right direction. So while you're rolling up to the ledge, and you get into the front side nose slide position, the objective is to go to fakie, so even though you're heading in a way that you can't see, you're going to want to slide, and then after you're done sliding, that's when you being your fakie movement. A lot of people mistake this for being one motion, but what you want to do is ollie into the front side nose slide, slide, and then pop it out into the fakie. One of the major mistakes people make while they're learning how to front side nose slide to fakie are that they don't approach the ledge in the right direction. What they have to do is roll a little more parallel into the ledge. This is going to help you slide further. The further that you slide, and the more balanced you are on the nose, will allow you to come out more steadily because you're ready for the fakie position when you get there. So what you're going to want to do is head into the ledge as parallel as possible. Angles like this come too directly into the ledge, so you're not going to slide this way very far. So the more parallel you're traveling, ollie into the front side nose slide, and the more balanced you are on top of the board, the more ready you are when you get to the end and you pop out to fakie. And this will help you learn how to do front side nose slides to fakie better."