How to Do a Front Side Smith Grind 180 Out

Video Transcript

"A great variation of the smith grind is to learn how to do it front side one-eighty out. The way that this trick works is, once you get into a smith grind, which you should know how to do by now, is to point the board down, and front side one-eighty it out and land fakie and roll away. What's cool about this trick is that since your board is pointed in a downward position, it makes it very easy to get good ollies out. So this is one way you can capitalize and use that to your advantage, and do a really clean front side one-eighty. So, for the front side smith grind it's the exact same positioning of your feet, and the exact same feeling of the original first part of the smith grind, only now, you're going to follow through with your shoulders a little more, and when the board is pointed down, front side one-eighty out, and land fakie. Some of the tricks that you want to make sure that you know how to do, is first be able to front side smith grind. It's also going to help you if you can do a front side fifty-fifty one-eighty out, since the motion is very similar. So remember, front side smith grind is going to work better if you make sure that you lean back and you're able to pop out. A lot of people will accidentally do a smith grind one-eighty out when learning how to do a smith grind, but maybe not roll away. What ends up happening is that the board sticks, and they seem to fling it out, and it ends up going front side one-eighty. So this trick is just capitalizing on the fact that the motion is already there, and you can learn it, and you can harness that, and have a really clean front side one-eighty. So that's how you do a front side smith grind one-eighty out."