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Summary: Go higher on a bench or low table in the next skateboard manual move. Get tips on skateboard nose grind from a professional skateboarder in this free skateboarding video.
Shawn Connelly has more than 20 years of skateboarding knowledge. He has appeared in “Slap,” “Thrasher” and “Transworld” magazines, and his sponsors include Venture Trucks, Ricta...read more
"The next step is to bring your manual up to a higher location. One thing to skate is benches or maybe even the tops of small picnic tables that you can jump up onto, Ollie up onto. This one here, is a good next height. Make sure that you can Ollie as high as the spot it is, so practice doing a bunch of Ollie's onto it and get that perfected. Then you'll want to Ollie up into the Manual position. Land in Manual. Keep your feet in a nice general position and use your upper body to adjust and hold the Manual for the whole distance of the top of the pad. Once you get that down, the Manualing part, you could maybe even learn how to perfect a small Ollie out of the Manual at the end or you could just coast off and ride away from the Manual. You learn how to Ollie into the height that you have. Ollie up on top. Land in a Manual. Hold the Manual. Adjust with your weight and then Ollie out or coast out of the Manual"