Skateboard Tricks: What Is a Tail Slide?

Series Summary

Skateboarding tricks are a fun and popular way to enhance your skateboarding skills. There are hundreds of tricks to try while riding on a skateboard and many parks around the country to attempt them in. Many skateboarders have had an impact on skateboarding throughout time. A recent study showed there were over eighteen million skateboarders worldwide. Over eighty percent of skateboarders polled had used a board under the age of 18, and over seventy percent were male. Grab that skateboard and ride like the wind! Discover another trick called the tail slide. There are different moves to add on to a tail slide. Learn each trick from a professionally sponsored skateboarder. He explains what a tail slide is, tricks to learn before attempting a tail slide, ways to practice a tail slide and how to avoid common mistakes. He also talks about doing a 5-0 grind to tail slide, front side tail slide to fakie and nollie front side tail slide. Be king of the skateboard park!

Video Transcript

"Ollie FrontSide Tailslide. The Ollie Frontside Tailslide, is when you roll up to a ledge, that's in front of you, or on your front side, and you Ollie ninety degrees, land in a Tailslide, and then come off straight. So what you're going to want to do, is set up in an Ollie position, and approach the ledge that's in front of you. Snap an Ollie. Ollie above the ledge. Land on the Tailslide. Put your weight on top of the ledge. Slide across the top, and then come out ninety degrees, so that you roll away straight. This is a trick that you're going to need, basically,a waxed ledge for a curve, to be able to slide on, to do properly. You're going to need to be able to Ollie, as high as the ledge that you're skating on, because you're actually going to have to Ollie slightly higher, and then come down into the Tailslide position. So you're going to have to be comfortable, getting on to whatever surface you're working with, so you want to make sure you can Ollie that high. Another thing you're going to want to make sure of, is that you have a basic knowledge of how to slide a Tailslide, and how to get on to some basic ledge tricks, before you even try this trick, so this is a beginner ledge trick for sure. One of the first tricks that you can learn, after a 50/50, is Ollieing up, Frontside Tailslide, and Ollie off."