Skateboard Tricks: Boardslide on Mini-Ramp

Video Transcript

"A great variation of the boardslide is to bring your boardslide to a transition and slide on coping and then go back in fakie. So what you do is you travel up the ramp at a slight angle, do a boardslide and remember a boardslide is when the middle of your board is sliding against coping or a ledge and it ends when your front wheels are sliding on a surface at some times depending on if you are on a surface where you can't hang over and then you go to the end and go fakie and this is a great variation of a boardslide because what you are doing is using the top of the coping and going above it and having your two front wheels go on the top and go back in so some of the tricks that you are going to have to be able to do before doing this variation of a boardslide on a transition is you are going to need to know how to do the basic rock to fakie because what you are basically doing is traveling up at an angle and sliding a rock fakie. the other thing that you are going to be able to do is have a good knowledge of dropping in or getting around in a bowl or a mini ramp and all these skills are going to help you to learn how to board slide to fakie."