Basic Skateboard Tricks: Stopping

Video Transcript

"Of course when you're riding around and pushing and cruising eventually you're going to have to learn how to stop and a good way to learn how to stop is what's known as power slide. What you do with power slide is you want to evenly place your feet out on the board and as you're moving pivot on the front foot and swing your body in the direction that you want to stop in. So for instance this is what's known as it's the front slide power slide because you're sliding with the ground inside of you, you don't have your back turned. You just push around like I said on the front foot slide forward like that it'll be able to stop. And the more trickier way to do it which is kind of risky if you don't feel too comfortable doing the front side one, is what's known as the back side power slide and the scary part about those is you don't know where you're sliding and you're moving backwards so you're a lot more prone to falling and hitting your head but same sort of thing. Aim you're foot in the direction you want to go, ride around and when you want to stop put your weight on your front foot and spin backwards like that. I mean the way that you're going to be power sliding is you'll hear the wheels squeak, so keep that in mind when you're trying this."