The Caballerial
1. Approach the wall of the ramp in fakie position; as you start to ride up the transition, begin to twist the top half of your body (counter-clockwise if your stance is goofy). We should know cause my stance is goofy.
2. As your back wheels hit the coping, pop off just as
you were doing a fakie ollie.
3. Bring up both knees to your body while spinning 360 motion (if you alley-oop just a little, it'll keep the board under your feet).
4. As you finish the last half of your rotation, start to spot your landing, and guide the board around.
5. Just before you land, unweight your legs and push the board down into the ramp.
6. Land. While rolling forward back down the transition, try to keep your weight centered over the board.
The Big Spin
1. Push, push, push. Always push first.
2. Place the ball of your back foot on the tail as if you're going to do a pop shove-it., and locate your front foot in the center of the deck, toes pointing only slightly toward the nose.
3. You're simply going to do a backside 180 and 360 shove-it simultaneously. So, begin your backside 180 ollie by smacking the tail, but instead of letting the natural 180 action occur, kick vigorously back with your back foot. Send the board spinning, but be careful not to make the common mistake of doing a 360 pressure flip instead of a shove-it; the best way to insure no flip in the big spin is to smack the tail dead-center.
4. You will now be backside 180ing as the board is 360 shove-iting under you (have I stated that enough yet?). Here's where your front foot plays a vital role: the foot should hover right above the spinning board to insure that it doesn't flip and that you stop it the second it's made a full rotation.
5. After your board has gone 360 and you 180, it's time to land. Your feet should be in the common post-backside position - each foot resting over a truck - and your weight should be centered.
Backside 50-50
1. First, be sure to find a spot that hasn't been poached by fellow skaters.
2. Approach the ledge straight on or parallel, bend both legs equally, then ollie.
3. Land with both axles on the ledge, that's a 50-50. Be sure to put weight on both trucks, and stand up.
4. When you reach the end of your unpoached 50-50, step on your tail and lift up your front truck as you come off the ledge.
Backside Tail-Grab
1. Come up the transition, and pop your tail like you're doing a backside ollie.
2. Turn about 90 degrees.
3. Crouch down, and grab your tail (preferebly with your thumb on top of your foot, the rest of your fingers under the tail).
4. Hold your tail tight, allowing you to steer the board.
5. Turn the remaining 90 degrees so that you're heading back in.
6. Leg go of your tail (preferably early, allowing you time to stand up).
7. Put it back on the tranny. You can smack it to tail if you desire, but watch out for your fingers.
8. Please ride away.
Backside Nosegrind
1. Approach the ledge with your back to it.
2. This time you'll want to be almost parallel with the obstacle.
3. Before trying this trick, practice ollieing up into position.
4. Backside will be a little harder, because you won't be able to see the obstacles as easily as frontside.
5. Pop an ollie and land on the front truck in a nose-wheelie position. Your front foot should be just behind the front truck when ollieing, and should be slightly in front of it when you land.
6. From here on the trick is much the same as the frontside nosegrind.
7. Grind as long as you can, put pressure on the nose, and pop off.
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