Frontside Nosegrind
1. Learn to do nose manuals first (nose wheelies).
2. Approach the ledge at a little bit of angle; don't ride up parallel to it.
3. Make sure you're going pretty fast.
4. Pop a clean ollie, and land on the front truck like you were doing a nose wheelie.
5. Grind as far as you can.
6. As you reach the end of the grind, add a little more pressure on your nose to get that extra pop off.
7. It's a good idea to learn this trick on a ledge that has an end; this will enable you to practice coming off.
Frontside 180
1. Before you put a lot of time into 180 ollies, make sure you feel comftorable with regular ollies.
2. Unlike the regular ollie, a frontside 180 must be practiced while rolling, as it is speed that aids in the process of turning 180 degrees while flying through the air. So, push a couple of times.
3. Once rolling, bend those knees and pop and ollie.
4. As you begin to travel up, and your foot slides toward the nose, start to turn your body. There's no way to exactly describe how to get your momentum shifted so you're turning without using levels of math that would give Albert Einstein a migraine, so we'll just leave it for you to experiment with.
5. The important part of the 180 aspect of the 180 ollie is the speed of your 180-degree rotation. A frontside 180 (backside, too, for that matter) must begin its rotation immedietely upon smacking the tail, and it must end just as the wheels are landing. And there's one thing you need to keep in mind: the longer you're in the air, the slower you must turn.
6. Reread 5, so you understand it.
7. Land with your knees bent, and convince yourself that you're now going backward. If your mind gets confused and freaks out, you're not going to bleed.
Frontside Grab Off Of A
Jump Ramp
1. Get comfortable ollieing off jump ramps, curb cuts, steps, roofs, etc.
2. Visualize yourself sucking the baord up close and grabbing the toe-rail of the board with the trailing hand. Think about styling it - once you know in your head what's going on (that's much of the trick right there), it'll be much easier.
3. Try launching as relaxed as possible, with as much speed you are comftorable with. If you don't use much force it should feel real easy.
4. Land with your weight centered over the board, and feet over both truck bolts to ease stress on the deck.
5. Compress your knees so your body takes the landing easier.
Fakie Pivot Grind
1. Ride towards the bench or block going fakie.
2. Be parallel to the bench with a slight angle.
3. Fakie ollie high enough so that your board is angled; this will let you hit the back truck first.
4. Once you feel your truck lock in place, let more of your weight fall on the back, but leave a little up front.
5. Proceed to grind in the fakie position.
6. As you approach the end of the obstacle, give your board a little fakie ollie pop with or without hitting the tail. This'll make sure that the front truck is clean for landing.
7. Land, and proceed with your day.
Backside 180
1. Gain Speed
2. Place your feet in the standard ollie position (though you may want to put your front foot a tad closer to the nose of your board until you feel completely comftorable with the trick..)
3. Perform a clean ollie.
4. Immediately upon takeoff, you'll need to start your backward rotation, keeping in mind that the speed of your rotation need to be adjusted to suit the purpose of your backside 180. For example: if you're just doing a quickie to turn yourself from regular to fakie, you'll need to turn quickly, but if you're backside 180ing a big gap, you'll want to rotate slowly, so you don't over-rotate.
5. To rotate correctly and retain balance for landing, your entire body must turn. Explanation of how to turn is wasted breath - for everyone the process is different.
6. When you land, try hard to get all four wheels to land at once. Your weight should be centered over your board - over weighting your nose or tail upon landing could prove to be disastrous. Your shoulders should be in line with your board, your arms raised for balance.
7. Remember to absorb the shock of landing with your knees, not the lower back. And if you're backside 180ing off of something high, to avoid deck-breakage, land with your feet directly over the trucks.
8. You've landed, you're now going fakie, or backward, or switch, or whatever.
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