How to Axle Stall Trick Tip

What this video teaches

Spencer Nuzzi spends most of the tutorial on progressions below the coping before you ever go up. His foot position is roughly a tic tac or ollie stance, maybe slightly higher, so you can still use the tail. The drills are a ladder: kick turns on the transition, then a line of tape or a stick drawn across the flat as a pretend coping to rehearse the sideways stall and kick turn back in, then a parking block, then the real coping. His main safety point is about coming back in: getting both trucks fully up on the deck leaves a lot of truck to bring back over, so he strongly prefers the cross lock, where you push the heel out and let the back wheel catch on the coping, which makes the kick turn back in much easier and less likely to hang up.

Key tips

• 1Use a tic tac or ollie foot position, possibly slightly higher on the board, so you can still work the tail
• 2Get comfortable with kick turns on the transition first, going up and coming back down
• 3Rehearse the motion on flat ground using a taped line or a stick as a pretend coping, then a parking block, before going to real coping
• 4When first learning, kick turn up and throw your body weight back so you land safely on top of the deck
• 5Prefer the cross lock over standing fully on the deck: push the heel out so the back wheel locks on the coping, which makes the kick turn back in far easier
• 6Being fully locked up on the deck is where it gets sketchy, since you can get stuck or end up riding away switch on the way back in
• 7Once axle stalls feel comfortable, approach at an angle and they turn into 50-50 grinds

Summarized from the video transcript.