How To Boardslide A Rail For Beginners
How To Boardslide A Rail For Beginners by VLSkate is a skateboarding tutorial for the Boardslide. A beginner-focused guide to the backside boardslide on a short square flat bar, breaking the trick into three stages: ollying and rotating 90 degrees onto the rail, maintaining balance through the slide, and rotating 90 degrees to come out.
What this video teaches
A beginner-focused guide to the backside boardslide on a short square flat bar, breaking the trick into three stages: ollying and rotating 90 degrees onto the rail, maintaining balance through the slide, and rotating 90 degrees to come out. The tutorial recommends knowing how to frontside 180 first since that body rotation is the core of getting on and off the obstacle.
Key tips
- Know your frontside 180 first: the body rotation onto and off the rail is the same movement
- Set up your feet in a normal ollie position regardless of rail height
- Approach at a slight angle to the rail, not perfectly parallel, to give yourself room to rotate onto it
- Think of three distinct phases: ollie and turn 90, slide and balance, turn 90 and come off
- Landing to fakie is easiest to start: come off the rail going backwards rather than forcing a pivot out
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Boardslide