How-To Skateboarding: Backside Crailslide With Ben Raemers
How-To Skateboarding: Backside Crailslide With Ben Raemers by RIDE Channel is a skateboarding tutorial for the Crail Slide. Ben Raemers starts the backside crail slide as a stall rather than a slide: go into a backside tail stall, let the nose flop into your hand, then let go and roll back into the transition.
What this video teaches
Ben Raemers starts the backside crail slide as a stall rather than a slide: go into a backside tail stall, let the nose flop into your hand, then let go and roll back into the transition. Once that stall is reliable, he approaches the quarter pipe fast and on a diagonal, skims and scoops the board into the coping, grabs, holds, and releases. He is candid that the grab often misses at first and the trick feels floppy and awkward until the sequence becomes routine.
Key tips
- Start with backside crail stalls: ride into a backside tail stall, let the nose flop into your hand, then let go and roll in
- Backside tail stalls and backside tailslides are the prerequisites to have before adding the grab
- Approach the quarter pipe diagonally and with real speed rather than straight on and slow
- The sequence is skim it, scoop it, grab it, hold it, then let it go
- Expect the grab to be missed or sloppy at first; staying loose and repeating the approach is what makes it click
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Crail Slide