How-To Skateboarding: Backside Feeble Grind with Tony Hawk and Eric Koston
How-To Skateboarding: Backside Feeble Grind with Tony Hawk and Eric Koston by RIDE Channel is a skateboarding tutorial for the Feeble Grind. Tony Hawk and Eric Koston (RIDE Channel) frame the backside feeble as a cross between a backside board slide and a backside 50-50, and isolate ollie height as the single most important variable: not getting enough pop to land your back truck on the rail is the most common failure and sends you straight into a board slide instead.
What this video teaches
Tony Hawk and Eric Koston (RIDE Channel) frame the backside feeble as a cross between a backside board slide and a backside 50-50, and isolate ollie height as the single most important variable: not getting enough pop to land your back truck on the rail is the most common failure and sends you straight into a board slide instead. They also detail keeping your upper body perpendicular to the rail to set up a controlled, even landing.
Key tips
- Approach the rail at a slight angle and ollie high enough to get your back truck fully onto it, that pop height is the most important part of the trick
- Aim to land in the middle of your back foot on the tail, keep most of your weight there throughout the grind
- Push your front foot's toes toward the rail to keep the board's toe edge sliding along with the grind
- Keep your upper body perpendicular to the rail while grinding to set yourself up for a controlled landing
- As you near the end, start lifting your front foot and turn the board slightly toward your front toes to level it out
- Even out your weight across both feet right as you land so all wheels touch down cleanly
- If your back truck doesn't lock on and you slip into a board slide, the fix is a higher, better-aimed ollie, not a different landing
- Don't let the grind drop out early or stop dead, ride it through, turn slightly, and roll away clean
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Feeble Grind