How-To Skateboarding - Frontside Feeble Grind with Josh Harmony
How-To Skateboarding - Frontside Feeble Grind with Josh Harmony by RIDE Channel is a skateboarding tutorial for the Feeble Grind. Josh Harmony (RIDE Channel) demonstrates frontside feebles on a flat bar and emphasizes speed and body openness as the two biggest levers: going too slow makes the awkward locked position collapse, while keeping your chest and shoulders open lets your momentum carry you through the grind.
What this video teaches
Josh Harmony (RIDE Channel) demonstrates frontside feebles on a flat bar and emphasizes speed and body openness as the two biggest levers: going too slow makes the awkward locked position collapse, while keeping your chest and shoulders open lets your momentum carry you through the grind. He also details a specific front-foot angle, toe open with pressure on the big toe, that helps the lock-in hold.
Key tips
- Have frontside board slides and frontside 50-50 grinds solid before trying frontside feebles
- Approach and ollie with real speed, momentum carries you through the awkward locked position, going too slow makes it fall apart
- Hit the rail at a slightly steeper angle than you would for a front 50-50
- Keep your chest and shoulders open through the grind so you can bring your body forward smoothly, turn toward the end only if going fakie
- Angle your front foot's toe slightly open and load pressure through your big toe, right between the wheels, to help the lock-in
- Once locked in, straighten your front leg and poke the board forward gently with your front foot
- As you approach the end of the rail, suck up your legs and shift more pressure onto your back leg to lift the front foot free
- Straighten yourself out and ride away as soon as you come off the lock-in
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Feeble Grind