How-To Skateboarding - Frontside Salad Grind with Josh Harmony
How-To Skateboarding - Frontside Salad Grind with Josh Harmony by RIDE Channel is a skateboarding tutorial for the Salad Grind. Josh Harmony teaches the frontside salad grind on transition, starting from a comfortable riding stance with the front foot ducked slightly and shoulders kept open toward the direction of travel.
What this video teaches
Josh Harmony teaches the frontside salad grind on transition, starting from a comfortable riding stance with the front foot ducked slightly and shoulders kept open toward the direction of travel. He stresses approaching at a shallow, near-parallel angle to the coping and locking in on the heel wheel before yanking the tail back into the ramp to hold the grind.
Key tips
- Start from a comfortable stance with your feet near the bolts, ducking your front foot slightly away for the salad position
- Keep your shoulders open in the direction the board will be facing so you can ride back into the ramp comfortably
- Get comfortable riding fakie back into the ramp off a frontside 50-50 first, since the salad grind returns the same way
- Approach the coping fast and at close to a parallel angle rather than head-on
- Lock in on your heel wheel specifically; getting in on the wrong part of the truck puts you in a smith grind instead and you'll slip out
- Once locked in, yank the bottom of the board back into the ramp to hold the grind steady
- Practice on transition even though it's less common there than on street, since the mechanics carry over directly
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Salad Grind