How-To Skateboarding: Frontside Stalefish with SOTY David Gonzalez
How-To Skateboarding: Frontside Stalefish with SOTY David Gonzalez by RIDE Channel is a skateboarding tutorial for the Stalefish. David Gonzalez teaches the frontside stalefish on a quarter pipe and names the knee twist as the key movement.
What this video teaches
David Gonzalez teaches the frontside stalefish on a quarter pipe and names the knee twist as the key movement. He tells you to have frontside airs and frontside ollies before attempting it, and to drill the grab flat first: ollie, twist your knee and reach through. The knee twist is what opens up space for the trailing hand to get behind the back leg to the board, and it requires bending at the back more than feels natural at first. He is goofy and grabs with his left hand, and he warns that the real danger is tapping the coping on the way back in.
Key tips
- Have frontside airs and frontside ollies dialed before trying the grab on a quarter pipe
- Practice it flat first: ollie, twist your knee, reach through and grab
- The knee twist is the move that makes room for the back hand to reach behind your back leg
- Expect to bend at the back more than feels comfortable; that is what gets you low enough to reach
- Carry speed into the quarter pipe and avoid tapping the coping on the way back in
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Stalefish