Learning Backside Suski Grinds with Zach Doelling
Learning Backside Suski Grinds with Zach Doelling by KEEN RAMPS is a skateboarding tutorial for the Suski Grind. Zach Doelling breaks down his backside suski grind on a flat bar for KEEN RAMPS, describing it as a hybrid of a backside 5-0 and backside tailslide where your top half turns like a tailslide but you pop on like a 50, and stresses that the whole trick comes down to landing your arch on one exact spot on the wheel and then freezing.
What this video teaches
Zach Doelling breaks down his backside suski grind on a flat bar for KEEN RAMPS, describing it as a hybrid of a backside 5-0 and backside tailslide where your top half turns like a tailslide but you pop on like a 50, and stresses that the whole trick comes down to landing your arch on one exact spot on the wheel and then freezing.
Key tips
- Pop onto the rail the way you would a backside 50, but turn your top half through the lock the way you would a backside tailslide
- Aim your weight for the arch of your back foot landing directly on top of the wheel, that one contact patch is the whole trick
- Come in at just enough angle to lock the trucks on, too straight and you'll struggle to lock in, too sharp and you'll miss or lock in wrong
- Keep your weight slightly toward the rail side of center so you can stand fully on top of the lock
- Freeze your body completely once you're locked in, any twisting or standing up will break the lock, unlike a manual there's no wiggle room
- Build the prerequisite feel with backside 50s and backside tail slides first, back smiths help with the backside approach feel too
- Side-cut wheels help the lock-in and help you hold the grind longer once you're in it
- To pop out, follow your body weight in whichever direction you're falling rather than fighting to land square
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Suski Grind