Nike SB | How To Stalefish | Fernando Bramsmark

What this video teaches

Fernando Bramsmark keeps this one short and personal rather than step by step. His route to the trick was learning stalefishes on flat ground in the street first and only then taking them to transition, which he offers as the way to get comfortable with the grab before speed and coping are involved. He describes his own motion as a small scoop followed by a tweak, and he does it the same way frontside and backside. The rest of the clip is a catalogue of where the grab can go: frontside and backside stalefish, fakie, stalefish to tail, stalefish disaster, revert, nosepick and Smith.

Key tips

• 1Learn the grab on flat ground in the street first, then take it to transition
• 2Scoop the board slightly, then tweak the grab out once you have hold of it
• 3The same grab works frontside and backside; there is no separate technique to relearn
• 4Once you own the basic version, extend it: stalefish to tail, disaster, revert, nosepick, Smith
• 5Treat variation choice as personal; if you have a version in mind, go for it

Summarized from the video transcript.