SKATEBOARDING TRICK TIP: How to do a CRAILSLIDE!
SKATEBOARDING TRICK TIP: How to do a CRAILSLIDE! by The Raddii Zone is a skateboarding tutorial for the Crail Slide. The Raddii Zone builds the crail slide out of four separate sub-skills instead of going for the whole thing at once.
What this video teaches
The Raddii Zone builds the crail slide out of four separate sub-skills instead of going for the whole thing at once. First get comfortable rolling up and standing on top of the coping in a 5-0 position, then practice the crail drop in on its own, then add a crail grab to an ordinary frontside grind, and only then combine the standing 5-0 with the grab and slowly pull the board around the tail. The single technique cue he returns to is the toes of the back foot pushing on the tail while the foot stays flat, working against the pull of the front hand.
Key tips
- Frontside grinds or a frontside 5-0 on the tail are the useful prerequisites; if you have none of them, start by rolling up and balancing on top of the coping in a 5-0 position
- Practice the crail drop in by itself from a normal drop in stance and feel the tension between your grabbing hand and your back foot
- Get used to grabbing crail while moving by touching the nose during a regular frontside grind, then turning that touch into a full grab
- Combine the pieces slowly: come up into the standing 5-0, grab crail, and pull the board around the tail into a locked position without trying to slide at all yet
- The main balance cue is the toes of the back foot pushing on the tail with the foot kept flat, pulling with the front hand while pushing with the toes
Summarized from the video transcript.
Teaches
Crail Slide