Backside Noseblunt (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

Approach the coping with the intent to backside ollie onto the deck, landing in the nose blunt position. If you find yourself sitting on the deck for more than two seconds(this is known as a lunch break), stop what you are doing, remove yourself from the ramp, and start over. Remember-this trick is in and out as fast as possible. Now, from the noseblunt position, simply nollie back in.Make sure you land with all four wheels in contact.

Backside 180 Flip (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

Approach an obstacle at a high rate of speed. Set up your front foot so it is at a 45-degree angle across your board and right behind your front truck bolts.Bend both legs equally. Turn your shoulders and head first. Then, spring off your back foot (ollie) and flip the board up to your back foot; the higher you bring back your back foot, the higher your backside 180 kickflip will be. As you catch it at maximum height, set your legs back down. You should roll away switch. Oh yeah, Mark Gonzales is skateboarding.

Backside 180 (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

Place your feet in the standard ollie position (though you may want to put your front foot a tad closer to the nose of your board until you feel completely comftorable with the trick..) Perform a clean ollie. Immediately upon takeoff, you will need to start your backward rotation, keeping in mind that the speed of your rotation need to be adjusted to suit the purpose of your backside 180. For example: if you are just doing a quickie to turn yourself from regular to fakie, you will need to turn quickly, but if you are backside 180ing a big gap, you will want to rotate slowly, so you do not over-rotate. To rotate correctly and retain balance for landing, your entire body must turn. Explanation of how to turn is wasted breath - for everyone the process is different.When you land, try hard to get all four wheels to land at once. Your weight should be centered over your board - over weighting your nose or tail upon landing could prove to be disastrous. Your shoulders should be in line with

Backside 50-50 (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

First, be sure to find a spot that has not been poached by fellow skaters. Approach the ledge straight on or parallel, bend both legs equally, then ollie. Land with both axles on the ledge, that is a 50-50. Be sure to put weight on both trucks, and stand up. When you reach the end of your unpoached 50-50, step on your tail and lift up your front truck as you come off the ledge.

Backside Tail-Grab (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

Come up the transition, and pop your tail like you are doing a backside ollie. Turn about 90 degrees. Crouch down, and grab your tail (preferebly with your thumb on top of your foot, the rest of your fingers under the tail). Hold your tail tight, allowing you to steer the board. Turn the remaining 90 degrees so that you are heading back in. Leg go of your tail (preferably early, allowing you time to stand up). Put it back on the tranny. You can smack it to tail if you desire, but watch out for your fingers.

Backside Nosegrind (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

Approach the ledge with your back to it. This time you weill want to be almost parallel with the obstacle. Before trying this trick, practice ollieing up into position.Backside will be a little harder, because you will not be able to see the obstacles as easily as frontside. Pop an ollie and land on the front truck in a nose-wheelie position. Your front foot should be just behind the front truck when ollieing, and should be slightly in front of it when you land. From here on the trick is much the same as the frontside nosegrind. Grind as long as you can, put pressure on the nose, and pop off.

Fakie Kickflip (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

This trick is just like a regular kick flip, the only difference is that you are rolling fakie. First learn how to do fakie olles and know how to kickflip. Ride along backward, and do a fakie ollie. As you are doing the ollie kick your front foot down, making the boared flip. Catch the boared, and level it out. Land and ride away. Start out on small terran and then move up to bigger things when comfortable with the trick.

Fakie Ollie (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

Wake up at 6:30 so you do not get kicked out of your skate spot. Do not count on Swift being 45 minutes late. When he finally shows up, your body is already awake and prepared to shred.Push with a fair amount of speed up to the gap. Move your lead foot to the "sweet spot" of your nose or tail. Your back foot should be in the middle of your board, when you pop, drag your back foot up, and level your board out with your lead foot (just like a regular ollie, but different. Absorb the impact with your legs.

Fakie Piviot Grind (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

Ride towards the bench or block going fakie. Be parallel to the bench with a slight angle. Fakie ollie high enough so that your board is angled; this will let you hit the back truck first. Once you feel your truck lock in place, let more of your weight fall on the back, but leave a little up front. Proceed to grind in the fakie position. As you approach the end of the obstacle, give your board a little fakie ollie pop with or without hitting the tail. This will make sure that the front truck is clean for landing.

Pivot Fakie (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

Learn rock fakies, so you can get used to the sensation of coming off the lip backward(to fakie) also axle stalls and pivots. Approach the lip as if you were going to do a rock to fakie, except you will need a lot more speed. As you pick up the front trucks at the lip, start to straighten your front leg while at the same time rotating 90 degrees with the lower part of your body. Center yourself over the back truck, and shift the weight to the back foot. Once the truck makes contact with the coping, your weight should be 100 percent on the heel of the back foot (this makes your wheels lock into the coping and stall briefly). At this point your weight should be somewhere between the deck and the transition (so you can stall). It helps to keep your upper body facing your buddies on the deck. As your return to transition, slightly bend your front knees so as to help release you from the grip of the coping; at the same time, shift your weight from your back heel to the toes of your front fo

Frontside 180 (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

Before you put a lot of time into 180 ollies, make sure you feel comftorable with regular ollies. Unlike the regular ollie, a frontside 180 must be practiced while rolling, as it is speed that aids in the process of turning 180 degrees while flying through the air. So, push a couple of times. Once rolling, bend those knees and pop and ollie. As you begin to travel up, and your foot slides toward the nose, start to turn your body. There is noway to exactly describe how to get your momentum shifted so you are turning without using levels of math that would give Albert Einstein a migraine, so we will just leave it for you to experiment with. The important part of the 180 aspect of the 180 ollie is the speed of your 180-degree rotation. A frontside 180 (backside, too, for that matter) must begin its rotation immedietely upon smacking the tail, and it must end just as the wheels are landing. And there is one thing you need to keep in mind: the longer you are in the air, the slower you must

Frontside Boardslide (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

Begin by finding an obstacle that is the right height for you. Facing the obstacle, ride parallel to it as fast as you feel comfortable-like you would if you were going to do a frontside 50-50. (Remember: the faster you go, the better it looks-but you also fall harder.) Ollie like you are going to do a backside 180, but only turn the lower half of your body 90 degrees. (This is important: keep your shoulders parallel to the ledge.) When you are over the ledge, push your board down into the railslide position. While sliding, try to keep your weight centered. (It helps to look at the griptape between your feet.) When you reach the end of the ledge, unweight yourself, turning the lower half of your body back to its original position, and ride away.

Frontside Feeble Grind (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

Use moderate speed and roll up right next to the obstacle.Ollie up and concentrate on getting your back truck on the bar, but turn a little bit like a frontside boardslide.Here is the tricky part: You want to keep most of your weight on your back truck while applying a little bit of pressure from your front foot to get locked in Get the feel for the feeble, and lock it in. Lock and grind, baby! Lock and grind. The end is near! Quick, lift off your back truck and prepare for landing.Absorb the massive impact. Ride it out.

Frontside Five-O (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

Hopefully you have frontside kickturn skills. Carve into this trick! If you try to turn into it at the last second, you will go home limping. Start putting more weight over your back truck and lift up your front wheels. When you start grinding, you need to balance yourself with half your weight on top and half leaning into the ramp.Get your grind face on. Some people have a mean grind face, while others look calm and in control like Lincoln.Still grinding? Start leaning back into the ramp. Begin pushing your front wheels down. Once you have to put those wheels down, lean forward and get your weight over your board.

Frontside Flip (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)

First learn frontside 180 ollies and be able to catch and land your kickflips without any problems. Approach the hip, gap, bump (or anything else) in a kickflip position. As you snap the tail into an ollie, turn those shoulders frontside and flip the board. Stop the rotation, and catch the board with your feet. Stick the landing clean, and roll away.