The Transition Help Thread

[Vintagebody]

How do you guys lock for grinding 50s around corners? I'm mostly a cross-locker, and I cant for the life of me manage these 45 degree rather mellow corners in the local bowl...

[frontsideNECKTIE]

Personally

For Back 50s, I keep the cross lock and stay heavy on the back truck, letting front be a bit light so it’s guided through the corner

FS 50s, I go heavy heel-lock. If it’s sharp, i sink my weight into the turn. If it’s mellow, I stand more on top and basically ride the corner

From there is just finding speed and angle that makes the grind work

[Pbn_jake]

Maybe it’s been answered but idk how to search it exactly- wtf is it called when you don’t pop into and don’t grab out of a pick? Think nose stall but on your front truck?

[Pbn_jake]

2021 is the year I get better at transition, or so I have told myself. If anyone else is in the same boat, let's put all that crap here and see if we can't help each other out.

I'll go first: I can't do anything backside that doesn't come down to a carve, carve grind or slash grind. I always have my upper body over the transition and can't seem to move my weight fully on top the coping, and it's especially bad on flat walls. I really want to do a stand up bs 50-50 and get those bs 5-0s that are angled toward the deck and just zip right along the coping while locked in on the heelside wheel.

Anyone got any hints or tips or am I doomed to stay a "frontside guy"?

If no one has told you, with the exception of disasters and tailslides being a fs guy is infinitely cooler than being a bs guy

[Mbrimson88]

Maybe it’s been answered but idk how to search it exactly- wtf is it called when you don’t pop into and don’t grab out of a pick? Think nose stall but on your front truck?

I had a search on google and funnily enough another old thread came up:

https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=106925.0


Might not be much good, but people think nosepick can be done with or without hands.

Newer deal is another one, a new deal being a nosepick to decker, like a fakie pivot to rock fakie only forwards...


I guess it is often down to where you skated or who you skated with.

[Frank and Fred]

Yeah we always just called it a New Deal, even without the disaster decker... Nose pivot, straight in.