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Help!!! => HELP => Topic started by: nkarasch on April 03, 2009, 09:04:33 PM
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I can't even do them short flat bars, I am to scared. I have good backside 180s, back tails, and front boards but lip is scary.
Any tips?
What was the first thing you did them on?
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Yea they can be kind rough. Just be good enough on flatbars so you can take a fall without getting hurt because you're gonna fall on back lips when you learn them. Also, try just doing them at the very end of the rail at first. practice locking into them on curbs if you're still worried.
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Well, I set up about a 6 inch tall piece of steel that is about 4 feet long and covered it in WD40. I figured out if I try a back smith (can't do them either) I end up in lip position. The only problem is I heard some board crunching going on. If I do front lips on a flat rail to low I always break my board.
I guess when I go to a park and have access to a real flat rail that is taller I will just try a back smith and hopefully do a lipslide.
Do you guys think about it like a backside 50-50 and then just turn it at the last second? or do you pop it straight over?
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back lips are back lips. Just make yourself do it. Go fast so that if you fuck up and slam you'll just land on the ground, not the bar
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watching mindfield religiously for a week helped me..... watch arto and kircharts part and you'll notice that they do them by first ollieing up then rotating that back foot/torso into the rail....
hand and looking-back steeze is critical too....
ah fuck, i did them once after trying them for 3 weeks, im just happy i can say i did that trick once in my life....
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Learn 'em on ledges first.
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beer!
works every time.
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Learn 'em on ledges first.
I first learn to stall them on a flat curb approaching really slow and not sliding then tried it on a flat bar and a couple tries later i locked it kind of. Long time ago i did one.
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it just started snowing here so i haven't had a chance. maybe I will try the beer method.
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ok well I finally started landing on the rail, but I ended up breaking my board.
How do you not break boards doing front/back lips on flat bars?
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ok well I finally started landing on the rail, but I ended up breaking my board.
How do you not break boards doing front/back lips on flat bars?
smoke meth!
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^What he said.
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Learning them on a mini-ramp helped me a lot too.
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ok well I finally started landing on the rail, but I ended up breaking my board.
How do you not break boards doing front/back lips on flat bars?
learn them on curbs or ledges.
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ok well I finally started landing on the rail, but I ended up breaking my board.
How do you not break boards doing front/back lips on flat bars?
go faster dont try to slam your board down so hard
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beer!
works every time.
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if not drink some more, untill it works.
cant do em either, just nollie back lip
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if not drink some more, untill it works.
cant do em either, just nollie back lip
anybody ever tried a fakie front board? on decent sized rails they are the scariest thing ever, I just kinda have to guess when to pop because I can't see where the rail is
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go faster you fat fuck
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go faster you fat fuck
I'm 150 pounds.
You think going faster will stop the board breakage?
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learn them on small hubbas before handrails it's a lot less intimidating and easier to learn them(that was the case for me). in the end, it may cost you your wheels, but if you fuck up, it'll save your nuts.
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learn them on small hubbas before handrails it's a lot less intimidating and easier to learn them(that was the case for me). in the end, it may cost you your wheels, but if you fuck up, it'll save your nuts.
yeah i can't even do boardslides on ledges, i don't understand that shit. they are easy on quarterpipes but i just stick on ledges
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start off getting used to them by doing it nollie first
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I'm 150 pounds.
You think going faster will stop the board breakage?
yes you fucking moron
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I think learning them fakie (fakie ollie to backlip) helps build your confidence, seeing as how you're riding up to the bar/ledge frontside.
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barely wax the rail or not at all so your not scarred about smacking your face
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barely wax the rail or not at all so your not scarred about smacking your face
this is extremely counter productive advice.
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barely wax the rail or not at all so your not scarred about smacking your face
this is extremely counter productive advice.
thats how i learned them i just pushed a little faster and leaned a little farther back and it didnt freak me out as much besides you barely need wax on a flatbar unless its brand new or rusty
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barely wax the rail or not at all so your not scarred about smacking your face
then youll stick and fall back and slam ur head
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waxing flatbars is not cool. go faster pussy.
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barely wax the rail or not at all so your not scarred about smacking your face
this is extremely counter productive advice.
yeah if they arent rusty you don't need any wax whatsoever. i guess i do need to speed it up. luckily, I blew my knee up again. I don't think its the ACL this time because it seems to be getting better on its own
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barely wax the rail or not at all so your not scarred about smacking your face
this is extremely counter productive advice.
yeah if they arent rusty you don't need any wax whatsoever. i guess i do need to speed it up. luckily, I blew my knee up again. I don't think its the ACL this time because it seems to be getting better on its own
you don't need to wax rusty bars either. just scrape it with a pop can.
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No point trying them if you dont have a good backside ollie. The whole key to making them easy is to be able to get a solid ollie off the ground, then when you're leve or above the rail you bring the back foot backside. Everything comes 100 times easier when you can control the board in the air
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got a new tip cuz i was trying them earlier. alright, start out by trying to ride up at a harsh angle and going kinda slow, i find it easier to kind of whip the back of the board around. Also try to ollie really high and have the bar set on the lowest setting. And finally, try to do almost a late back 180 to get into it and try pointing the nose towards the ground while your bodyweight is centered on the rail or even over the other side. Try coming out to fakie before regs and slide the last foot or so of the rail.