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After close to 2 decades of skateboarding (on and off) I finally managed to do more than 1 in a session. Rolled away fakie on all 3 of them but goddamn it felt good. Shoulders pointing into the ledge and slotting the board alongside the ledge really helped me from not sticking every attempt.
I'll get them coming out forward soon.
can you go into a little more depth on this topic please.
The shoulders bit I got from rewatching a Ben Degros video where he was crushing BS tailslides on a ledge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD9PL9hWPzMAt the 2:08 mark you can see him rolling up to the ledge at a slight angle, probably 15-20 degrees. I always thought you had to roll parallel with the ledge but I could never lock in because my tail ended up too far away from the edge; my tail wouldn't lock in flush with the edge.
At the 2:22 mark you can see his leading shoulder pointing into the ledge slightly, like he is pre-winding his torso to get into position on the ledge.
As for "slotting the tail in" I cultivated a bad habit over the years of slamming my trucks, nose and tail on top ledges when I skate. I struggled with FS tailslides for years because I was popping way above the ledge and trying to stomp it in and hope to slide. I find for tailslides I do better when adopting a light pop, short ollie (depending on the height of the ledge), and scooping your tail into position. I find this helps me lock in my tail at just the right height instead of trying to muscle and stomp my tail in like I'm killing ants.
Last thing I would add in pinpointing where you want your tail to land on the ledge as you're rolling up to it. I found myself looking and landing my board in a spot well past where I could stand up tall to slide. While I would lock in and slide I couldn't control and always came out fakie.
That was a whole lot of words for a trick, but feel free to PM me and we can nerd out over this trick.