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How do you grind feebles on quarterpipes? I feel like anytime I try to grind more than like a foot I immediately get turned into a rock fakie position or something. And if I try to lift my front wheels more I just slip out or go into a bastardized salad.
Generally speaking, you need to keep your weight over your back foot.
That said, they’re a lot like smith grinds in that getting a good one in highly dependent on where you try it. I can sometimes get one to slide on a mellow ramp if it’s super slippery but more often than not it does what you described. To get a proper, fully locked in one, it really helps to have big coping and/or steep transition. Ideally, your truck and rail are touching and nothing else.
Yeah that makes sense. I can do them on bank to curbs/ledges that have enough clearance, so I at least kinda get the motion. My park basically has three types of quarterpipes of varying steepness and I'm trying to figure them out on the second most steep. Gonna keep experimenting but I might just have to suck it up and go for the bigger ramp.
Location is almost everything with that trick, although some people seem to be able to do them on everything, mostly a bigger ramp or a smaller very tight one works best, eg barrier transitions are great as they lock in a lot, as do smaller spines too, if you are not so keen on hitting bigger ramps to try them.
This is almost certainly a dumb question, but does anyone have any, like, "weird hacks" to committing to coming out of a frontside axle stall position? I've been struggling with it for ages, just can't seem to commit. I can pivot out to a tail stall and drop in very reliably, but I can't just pivot out like you're supposed to. I know all the typical stuff like make sure you're turning your shoulders and looking down the ramp, but I'm frankly just too freaked out to do it. Does anyone know of, like, a cheat step to getting halfway there or something like that? Like you know how some people learn to drop in by holding someone's hand? Yeah I'm looking for silly baby stuff like that, except for dropping in from a frontside axle position.
Feel pretty sure there aren't any baby steps available but thought I'd ask to be sure.
So the older I get the more lazy I get with some things, especially frontside grinds of any kind, so I go back to very small things / banks and other type of stuff I can hit and practice turning in from, which really does help.
One other thing I also find works is front fifty stall then dropping it to front smith which then makes me get down lower to go in from there. I have explained this to some people in the past - some get it and it works, others not so much - but then it also helps to get people into learning how to front smith too, be it from going up forwards and into it, or coming up backwards turning to fifty to smith and back in, as the board drops more than lifts, but then you can figure out how to lift it in too, which then helps with fifty and five oh coming back in from frontsides.
As others have said, more than anything, if you are standing tall on top of the platform, it is way harder to get down and come back in, compared to having your body still in the transition and staying a whole lot lower but maybe more than anything just rolling around banks and learning them on very small things or part way up transition faces is the easiest way on your own - just finding the right places to do it is the main thing then.
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