Just got fs slappies down recently, such a fun trick.
I’m not the best at trick tips, but here’s some stuff that made the process of getting them a bit easier for me:
- A big issue I had was when I would get on the curb and be grinding I’d have trouble getting out of them properly. When I first started trying them I kept my feet over the front and back bolts to ensure that I wouldn’t accidentally pop an ollie on to the curb since it was such a force of habit for me. But the one issue was once I got on to the grind my feet were still over the bolts, making it hard to get off unless I could move my back foot back a bit super quick, which most cases I couldn’t cuz it was all happening so fast. Solution? Just put your foot a bit more back in the pocket of the tail instead of over the back bolts when you’re about to get on, so when you do get on your feet will already be in position to either ollie out or do a quick lil manual out. You just got to tell yourself not to pop when you’re about to get on the curb, which can be a hard habit to break at first if you’re so used to ollieing into 5050s on curbs like I was.
- When I was first doing it, it worked best when I jammed the front truck into it as hard as I can to ensure it gets on, and then as I’m shifting the back truck into the curb I make my back foot weightless so the back truck kinda just glides in from there, if you’re heavy footed on your back foot the back truck is gonna have a hard time gliding on to the curb and you’re just gonna end up Willy grinding.
- My last bit of advice, it’s best to learn them on either a shorter curb or a curb with a slight slant to it. If you try it on a really tall curb that is straight vertical it might make getting on a more grueling process. Make sure not to find a curb that’s too slanted or banked though, you don’t want to be straight up cheating when you’re learning lol, one with just a slight slant will do.