What skateboard tricks are you afraid of?

[Heshrat]

For me.. I find a lot of frontside ramp grinds and slides to be scarier than their backside versions

[Skatebeard]

Pretty much all transition tricks, I'm far more comfortable doing flip tricks on flat/banks/up or down stuff.

[radcunt]

All of them

[scab]

Straight pop shuvits. I've rolled my ankle doing those fuckers far too many times. Not FS, not switch, fakie or nollie, those are as easy as anything ever gets for me. Just those basic shuvits that pretty much everyone learns as their first trick scare the fuck outta me.

[Lame_Fella]

Backside boardslides scare me since you have to lean back. I love frontside boardslides but backside feels so weird to me.

[formula420]

Sliding/grinding with closed shoulders. Front board, front feeb, back smith, back tail are all no-go tricks for me.

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

the blunt to fakie has been the scariest for me (within reason). popping over coping with full commitment to fakie scares the dickens outta me, so similar tricks do the same, pivot fakie and feeble fakie notably

[Sedition]

the blunt to fakie...

Solid answer.

[yghartsyrt]

Grinds on rails, after i broke my ankle while doing a 50 on a flatbar

[dr.prestige]

probably fakie to fakie 900s

[JM]

Can I say kickflip?     (when I was learning them with my Emerica Reynolds in 1999, I had a very good flick and height on the flips.... and dammit, rolled my foot right off the nose before I ever landed one.... took me out for 3 months... been kind of scared of them ever since.   But I make myself do them from time to time so I don't feel lame)

It wasn't until 2001 that I finally landed one after watching how they did them in Thrasher Skate and Destroy on the PS1.

[spooky electric]

50-50 on a rail - flatbar or handrail.

i can definitely do it but i would have to warmup to the 50-50 with like almost everything else. would rather do almost ANY other trick on a rail before 50-50.

i personally have never been pumped trying one, but i have watched numerous people either knock themselves out, break arms, wrists, dislocate shoulders etc etc etc trying to do them, so i just really don't want to try them at all anymore.

blunt fakie is also a great one. i can do them and have never hung up one, but i'm still pretty scared of them. i do the big pop out, i can't do the chill little kind fakie manual back in. would rather kickflip out to be honest.

also, just dropping in on anything over 9/10 foot. i know i can do it, but i get petrified up there. shit's crazy!

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

would rather do almost ANY other trick on a rail before 50-50.


blunt fakie is also a great one.... i do the big pop out...

haha 50-50 is one of the 3 flatbar tricks i can do.. but they still definitely freak me out to the point i'll stop trying if the first couple don't feel right

last sesh my friend was doing blunt fakie with the full pop and all i could think was "fuck that's scary" - man was charging at it too.

Is it better to go a bit faster?

[MOE SYZLAK]

Just about any grind on a round rail.
Half cab crooks scare the hell out of me, I always miss and get broke off.
I can do frontside noseblunts but every time I roll up to one i feel like I'm going to slip out and die.

[montanaco]

Backside 5050. I have the most insane mental block on them. Took me like 8 months of trying to land my first one

[disclosed]

theres way too many to mention, but this one for sure!

Backside boardslides scare me since you have to lean back. I love frontside boardslides but backside feels so weird to me.

[Logic]

BS lipslide is one of the few tricks I've never attempted due to fear and not exactly one I'm keen on trying as I've found I'm most likely to roll my knee when I run out of a trick backwards.

Ollie to fakie on transition is probably the scariest trick I'm capable of though, always that fear of clipping in the back of your mind.

[goodatmeth]

theres way too many to mention, but this one for sure!

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Backside boardslides scare me since you have to lean back. I love frontside boardslides but backside feels so weird to me.

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I don't get this at all. It's the opposite for me. Bs boardslides are safe because you lean forward. If you lean back, you slip out, if you lean too far forward and get stuck, you just run it out.
Getting stuck on a fs board and falling on my back is one of my biggest fears, leading me to leaning a bit too much in the safely-slip-out direction where I can at least see.

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theres way too many to mention, but this one for sure!

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Backside boardslides scare me since you have to lean back. I love frontside boardslides but backside feels so weird to me.

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I don't get this at all. It's the opposite for me. Bs boardslides are safe because you lean forward. If you lean back, you slip out, if you lean too far forward and get stuck, you just run it out.
Getting stuck on a fs board and falling on my back is one of my biggest fears, leading me to leaning a bit too much in the safely-slip-out direction where I can at least see.

well you see, slipping out and falling on my back on a BS board is my biggest fear.

[spooky electric]

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would rather do almost ANY other trick on a rail before 50-50.


blunt fakie is also a great one.... i do the big pop out...

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haha 50-50 is one of the 3 flatbar tricks i can do.. but they still definitely freak me out to the point i'll stop trying if the first couple don't feel right

last sesh my friend was doing blunt fakie with the full pop and all i could think was "fuck that's scary" - man was charging at it too.

Is it better to go a bit faster?

for the blunt fakie? in my mind the full pop gives me more time and a chance to go "oh shit, this one doesn't feel right, i'm going to bail". i don't really consider the speed going into them, just the right speed to get comfortably into the blunt position,  but i do try to pop like very quickly/immediately when i get into the blunt.

[marosb]

I im never trying 5-0 down big ledges because my injued my knee badly this year and i am scared i will kinda slip out backwards and my leg would twist in a bad way.

[Brad Wesley]

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theres way too many to mention, but this one for sure!

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Backside boardslides scare me since you have to lean back. I love frontside boardslides but backside feels so weird to me.

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I don't get this at all. It's the opposite for me. Bs boardslides are safe because you lean forward. If you lean back, you slip out, if you lean too far forward and get stuck, you just run it out.
Getting stuck on a fs board and falling on my back is one of my biggest fears, leading me to leaning a bit too much in the safely-slip-out direction where I can at least see.

Yeah, backside boardslides are much easier to fail at. At worst I just land on my ass. It's way better than having my feet yanked out from under me and doing a fully horizontal slam onto the pavement.

So many of the EMT-caliber slams I see in videos come from someone hanging up on a frontside ledge/handrail/hubba trick.

[fakiefs180]

All kinds of blunts on any transition. Just feels unnatural. Fs and Bs Ollie on transition don't feel as dangerous to me. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Varial Flips. Tweaked my ankle and just decided this trick isn't worth the effort and now I am legit scared if I roll up in that position. If I have a good day I will pretend to be Gino and throw out a fakie varial flip.

[mfweeno]

Blunt fakies for sure as mentioned many times already. . That is one fear-barrier I’d like to try and overcome this year. I always imagine locking on my front truck and smacking my head.

[Switch360flip]

I’ve always heard that varial heelflips are cursed and I’ve slightly tweaked my ankle trying them before so I don’t even bother with them.

[Dad Board]

Blunt slides on curbs/ledges. I can do them backside on certain obstacles if it’s like a roll on to a steep bank or mellow noping, but for some reason ollieing into one just scares the fuck out of me. I know I could learn them if I could get past the mental barrier. I feel like it’s gonna be one of those things that I’m making a huge deal out of that are super easy once they click. I just don’t have any way to “baby step” into it so I’ve always just avoided.

[spooky electric]

Blunt slides on curbs/ledges. I can do them backside on certain obstacles if it’s like a roll on to a steep bank or mellow noping, but for some reason ollieing into one just scares the fuck out of me. I know I could learn them if I could get past the mental barrier. I feel like it’s gonna be one of those things that I’m making a huge deal out of that are super easy once they click. I just don’t have any way to “baby step” into it so I’ve always just avoided.

i went through this. the only things stopping anybody from doing any bluntslides (not popping in or out in the middle of the ledge) is wax and commitment. if you can ollie and control your weight, they're less precise than almost anything except a boardslide.

i grew up where wax was kind of shameful and never used, or like only used if something truly did not slide at all. so it took me until relatively recently to understand how slippery people make shit. then they literally just work, especially fs noseblunt and bs blunt. I would say that fs blunt and bs noseblunt take a little more thoughtful shoulder/hip control at the end, but the other two just seem kind of automatic to me.

hope that helps you, if i've rambled too much the most concise advice i could give would be; you are overthinking it, just do it. it worked for me.

[Dad Board]

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Blunt slides on curbs/ledges. I can do them backside on certain obstacles if it’s like a roll on to a steep bank or mellow noping, but for some reason ollieing into one just scares the fuck out of me. I know I could learn them if I could get past the mental barrier. I feel like it’s gonna be one of those things that I’m making a huge deal out of that are super easy once they click. I just don’t have any way to “baby step” into it so I’ve always just avoided.

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i went through this. the only things stopping anybody from doing any bluntslides (not popping in or out in the middle of the ledge) is wax and commitment. if you can ollie and control your weight, they're less precise than almost anything except a boardslide.

i grew up where wax was kind of shameful and never used, or like only used if something truly did not slide at all. so it took me until relatively recently to understand how slippery people make shit. then they literally just work, especially fs noseblunt and bs blunt. I would say that fs blunt and bs noseblunt take a little more thoughtful shoulder/hip control at the end, but the other two just seem kind of automatic to me.

hope that helps you, if i've rambled too much the most concise advice i could give would be; you are overthinking it, just do it. it worked for me.

That’s actually really comforting to read. I just need to get over the fear and send it into one. It’s like dropping in for the first time. I don’t like to try things I can’t easily escape from but it’s like I know I would be able to do them if I could just get over the fear of jumping into them. I appreciate the advice and encouragement, my dude. I’ll report back when I get the balls to start trying them 🫡

[Yakusoku2]

Nose manuals  and if someday I can hold a long nose manual, then the next trick will be scary for me.

[Crust]

Blunt fakie - seems to be a common fear in this thread.

Any type of ollie above the coping

Fs and bs 5050 on rails

Any fakie trick down stairs/gaps where you land to fakie