Getting out of blunts on banks

[Too Frank To Fred]

Can't for the life of me figure this out, especially on mellow banks. I was getting some long blunt sides down a sloped bank this morning, locked and loaded, but could not figure out the dismount at all...

I even contemplated Andew Allening in that shit with a grab of some sort... What's the secret?

[Mbrimson88]

Can't for the life of me figure this out, especially on mellow banks. I was getting some long blunt sides down a sloped bank this morning, locked and loaded, but could not figure out the dismount at all...

I even contemplated Andew Allening in that shit with a grab of some sort... What's the secret?

Speed and momentum are everything.

That and the point of reentry being a little more slick so the tail slides back in without ever leaving the edge, compared to any other blunt on anything where you have to pop it and the board leaves the edge like a fakie ollie.


Watching old Derby park when they used to blunt slide those edges and it was almost all just a power and turn type motion, not a slide and pop as would be the case on a ledge, or transition edge or something similar.

I guess they were often right in the back seat of the trick which would then make it easier to push out to fakie or from doing the longer back blunt slides, be able to turn it round frontside out.

[Too Frank To Fred]

Yeah, I had most of that in my mind. I was going pretty fast. this bank actually has a lip instead of a deck so that might make getting the back wheels back in a bit more challenging.

my blunt slide exits mid curb/ ledge ain't pretty either, which is a shame as I can get into them and slide them pretty well....

[Mbrimson88]

Yeah, I had most of that in my mind. I was going pretty fast. this bank actually has a lip instead of a deck so that might make getting the back wheels back in a bit more challenging.

my blunt slide exits mid curb/ ledge ain't pretty either, which is a shame as I can get into them and slide them pretty well....

If you are doing a back blunt slide, are you wanting to come out forwards or fakie or other, like the back blunt ally oop frontside turns?

Turning them a little so they go to front or back fifty type position then to smith type position then right in, often helped people I know to get them on other things, but it was way easier to see in person and show and tell / help like that.

Just getting down a lot lower over them too really helped a whole lot and gave me a little more time to get balanced to roll a fakie manual out of some spots where you can't pop in at all.

I guess I am trying to say, more turn, less pop, is often a way out of a lot of that sort of trick anyway, but with blunts if turning out (front or back) ending up with more weight on the front foot than pivot off the back will usually make them work better, but again it helps to be able to show, more so than just say the words.