Riding your board backwards

[Tracer]

When I started skating I asssumed the tail was the nose because it was bigger. Skated for under a year like that until I went to this metal ramp and this local hero kickflip nosemanualed the flat first try. Instantly flipped it around and never went back. I was never a mongo kook that just never made sense to me. I was surprised to learn there's a handful of pros who skate the board backwards. Decenzo, Matt Berger, a few others. Personally I can't stand big tails, my 3 flips suffer the most. There's 2 tricks I do off the nose.

Anyone on SLAP still rocking the backwards kit? What kind of shapes do you guys like? Personally can't stand squared off noses, and flat no pop wood.

[tobey]

Tracer has made so many threads that he's double dipping now

[ducky darnsworth]

Tracer has made so many threads that he's double dipping now

tracer re-run threads, what a time to be alive

[Tracer]

I wasn't 100% sure kind of got a deja view.

Always good to hear new opinions as things change every day.

[wheelies]

Anyone else here ride Walmart decks?

[fulltechnicalskizzy]

When I play SKATE I'll do a kickflip, then later another kickflip with the board backwards and specify "you gotta do it off the nose." People love me.

[GinosGroceries]

When I play SKATE I'll do a kickflip, then later another kickflip with the board backwards and specify "you gotta do it off the nose." People love me.

Nate Broussard does something similar. He'll do a trick and then he'll do the same trick with a boner.

[Tracer]

When I play SKATE I'll do a kickflip, then later another kickflip with the board backwards and specify "you gotta do it off the nose." People love me.

Smart. If you can get a game with only grabs, no complies, and manuals that's pretty fun too.

[wheelies]

Walmart has twin tail technology but sometimes they have a logo on the grip so you have to obey it. My trucks are different so its more about the trucks than the board, my front is more loose and carvy.

[Fecal Fury]

Erick Winkowski

[CHONGO]

feels so weird after you get a shit ton of razor tail.

[Little Debbie]

when i would get boards secondhand as a young grom, i'd always skate the nose as the tail; way more pop left in that side of the board. in fact for a while, i would be OCD about razor tailing both sides of the board somewhat evenly.

[Bizarro Jerry]

I don't ride my board backwards, but I do skate my nose as my tail when riding switch.  I skate more switch/nollie anyways so I usually get razor-nose way before razor tail.  I'm really not sure if anyone else has this problem but it's simply just a burden I hold.

[Dontfearthereefer]

I skate fakie all the time

[rejectpaul]

i used to think skating your board of the nose was skating switch, kickflip of the tail then switch flip of the nose all while remaining in regular stance

[el chino]

risers do a better job than switching your board around, but yeah i kinda get where your guys are coming from.
( i dont do it but i prefer risers., as im always stoned as fuck and i need a bit of exra time between my tail and the ground).

[iKobrakai]

Did it in the beginning because I only had an 80's board before my first "modern" and had zero exposure to skating. Made sense.

[the snake]

got used to do that when i crack my board, always on the inner back truck bolts first, double its life span

[JusticeAbberdash]

Walmart has twin tail technology but sometimes they have a logo on the grip so you have to obey it. My trucks are different so its more about the trucks than the board, my front is more loose and carvy.

This. My trucks are always asymmetrical, so riding backwards is a no-go.

[sharkin]

sometimes i'll be trying a trick and then give it a try backwards thinking it was my board

without fail, every time it's me

[CRAILFISH TO REVERT]

ever push fakie mongo?

[vancanman]

Does everyone ride the nose as the tail when doing switch tricks?

[the snake]

Does everyone ride the nose as the tail when doing switch tricks?

yeah, that's the rule

[Tracer]

Does everyone ride the nose as the tail when doing switch tricks?

Yeah, and I revert right before popping so everyone knows it's switch.

[Nosferatu]

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Walmart has twin tail technology but sometimes they have a logo on the grip so you have to obey it. My trucks are different so its more about the trucks than the board, my front is more loose and carvy.

[close]

This. My trucks are always asymmetrical, so riding backwards is a no-go.

Jim Greco. Early 2000s transworld.

[micky682]

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Does everyone ride the nose as the tail when doing switch tricks?

[close]

yeah, that's the rule

I honestly could not land the tricks I do switch if I did them off the tail.

[Patey]

i have always skated my boards backwards

[straight]

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Does everyone ride the nose as the tail when doing switch tricks?

[close]

Yeah, and I revert right before popping so everyone knows it's switch.

every once in a while tracer makes me laugh

[Dark Knight]

I find it easier to do switch 360 flips off of the tail, but that's about it.

[weaselhead]

kevin bradley and moose and bulllwinkey