How To 50 50 On A Skateboard
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How To 50 50 On A Skateboard
This Videojug clip shows you how to do a 50 50 skateboarding trick, providing directions, advice, tips, and a full-on demonstration from professional skateboarder, Bryce Campbell. So watch now and learn how to nail a 50 50--the first of many grinding skills that any aspiring skateboarder should master.
Hello, I'm Bryce Campbell, a sponsored skateboarder. We're down at LCB. We're going to look at how to 50 50 on a skateboard.
Taking the skateboard, direct contact on both of the tracks, will make the trick a 50 50. It needs to be both of the tracks for that. So if we look at that on a lip, on a ledge, on a rail, there's different things you can do it on, but it's always going to be the same: both tracks, touching whatever it is that you're moving on.
Gives you quite a cool sound; quite exhilarating when you get your first 50-50. So: moving up onto the board; turning the tracks up; grinding along it, like that; and then dropping back down. As you can see, both of the tracks attaching--that's what makes it a 50 50.
It can be done so that your body is facing towards the rail, or switching it up, facing away from the rail. If you have a look at in a physical sense: coming up, turning, see both tracks on, back down. Once you've locked the tracks into the 50 50 position, you need to let the ledge or the lip or the rail, the coping guide you along in the 50 50.
So as you can see, the wheels flash up against the rail there, and that's going to hold you in position. If you lean too far inwards, the board will slip out of position; and if you lean too far outwards, again it will slip out up on the top. So it's about allowing it to glide along the rail, and then you can dismount from there however you feel.
You can ollie out, turn out, pop out, grab out, flip out. And that's how you 50 50 on a skateboard. .