How To Do A Grind Trick On A Skateboard

Skateboard expert Jake Watt describes several ways to grind and slide with a skateboard; he also demonstrates the five-oh and fifty-fifty grinds on camera to show how these techniques can assist your skateboarding technique. Enlarge

How To Do A Grind Trick On A Skateboard

Skateboard expert Jake Watt describes several ways to grind and slide with a skateboard; he also demonstrates the five-oh and fifty-fifty grinds on camera to show how these techniques can assist your skateboarding technique.

Basically, there's a whole different bunch of grinds and slides. So, you've got your early that's going to be your fifty-fifty grind, obviously, that'll be the one you love first. From that, you can move on to the five-oh grind which is lifting the nose trunk off where you've got a nose grind lifting the back trunk off the trail trunk, and you get things like the nose slide which is on the nose board you bought sliding that way.

Obviously, you've got the tail and the nose, you can do nose and tail slides. There are board slides, speed grinds and tail grinds, so many different grinds and tricks to do. It's all about keeping the speed and the momentum going to get the pop up, and the speed's going to carry you through the grind and whatever obstacle you're doing.

Okay. So, forget about the grind, it's all a bit different, and different grinds are obviously going to need different techniques to get out. So, the fifty-fifty is going to be the easiest one.

So as you're approaching the end of the ledge, with the speed that has carried you through, just bring up the front trunk, drop it and roll away. Things like five-oh is pretty simple because the nose is already out. It's easy just roll it out.

Nose grind is a bit more difficult, it needs more of a lift to get it off. So, remember that finale is flipping it out. The things like the nose slides and the tail slides, you just turn in your shoulders to bring it out.

It's all in the shoulders for that. Hopefully, that's helped a bit with the grinds. I'm just going to do two pretty simple ones, quickly the fifty-fifty and the five-oh.

So I'm going to do a fifty-fifty and a five-oh, and hopefully, you will see how I did it. Cool. So, hopefully, you got all that about grinds.

There's a whole different bunch of types for you to go and try. Speed's the key. Lots of wax and don't be scared, and go out and have some fun! .