If you look at your heelside slides, your rear wheels are gripping up a lot more than they should, which is causing your slides to turn a lot more instead of sliding. Your rear wheels are receiving too much grip from getting too much weight distributed to it. Additionally, when you apply way too little weight distribution down onto your front foot, your front foot actually falls/flops off of the deck, which did happen a few times, if you rewatch your form. Your weight distribution and front foot placement are causing you to have these issues. They are easily solved together with one solution though. So what you must do is to keep that front foot planted fully at all times, which will force you to distribute your weight more to the front wheels - allowing your rear wheels to slide more freely. Your back foot, when on the board, can be tilted in whichever fashion you're comfy with - so as to help keep the front foot planted. The purpose of the back foot is to provide secondary balance (kinda like the kickstand of a parked motorcycle), but the majority of your bodyweight needs to go down into the front foot (which is synonymous to the 2 wheels of a parked motorcycle). edit: Adrien has great form, obviously, so yeah, definitely try to imitate him. See how his front foot is always planted no matter what - either heelsides or toesides. But his back foot does tilt to allow for a more natural front foot plantedness. edit (2): Oh, I see that later on in the vid, you do realize your issues. But yeah, imitate Adrien FTW.
Thank you so much for the exceptional comment and details-so helpful. You and Adrien think alike: that was his suggestion - plant the front foot (because it kept popping up). Combined with the other woman rider’s comment of back knee behind front leg/foot-i think that will definitely help. I don’t really have a sense of true balance yet in squat position so will be practicing all the small details from the crew. 🙏🙇🏻♂️
@@cantskate5535 Front foot should always be planted for everything you do - even pushing or footbraking - they're just planted in a straight manner in those 2 actions - but still planted.
Awesome and congrats on a slide you feel comfy with. I prefer push up slide (for now) and is always part of my warm up runs. Takes a long time to build true instinct and I have a long way say to go. In an upcoming video, car pulled in front of me and I panicked-fell to my left hip; thankfully I had my motorcycle suit on no injury.
Yeah, local crew which is awesome. Off Alva Road by water tower. Crazy that you can get 45 mph on it. I think they held a competition there this past January?
You're not bending your knees enough when you drop into the coleman. You're kind of upright, and while you're reaching for the ground, you're carving and starting to slide. When you go into the coleman you need to be a lot lower to start. You should be doing a heelside turn almost squated down to the ground, and then put your hand down and start to slide. This is more controlled because you're already low to the ground and don't need to "fall" into it like you're doing. Try a super wide heel carve and get as low as possible and start putting your hand down from there to initiate the slide. Make sure you do a good pre-carve in the OPPOSITE direction of which you want to turn, and then carve hard and sit low into the heelside. Afterwards put your hand down and start to slide. A good pre-carve followed by a carve that gets extended into a slide feels extremely controlled when break traction, and overall smooth. Right now you're almost going straight, starting to carve and trying to slide at the same time. It's too many actions at once and when you're starting out you're not going to link them together nicely for a consistent slide. Instead try to do each distinct step and link it together. Pre-carve toe side, carve heelside and get as low as you can, keep carving and kick out the slide - initially just focus on holding a 45* slide angle until you stop. Later work on snapping it back to finish but only after you feel very comfortable initiating and bringing back. Finishing the slide is the last step and is made a lot easier if you're first steps go smoothly so don't try and rush into this part if you're feeling iffy about initiation and holding the slide. Good luck and hope you stick with it.
Wicked awesome detail and encouragement. 🙏 Since this session, nearing 3 months ago, I’m doing the basic movements as you noted decently and consistently. I still struggle with board returning / wanting to go forward again due to my inconsistent front foot pressure; truthfully, I think lack of foot pressure is because I’m not sitting directly on the board-rather too far back. Got the basic Coleman stop, but developed bad habit-honestly, of backing off. Still slowly progressing and wanting to work knee mobility, but will come in more practice time.
Great stuff man, you're progressing well and it's the best thing ever to have experienced skaters mentoring you! Also, I didn't realise you guys have Gum trees, it looks a bit like Australia with the hills and trees, nice spot! How do you like the Milk Shakes wheels?
Thank you. I do like milk shake wheel, but don’t have enough experience to know better. Actually switching to the banana peels to see if I can get slide easier. First session with peels were really slippery - like a peel.
@@cantskate5535 Yeah cool, Milk Shakes will thane more and like you said Peels are more slidey! But peels are a big wheels and you will build up a lot of speed on hills, I find when you're learning it's better to ride a smaller wheel to control your speed. I'm learning slides myself and I've been skating the Purple 83a Skiffs, they're a small wheel but super easy to slide and the slides are predictable, you could also try Powell Peralta Snakes! Enjoy your skating man!
@Renclif cool and thanks. I have a set of the Snakes and will try them, too. Might bring a few other wheels to try since I’m not going for speed, but skill in truck carving, and balance.
