Biggest tip is to get speed. I spent an hour trying to do it off of two pushes and couldn't get it. Then went down a smooth hill and did it but ran off my board cuz I wasn't expecting to get it and didn't lean back
i love the way 80 - 85a wheels slide, but they wear out faster. there are also some wheels that simply don't slide, hard performance wheels from bones, santa cruz and spitfire, as well as freeride wheels should definitely slide.
@@petekropotkin3630 once your board is about 70 degrees, put all your weight on your front foot. took me 6 months to figure out, but now im the only guy i know who can slide properly ;)
@@juliangorman4066 Dude, same. Was half way down the hill, experienced death-wobble for the first time, and realised "oh shit, I never learned how to slow down" 😄.
A great way I found to do the 180 he was talking about is taking all the weight off your back foot and onto your front foot. If you do that and use your upper body to do a 180 you can even practice them standing still. Not exactly the motion of a powerslide but great way to get started.
I have been working on riding my board for a few months now, and I really want to be able to ride switch/powerslide stop. Thank you for writing this, it helped me see/think of the trick in a different way. Really helpful insight for me.
Powerslides are the scariest at first. They require a lot of finesse when you start trying them but they will teach you board control and confidence like nothing else. I got used to them bombing mellow hills and *towards the bottom when you just start coming to flat* (don't do that shit at the top of the hill), carving front side increasingly harder until I start hitting the limit and just get used to feeling your back wheels juuuust start sliding. Since you're still technically "carving" and the hill is basically over, it's not too scary mentally and you maintain the illusion of grip even though you're trying to go beyond it. It will also slow you down so each carve is less and less scary during each run. If you have to bail you will probably fall on your butt and not get pitched forward. I did that so many times until I felt warmed up and then tried to replicate that feeling on flat. I never thought about my weight (which is probably a mistake). The only variables I was toying with was how hard I was "carving" and where my front foot was, pivot wise, so I would work towards tightening the carve radius until it looked like a powerslide and the front wheels also started to slide. Probably not the smartest way to learn them but when I was a kid I figured a powerslide was just an exaggerated frontside carve...This video is a much safer way to get used to them.
My mental trick is just before turning into it I imagine an invisible chair under me and kind of "sit" down into a crouched position , and during the slide push forwards on the front foot, to get all four wheels properly sliding. Basicly lower your butt and push on the front foot, to slide further.
My biggest problem is that I always end up over rotating and slipping out. It feels like my front wheels never wants to slide. Maybe I'm putting to much weight in my front foot?
i used to watch this video and be so confused how he did it, but what i learnt is that to do this you have to really lean on ur heels, like for frontside have all the weight on your heels and for backside all the weight on your toes, and also the other thing that helped me was starting off like a 180 revert, shown in 1:37, and then also putting weight on the pivoting foot (front foot) so that you can hold the power slide in place, also be light on ur feet, it’s easier to do power slides on brick walkways and other smooth surfaces
thanks for the tips because im also confused. i literally cant even get the board to turn to begin the powerslide. ill try these out soon and let you know if they helped.
Hey there, hope you got it by now. In my experience and how ben describes it, its the opposite really. Lean Back, all weight on the ball of your feet and No weight on your heels. Push the board forward with the Front Part of your feet. The all weight on heels way also works, but in my experience its much less controlled and you have to Hop a little to get into the Slide, which makes it much harder.
Best wheels ever I found the roughest ground and did like 20 powerslides in a row to see if I could flat spot them and it didn't even faze them, I gotta say I'm impressed with the formula 4s.
Bro I can’t even turn the board when I try to power slide and I’m using all my force I’m 13 btw Update: I just landed on my back super hard I was going super fast and my back hurts like hell😭😭
Hey Ben! This helped me a lot lol. I was doing them backwards the whole time. Instead of pushing my foot forward to slide, I was pushing it back to slide. Thanks !
How to ruin Ricta wheels lol, I flatspotted a new set of Rictas with one powerslide in the first 30 seconds of using them. Update a month later, I still ride the Rictas on my shaped set up and the flat spots are almost gone now, I have the 92a clouds so I am going to try some of Rictas harder wheels.
Ragnarr Sigurdsson I've had a couple of my friends say they love Rictas, I got the 92a clouds so they are kinda soft and I still ride them with the flat spots and they are almost gone now. I am definitely going to buy another set of Rictas to try but this time I am going to get the hard ones like the naturals or the sparx or some speed rings I just can't decide which ones I want.
Hi Martin. Try not turning your shoulders as much, just your legs. Also, put a little more weight on your back foot and lighten up on the front foot and you will be less likely to follow through with the pivot. Just some thoughts off the top of my head.
@@bendegros other way around bro, less weight back, more front, remember that you're pushing your board forwards with your feet and body weight. turning shoulders less sounds right though.
I was wondering about power sliding and the affect of having the whees be loose vs tight. I am referring to the axle nut being tight enough to where the wheel rolls freely vs the nut being flush with the axle where the wheel has some play. The next question is how much affect do spacers have when it comes to speed? It would be a cool video to do.
Comment 421 lol So Jake Phelps died after his slam at the hell ride not right after but is the community saying he died skating? Please someone shed some light
Powersliding is much easier with "hard" wheels, like a 90+ it can be done on softer cruiser wheels but don't expect to pull 360 slides or something without a lot of practice and sheer strength of will.
