When doing a normal powerslide you do the same as this but do a little "jump" to lessen the friction of the wheels and start sliding. So you don't put all your weight on the front truck because that gives it too much friction. I'm not an expert by any means but just trying to help because I was stuck at these kind of powerslides for so long until someone told me about the "hop" you do before sliding. It also helped me a lot to try to revert like this with all 4 wheels sliding.
Top video, thanks Sarah! Gave reverts a try last night and loved them. They felt incredibly satisfying to pull off! I’ll give mini powerslides a go soon x
ive never powerslided so this will help a ton💯😏. Thank you so much for all the content 🥴you put out ;your so awesome and i will always pray😇😇😇 for you.. great vid also😏😘
Hint for those as challenged as me : This is NOT like a 90 deg kickturn. You have to rotate (revert) around your FRONT foot/truck. Yes, Sarah tells you to revert around your front truck multiple times. But I still managed to watch this and then spend one and a half session trying to stop with a 90 deg kickturn and wondering why always keep rolling or even pick up speed. Front, back, left, right, it's so easy to mix it up 🤣 Thank you Sarah! I learned so much from your videos! After watching them I was so motivated, practiced reverts, cowwalks, putting my feet in the pocket instead of the nose/tail, jumping to bolt drills etc ... Havent had so much fun and success with skating in a long time. And after 1h of feeling really in the flow, with much more feel for board control, I popped a few rolling ollies and they were much cleaner than usual. Who would have thought 😉
they're easier on tight trucks and black asphalt or polished cement. focus on digging your heels against the edge of the board while slightly lifting your toes and the board will slide every time. the further you lean back the less you have to fall on your ass when you slip out. we also used to wax the ground at the park and do ice-rink style powerslides and i think that helped with balance. for backside powerslides, you have to think of it more like drifting than a straight slide.
theyre so much easier if you have smoooth skatepark ground (like the ground in costco, ikea, walmart) and hard wheels. if youve got 78a wheels tho, they're going to take alot more effort and speed, plus you have to carve into the slide unlike a hardwheel slide in which you just turn the board immediately.
hey again, I can powerslide by now, from high speeds too. what helped me the most was to realize that I have been digging my heels into the board in order to push the board forward and it wasnt working at all. instead I started leaning back and at the same time lift my heels up, standing only on the balls of my feet. you can practice this at medium speed, bend your knees, rotate your arms and push your back foot out, lift your heels up, stand on the balls of your feet and push the board forward. then come back out by completing the 180° rotation or stop pushing with your back foot to let the board come back into riding position. from there it is realitively easy to practice and progress. having wheels that slide well, like the dragon or X formula or F4 does help alot.
Yoshhhh I'm early.... Right? Woof. Recently I'm starting to love mini downhills and power slides. But... Still kinda stuck at 180s and my shuv its are coming back. Haha.. btw congrats to 10k!!!!
Ooh, this is nice to see! This seems like it's pretty much an actual powerslide, but with an even more front-foot-heavy weight distribution, & without the slide to reset back to riding position. Smooth skatepark ground is good for practicing whatever powerslide variation in-general, & some warehouses (& therefore some indoor skateparks) have even *slicker* ground so you can practice the reset slide too.
This vid was a pleasant surprise. No one really talks about powerslides. It's one of my faves for sure. A simple and fun maneuver that i think can help with riding control as well as getting you to slow down like you mentioned. Definitely a good maneuver for skaters to learn. Keep the Stoke goin🏄♀️✌
Separated my shoulder the other week so haven't been skating in almost a month but once I am back on it I am very excited to give this a go. Course I need to learn reverts first :P
Good tips 👍 I originally learned when I was 15 or so ,bombing a big hill that I lived near . We would hitch to the top and have about a 4 mile downhill ,alot of wheels with flat spots lol.
Great vid tutorial. My method for getting these wired many years ago was to do them on a wet surface. The slipperiness allows the same techniques at a slower speed
Great, I've been wanting to learn something like this but I'm always too scared to powerslide when going really fast. Im gonna start practicing this for sure!
Cause of your videos i learn Shuvit. And trying to learn Ollie. What are your thoughts on Boneless. I can do a normal caveman, but cannot with indie hold which kind of stops me from learning Boneless. Can you please do a video these topics 🙂
note: the wheels hardness is a big factor for powerslides when i got my spitfire formula 4's, the first thing i wanted to try was to powerslide on my street. hooked up my wheels and gave myself the tiniest bit of speed - i was barely rolling. i tried to frontside powerslide and immediatley fell on my butt cause the wheels slipped out from me. they were 99d i think. my soft 78a wheels DO slide, they just take waay more effort to. the scary thing about powersliding with soft wheels is you HAVE to be going fast for it to work properly. you can poke it with your fingernail and it feels like a hard eraser. i also have 90d wheels that are not quite soft but not quite hard and theyre a nice middle ground for me. i get extra grip but i can slide if i need to, just takes a little more effort.
oh god, finally a video about powerslides by you! I wanted to learn them for a while, was practicing reverts alot and now I think at the end of this video, I´ll have a much better idea how to approach powerslides :-) great timing!
I actually learned these off a land yacht dingy trick video. Bend, extend bend again. The bend on the end keeps you on the board. On backside ones I push the rear wheels around with my back foot on the side of the rail. If your weights on your front foot it’ll go right around every time, backside. Good video!
Sarah Park-Matott, you’re a genius. You have that way of « cutting » tricks into parts, analyse and re-attach…like deconstruct-reconstruct…like a skateboard engineer….just watched your video before going practise powerslides (for the first time)….works perfectly..meaning, like that baby powerslide, thanks to your emphasis on revert-using front heels (instead of toes) is like the doorway to any kind of slides…i just unlocked it!! And i was having fun doing frontside and backside sort-of-slides, on normal and switch, on a small zigzag hill…so yeah, thanks a lot 👌🏼😎🛹✌🏼
I wish I went to school for engineering haha missed opportunity 😂 But that's exactly what I try to do. Deconstruct - reconstruct. Find similar motions from different tricks. I think one of the best parts about learning the skills separately, like you mentioned, is that you learn the piece (like getting good rotations from utilizing the pockets with toes/heel) and then can apply the same skills to other stuff. Oh...were you perhaps doing something like a monsterwalk? (Alternating between reverting off the front foot) Stoked to hear you were having so much fun though! 💪 Keep it up!
@@SarahParkMatott Hi Sarah, I meant a skate... but with those wheels (more width, a bit more sticky.) I was thinking "well, lets go back to normal skate wheels instead of losing time practicing with these"
@@SarahParkMatott By the way, and trying to not be a bootlicker because all coments I read is of how much you're good, hehe... I'm 31 years old, and at this age you feel a bit more rocky (and afraid of accidents 😅), started 2-3 months ago, had seen toons of videos and information about the skate, and yours were the most helpful. Thank you for that
@@FedeArgentina I see! I haven't skated longboard wheels except for a giant soft pair. Longboard wheels tend to be big and soft, which is not great for this trick. Typically harder wheels make this trick easier! It's not impossible I think. But, it's harder if they're big, soft longboarding wheels. But thank you! I'm always happy to hear my videos have been helpful.
Nice tip! I'll have to practice these a little once I've worn the directional grooves off my new wheels. I always used to drop to one foot on the board and put the other parallel on the ground to slowly reduce my speed, or full on stop. I have done powerslides or tailslides with a 90⁰ rotation to stop in an emergency if I was wearing army boots, but I never felt safe doing it on anything but slick concrete as a regular thing. If I spend some time doing baby one's then hopefully it'll give me more confidence about making it a frequent part of my riding, especially down hills. It was my birthday last week and my Ma got me some new Indy's so I have a proper complete again now, and I can start to get back into riding more often. Just sucks that it's winter, and therefore almost always wet, in the UK.
Yeah, I love these because they're just perfect for the speeds I ride at. Hope you get to break in those new indys soon though! That's sick. Indy's are my favorite trucks so far 💪Hope the weather clears up a bit for some good skates!
@@SarahParkMatott To be honest I've never ridden on anything but Indy's on my own boards. I've tried other people's boards with thunders and ventures back in the day as well as other brands and they always felt too low to the ground, I like being high on the board so there's less chance of wheelbite at speed! Kinda makes primo freestyle stuff easier too. I wanted to recreate the setup I used to have in the early nineties but I couldn't get any vintage stage VII Indy's at a decent price, so I'm trying the current stage XI, so far they're pretty similar, the VIII and IX felt odd so I'm glad they went back to the older style geometry. And the mini rat bones and Swiss ceramics are well out of my league pricewise these days lol, but I got some nice soft 56mm wheels and some Bones Reds for now. So I can get back to carving the hills now ;D
What do you ride? I used to be ok to slide on slick concrete on 90a durometer mini rats, but the softys grip too much to do it on anything but smooth, unless it's wet or icy, then you can slide for days lol.
@@HowlingMad86 My reasons are that the super hard ones let go of traction at the worst times lol, my soft wheels give me a margin of safety in the wet.
