Grinds

So then you've moved on from mastering  the floor with manuals, gone passed conquering the air with hardflips and 180 ollies. And your looking for a new challenge, well you have found one... Grinds take skateboarding to a whole new level, it quadroples the amount of balance required and doubles the amount of bravery... Once you have done grinds you can only go onto grab tricks on halfpipes and virt-ramps etc which are not featured on this page... So this is the end

Tricks

Boardslide- Approach object with moderate speed and at an angle, ollie so you spin 90 and land on the object, even out out your weight. To dismount simply lift front side and slide off at the end... Click image for video

5-0 grind- Find a heavy pole, step or curb or something to grind and approach it with moderate speed, ollie so that you are going to land directly over it but land on the object in a 'manual' so you are manual-grinding the object.

Noseslide- Gain speed (not too much) and approach object, even a curb will do, with both feet on the ends of your board. When you get to the object, swing the front end around to the curb (you should be facing the curb) and stick the nose on it. Lean onto the nose so you apply most of your pressure on the nose. To dismount simply wait untill you stop and get off or turn your body away from the object and the board will follow. NOTE: This trick looks a lot better when you ollie onto higher objects.

Darkslide- Approach object with moderate speed and kickflip onto it with your griptape down (like an upside-down boardslide), then after however long you want to slide, put one foot under the board and flip out of it and ride away smooth