Skateboard Trick Tips: Learning Frontside and Backside

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Learning Frontside And Backside

This issue is mostly for beginners.

For 180s, 360s,...: say your skateboarding in a straight line. When you fly in the air back first, with your back facing the way your headed, you're going backside. Say your flying in the air with your face facing the way you're headed. That's frontside.

Now, put that same thought in your flips. Just imagine yourself on your skateboard when its turning. Example: If your skateboard was turning 360 degrees. Now imagine yourself on the skateboard. If the skateboard turns so that you would be flying backward, that would be backside. Thus being a backside shove it. Vice versa for a frontside shove it.

Most beginners think that frontside and backside is the way you would throw yourself or flip your board. Its not, its pretty much the opposite.

Grinds: For grinds and slides, its pretty easy to get. It matters where your toes are facing. Say you come up to an obstacle with your toes facing it, and you grind a 50-50. That would be a frontside 50-50. Since your toes are facing it. If your toes where against the obstacle, then it would be a backside 50-50. Toes facing TOWARD the obstacle = frontside. Toes facing AGAINST the obstacle = backside.

The same applies to slides. Its matters where your toes are facing. So if you would want to do a backside lipslide, than you would go up to the object with your toes against the object.

Also, the rule applies for fakie, nollie, and switch stances.

1. You're headed straight 2. You do a 180, flying with your back facing the way your flying. 3. You land

That's a backside 180 :)