Unity

The unity grind looks hard, but it really isn't, it just takes a little practice, and once you have gotten it, it'll stay with you for a long time. If you can do a frontside, and are comfortable with royales grinding in the groove between the outside frame and the outside boot you should be able to do this trick! It is like a frontside, but your legs are crossed!
When doing the unity, your back leg's foot is put in front of the other, so that the leg's foot is grinding in front of the other. When doing a savannah, your back leg's foot is put behind the other, so that the leg's foot is grinding in front of the other.Approach the obstacle with a moderate speed you can do this trick with just any speed, so you can just slow down, if you do not feel comfortable with it
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Jump and cross your legs as you land. It is easier if you land in the groove. When your skates are positioned in the grooves of the two skates, you are perfectly balanced even more than in a frontside. If you can't get your skates to be in the groove, just go lower bend down in your legs. If you go too low, your skates will slide out of the groove, so stay in the Royale groove, or where your frame matches with your groove.

Royale

This weeks trick is the Royale. the Royale is a variation of the frontside grind Your front foot is like in a normal frontside, but your back foot is grinding on the outside edge. To do so, you need to bring your back foot in, and push your ankle over, so that you ride on the outside frame, you might ride on the outside boot as well. Lots of skaters practice the Royale by landing in frontside, and then slowly switching to Royale, but this kind of practice will not make you any better, you'll just have to relearn the whole trick from scratch. The landing is the most difficult part about this grind when you have landed in the right way, nothing will get you down from the obstacle!







Try to keep your weight in the front as much as possible otherwise your momentum will sweep you away. Land with as spread legs to keep the balance, and then lean forwards, but not specifically on the front foot. When learning the Royale you can lean as much weight as possible in the front, and then just keep the back foot trailing afterwards in the Royale position. When you get the feel of the Royale grind later, you can put weight on the back foot. When you do so, it is easier if you grind on the frame AND on the outside boot this will lock the skate to the position.





If you look straight down on your skates, your back foot should be a little behind the spot you're looking at. Like all other tricks, this trick looks best when you're as low as possible. For some skaters, the Royale is really hard, but for others, it comes naturally. For those who think it's hard, well…just keep practicing because it will get there if you just try hard enough. When you're an experienced Royale grinder', the next thing you should learn is the backslide!

Fish Brain

 Week 2

 This weeks trick is the fish brain.Fishbrains are considered one of the most stylish tricks out there. It is also one of the hardest to do, when you're not considering truespin grinds, etc. The fishbrain is just a topside makio,in other words, you are topside souling with one foot, and grabbing the other with your hand. Unlike the makio, this trick isn't as easy. When doing the makio, you can have your upper body over your souling foot but that isn't possible when doing a topside here you need to have your upper body to one of the sides of the obstacle.


 

  If you are normally doing soul grinds by having the weight in the middle, this trick will fool you the first couple of times. If the weight is in the front, you will fall right on your nose. You need to lean backwards, so that your skate will not catch any scratches or holes in the obstacle you're grinding. If done alleyoop, you have to lean your weight on the toe, but not too much, or you will fall on your nose again! When grinding rails and other things that go down, be sure to have your souling foot in the same angle as the obstacle that is going down. If not done so, you will land on your heel, and if your skate locks in, you will fall backwards.

It is hard to stay on the rail for a longer time. If you are having troubles staying on the rail for more than 1 second or so, try to approach the rail with an angle of 20 degrees, so that you will kind of jump into the obstacle. If you miss the trick though, it will hurt real bad, since your souling foot will slide right over the obstacle if planted a little too high. To learn the trick, you can think that you're going to land a farside makio –  landing on the opposite site of the rail in makio position. When you've done that a couple of times, you can practise on getting low, so that your souling foot is 100% topside.

First Post

This is my first real post for this blog this week, each  week i will be explaining and possibly demonstrating how to do different skate tricks on your rollerblades. Each week i'll show different tricks and different variants of tricks. so if you need help learning these tricks this blog could possibly help you!

Trick of the week! This week's trick is the porn star (not very school appropriate but oh well)