I taught myself smiths in 3 steps. The first step was to stand on top of a 50-50 stall on the ledge and then move it to the smith position, this part taught me how I needed to shift my balance in order to hold the smith in place. Step two was then doing 50-50s to smith (it's like step one but now moving). Then the third step was learning how to ollie into the smith grind which was the easiest step to learn since I already knew how to position myself. That's it, then I did the same steps but backside and now back smiths are my favorite ledge trick to do.

I love getting to see how your back foot is positioned when you pop, It makes me feel good about (How I try) mine because I started doing Smiths while attempting front tails and the "heel control" feeling is weird but coupling this with leaning back already makes sense when I visualise it! I am super excited to go play tomorrow afternoon. Awesome channel, the growth is unreal! All the best to you and yours. Happy skating too!

fun physics factoid: because you can't put your weight over the ledge it's essentially impossible to hold this grind--unless you're on a curved ledge.

you have to grind your kingpin down to get smiths going

This trick is so hard. Really gives me a hard time. Never tried on a rail. I guess that’s easier?

Boxes are much better to learn on they are forgiving if you fall you don't fall a long way. People don't lean into it enough.

I learned smiths on ledges. By the time I tried on a rail, it was significantly easier.

bro no way you in the atx area

House park?

Something I also noticed is, the hanger of the back truck doesn't tilt up like with a bar, because the top of the ledge obstructs it's movement, thus making it slightly taller/further away to stand on, locking less and also forcing the board to tilt to and angle, rather than the hanger.

In the middle of watching your FS flip tutorial, and I got the notification for this. Just happen to be learning this trick right now, so thank you! Keep killing it 💪

I remember in a Q&A a while ago Alex Olson was asked about smiths. He recommended leaning slightly back like a 5-0. That made total sense to me as every time I tried to smith I would fall out of it or the board would fall off the ledge, as my weight was centered over the board like a 5050

Thank you for this video dude im trying to learn this today and im glad this really helped me. I landed a sketchy one today and wanna try it again tomorrow. Thanks and skate safe!

House Park! Miss that place. Thanks for another great and detailed trick tip

Thanks for these tips - honestly things I never thought of.

Thanks for all the great content, I just had two requests; an updated bigflip video, as well as any tips you might have on popping higher tre flips, specifically timing them in order to get them over larger obstacles on flatground. Thanks in advance, your consideration and content are both greatly appreciated🙏

Keep up the hard work man! Love these videos they help so much

Oh man, really needed this. Been struggling with this for the past week. Kept getting stuck so I tried leaning back more and it just shoots out.

Just starting to get into ledge skating. This one I've been thinking about learning for a minute

Yessir bro stay coming thru with the best tutorials