friendly suggestion for all viewers, if you have a parking lot or similar area to this with grass next to the pavement, I recommend setting up your rail or other obstacle with one end going into the grass. You can attack it with more speed and get a feel for sliding or grinding while landing safely in the grass

Your very much a real skater Sarah. Love watching your progression and learning from you videos! Keep it up!

I just learned board slides. I watched the video to see if I could improve on anything. One day I wasn't landing them, I'm always scared to put wax on the rail or board. I was obviously doing something wrong. After waxing and a little speed, I didn't stick and I got it. I realized going slow is actually more dangerous for this one. Those unstable rails scare the crap out of me 😅 keep it up! 👍 You got this!

Deck rails will make it easier to slide slower. Have fun and keep up skating/videos. We love them!

I relate to this a lot. I learned boardslides almost a year ago, but I had nowhere to practice them besides the little park I learned them on, and I didn’t like that place, so when a new park was built, the first thing I wanted to do was a boardslide out of a hip… it took me 3 months to do it again, but I didn’t really got it back. Now, they’re fixing this new park and had to go to the old one again, took some tries, but finally got them consistent, so if I can say anything is just: Don’t give up on them, try a 1000 times, try different foot positions, try getting into the rail at an angle, try going a bit faster, try absolutely anything, just to find how to fell comfortable coming towards the rail, getting on top of it, sliding, and coming down. Keep it up and don’t give up on them!

I love your note about needing to go at it 20 times slowly before actually trying with more speed. Most of the time when I can't get the ollie up onto a tall mani-pad or a board slide, everyones always advising me to go fast! But like you said, I feel like I definitely need to internalize and get that SPARK to want to go fast. Love your content Sarah!! Hope you're doing well :)

Thank you for the video. Very encouraging!

BTW, maybe think about board rails. They really help to stabilize the deck once you’re on the rail. They also help with feebles, hurricanes, etc.

Frontside boardslide help on the bar to reaching the rail of skating other tricks in a flatbar to transfer the skillsets of jump over the rail to become a skater

I’m relearning them too. Never stop! All the best!

I've got that rail too! It's been brilliant for learning boardslides and other beginner slides ❤😊❤ great video Sarah

Keep it up! I found that, for me, there is definitely a Goldilocks height when it comes to rails.

so sick! and most definitely counts! it's so cool how thoughtful you are when it comes to learning. i think knowing your limits and what you need to do in order to feel comfortable trying the next step is so important. also i tooootally relate to not popping or committing enough when i roll up to a rail a little faster. team slow boardslides for now! we'll get there! >:)

Glad you got a bar! Excited to see your progress. Tbh, that bar still kind of looks tall to me. I’ve been trying boardslides on the couple of curbs that are at parks sort of nearby me. Curbs are still a bit intimidating, but it doesn’t require an ollie at all, so it allows me to focus on the speed, pivot, and balance more. I’m sure you’ll get this with your bar and your skills, but if I were to get myself a beginner bar, I would find or make something only like 6” high.

I think you are 100% right about speed. Two other details I found helpful to focus on were A; ollie as high as you can so you are over the obstacle and do a late 90 into the slide. This helps keep the board directly under you and this skill is prerequisite for lip slides later. B; lean forward slightly.

Me and my cousin have been doing a ton of board slides we found an old parking block and sanded it down then waxed it. It helps to trick your mind into thinking it’s safer, however I have eaten it pretty good.

No way my bar is going to be smaller than that. I like that little one your friend had. Ill start on a parking block first tho. They are definitely scary.👍

i like your videos, you explain so calmly. and no music, thanks!. im beginner.

I have a similar rail I started boardslides on. Then I destroyed my toe, and havent been skating in a few months. Definitely want to get back to it

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nice! boardslides terrify me. i'm sticking to 5050s for now

ありがとうございます！

Did you think about just to do the 90 deg olli motion and rock the board on a curb and back out? Could also be integreted into and extended by freestyle routines. Just an idea. Keep shredding. 🙂

Funny to see that we are sort of progressing at the same level and with the same tricks (noseslide..boardslide..). I do recognize the struggle, but those last few boardslides really looked promising! Still I would suggest to try to speed up a little bit more, that will help you in staying leveled just like riding a bicycle. You can do it! 👍

Oh wow i can barely remember going that slow for a boardslide ive found as ive gotten better at them if i run out of speed i ironically wont pop and avoid the bar which is almost the opposite problem.

Honestly its way easier to slide on taller rails. Short rails feel a lot harder because you have so much less time to think about getting on and off.

You're brave that you can learn boardslides on your own 👍. I can only do boardslides when I'm skating with friends 😂 somehow it's even scarier if I'm trying it by myself

hell yeah it friggen counts, u came off the bar on the board and wouldve kept movin if the stand didnt stop u. very good start. better than i did today. while attempting to get into ollie stance i completely lose my balance and cant get a good ollie off at all. its a very strange phenomena that im dealing with.

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Good skills

A real 2012 flex the element flat bar

As a chicken skater, i feel so much understanding from your video

awesome

F that you doing great progress you bold individual