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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Jack on June 19, 2010 at 14:06

Jonty said:

-Try no hands on the board, it allows you to control the board a bit faster (if you know how to do it).
-Don't freeze up, this sends you into a 180* -Always drop your back leg -Try and keep only one hand on the ground
-Don't put too much weight on you hands (this is why one hand on the gruond is better than two, because having two means you just lean onto them)
-A note on style: Imagine you are one big piece of thin metal which can twist at the top, causing the bottom half to then twist in that direction. So go into the slide, point you hand, look, and rotate you shoulders where you want to go/how and where you want the board to rotate, then point, look and rotate back when you're ready to. Remember to keep the leg dropped and DON'T JUST KICK your legs to get the board to rotate. That way, when you rotate and look, if your body and legs stay the same, all of your body shoud move and respond correspondingly.
-When learning, just try to get your board perpendicular to the road, and hold out the slide until it stops. Once you can do that instead of it 180*ing, then start trying to rotate back.
-Get out there and try yourself, it comes from lots of practice. Then once you can do it, and you are just having fun using it in general skating, you will become even better at them. That's more important than listening to everybody's individual styles-so long as you don't do the obious things eg: stinkbug or two-hands-on-ground etc.

- with no hands i slide off because of the dervish being only 8' wide with limited concave and useless grip, im ordering more grip soon

- i think i get what you mean here, just try and keep loose throughout. yeah ill try it

-ive never used two because im always holding the deck

-yeah ill try that visualisation thing

- with the right angle to the road i tried it the other day but couldnt so ill have another go taking in to account all the tips

-yeah ill go practice some more, getting my leg down and my other leg in to position hurts a bit so i was doing some yoga stretches with my sister to loosen up the muscles in my legs.

thanks jonty thats heaps helpful :-)

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Permalink Reply by Jonty on June 19, 2010 at 14:24

No prob. Spending an hour or so by yourself just getting the beginning of it is the best thing to do rather than not practicing much and just thinking too much. One hand on the deck is fine, with your useless grip and no concave, dig the arch/heel into the edge of the board. I have a Hellcat, and I still do it a little, just help you to not slide off the the board, I have shitty grip as well.
This was me the first day I learned, it may be a bit helpful to you, but I didn't have as good style as I do now. Still, seeing a beginner should help:

BTW, if you're pendying full 180*, that will be a fair bit harder to learn than just perpendicular to the road and back, coz it slings you around a bit, and can make you fall off.

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Jack on June 19, 2010 at 17:10

thanks i went out before, i found a steeper hill which made it easier. also one of the most helpful things was leaning forward a bit. i wore jeans so i wasnt so scared of going over forwards. i found i did use my hand, but to pull into the slide, not to pull up, if i pulled up then the wheels skipped and i fell off.


thanks

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Permalink Reply by Marcus M on June 21, 2010 at 19:12

I landed my first pendy today! On gravity supersliders and gullwing alpines too :/
I found that its all in the shoulders, and theres no such thing as too much speed.

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Jack on June 21, 2010 at 19:28

nice.

now im finding toe side rather difficult.

just for stopping i can slam both hands down on my toe side and throw out a huge pendy and then bring it back and keep going but the 1 handed ones are nuts. ive been practicing them a bit but they are so crazy

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