Crooked Grind by Jamie Thomas
July 03, 2007
The crooked grind. The K grind. The Koston Grind. The Crook. the Crookie monster. The Krizza. The shifty nosegrind. I've heard plenty of names for this over the years. It seems to have become the staple ledge trick of the fourth generation of skater and beyond. It looks better than a noseslide but doesn’t' require the precision of the backside nosegrind. You can lock 'm good or dink the end of the ledge. It’s a pretty safe one for rails too as you are sitting to one side with the family jewels in the clear. Get them dialed and take them to everything this month.
1. Back foot – Same as ever…Toes over the centre of the tail, ready to pop. The front foot wants to be kickflip heavy – by this I mean well and truly on the board but pretty much diagonal, as you would a kickflip. You should be approaching angled ever so slightly towards the ledge.
2. Ollie. Your front foot wants to be dragging up but heading over towards the ledge.
3. The idea is that the ball of your foot should sit on the nose of your board ready to be placed directly over the edge of the ledge.
4. Transfer all of your weight to the front foot. The back foot stays just past the rear bolts and lightly rests there waiting for the later stages.
5. The longer you sit on this trick the more it can try to force itself into a noseslide. This is where the back foot can help – after a bit of practice, extending the rear leg or pointing your toes a touch keeps this under manners.
6. Get ready to hop off the end of the ledge. You need to do this otherwise the board will end up flipping over or landing primo.
7. Give it a little shove forward, as if you were doing a Nollie off a crack on the pavement.
8. Extend that back leg – This should help level the board out.
9. Four to the floor
10. Roll away smiling.
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