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W alk to Frontside Nose Slide
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Walk up, frontside arch nose slide, walk to tail
As I said in the intro, Slide Walking is a big board style that mixes walking routines with slides. The slides are usually narrow stance, especially on frontside, or medium width stance, especially on backside. Many variations are possible. All sorts of footwork can be incorporated into these routines. I'll start with the most basic and add more complex footwork as the pages go on.
The walk to frontside slide is the most basic Slide Walk. You want to get some speed from a tail stance and leave yourself some room to walk up to the nose. Then you take two steps up and do a nose perch. Then you twist and crank off a slide without changing your nose stance too much. Your board will now be flipped around, so you have to walk to the tail and kick turn it around to finish the routine.
Tail pump
I start the routine with a pump. It's a pump from the tail. I can get up some speed, but it isn't as powerful as a wide stance pump. I hang back on the tail to set up the walk, to make room to cross step and make the routine use the whole board.
The back foot does all the work in the tail pump. I shove the tail back to generate some speed from the toeside arc.
Half shuffle to tail stance
I will half shuffle my front foot back a bit. This is a subtle and useful thing I do to set up walks.
Shifting my front foot back narrows my stance and makes a bit more room up front. The whole feel of riding changes from this little move. It takes a little practice to balance and steer, because the board is very loose in the tail stance. It's worth it, because walks always look much better if done from all the way back on the tail.
Cross step
I take a slow, smooth cross step, trying not to affect the glide of the rolling board.
I set my foot down in the cross stance, leaving some room at the nose for another step.
I step onto the nose and wind up in a hang five, or a toe on the nose position.
On the nose, I shift my back foot back a bit to get a wider stance. I arch a bit to take advantage of a chance to nose pose, but I also set up the next trick. Notice my left arm starts to swing back. This is the start of the nose slide.
