stopping on a skateboard

[chungmaster]

i just started skatebaording and i can manuever around pretty well and ollie and stuff, but i dont know how to stop. how the hell do u stop, cuz i'm afraid of going down my hill is a car comes up and i cant stop

[matt_h]

You could just manual so that the back tip scraps the floor, but that will ruin your board. Could try using your feet.

[chungmaster]

i tried doing that but i can only do it at low speeds. when i'm going a lot faster what should i do? i tried dragging feet but i'm not sure if i'm doing it right

[The Jungler]

Don't do that dumb manual thing. Put your front foot over the bolts, lean back and turn the board with your body so its horizontal, this stops you almost instantly without you flying off the board. Once you master that you can use it to slow down when you bomb hills as well.

[Liquid Force]

yup power slide

[The Jungler]

Yeah either that, or maybe you could just jump off.

There's a thought.

[chungmaster]

Don't do that dumb manual thing. Put your front foot over the bolts, lean back and turn the board with your body so its horizontal, this stops you almost instantly without you flying off the board. Once you master that you can use it to slow down when you bomb hills as well.

i'll try practicing that. looks kinda complicated

[Liquid Force]

i'll try practicing that. looks kinda complicated

you might be kinda scared of bailing at first...but eventually you'll get the hang of it and your wheels will slide nice and easy...try it on moderate hills first

[ZaaR]

either just jump off or power slide.

[AmericnZero02]

take your back foot, leave your heel on the board and use your toe to drag along the ground. kind of a brake technique. the more pressure you put on that foot the more you slow down.

[g°®†]

just wear a pillow. Goose-down works the best.

[Wish]

take your back foot, leave your heel on the board and use your toe to drag along the ground. kind of a brake technique. the more pressure you put on that foot the more you slow down.This is the way I always slowed down. You don't even need to take your foot off the board. Just put the first half of your foot over the edge of the deck and put your foot to the ground.

[Cloud.]

whatever you do dont slam your tail down and scrape it accross the ground that will lead to a weak deck with no pop what so ever.

[raab]

Either try power slides on areas where its humanly possible to actually slide(or it will get very messy). Or, even better, take your back foot off the board (while balancing on your front) and just slam your foot onto the ground and slow yourself down (as you would if you were running). It is really easy, just hard to explain.

Otherwise just jump off your board and run. But seriously practice just using one foot to slow down. It's just the opposite of pushing really if you think about it.

[wartree]

Jump of the skate, put your feet in ground, or do the snowboard movement...

[chungmaster]

im gettin hella good at sliding now, but i have a tendency to slam my left hand onto the ground, and now my wrist fells really bad. is there like a right way of putting your hand to the ground cuz i dont want to break my left wrist

[TAND]

Yeah, when you hit the ground roll, don't try to break the fall with your wrists. I'm usually longboarding down hills. Well... I modified my old skateboard with some longboard stuff. But yeah, To slow down, just carve a lot. I love that feeling you get when you kick out back wheels while carving. God I wanna go surf right now...

[chungmaster]

I love carving but the hill i go down is kinda narrow, so i just powerslide. I just don't think i'm using my left hand right. I can stop nicely but my wrist is taking a beating. But i guess it's better to have a a hurt wrist than a broken arm

[TAND]

Loosen your trucks if you can't make the turns.

[Dinosawesome]

fall over