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“all right guys today we're going to be breaking down a Shad wear's front side no slide this is a trick that I've been trying to learn so I'm going to give you guys my notes everything that I've learned from studying the share's front side no slide hopefully it can help you guys as well I am going to put a video on my patreon of me actually going through the process trying to test out theories that I'm going to tell you guys in this video so if you want to check that out that will be linked in the description but in studying a shod weare's front side nose slide I came up with four techniques which I think are huge keys in why a shod Weare can hold his front side nose slide for so long like it's one thing to just get into a front side no slide and get out right away but your Technique has to be like another level of dial to be able to like get in and hold it for that whole San Francisco ledge so the first thing that I noticed was how a shod Weare rotates his shoulder if you watch as he approaches the ledge he does like the slightest little backside rotation with the shoulder shoulders and what I think is so key about this is he doesn't do a lot of rotation it seems like he does just enough backside shoulder rotation to give his hips momentum to then turn the full 90° but not so much shoulder rotation that his shoulders are getting carried backside and taking him out to fakey if that makes sense so it's like you do want to rotate backside into it cuz obviously you're rotating your board backside but if you throw too much shoulder into it you're just going to do a back 180 and do no slide to fakey so to keep himself from going to fakey it's really limiting that backside shoulder turn to give yourself just enough to get the your hips and the board rotating 90° but really he rotates his shoulders just a tiny bit and then his hips get ahead of his shoulders that's kind of the ideal from what I I can tell from watching him you don't want your shoulders to go 90 and then your hips to follow you want the shoulders to barely turn and then the hips to go all the way so the shoulders just create only enough momentum to get the hips and the board into that front side no slide position now the second key goes along with that first one and it's how he uses his hands to limit his shoulder rotation so again we're trying to get into a front side nose slide and keep our shoulders relatively parallel to the ledge obviously completely parallel is nearly impossible but you're trying to limit your shoulders from going to 90° your board goes 90° but your shoulders you want to stay away from getting in line with your board you want the shoulders to be as close to in line with the ledge as possible so you can pop out like that so what I see that he's doing is he's using his hands like this so in a previous video we talked about that opposite arm rotation if you watch a shad's front arm his back arm helps a little bit but I feel like it's mostly his front arm his front arm reaches towards the ledge then then his hips start to turn this way and then he reaches towards the direction that he's going so it's like a forward and out so from this point of view it's like boom boom so enough shoulder to get you know his board and his hips rotating this way and then he goes boom like that so arms go like crisscross and out so by using his arms to like Wing I think that's what holds his shoulder and stops his momentum from the hips carrying him all the way around back to fakey now one more thing that I did notice is in the Bales in the raw footage you see a shod slips out super hard smacks his butt on the ledge I don't think people realize how much wax Pro skaters are using like obviously they could do less wax if they wanted they have enough board control but most good skaters that I know of especially good ledge skaters they just wax the crap out of the ledge because they would rather have it consistent and be able to just sit on it rather than like fighting the ledge so that's one thing that I definitely noticed about asad's front nose that ledge is buttered up so I'm definitely going to butter the crap out of this ledge today now the fourth technique that I noticed is how isad stands on the board if you look at his back foot it's like like that like it's barely touching the board right if you put any weight on the tail his wheels are then going to dig into the side of the ledge and he's going to stick right so he's basically up there standing on one foot alone I think that's a big key for me is because I'm uncomfortable with this trick I wants to stand on both feet and then I get stuck something like that one thing that I'm going to really be focusing on is pretty much pretending like I'm standing on one foot like that so that I can really like get in there get locked in and find my balance now the last tip that I remembered I forgot to write this down but I thought of it last night while I was sleeping lately I've been like realizing that so many tricks that you do the way you pop with your back foot is like really really key so say I want to get onto a nose stall right now I need to pop my tail behind me so that I can get my nose underneath my body weight like that if I try and stall with my board out there I'm just going to slip out right so in order to get the nose under me I've got to basically you know pop backwards something like that the reason I think that applies to the front nose is a lot of times with board slide or with a lot of times with nose slides you kind of want to watch your nose do it but you want to stay safe on the inside of the ledge it seems safer over here but truly asot is putting all of his weight like right here just along the inside corner of the ledge and that's what allows him to sit on it for so long so he's not doing the no slide out there with his body over here he's on top almost like a board slide like the rail is like underneath his body but rather than sliding on the middle of his board he's popped the board backwards so that he's essentially doing a front board but now because of the way that he's popped his body weight is over the nose rather than the center of the board those are the five things that I learned from studying the shot's front nose if you want to see part two where I actually try and apply them and see if they work for me I'll see you guys over on the patreon free trial in the [Music] description”