Blunt stalls are sick. They look super cool and the variation possibilities are endless. In my opinion the easiest place to start is with a Blunt Stall then Rock-to-Fakie out of it. It’s pretty tricky at first but if you are comfortable on coping you’ll be loving this trick in no time at all.
How it’s done:On your favorite quarter or half pipe, ride straight towards the top with enough speed to get both trucks up above the coping. As you approach the lip, lift your front wheels slightly so they don’t bonk the coping as they pass. As your back wheels near the lip, hop your board up ever so slightly and plant your back trucks directly on top of the coping. You will come to rest on your tail at the top of the ramp. In order to hold it in place you’ll need to keep your front foot raised up high over your front bolts with that same leg bent at about 90 degrees. If you end up rolling onto the deck it is because you have too much pressure on your front foot. All your weight should be on the back foot holding the tail in place on the coping. This is the Blunt Stall portion of the trick.
To get back in the ramp you need to pop your board. You pop the same way you ollie except here it is from the blunt stall position. I find it helpful to apply a tiny bit of pressure to my front foot after I’ve got a solid blunt stall. Just enough to allow my tail to snap back on the top of the ramp the same way it hits the ground when ollieing. After the snap as you kick your front foot out ollie style direct your back wheels over the coping and into the ramp with your feet. You only need to get your hind wheels back into the ramp, just inside the coping, but it looks more steezy if you can pop it in so far that the center of your deck lands on the coping.
After that the rest of the trick is a simple Rock-to-Fakie (see rock-to-fakie trick tip.) Lean back, pull your front wheels in over the coping, and roll away. Once you’ve got this trick down and have developed a good clean pop off the blunt stall, cut out the Rock-Fakie part and just go all the way in from the coping to make it a Blunt-to-Fakie. If that’s not challenging enough, go crazy with the blunts. You can blunt 180 out, finger flip out of it, or whatever you can think of. The possibilities really are endless so have fun with this one. If you have any trouble, book a lesson with me at 360SkateSchool.com for some one on one help.
-Mandy Esch
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