I've gone 17 years without doing crooks consistently (in that 17 years I've landed 2). Watch this and got them back within an hour. Relearning ticks at 35 is a great feeling. Thanks.
5 years off, 1st month back in @ 22 years old. got off drugs and i’m working on my body a lot, skating coming back kinda slow, shout-out all the return skaters 😎
I was stuck on this trick for about three months. Until one day, something just clicked and I landed it. It was probably one of the happiest moments of my life. I love crooked grinds. They are so hard to learn, but they are totally worth the time.
I haven’t learned then yet, but like a month ago I tried one for the first time and my trucks locked in perfectly. I didn’t expect it so I didn’t land it, but I was so hype and now I can’t even get close to what I did...
@@noahthefilmer9100 it did end up working but what really helped was to angle my front foot before popping into the ledge and coming out of the crooked grind into Fakie helped a ton on figuring out how to grind the trick properly. Good luck on your progression 👍🏼
Medium sized ledge is perfect imo, too small is annoying and kinda scary sometimes just cuz it doesn’t feel as stable but it’s hard to stand over it and grind on a big ledge
Back when I was a teenager, I learned these going fakie out and then just learned to shove it out since my board was doing the same motion. Felt really rad haha. Never could get the hang of the nollie out with them. Also half cabbing into them feels really good as well. Currently 34 and finally came back to skating after 17 or 18 years away and trying to build up the courage to try these again.
I’m about to be a Krookie Monster for the next month or two. The time has finally come to learn these! Accidentally locked into one after under-rotating a nose slide and I was like, “oh, that’s what it feels like! Game on, I’m learning K-grinds now!”
I can't believe this video has less views than the tutorial from braille. Not a single thing was said about the heel pinch concept which is basically how you get them real proper
I've watched countless how to crook videos and something about yours finally clicked and after 2years of trying I landed quite a few today. So thank you
When i learned them I struggled so hard with that board flip popping out. The tension release of the bushings flipped my board under my non-consenting front foot. It killed me because I thought I have them already. But as you say the more you really nollie out the lesser the board pops away flipping. Another thing that helped me was to actually align my shoulders more parallel to the ledge while grinding and popping out. It got me consistent pop out security. Before that I used to just "stand" on this grind with my upper body too much turned "in", like leaving the parallel course. I was lacking motion and could not revert to a parallel pop out. Going parallell or reverting to parallel while popping out was one key for getting out of this trick for me. And to really nollie kind of and push with your back foot when popping out.
The biggest tip for me was having my shoulders parallel too the object I'm gonna grind it helped me stick and grind. It was super weird because I was so used to my shoulders facing forward not sideways 🙃. I thought I was gonna fall backwards 😅. But keeping your shoulders parallel helps to keep the momentum straight after you pinch that inside wheel. Now working on popping out better instead of going fakie. Good luck. Be safe. Consistency is key
Thanx for this channel my friend. I recently picked up my board again because the boardingblood kept boiling in my vaines. The crooked grind was one of the grinds on my bucketlist and thanks of your explainination I finaly was able to land them four times this eve. Scrolling through your channel and watching your other clips I reconize a lot concerning being a working father of 38 without time to skate. Although I quit skating years ago I'd always kept looking for curbs, rails and spots. This reminds me of some words Reda once said during an interview, that once you got hooked on skating you always be a an skateboarder no matter what. Keep on rolling bro and keep up your good word👍💪 Greetz from Holland
Awesome explanation! I never thought about crooked grinds as getting just on that little corner of the truck. I have done them off and on for a good while now but never consistently and my pop out needs a lot of work, I'll try to make it to the park today and try these out.
What's funny is I always loved chomping rails/ledges. Feebles, 50s, 5-0s, smith, fs/bs lip, kf bs tail etc etc. The one trick I never could seem to get was bs crooked grind. Its such a cool trick and looks really fun but I could never seem to get them. I guess makes sense cause I never had learned nose slides, and my nose grinds were always pretty trash. Time to learn them now. I always thought kf bs krook looked really nice.
Haha, I got to work on that sweet radness! I've done a few but I had plenty of those overshooting incidents plus slipping back falls. I'm going to try again focusing on that part of the truck. Another great tutorial! 👍
Wow the focusing your energy on the heels at the end when you pop out / even during the grind is gonna be crucial for my sesh tonight. I’m gonna learn these & have them dialed in. I wanna take the slappy route but I learned these on a big ledge when I was like 17-18 so I just gotta relearn them the way I did with the techniques you explained. Plus that stationary pop out practice / exercise to get used to the feeling of popping out should really help me. That’s my biggest issue with crooked grinds, I can slide them all day & pop high enough on a lot of ledges / rails to get into them but my landing always goes to primo & I think putting my pressure on the heel like you said will really help. I’m so excited lol. Thank you big bro. 🛹😎
I’ve been skating for over 12 years and lost this trick. You have some of the best tutorials I’ve seen so far. Today I crooked a 12 ft ledge and stomped it thanks to this video. Cheers!
Hey Ben I've got a question: I always skated 52mm wheels and I liked them, this week Im getting new wheels(ricta clouds 78a) but they will be 54mm. Will it make a big difference from going from 52 to 54 mm? And will it negatively or positively influence my tricks? I'm really afraid that I'm gonna get wheelbite and flatspots on them and that its gonna negatively influence my skating. Hope you can help! Love your videos btw :)
Bruh how was I ever landing these? I was crooking on the wrong wheel for a decade. I'd pinch on the toe side wheel when you're supposed to pinch heel side for bs crooks. I swear sometimes you completely miss how wrong you're doing something until you hear a proper explanation.
The issues I have with this trick are 1. I find it extremely difficult to slide. I pinch it but doesn’t slide at all. 2. I find every obstacle tall asf when it comes to crooked grind
Your suggestion to focus your mind and visualise that little bit of truck closest to the ledge really helps me with this. I’m learning these on crusty concrete ledges at my local, so this is hard work. I have been struggling with truck positioning and pinching with my little wheels an 8” deck and size 12 feet. Shifting weight to heels from toes for the nollie out is such a little dance. Your appreciation of the truck positioning and the sheer radness of this trick and the pinch at 02:04 is outstanding. I’m 45 and tis my first time attempting crooks a few days ago. I have been trying to just ollie into that pinch stall on a ledge and getting the feel for the pinch in a stall and that pivot point has been a revalation. Contemplating pivoting that little nollie leverage line at 05:00 is not something I had ever done but well worth sitting there and rocking on that line and trying to nollie out for a session. Tonight it was amazing, I put a crook in a line with a boardslide and a fucking huge frontside pop shuv off a ramp. I’m serious I got so much dopamine from this trick I was flying about 2m in the air with the FS shuv. Jumped into the local bowl for a carve and ollied out into a crook stall. WTF. Getting consistency and sliding in the bowl, crook to fakie, and crook nollie out back into the bowl next…
My problem is that I don’t get that krooked pinch. I do it too straight on the ledge like a backside nosegrind. And When I do that, I get stuck. How Can I fix this?
Perfect tutorial ,just for the pop out if you are struggling focus more on your back foot sort of “kick” motion rather than your front foot “pop” it will look about the same but much easier 👍🏽 hope that helps.
I just don’t grind I do get into crooked grind position but then my body goes forward and it doesn’t matter how fast I go or how much wax I put on. Please help!
My main problem with this is the front foot ends up too far on the end of the board so I fly forwards. It's like my front foot needs to do the equivalent of a 1 inch punch. Don't know how you Ollie up onto it without scaping the front foot forwards.
This time I want to push through learning them. They have been an annoying phase trick that I come close to or land a few boinked ones but never have ln lock. I think the reason is that I don't get into the pinch correctly because I'm a toe side dude
When I was young I could crooked grind great but couldn't land in a nose slide for the life of me. I can slappy nose slide now but am afraid to Ollie into a nose slide or crooked grind
I can't get "das Pinch", "sweet radness" or login properly....with my 55mm Indys and 52mm wheels.....its barely possible to get a wheelbite...in my opinion this is necessary to lock in perfect? My trucks are very loose.....anyone with the same problem? My english is not the best. :D Great channel, greetings from Germany
I was doing crooked grinds this morning, and then that exact slam you mentioned at the beginning happened to me. I am now sitting on the couch watching youtube and icing my hip.
Great video, and well explained. Still can't wait for inward heel one. I still can't get this out to regular, always feel like I need to turn out. I will take your knowledge to the park tomorrow. I must say prefer doing them frontside for comfort, I have always struggeled with backside stuff.
Why ledge trucks would you recommend leaning in order. I can front side 5050 ledges at the skatepark and I can also backside boardslide rails. What truck would you recommend learning next ?
i learned these like ten years ago because my friend's dad welded us up a flatbar that was super wide on top with a gnarly sharp corner.i think i got into a few on accident trying noseslides and just threw myself at them for 3 months until they started grinding the whole rail. i couldn't get out of them until i learned how to pop put of crooked stalls on tall ledges.
hi dude reading this, if you havin troubles with the k-grinds flipping out constantly it might be ur damn back foot not be flat. My troubles when learning this trick was due to my back foot being on my toes which lead to the board flipping out or even landing premo. Oh and keep those shoulders aligned as it will help you're momentum and it'll flow and get steezy wit it
I’ve been skating for over 12 years and lost this trick. You have some of the best tutorials I’ve seen so far on UA-cam. Today I crooked a 12 ft ledge and stomped it thanks to this video. Cheers!
I've gone 17 years without doing crooks consistently (in that 17 years I've landed 2). Watch this and got them back within an hour. Relearning ticks at 35 is a great feeling. Thanks.
in the same boat , picking up skating again at 35 , used to skate 13-19 , now im back
Trying to relearn these as well !
I like how you're doing a crook in your pic lol.
5 years off, 1st month back in @ 22 years old. got off drugs and i’m working on my body a lot, skating coming back kinda slow, shout-out all the return skaters 😎
Big facts lol
I was stuck on this trick for about three months. Until one day, something just clicked and I landed it. It was probably one of the happiest moments of my life. I love crooked grinds. They are so hard to learn, but they are totally worth the time.
Exactly the same fkn sh*t :(
I haven’t learned then yet, but like a month ago I tried one for the first time and my trucks locked in perfectly. I didn’t expect it so I didn’t land it, but I was so hype and now I can’t even get close to what I did...
I learned them yesterday in 30 minutes
Tried it today for the first time and i somehow lokced in to super long one i was having trouble coming off but i landed a short one so im hyped
I dont know how but i got this trick in 2 days.🤗🤗
"Check out that sweet radness" made my day
I’m going to try to switch the weight to my heel because my board flips every time and it’s so frustrating
I have the same problem. Did it work?
@@noahthefilmer9100 it did end up working but what really helped was to angle my front foot before popping into the ledge and coming out of the crooked grind into Fakie helped a ton on figuring out how to grind the trick properly. Good luck on your progression 👍🏼
Higher ledges seemed easier for me when first learning crooks..I always slipped out backwards on smaller ones
fr seems so much easier on a bigger ledge
Medium sized ledge is perfect imo, too small is annoying and kinda scary sometimes just cuz it doesn’t feel as stable but it’s hard to stand over it and grind on a big ledge
Back when I was a teenager, I learned these going fakie out and then just learned to shove it out since my board was doing the same motion. Felt really rad haha. Never could get the hang of the nollie out with them. Also half cabbing into them feels really good as well. Currently 34 and finally came back to skating after 17 or 18 years away and trying to build up the courage to try these again.
I’m about to be a Krookie Monster for the next month or two. The time has finally come to learn these! Accidentally locked into one after under-rotating a nose slide and I was like, “oh, that’s what it feels like! Game on, I’m learning K-grinds now!”
"Sweet radness" of a video! Cheers!
Das Pinch
That ledge is so easy to hang onto. Super sharp but it shreds wheels.
I can't believe this video has less views than the tutorial from braille. Not a single thing was said about the heel pinch concept which is basically how you get them real proper
I've watched countless how to crook videos and something about yours finally clicked and after 2years of trying I landed quite a few today. So thank you
When i learned them I struggled so hard with that board flip popping out. The tension release of the bushings flipped my board under my non-consenting front foot. It killed me because I thought I have them already. But as you say the more you really nollie out the lesser the board pops away flipping. Another thing that helped me was to actually align my shoulders more parallel to the ledge while grinding and popping out. It got me consistent pop out security. Before that I used to just "stand" on this grind with my upper body too much turned "in", like leaving the parallel course. I was lacking motion and could not revert to a parallel pop out. Going parallell or reverting to parallel while popping out was one key for getting out of this trick for me. And to really nollie kind of and push with your back foot when popping out.
The biggest tip for me was having my shoulders parallel too the object I'm gonna grind it helped me stick and grind. It was super weird because I was so used to my shoulders facing forward not sideways 🙃. I thought I was gonna fall backwards 😅. But keeping your shoulders parallel helps to keep the momentum straight after you pinch that inside wheel. Now working on popping out better instead of going fakie. Good luck. Be safe. Consistency is key
Thanx for this channel my friend. I recently picked up my board again because the boardingblood kept boiling in my vaines. The crooked grind was one of the grinds on my bucketlist and thanks of your explainination I finaly was able to land them four times this eve. Scrolling through your channel and watching your other clips I reconize a lot concerning being a working father of 38 without time to skate. Although I quit skating years ago I'd always kept looking for curbs, rails and spots. This reminds me of some words Reda once said during an interview, that once you got hooked on skating you always be a an skateboarder no matter what. Keep on rolling bro and keep up your good word👍💪 Greetz from Holland
Close your eyes and envision a younger Jordan Peterson teaching you how to crook.
Awesome explanation! I never thought about crooked grinds as getting just on that little corner of the truck. I have done them off and on for a good while now but never consistently and my pop out needs a lot of work, I'll try to make it to the park today and try these out.
I landed my first bs crook today because of this video
feel like i’m learning how to crook from jordan peterson lol
What's funny is I always loved chomping rails/ledges. Feebles, 50s, 5-0s, smith, fs/bs lip, kf bs tail etc etc. The one trick I never could seem to get was bs crooked grind. Its such a cool trick and looks really fun but I could never seem to get them. I guess makes sense cause I never had learned nose slides, and my nose grinds were always pretty trash. Time to learn them now. I always thought kf bs krook looked really nice.
Great tutorial! The filming, slowmo, and still shots were excellent!
just landed one of these today! so nice
Haha, I got to work on that sweet radness! I've done a few but I had plenty of those overshooting incidents plus slipping back falls. I'm going to try again focusing on that part of the truck. Another great tutorial! 👍
Wow the focusing your energy on the heels at the end when you pop out / even during the grind is gonna be crucial for my sesh tonight. I’m gonna learn these & have them dialed in. I wanna take the slappy route but I learned these on a big ledge when I was like 17-18 so I just gotta relearn them the way I did with the techniques you explained. Plus that stationary pop out practice / exercise to get used to the feeling of popping out should really help me. That’s my biggest issue with crooked grinds, I can slide them all day & pop high enough on a lot of ledges / rails to get into them but my landing always goes to primo & I think putting my pressure on the heel like you said will really help. I’m so excited lol. Thank you big bro. 🛹😎
Perfect timing! At the moment I’m doing the grocery shopping and this video will help me get through the process. Thank you Ben.
How dare you Ben. How dare you wear Adidas pants with SB’s >:(
A other tutorial said: to nollie out, since you “can’t” pop downwards, push the front foot (“pop”) forward.
Thoughts? 😅
Thank you for the tips! Has anyone ever told you that you sound like Mark Proksch from The Office/Better Call Saul?
This video is absolutely phenomenal! This helped so much on my journey to a perfect crook.
I’ve been skating for over 12 years and lost this trick. You have some of the best tutorials I’ve seen so far. Today I crooked a 12 ft ledge and stomped it thanks to this video. Cheers!
I always have my front toe slightly off the side of the board when I pop in to a crook
Hey Ben I've got a question: I always skated 52mm wheels and I liked them, this week Im getting new wheels(ricta clouds 78a) but they will be 54mm. Will it make a big difference from going from 52 to 54 mm? And will it negatively or positively influence my tricks? I'm really afraid that I'm gonna get wheelbite and flatspots on them and that its gonna negatively influence my skating. Hope you can help! Love your videos btw :)
Bruh how was I ever landing these? I was crooking on the wrong wheel for a decade. I'd pinch on the toe side wheel when you're supposed to pinch heel side for bs crooks. I swear sometimes you completely miss how wrong you're doing something until you hear a proper explanation.
How I learned it was by going for a nose slide but being a bit closer to the ledge than normal. I landed my first one trying a nose slide.
thank you for cheering the elderly... im one of them :D
The issues I have with this trick are 1. I find it extremely difficult to slide. I pinch it but doesn’t slide at all. 2. I find every obstacle tall asf when it comes to crooked grind
Sweet crooked grinds
landed crooked shuv. crooked 180. crooked nollie bigspin.
but a regular pop out? hardest thing in the world for me.
Your suggestion to focus your mind and visualise that little bit of truck closest to the ledge really helps me with this. I’m learning these on crusty concrete ledges at my local, so this is hard work. I have been struggling with truck positioning and pinching with my little wheels an 8” deck and size 12 feet. Shifting weight to heels from toes for the nollie out is such a little dance. Your appreciation of the truck positioning and the sheer radness of this trick and the pinch at 02:04 is outstanding. I’m 45 and tis my first time attempting crooks a few days ago. I have been trying to just ollie into that pinch stall on a ledge and getting the feel for the pinch in a stall and that pivot point has been a revalation. Contemplating pivoting that little nollie leverage line at 05:00 is not something I had ever done but well worth sitting there and rocking on that line and trying to nollie out for a session. Tonight it was amazing, I put a crook in a line with a boardslide and a fucking huge frontside pop shuv off a ramp. I’m serious I got so much dopamine from this trick I was flying about 2m in the air with the FS shuv. Jumped into the local bowl for a carve and ollied out into a crook stall. WTF. Getting consistency and sliding in the bowl, crook to fakie, and crook nollie out back into the bowl next…
My problem is that I don’t get that krooked pinch. I do it too straight on the ledge like a backside nosegrind. And When I do that, I get stuck. How Can I fix this?
How’s the production quality of this video? A voice over and some slow mo 😱😱😱
I finally got a USB mic for voiceovers.
Love your page and tips Ben! I’ve been able to progress very quickly as a 30 yr old skater thanks to your help. Requesting a FS Noseslide video!!
Perfect tutorial ,just for the pop out if you are struggling focus more on your back foot sort of “kick” motion rather than your front foot “pop” it will look about the same but much easier 👍🏽 hope that helps.
great explanation, Ben. thanks for going into detail on the foot placement/weight when popping out. That's where I always get stuck. litterally lol.
I just don’t grind I do get into crooked grind position but then my body goes forward and it doesn’t matter how fast I go or how much wax I put on.
Please help!
I recently changed board and ever since for mysterious reason my board always flip. I can’t get on the ledge anymore
My main problem with this is the front foot ends up too far on the end of the board so I fly forwards. It's like my front foot needs to do the equivalent of a 1 inch punch. Don't know how you Ollie up onto it without scaping the front foot forwards.
holy shit I thought I clicked the wrong vid and was about to learn about mudding
It's like being taught to skate from Jordan Peterson.
This time I want to push through learning them. They have been an annoying phase trick that I come close to or land a few boinked ones but never have ln lock. I think the reason is that I don't get into the pinch correctly because I'm a toe side dude
I got an egg shaped board yesterday...I HATE IT so far.
Definitely not sweet, or rad...obviously not even close to "sweet radness"
I'm not a fan of the egg board either. What brand and deck?
My only ledge tricks are fs 50-50 and bs crooked grind, I literally can’t do anything else lol
When I was young I could crooked grind great but couldn't land in a nose slide for the life of me. I can slappy nose slide now but am afraid to Ollie into a nose slide or crooked grind
I can't describe to u how much I hate learning this trick, I just can't rotate to the ledge for sum reason
I could only crooked grind to fakie and shuv out never regular but I’m going to start trying again
This trick should be banned. I believe its attemptable but not finishable
I can slappy switch crooked grind but have never done a regular one
How would u get that type of crook with tight trucks
Thanks for the tips! Gonna try tomorrow. Ur swag has come a long way from 5 years ago haha
thought i sucked at these but found out those mistakes are just learning mistakes. the slip out one scares me each time.
Is that an Ontario accent? idk if you are but you sound incredibly Canadian
Yessss I just started learning these this week. Landed a few so far but its not consistent, definitely going to apply these tips today.
btw, I would love a tutorial from you for back smith grinds
not totally true on the intro part. i don't have nose slides. but i have crooked grinds on roundrail and ledges
Any other tips nearly finding it impossible to get out of crooks
I tried to learn these yesterday and landed a few then exactly what he said at 1:30 happened
I wanna learn these so bad, thanks for the video ✌🏻 ‘radness’
Oh hi i watchef your cj skatepark clips
Let's go landed finally with going good out but still having a hard time to get out of the grind
Being all rad- vocabulary is awesome
I can't get "das Pinch", "sweet radness" or login properly....with my 55mm Indys and 52mm wheels.....its barely possible to get a wheelbite...in my opinion this is necessary to lock in perfect? My trucks are very loose.....anyone with the same problem?
My english is not the best. :D
Great channel, greetings from Germany
Just keep trying. It shouldn't be the setup holding you back.
I was doing crooked grinds this morning, and then that exact slam you mentioned at the beginning happened to me. I am now sitting on the couch watching youtube and icing my hip.
You have killed my wish to train krook for today...
I try crooked but i got too much used to Salad grind
I got the grind down but can’t hop out
The cloud is amazing in this video...
The tip of there on the truck to aim for was key for me! Thanks G!!
My problem with this is when I lock in I stick because my foot comes half off the nose and hits the ledge.... I don’t know how to fix this
Nice video, nice tutorial 10/10
Great video, and well explained. Still can't wait for inward heel one. I still can't get this out to regular, always feel like I need to turn out. I will take your knowledge to the park tomorrow. I must say prefer doing them frontside for comfort, I have always struggeled with backside stuff.
I wish I was comfortable with frontside ones. They are soooo HARD!
when i tried crooked grind it becomes bs nose grind :) help me
I got a tip to push the board forward a little when you are popping out. I feel like it helps, but i'm not too good at crooks.
Does it matter how loose or tight your trucks are?
These are a lot easier than noseslides in my opinion
Do you prefer crooks on indys or thunders?
Good videos , bro ! Nice explanation and person , too . I´ve
subscribed . Greetings from germany :-)
the most dadbro outfit
Learning lazy grinds/willy grinds first make this trick soooo much easier to learn
Really good tutorial
I can’t nose slide but I’m still close
is that the skatepark in richmond
Why ledge trucks would you recommend leaning in order. I can front side 5050 ledges at the skatepark and I can also backside boardslide rails. What truck would you recommend learning next ?
Great vid thank u so much
Can always count on Ben >:3❤
i learned these like ten years ago because my friend's dad welded us up a flatbar that was super wide on top with a gnarly sharp corner.i think i got into a few on accident trying noseslides and just threw myself at them for 3 months until they started grinding the whole rail. i couldn't get out of them until i learned how to pop put of crooked stalls on tall ledges.
Barry Allen on a skateboard
"All bent out and RAAAAD lookin'." Lol
Really enjoy the process to land a trick following your tutorials! Today I will try this one, thanks Ben!!
Lean back during grind I guess that’s what you forgot to tell
hi dude reading this, if you havin troubles with the k-grinds flipping out constantly it might be ur damn back foot not be flat. My troubles when learning this trick was due to my back foot being on my toes which lead to the board flipping out or even landing premo. Oh and keep those shoulders aligned as it will help you're momentum and it'll flow and get steezy wit it
I’ve been skating for over 12 years and lost this trick. You have some of the best tutorials I’ve seen so far on UA-cam. Today I crooked a 12 ft ledge and stomped it thanks to this video. Cheers!
I can k-grind a whole ledge, but I can't pop out. I also can't nollie very well, so maybe I should practice those while I'm at it.
check out that sweet radness
I keep going into nose slide :(