Lightfoot is the key to it all in my opinion. I always heard everyone just say "ram it in, brute force" and stuff like that and it never worked so after a while I just started doing the opposite of what everyone was saying and it all worked out! Like he said it's almost like how you get light on the board as if you're doing a powerslide or a chinese nollie and it slips right in there.
I am currently hyping myself up to try. Whats it like learning them? Did you slam much? I can do Slappy Nose Slides really well but Slappy 50-50 always baffled me.
Being in my 30s I just picked skating back up after a 10 year hiatus. Skating curbs/flat is mainly all I do now. It's so fun. Also shoutout to Ace Pelka. Dude rips!
FUCKING PREACH!!! I'm 27, got a jacked up lead knee, and I work 9-5. I can only skate at a park on the weekends or when the wife watches kiddo. Def all kinds of skateboarding and I'm gaining a ton of respect for the simple shit as I get older.
the secret is getting the toe-side wheel to roll up onto the curb until that front truck connects and grinds then you just follow (slap!) in with the back truck.
This was great to see! I just built a curb in my driveway. I've been skating. But hadn't done a slappy in prob 2 decades. And am amazed I just learned front slappys too at 47yrs old!! I looked at as doing a front pool slash to get into it. Drop the heels and slash!! Pastras ideas I'm curious of mixing it in also!
it saddens me that yall dont watch Loveletters to Skatebooarding With Jeff Grosso. Come on .... you dont know the story of the Slappy?... you guys are pros. you gotta know these things. and im sure you guys have had mountain or lucero on.
I went to the park today to try to learn slappy crooks since that is supposedly the easiest one to learn. Ollie to crook, no problem. Slappy crook, wtf?!? I felt like such a fool lol. Hope to get it soon though. Looks like a ton of fun and the older I get, the less I want to ollie.
i love slappys! i rubbed bricked a bunch of curbs in my hometown . i have 3 sons and when i have a littl break i go out to the highway where i set up haha i fuckn love it!
It's high impact, brother. When that front truck gets hung up and you go flying... the shoulder, the thigh... you can slam VERY hard. Just know this... keep your back foot on the bolts. Once that front truck is gliding you're pretty much golden from there.
My hack that helped me for fs 50-50, is pre pinch the front toe side pocket as your turning into the curb then last second unpinch it then you’ll bash right in to the curb
"It's *all* skateboarding, and it's fuckin' fun!" That's some Ghandi level shit right there...or at least worth throwing on some 9 club merch, I'll take a mens medium t-shirt please.
Slappy 5050s have a really similar setup to crooks. Once you get your front truck up, powerslide into it keeping your shoulders inline with the board. If your shoulders arent square its harder to get the back truck up and you're more likely to Willy grind or crooked grind
@@cjpccelerity29 exactly what tend to happen to me if wanna do slappy back 50. its always gonna go to slappy willy and definitely i find slappy crook is way easier.
I only use them if I want to retire the board and somewhat preserve the graphic. Other than that, it's all preference. And everslick boards definitely don't require rails.
Nah, works fine, and honestly a lot of curbs boardslide just how they are, no wax or anything, so to me having rails seems like you'd just slip out and die lol
7:18 That skatepark was Whittier skatepark. (Skate City) John Lucero and Richard Armijo got kicked out permanently so they started skating the curbs in the parking lot. 🔥🛹
56 years and still bashing curbs. Every session is the best time I ever had on a skateboard.
legend
Lightfoot is the key to it all in my opinion. I always heard everyone just say "ram it in, brute force" and stuff like that and it never worked so after a while I just started doing the opposite of what everyone was saying and it all worked out! Like he said it's almost like how you get light on the board as if you're doing a powerslide or a chinese nollie and it slips right in there.
I am currently hyping myself up to try. Whats it like learning them? Did you slam much? I can do Slappy Nose Slides really well but Slappy 50-50 always baffled me.
man i appreciate this and will definitely try the next time i got the chance.
Also don’t put your front foot directly on the bolts because once you come in contact with the curb your front foot will move forward a bit .
@@PsychoCitySkateboards ah so more like ollie position?
I’m 44 and can do slappy crooks to backside catalog. But just getting on a curb 50-50 to me is ALL LIGHT on board and even a bit of a hop
Thank you guys so much for talking about curb skating. It has completely changed how I view skating in my 30s
Slappies are the essence of shralping
Being in my 30s I just picked skating back up after a 10 year hiatus. Skating curbs/flat is mainly all I do now. It's so fun. Also shoutout to Ace Pelka. Dude rips!
The bombshell at the end though!! Also, just dipping my feet into slappys. They are fun once you get over the mental barrier. Frontside next!
FUCKING PREACH!!! I'm 27, got a jacked up lead knee, and I work 9-5. I can only skate at a park on the weekends or when the wife watches kiddo. Def all kinds of skateboarding and I'm gaining a ton of respect for the simple shit as I get older.
the secret is getting the toe-side wheel to roll up onto the curb until that front truck connects and grinds then you just follow (slap!) in with the back truck.
This was great to see! I just built a curb in my driveway. I've been skating. But hadn't done a slappy in prob 2 decades. And am amazed I just learned front slappys too at 47yrs old!! I looked at as doing a front pool slash to get into it. Drop the heels and slash!! Pastras ideas I'm curious of mixing it in also!
i'm stoked he mentioned aaron. got to skate with him a couple summers ago, such a rad and creative skater
I’m 37. Curbs and mini ramps is all I can do now, but those are really the most fun anyway.
it saddens me that yall dont watch Loveletters to Skatebooarding With Jeff Grosso. Come on .... you dont know the story of the Slappy?... you guys are pros. you gotta know these things. and im sure you guys have had mountain or lucero on.
Just cause they didn’t watch it on the show doesn’t mean they didn’t see it
He paraphrases the story…
I went to the park today to try to learn slappy crooks since that is supposedly the easiest one to learn. Ollie to crook, no problem. Slappy crook, wtf?!? I felt like such a fool lol. Hope to get it soon though. Looks like a ton of fun and the older I get, the less I want to ollie.
I used to skate curbs a lot, but always ollying into it. Being a big dude I broke kingpins enough without slappying in 🤣
Curbs were our first skatepark
slappys took me back to childhood feelings
“We’ve got that skater OCD don’t give up thing…” dude, my success as an adult is mostly from that. Skateboarding saves…
Slappys are fun as fuck man. I can cruise around for hours looking for nice curbs lol
Takes me back to the beginning, its like 1993 again hanging out
this makin me wanna learn slappies
I always described it as doing a wall ride on a 75 degree wall. Pretty much feels the same.
i love slappys! i rubbed bricked a bunch of curbs in my hometown . i have 3 sons and when i have a littl break i go out to the highway where i set up haha i fuckn love it!
I can't keep my back foot on, it's scary to hold on even though I know it's so low impact.
It's high impact, brother. When that front truck gets hung up and you go flying... the shoulder, the thigh... you can slam VERY hard. Just know this... keep your back foot on the bolts. Once that front truck is gliding you're pretty much golden from there.
Both feet are key, enter with the front.....donkey Kong with the back:)
jazz messengers night in tunisia record in the back. Yeah dune! lol
Its a gnarly carve slash, lean way back away from it, treat the curb like a ramp.
Just got bs slappy boards, wanting to progress to other slappys. Thank you for this 🙏🏼
Same here. Let’s get it dude!!!
If you've got the board you'll have the feeble any minute now, pretty similar in my opinion!
@@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin just gotta ride on and lock Into it yeah?
@@PatPrika42 Pretty much! I imagine the curb as a little quarterpipe almost
Get it!!!!!
broke my hand learning bs slappys. they be no joke. fun though
TincanFolklore Shining In the Background! I Didnt See RubbishHeap & the People at BK Still Dont Know Dune😃♠️👓
I needed this, gonna go try today 🤟
My hack that helped me for fs 50-50, is pre pinch the front toe side pocket as your turning into the curb then last second unpinch it then you’ll bash right in to the curb
I’m 25 and basically all I skate is curbs after my 2nd acl surgery it’s been so fun learning something new
I’ll say it again you need to get John lucero
Once you get that first slappy crook you become slappy happy Fosho
That’s a basic slappy tho so idk about that
aye shout out aaron yant
"It's *all* skateboarding, and it's fuckin' fun!" That's some Ghandi level shit right there...or at least worth throwing on some 9 club merch, I'll take a mens medium t-shirt please.
im heavy footed and just tried brutin it lol. no bueno. ill try this
lean on your heels, carve that thing picture it like it's pool coping
Damn. Wish I had some good curbs by me now.
Respect 🙏
It's how I started and ending it
Chris being self conscious about slappies is silly to me 😂 he’s a manual guy, that’s arguably even more silly than slappies
48 lol slappi÷s for dinner at night all alone awsome curbs stoned crazy dope music earbuds and fvck12✌🏻💚💨
Curbs 4lyphe! Dune rules
I can only do slappy crook. I always want to slappy 5050s and all that but my brain just won’t click. 😢
Slappy Crooks are dope. I am the same with Slappy 5050s.
Slappy 5050s have a really similar setup to crooks. Once you get your front truck up, powerslide into it keeping your shoulders inline with the board. If your shoulders arent square its harder to get the back truck up and you're more likely to Willy grind or crooked grind
@@cjpccelerity29 exactly what tend to happen to me if wanna do slappy back 50. its always gonna go to slappy willy and definitely i find slappy crook is way easier.
It’s fun tho!
Lucero shot a person with a water gun full of piss.
Do I need rails to try and slappy boardslide? I’ve never loved the idea of screwing into my hosrd
Board
They make you slide easier but they aren't a requirement, most people don't have them and boardslide just fine
I only use them if I want to retire the board and somewhat preserve the graphic. Other than that, it's all preference. And everslick boards definitely don't require rails.
no
Nah, works fine, and honestly a lot of curbs boardslide just how they are, no wax or anything, so to me having rails seems like you'd just slip out and die lol
the secret is to chinese ollie up the curb and you will slappie
AARON YANT
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Have a friend that broke his foot in 3 different places doing slappies, shit not easy
two slappy gods that were not mentioned 1. d. corrigan 2. bev up
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Does anyone can donate me a skateboard if they can ???
This convo vid basic
Just got into slappys. I wanna see the gay dude do slappys, he seems like a good skater
7:18 That skatepark was Whittier skatepark. (Skate City) John Lucero and Richard Armijo got kicked out permanently so they started skating the curbs in the parking lot. 🔥🛹