The Coleman slide, or any longboard slide for that matter, is an important skill needed for going down hill where you might need to stop short (for example, riding on a hill where cars drive).
This instructable covers the Coleman slide which is considered the best first slide by many boarders. After learning this slide, you can move on to many other slides like pendulums, standing slides, and others.
Sub Note: I do not have any pictures of myself sliding, so Instead I have used a picture of the inventor of the Coleman slide, Cliff Coleman.
Image Source: http://www.geocities.com/sk8sanjose/coleman.jpg
This instructable covers the Coleman slide which is considered the best first slide by many boarders. After learning this slide, you can move on to many other slides like pendulums, standing slides, and others.
Sub Note: I do not have any pictures of myself sliding, so Instead I have used a picture of the inventor of the Coleman slide, Cliff Coleman.
Image Source: http://www.geocities.com/sk8sanjose/coleman.jpg
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Signing UpStep 1: What you will need:
- Some skateboarding experience: Be able to carve down hills.
- Sliding gloves: 100% necessary, either buy some, or make some using this guide:
Sliding gloves allow you to put your hands on the ground at speed without hurting yourself.
- A board: again, 100% necessary, make one using this guide:
Your trucks should be pretty loose, but not super duper loose. Wheels, although you will hear otherwise, aren't that important, just don't cry if you wreck your soft wheels.
- A helmet: YOU NEED ONE, you might die without one
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lol how r you?
Cliff Coleman is my friend and a skateboarding legend.
If you want to be a better instructor, add some detailed information on how to wind up and carve into the slide, what to do with your free hand while sliding, how to lean into the slide, how long you should slide for based on your speed, and how to get out of the slide and back into the starting position.
Don't you dare give Cliff Coleman a bad name. He is just almost 61 and can STILL out-skate most people I know.
so if you are a regular foot, (meaning your left foot is in front of the board), you will do a small carve to the right then as you are coming out of that carve, you will put your right knee down on top of your front left foot while at the same time, putting down your sliding glove next to the board on the ground NO FARTHER THAN 18 INCHES FROM THE BOARD. you will want to twist your upper torso to the left as you go into the slide, brining your right arm across you over to the left side of your body. you want to do this so you can have enough momentum to get back up. Practice stopping completely at first to get a feel for how it works, and also so you can build your muscle memory. pretty soon, you will get a feel for swinging your right arm back to the right side so it will bring you back up on your feet to the board so you may continue to bomb the hill at a slower speed than you started out with. oh wow I typed a lot... BUT ABOVE ALL!!!!!! WEAR--------YOUR---------EFFFING-----------HELMET.
Steeze = Style + Ease.
And:
When Cliff has his hand free of the board, he is swinging it around the front of his body, over his other shoulder. This helps rotate the shoulders. After getting your shoulders into rotation, your hips will follow, which is key to really initiating the slide. Speed helps.
Go for it! Really rotate and throw around the slide, coming out evenly weighted so the you don't fall off after whipping it around 180.
You will feel so much more confident when you know that you can stop if you find yourself going too fast for comfort.
Also great job on your instructable!