don't make fun but he and his wife are actually ballet dancers, so they're super disciplined people, can break down every little movement in their bodies, and their body awareness is basically elite status.
This guy: "this is how to do this trick, 5 mins of useful video" Current Braille: "chitter chatter, tiny explanation, here's the new revive drop, hey look at what that guys doing, 15min video"
@@alexquinnell2356 everyone on the team now can do back tails better than this guy can. I do agree that their videos are typically a bunch of junk with a little bit of skating these days. I do appreciate that this guy got straight to the point.
I've been trying backside tailslides for months now. Get on some and roll away on occasion. Taken some of the worst slams imaginable on a ledge in all of the years i've been skating. After watching your tutorial I can say that now I still can't back tail but it looks amazing.
learning front boards first is what really helped me with this trick. learning & getting used to keeping your shoulders straight and awkwardly only turning your lower body, as well as sliding backwards.
like with any trick, pointers can only go as far as your own brain can interpret them, but this definitely provided some inspo to learn!! cant wait for my ankle to heal up so I can get out and try and lock these down
Actually the backside 50-50 tutorial worked out really well, at least I locked in with my front truck. The wheelbase video also helped me a lot, I love your videos. Much love from Italy.
I wasnt feeling this video 5 months ago when I watched it. Some of it made sense but back tails didn’t. Now that I can really got backtails down this video makes more sense. And I show it to other people now
Just having good backside tailslide on ledge or flat rails is actually a very good level of skateboarding i'd like to have. And I think that we all dreamed of landing a kickflip backside tailslide one day when we started skating. Just landing it on a ledge would be amazing
This was really helpful. Trying it on curbs was definitely useful to get the motion down (and surprisingly harder than I thought it would be, haha.) Been working on this trick off and on for about a month and making progress - landed a handful that weren't so bad. This inspired me to get out and learn them. Thanks, dude!
Dude if I could only do that one trick I'd be happy to do them all day! I'm 38 and haven't seriously skated since I was 26. I can barely kick flip these days.
keep at it. i got back into it too (32) after taking over a decade off. i was able to get a couple flip tricks and ledge tricks. some advice though dont go to big. i tried to ollie off a 5 foot wall and slammed. messed my ankle and knee. now i stick to low impact.
@@squiqqlewiggles2440 funny enough I slept on it again until recently, I ended up learning a bunch of other stuff since then. I just recently learned these on curbs though, so now I just have to bring them up to actual ledges which I am working on now. I actually went to an unwaxed stair at my local park and got into them 100 times to make absolutely sure I could get into them consistently, after that a lot of the discomfort goes away. Super fun and satisfying trick !
Jimmy Two-Times yo don’t stereotype my glorious countries culture or else I may send you a cheese and wine gift basket with a polite, but disapproving, letter attached to it.
used to practice backside 50-50 on curbs.. then to tail, then ^V^ skip straight to tail. The whole thing is ta shifty your back foot, like a frontside slappy calls for, but the other way with your foot gadget.
i was thinking about these a lot lately because ive never been able to do them and most likely never will. However, if i was going to make a real effort to learn them i think the trick progression would go like this. Get solid with backside 180s, then backside 5050s, backside 5-0, backside smith, then finally backside tail.
I slammed the right side of my back on the ledge I was trying, skateboarding both sucks and is awesome at the same time. Wish I had filmed it tbh, good slam!
The unwaxed curb recommendation is kind of a YYMV bit of advice. If you get too comfortable knowing you're going to stop dead, it can lead to really bad habits in terms of where your back foot and body's weight and balance are when you start trying to slide for real. And that can lead to exactly the kind of slip outs Ben shows can happen. I'm actually more of a proponent of trying it on a slightly waxed surface so you learn sooner where proper balance and weight are. On a buttered ledge learning you're going to slip and fly out a majority of the time and it'll be more tedious to find the nuance in balance because the margin of error will be so skewed toward slipping out anyhow. On something that will slide a bit with proper balance you'll know when you're right. When you're wrong, you'll stop dead or slip out a bit but nothing too severe.
your grip still looks so clean, my city is full of red dirt, fucks up shoes and board.Nice video Ben, I'll try to get these fs and bs. ps.: your audio is good but you should get those mics that you put on your shirt!
I was trying to learn fs tail slides a wile and I give up and once I tryed again and It just clicked I would try same with back tails .maybe that is the way it works for me
My local spot has either a small step, or the big waxed ledge, fun fact, I actually landed kickflip bs tailslide before, and now I can't even do a regular bs tailslide even without sliding, part of this is because bs flip is a trick I really locked down. But now gotta put my balls on my shoulders and bring it to the waxed ledge, feel like this trick is way more about the mindset than about the actual movement 😃
have you seen mat berger's part on the etnies video "album" ?? BEST bs tail combo of life on the best spot to do it in. i wont spoil unless someone wants the hype for reason to buy that video
Hi Ben. Your back tails are so sick. I've skated the downtown plaza for the past decade but have never seen you there! Also, does your brother Ted still skate? He kinda disappeared after his amazing part in Strange Brew. Hope that your knee is better. Talk to you soon.
Thanks Mr BluntNose. Ted isn't really skating at the moment. Busy life with not much time or anyone he wants to skate with in his area. I only just started skating the plaza a bit more again. I have hardly been there in a decade so that explains why you haven't seen me. Look me up on Insta and we can go for a skate some time:)
Thanks for the reply. I moved to Auckland, New Zealand a few months ago and not sure when I'm back but will definitely let you know when I do! If you haven't done it already, I'm sure that you'd be able to back tail over the grate by that long ass ledge at plaza. I wanted to try that but had to leave Canada by the time I felt ready. Didn't help that I had to work in Nelson BC for the last 2 years. Anyways, I heard that Plaza might be torn down soon so might as well skate the hell out of it. Thanks again for your reply. Take care. Looking forward to your next video.
@Ben Degros good explanation sorry for asking this, do you still running the bones bushings they are good I'm gonna get them too I've got some problems with old ones that I have keep up I really like your videos, don't stop making 'em and sorry again about my english, I'm from Brazil so still learning !!
thanks man, keep up doing these amazing videos, could you please get a pair of silver trucks and test 'em, I think they pretty good and its not expensive in my country maybe u gonna do that or not but don't worry thanks again :D
Ben can you show us slappy's. There's a perfect curb down the street from my house. It's already been waxed by other locals, but I'm still afraid to just ran into it. *ram
Ben Degros No problem at all. I'm just gonna try to get hyped with my friends and go try it. Thanks for the reply. Really keeps me a faithful subscriber. Cheers Ben
I was riding bronson regulars with the shields popped and a whole bunch of dirt in them. They are super slow right now. I don't really like doing bearing reviews. They make for boring content. I would say the Bronsons are good and Bones are slightly better. Bearing review done!
So my main problem is when i get in perfectly for the slide I'm not ready for it and I slip out. Trying to figure how to control the slide right now when i get in.
Finally think I figured them out. It really is a combination of speed and commitment. Landed a couple shitty ones today and will continue to work on them. Thanks for the help, Already starting to figure out the switch ones but they are so hard.
I've been trying these on a curb. I can lock in pretty much every try, but whenever I take it to a waxed curb, i slip out... Can anyone give me some tips? Much appreciated
I've got them to fakie, and nollie back tail to reg, still working on getting a regular back tail slide back to reg. My heel keeps hitting and i go flying, or do a back tail stall. Any advice? Good tips Mr carpenter
Hi Evan:) There was a short window of time where I think I could have done something with my skating. Maybe from about 16 to 22. The problem was I spent that time drinking and doing drugs so I was not keeping pace with the progression of skateboarding. Also, at that time it was pretty hard to have a career in skating without doing big gaps and rails and I have never been into them. Also, I never actually quit skating but I started having kids at 25 so I was much more focused on career and family from about 25-35. I still skated but I was slowly losing my abilities over time. Lately I have been skating at my highest ability since my mid 20's so that is nice.
I did exactly this. Rolled up super slow to an unwaxed curb, popped a bs ollie, slapped my tail down and it slid like a motherfucker and I almost smashed my teeth out.
I'm so sorry, this is front-side tail slide. That's what they told me the world call it now.. cuz when I Ollie bankside "board" sliding backwards, they call it a front-side slide. 🤔???
That feeling when you sliding on bs tailslide is incredible
Bro came on to a tutorial video to flex that he could already do the trick
@@ericbattye9419 lmaoooooo
Dude sounds like he has a PHD in skateboarding 😂
just want to upvote your comment, but cant really figure out why
don't make fun but he and his wife are actually ballet dancers, so they're super disciplined people, can break down every little movement in their bodies, and their body awareness is basically elite status.
@@darrinsiberia That's incredible! Why would anyone make fun of it?
yea he kinda does
na thats dope. i love how diverse skating is. i’d like to know how he got into skateboarding and how he maintained ballet dancing alongside riding.
This guy: "this is how to do this trick, 5 mins of useful video"
Current Braille: "chitter chatter, tiny explanation, here's the new revive drop, hey look at what that guys doing, 15min video"
Meelo Green no one at braille can even do them lmao
Half an hour of Aaron Kyro screaming at the camera ffs
Alex Quinnell lmao you bring up a good point 😂
@@alexquinnell2356 everyone on the team now can do back tails better than this guy can. I do agree that their videos are typically a bunch of junk with a little bit of skating these days. I do appreciate that this guy got straight to the point.
@@MikeArpeggio345 “this guy” is a legend and much better than those degenerate braille circus acts.
I've been trying backside tailslides for months now. Get on some and roll away on occasion. Taken some of the worst slams imaginable on a ledge in all of the years i've been skating. After watching your tutorial I can say that now I still can't back tail but it looks amazing.
learning front boards first is what really helped me with this trick. learning & getting used to keeping your shoulders straight and awkwardly only turning your lower body, as well as sliding backwards.
Bs lip slides too
like with any trick, pointers can only go as far as your own brain can interpret them, but this definitely provided some inspo to learn!! cant wait for my ankle to heal up so I can get out and try and lock these down
How's the ankle?
Actually the backside 50-50 tutorial worked out really well, at least I locked in with my front truck.
The wheelbase video also helped me a lot, I love your videos.
Much love from Italy.
I wasnt feeling this video 5 months ago when I watched it. Some of it made sense but back tails didn’t. Now that I can really got backtails down this video makes more sense. And I show it to other people now
How guys kick flip to backside tail down rails is a level of skateboard mastery I’ll never know.
Just having good backside tailslide on ledge or flat rails is actually a very good level of skateboarding i'd like to have. And I think that we all dreamed of landing a kickflip backside tailslide one day when we started skating. Just landing it on a ledge would be amazing
this is a dream trick of mine. thank you ben
A level of mastery he says, now you have made it more desirable.
This video and your frontside flip tutorial helped me soooooo much i landed them both in a week. They booth just feel insanely good
I clicked the like button BEFORE watching! These backside tutorials are just what I needed!
Thanks again Ben!
This was really helpful. Trying it on curbs was definitely useful to get the motion down (and surprisingly harder than I thought it would be, haha.) Been working on this trick off and on for about a month and making progress - landed a handful that weren't so bad. This inspired me to get out and learn them. Thanks, dude!
Dude if I could only do that one trick I'd be happy to do them all day! I'm 38 and haven't seriously skated since I was 26. I can barely kick flip these days.
keep at it. i got back into it too (32) after taking over a decade off. i was able to get a couple flip tricks and ledge tricks. some advice though dont go to big. i tried to ollie off a 5 foot wall and slammed. messed my ankle and knee. now i stick to low impact.
Got back into skating.. trying to learn some tricks.. glad Ben is here to help!
I like your Tutorials 👍 now this trick is on my „to do“ list
mad helpful tutorial, gonna start trying to learn these as it's been too many damn years putting this trick off. Thanks for the help, you da man
Did you get it
@@squiqqlewiggles2440 funny enough I slept on it again until recently, I ended up learning a bunch of other stuff since then. I just recently learned these on curbs though, so now I just have to bring them up to actual ledges which I am working on now. I actually went to an unwaxed stair at my local park and got into them 100 times to make absolutely sure I could get into them consistently, after that a lot of the discomfort goes away. Super fun and satisfying trick !
Flannels eh? Someone’s from Canada bud 🇨🇦
Jimmy Two-Times yo don’t stereotype my glorious countries culture or else I may send you a cheese and wine gift basket with a polite, but disapproving, letter attached to it.
Inis Mona Lols
We like em here in Mexíco
Actually the best trick tip
used to practice backside 50-50 on curbs.. then to tail, then ^V^ skip straight to tail. The whole thing is ta shifty your back foot, like a frontside slappy calls for, but the other way with your foot gadget.
you got these on lock! i definitely wanna give them a shot now!
I wish I was ready for these.. look super cool
What a cool tailslides you have! And those spots are PERFECT!
Thanks Martin:)
Im gonna try an learn these now. thanks for the inspo
Did you get them?
Devlin Hustwait how did it go
@@Dali_rjeibi I had them for a while then lost them again hahah
Definitely got the inspo, and I’m gonna try the pointers and see if I can get it, thanks Ben!
1 year later and still no luck. I’m a loser.
you pop ur casings off too!! nice!!
was learning front sid tailslides waiting for the bus today! haha
Great tutorial, my favorite trick, trick I most want to do but my b/s 180s are currently garbage😢
i was thinking about these a lot lately because ive never been able to do them and most likely never will. However, if i was going to make a real effort to learn them i think the trick progression would go like this. Get solid with backside 180s, then backside 5050s, backside 5-0, backside smith, then finally backside tail.
back tails are a lot easier than back smiths IMO. I really struggle with back smiths.
Big tip always try to land with your back foot on the ledge with your back foot no matter what
I SWEAR! I literally scream when my backfoot misses the ledge😭😭
blackmattystaxx just picture yourself doing it, pop , turn and even if u don’t get on the ledge plant you back and front foot like if you doing it
thx dr. skateboard simple and efficient
I slammed the right side of my back on the ledge I was trying, skateboarding both sucks and is awesome at the same time. Wish I had filmed it tbh, good slam!
Lol careful now 2:04 😄
Explained it better than braille
Thanks. I dig your videos.
The unwaxed curb recommendation is kind of a YYMV bit of advice. If you get too comfortable knowing you're going to stop dead, it can lead to really bad habits in terms of where your back foot and body's weight and balance are when you start trying to slide for real. And that can lead to exactly the kind of slip outs Ben shows can happen.
I'm actually more of a proponent of trying it on a slightly waxed surface so you learn sooner where proper balance and weight are. On a buttered ledge learning you're going to slip and fly out a majority of the time and it'll be more tedious to find the nuance in balance because the margin of error will be so skewed toward slipping out anyhow. On something that will slide a bit with proper balance you'll know when you're right. When you're wrong, you'll stop dead or slip out a bit but nothing too severe.
So chill video!!
Results may vary 🤣
I can fs tail pretty well but this one seems infinitely harder.
So much harder
Fax
A fucking nightmare, i had them safe for years. And now in my older years i cant wrap my head around them.
your grip still looks so clean, my city is full of red dirt, fucks up shoes and board.Nice video Ben, I'll try to get these fs and bs. ps.: your audio is good but you should get those mics that you put on your shirt!
I won't be buying any new gear for a while. I have too many mouths to feed.
Ben can you sometimes mention what spot you are at in your videos? Would love to find some of these places thx!
Ended up subscribing bro, crazy.. Respect
Damn Ben is good
The unwaxed curb tip is the way to go
I could never back tail, always wanted to have this trick in my arsenal. Honestly I want to get back into skating just to be able to back tail
Step back into the ring bro
Thanks Ben!
I was trying to learn fs tail slides a wile and I give up and once I tryed again and It just clicked I would try same with back tails .maybe that is the way it works for me
You're very helpful, Thanks!
My local spot has either a small step, or the big waxed ledge, fun fact, I actually landed kickflip bs tailslide before, and now I can't even do a regular bs tailslide even without sliding, part of this is because bs flip is a trick I really locked down. But now gotta put my balls on my shoulders and bring it to the waxed ledge, feel like this trick is way more about the mindset than about the actual movement 😃
Hey I got that plaid flannel at costco
Hell yeah Ben! Another one
Hey man, what's your thoughts on drywall repair?
have you seen mat berger's part on the etnies video "album" ?? BEST bs tail combo of life on the best spot to do it in. i wont spoil unless someone wants the hype for reason to buy that video
I will try to remember to look for it.
Great tutorial! Subscribed! One question - Where are your eyes looking when sliding? If I try to look over my shoulder I stick
Carpenter and Skateboarder, RAD.
How do you keep up with the slide
FIRST!
Great tutorial as always dude.
Now only if I had short ledge
hey ben where is this place??
Do soft wheels work against doing this trick? They are medium soft.
Nice shoes!
I had them for a week but then I lost them and I can’t work out what’s wrong I always stick even when I put wax on the ledge
I'm sorry how much time was spent on learning the trick?
you have my like
Hi Ben. Your back tails are so sick. I've skated the downtown plaza for the past decade but have never seen you there! Also, does your brother Ted still skate? He kinda disappeared after his amazing part in Strange Brew. Hope that your knee is better. Talk to you soon.
Thanks Mr BluntNose. Ted isn't really skating at the moment. Busy life with not much time or anyone he wants to skate with in his area. I only just started skating the plaza a bit more again. I have hardly been there in a decade so that explains why you haven't seen me. Look me up on Insta and we can go for a skate some time:)
Thanks for the reply. I moved to Auckland, New Zealand a few months ago and not sure when I'm back but will definitely let you know when I do! If you haven't done it already, I'm sure that you'd be able to back tail over the grate by that long ass ledge at plaza. I wanted to try that but had to leave Canada by the time I felt ready. Didn't help that I had to work in Nelson BC for the last 2 years. Anyways, I heard that Plaza might be torn down soon so might as well skate the hell out of it. Thanks again for your reply. Take care. Looking forward to your next video.
I cant hold a bckside tailslide to save my life. Like if it were a pit full of alligators and I had to back tail over it I would definitely die :O
Ben Degros LOL. There's only one way to find out. And you don't have to do it all at once. You can land on the grate and work your way up. Good luck!
I will try next time:)
Great videos! Glad I found your channel! #subsribed
@Ben Degros good explanation sorry for asking this, do you still running the bones bushings they are good I'm gonna get them too I've got some problems with old ones that I have keep up I really like your videos, don't stop making 'em and sorry again about my english, I'm from Brazil so still learning !!
Hi Wilton. I have changed trucks so much this year that I haven't really tested them out for long term durability yet. I do like them still.
thanks man, keep up doing these amazing videos, could you please get a pair of silver trucks and test 'em, I think they pretty good and its not expensive in my country maybe u gonna do that or not but don't worry thanks again :D
Most underrated BS tailslide tutorial
When did castiel start skating ?
A tutorial in the streeeeets
I can't get someone to help me please
lets see if i nail this one next week ;)
R u from Canada?
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hello, how many days can you learn bs tail ?
10/10 pants
Torry pudwell out here with an 84 foot back tail
the Canadian accent was strong on this one haha
Ben can you show us slappy's. There's a perfect curb down the street from my house. It's already been waxed by other locals, but I'm still afraid to just ran into it.
*ram
Joseph Lozano I can barely do a slappy. I don't think I could do a tutorial yet
Ben Degros No problem at all. I'm just gonna try to get hyped with my friends and go try it. Thanks for the reply. Really keeps me a faithful subscriber. Cheers Ben
Maybe I will try to learn them and film it.
Are those Bronson RAWs? How are they? Can we expect a review soon?
I was riding bronson regulars with the shields popped and a whole bunch of dirt in them. They are super slow right now. I don't really like doing bearing reviews. They make for boring content. I would say the Bronsons are good and Bones are slightly better. Bearing review done!
Sorry to sound so sarcastic I mean no disrespect at all. I made a bearing review once but pulled it after a few days.
So my main problem is when i get in perfectly for the slide I'm not ready for it and I slip out. Trying to figure how to control the slide right now when i get in.
If you can find something a little bit stickier maybe that will help. I often like to do my switch ones on ledges with less wax.
Finally think I figured them out. It really is a combination of speed and commitment. Landed a couple shitty ones today and will continue to work on them. Thanks for the help, Already starting to figure out the switch ones but they are so hard.
I wanna see you back tail bs kickflip out!
I have never landed one of those in my life. Those were Ted's specialty.
Bro I can only slide the very end of my tail. Getting my base plate to the ledge is so hard for me
I've been trying these on a curb. I can lock in pretty much every try, but whenever I take it to a waxed curb, i slip out... Can anyone give me some tips? Much appreciated
try to have your hips and shoulders centered over the board during the whole trick, especially while doing the ollie and locking in
I always slip out and land on my stomach as soon as I get into the back tail :(
The problem is my bs 180s dont go backwards... :(
Learn after backlips?
I think back tails are easier than backlips.
I've got them to fakie, and nollie back tail to reg, still working on getting a regular back tail slide back to reg. My heel keeps hitting and i go flying, or do a back tail stall. Any advice?
Good tips Mr carpenter
Try to ollie into them with the tip of your back foot and adjust the steepness as you progress.
Learn backside 5-0s first. From there its just a little more rotation into the backside tailslide.
Ben do you think you could of been pro or somthing in skateboarding if you dident quit back in the day
Hi Evan:) There was a short window of time where I think I could have done something with my skating. Maybe from about 16 to 22. The problem was I spent that time drinking and doing drugs so I was not keeping pace with the progression of skateboarding. Also, at that time it was pretty hard to have a career in skating without doing big gaps and rails and I have never been into them. Also, I never actually quit skating but I started having kids at 25 so I was much more focused on career and family from about 25-35. I still skated but I was slowly losing my abilities over time. Lately I have been skating at my highest ability since my mid 20's so that is nice.
Wow mannn btw i love your vids finally a channel with no clickbait and just skatingg!!
Yup. It's a simple concept. Treat viewers how you want to be treated. It comes down to respect.
Scariest trick in the book to be honest
I did exactly this. Rolled up super slow to an unwaxed curb, popped a bs ollie, slapped my tail down and it slid like a motherfucker and I almost smashed my teeth out.
Holy shit
Too much wind up on the 180 will do that
shit b skarry bruh
Lol
Proper speed for bs tailslides: booking
☺ I was actually going a lot faster than it looks. The last couple I was going above my comfort zone.
I'm so sorry, this is front-side tail slide. That's what they told me the world call it now.. cuz when I Ollie bankside "board" sliding backwards, they call it a front-side slide. 🤔???
Nice! But for us born in the 70ies everything is unwaxed :)
com out straith is so more looking good than com out fakie
Ollie then b/s tail. Then land lol
this has to be fake, because bs tails are impossible.