Rock To Fakie
Rock to fakie is commonly the first trick people learn on transitions. Get comfortable pumping and riding fakie on the ramp before learning this trick.
Technique:
1. Place your front foot over the front bolts and your back foot on the tail.
2. As you reach the coping, press slightly on your tail to lift you front truck over the coping.
3. Once the middle of your board is touching the coping, press down slightly with your front foot to lift the back wheels off the ramp.
4. Most of your weight should still be over the transition. The goal isn’t to come right up and have all of your weight over the coping or to stall on the coping. It’s a brief forward and back movement. That’s why it’s a “rock”.
5. As you start to shift your weight back into the ramp lift your front wheels so that they clear the coping.
6. Most of your weight should be over what started out as your back foot, and is now going into the ramp first.
7. Gently put your front wheels back onto the transition.
8. Ride down the ramp fakie and you’re done.
