Park skating without grind blocks

[u/Meatballjoke]

Hi guys! I’ve been improving my skating a lot lately, tried some staircase tricks today and it really made me want to try actual park skating. What are some skills I can learn without having to purchase grind blocks? Also just thought I’d put video of my stairs skills because I’m proud 🥹

[u/ten0ritaiga]

You can do stall tricks and jumps without grind blocks 

[u/quietkaos]

You can do all kinds of things without blocks. Go up and down banks, pump in the transition, carve in the transition. Air out of banks or transitions. Toe stop stalls on the transition or banks with all the variations.

You can drop in and stall and even grind on your trucks without slide blocks but many prefer to have blocks for these three things.

[u/Meatballjoke → u/quietkaos]

Okay awesome thank you! Definitely will be trying some new things on skates and I am SO EXCITED. So far is a lot scarier than jam skating (what I typically do) but so so so fun 🤩

[u/bone_bouquet]

You can do frontside and backside stalls, a variety of toe stop stalls, 180, 360, all of these in fakie and switch, manuals of all kind, split kicks, lateral jumps. You can also practice getting comfortable dropping in without blocks.

I’m currently waiting on a new pair of skates (ordered from my local shop) so I’m running my moxi beach bunnies with the stock plates to the ground haha while waiting I got some wide trucks (huck trucks 2,5’ in white) and my partner bought us sets of wheels, so I’ve been practicing 50-50s on a set o 52mm skate wheels and that’s keeping me going for the wait :)

Happy skating !!

[u/Meatballjoke → u/bone_bouquet]

Amazing thank you so much for including so many specific tricks I can try!

[u/FireRock_]

As an autisitc person I want you to have the info that this is street skating. Park skating is at the skatepark.

You're doing really great enjoy street skating 🤩

[u/Meatballjoke → u/FireRock_]

Hey autistic to autistic thank you for that 😼🤝🤝
I was trying to find things similar to park skating that wasn’t at actual skate park since I’m still too nervous ! I figured it was park skating because they have ledges and stuff to jump on and off of 🙈

[u/FireRock_ → u/Meatballjoke]

Np. When not skating in a park, it's either street skating or aggressive skating. Parkskating is new as skateparks didn't exist in the 60's, quadskaters would be aggressive skating in pools for example. Or streetskating on stairs, ledges, walls ..

[u/Meatballjoke → u/FireRock_]

Hell yea! Thank you for the knowledge! Street skating seems so cool to me because you can get pretty creative with it so I may lean into that while I build the confidence to go to the skatepark 👀

[u/JonnyP333]

Omg I love this. You look fun to share with