Trick Fingerboard Grinds

Grinds
50-50: The most basic grind. Position your fingers for an ollie. Ollie up onto the rail or surface you are going to grind on. Land so that the board's trucks are grinding on the surface (note: make sure your trucks are grinding not your wheels, or that would mean it's just merely rolling along on the surface). Ride the board or ollie off the rail.

5-0: This is similar to the 50-50. Position your fingers for an ollie. Ollie up onto the surface you are going to grind on. Land on your back trucks only. Your nose should be pointing up. Grind it all the way and land.

Nosegrind: This is the same as 5-0 only you are grinding on your front trucks. Make sure to land on on your front trucks after ollieing. Land smoothly and roll away.

Boardslide: Position your fingers for an ollie. You should start ollieing slightly before you reach the surface while rolling. Execute half a pop-shove-it and land so that the grinding surface (i.e.: rail, edge of a textbook) is between your two trucks. The rail should be right in the middle of the underside of the board. Ride it all the way and perform the other half of the pop-shove-it near the end of the grind to land. If your on the edge of a book, you could even move back into a 50-50 grind and do other tricks to get off it. (i.e.: 50-50 then as you approach the end of the rail, do a varial kickflip off). Note: a frontside boardslide is when your fingernails are pointing in the direction you're grinding in, and backside boardslide is when your fingernails point in the opposite direction.

Smith grind: Execute the 50-50 grind (above) only, the main difference is in this grind, only the backtruck is on the rail, the front trucks are hanging against the side of the rail. In relation to the rail and the direction of travel, the board should be pointed 45 degrees or less away from the rail. Start with the ollie and land on your back trucks like the 5-0 (above), then drop your front immediately. Do it smoothly and quickly and there's your smith grind. Keep one of your fingers on the back screws over the truck.

Feeble grind: Execute the smith grind (Above). Its exactly the same except for the fact that the front trucks which are hanging off the side are rubbing against the side of the rail as well. The whole board is tilted towards one side slightly, the opposite side of the rail than the front trucks. The tilt is comparable to the primo grind (See below), only less tilted. Land by making your board flat again (no tilt) back into a smith grind. Now ride off the rail on your back trucks.

K-grind: Execute the 50-50 grind (above) only, the main difference is in this grind, only the front truck is on the rail, with the back truck hanging off the rail. It should look like a smith grind with the front trucks instead of the back. Do it exactly the same way as any other truck grind tricks. Ollie onto the rail and land on your front trucks. Let the back trucks hover off the rail.

Salad Grind: Execute the 5-0 grind (above) only, in a crooked form. The back trucks should be grinding and the front trucks off the rail, angled up and away from the rail. The front trucks should be hovering with the nose pointing up at 45 degrees or less. Land smoothly by riding off the rail.

Crooked Grind: Execute the k-grind in exactly the same way only instead of letting the back trucks hang off the rail, put more force on the front so that the back truck is angled upwards pointing roughly 45 degrees or less up.

Darkslide: Position your fingers for an ollie. In order to execute this trick, you have to master the heelflip/kickflip and the pop-shove-it. For this trick, as you approach the grinding surface, start with a pop-shove-it (See above). Once your board starts the spin, add a heelflip/kickflip to it. The board should be rotating and spinning. Once the griptape is facing down, and the pop-shove-it is 90 degrees to the direction the original position was, land it on the grinding surface. At this point, you should have your board griptape facing down and your fingers should be on the side with your trucks and image. The grinding surface should be in the middle of the board. Finish the grind and now for the harder part, the landing of the trick. You need to get the board facing upright again and also pointing the right direction. So the objective is to finish the other part of the heelflip/kickflip and pop-shove-it you started off with. The hard part is you have to do it on the underside of the board. Practice makes perfect =)

Kasper slide: Execute a kickflip/heelflip (see above) onto the rail and land with your griptape facing down. The board should still be pointing in the direction of the rail (50-50). Put your pointer finger under the griptape and the other finger on the board graphics which should be facing up at this point. Kickflip/heelflip to land it again.

Primo grind: This is extremely difficult. It is basically a 50-50 grind with the side of your board, trucks pointing vertical. Position your fingers for an ollie. Execute half a kickflip/heelflip and land on the side of your board on the rail. Grind with the board pointed in the direction of the rail. Then just tap the griptape side of the board and it should flip back to its original position when you want to land it. Getting it on the rail and balancing it is difficult so practice practice practice.

90-90/Dragslide (Made Up): My own little invention. Start off like a 50-50, facing the rail and ollieing onto it. Except this time don't land in the middle of the trucks. Land between the truck and wheel of one side. It should be grinding right next to (against) one side's wheels. With one side of the wheels/trucks grinding, the board should still be facing the direction you are travelling in. Land and roll away. Note: Can be easily landed by executing a kickflip/heelflip as well.

Rear Dragslide (Made Up): Another invention. Do the 90-90 grind (see above) except land with the nose pointing up and trucks up. Land and roll away.

Front Dragslide (Made Up): Another variation of the 90-90. This time, land the 90-90 except with the tail and back trucks pointing up.

Crooked Dragslide (Made Up): Execute the 90-90 grind only land diagonally. The opposite sides' wheel/truck should be grinding. For example, if your rear right wheel + truck is grinding, then your front left wheel/truck will be grinding against the rail.

Over The Gap(Made-Up): This is the act of grinding on two rails at the same time. The two rails can be different elevation if wanted. Execute any grind that allows your board to slide over two surfaces with a gap in the middle. Talk about having your feet in two boats. =P