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360 Board Walk

Lately I've been into riding my Gravity Mini-Carve around, learning some surf-style walking tricks.

Walking up and down your board, using cross-stepping walks forward and backward, is harder than it looks. It's also a lot of fun. The longer the board, the better.

I begin this move rolling forward, at a moderate speed, with both feet in the middle of the board. Just cruising down the sidewalk.

As I start the move, I move slightly back toward the tail, and make sure that the ball of my front foot is right in the middle of the board.

I then step quickly forward with my rear foot, bringing it to the front. I put it down sort of sideways across the deck, and turn my body, so that I'm now facing backwards. I have pivoted 180 degrees around the foot in the middle of the board.

Now it's time to repeat those same steps, and come out rolling forward. The foot that is now on the nose will again step quickly forward, and you will pivot around your front foot.

As you swing your body around, put your foot down wherever it feels comfortable. You have completed 360 degrees of rotation, and are now riding forward in a normal position.

With this trick, it helps a lot of you are fast and smooth. It looks much better if you don't pause very long at all between halves. If you get really good at this, you can do it without putting your foot down in the middle of the move -- just do a 360 spin on your toes. That is called a "Toe Spin".

Once you get this down, it's fairly easy to learn it going fakie, which can allow you to put together some cool lines.

Equipment used in this tip: Gravity 42" Mini-Carve deck, Indy 136 trucks, Gravity wedge risers, Gravity 85a Street-G wheels.