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Frontside No-Comply 5-0

I'd like to say the that No-Comply Frontside 5-0 is an oldschool trick, but I never saw it until my friend Mike Niemann did one here at EZ-7. He didn't even have name for it. No-Comply Frontside 5-0 is the best we could come up with.

Mike is probably one of the best ditch rippers in Texas. I got this footage when I sessioned EZ-7, in Houston, with him, Colin Nauert (upcoming tips), and others. The light was really bad, but the footage was so killer I've decided to use it anyway. I've tried to lighten up the images a bit so you can see them better. Mike skates for Conspiracy Skateboards and Gravity and Red Army Surplus. On this day he was using a 38" Gravity longboard, but he's equally deadly on a shortboard.

While Mike is doing this in a ditch, there's no reason you couldn't do it on a painted curb or parking block on flat ground, or maybe even a fun box or mini ramp.

When you ask Mike how to do a trick, he often says "you just do it". I will try to break it down a little more than that.

One other thing. While painted, these parking blocks aren't waxed. This is a pure, gnarly grind.

Check out the video clip here.


Mike approaches the top of the wall frontside, with lots of speed. In frame 1, you can tell he's already getting ready for the No-Comply step-off. In frame 2, he simultaneously steps off with his front foot and pops a little wheelie with his foot on the tail.

In frame 3, Mike smacks his rear truck up into a grind on the parking block. At the same time, he's stepping through the No-Comply (frame 4). When you watch the video, you'll see that it's all one smooth motion. You don't step off and then push -- you are pushing as soon as your foot hits the ground. It's all one motion

In frame 5, Mike has done a nice one-footed 5-0 grind across the parking block. If you really look, you can see that he actually did the grind over the gap between two blocks. Bad ass. Continuing the smooth motion that is the No-Comply part of this move, Mike replaces his foot on the board in frame 6. Meanwhile, in the background, Mike's son Matthew thinks to himself -- "Holy Shit -- that's my dad!"

Finally, in frames 7 and 8, having done the trick with absolute smoothness and badass style, Mike drops back into the ditch, ready to abuse another parking block.