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yeah the alley oop thing its like you spin 180 so the front of your tyre
is facing away from the ledge or rail so you cant see what your locking
onto. haha mike gave a way easy to understand response... probably
shoulda read it first.

hey shaun, i was asking maxisback if he was tricking out of bluntslides
cos he said he was. i just had to verify thats what he meant.
... i wouldn't class a 1ft flat practice rail a rail... its gotta be
tiny

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kington99 said:

OK, i've been thinking bout this for a while, any chance of this
working?

Ride up, jump to grind on your good side, let's say the rail is on your
right. Basically the trick is to turn around while grinding, so you end
up going backwards. As you're going along, you jam the front of your
tyre in to the rail and bring the back round to the left. As the back
swings out your grinding crank will come off the rail so you're going
to need to put a little hop or something in, cos for a very short time
you won't be resting on anything. Keep rotating until your left crank
catches on the rail and you end up once again parallel to the rail, but
now facing backwards, and you grind out backwards so your direction
never changes. Does that make sense?

A 180 Hoptwist, while grinding? You'd have to jump vertically enough to
clear the rail, perform the twist then land back on the rail backwards.
Doable, but tricky. More interesting would be a 180 Unispin; start
grinding seat out, and part way through the grind hop from the rail, do
a 180 unispin and land back on the rail again.

The skill progression would be something like:
Grinding
Seat Out Grinding
Seat Out Grinding + Hop Off The End
Seat Out Grinding + Unispin Off End
Seat Out Grinding + Hop Mid-Grind
Seat Out Grinding + Unispin Mid-Grind

Tricky bit would be getting the height for the unispin without
unbalancing yourself on the rail.

Loose.

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kington99 said:

No loose, not quite what i meant, you don't unispin, you pivot around
the front of the tyre, so you don't need any height atall, you just
need to hop enough that you don't drop when you're not on either crank,
so that you've still got enough height for your left crank to land on
the rail.

I'm not sure that would work, cos you wouldn't rotate around the part
of the tyre touching the wall. It would push you off the wall as you
turned, but then you wouldn't be able to get back on, I think.

Is this what you mean?

Loose.

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I think that's what he's talking about. if you shift your centre of
balance over the rail (resulting in a tight half spin over the rail),
you might be able to do it. But I'm no physicist.

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cool diagram, although it doesnt really work like that. i have tried. it
does push you off the ledge. it is much more practical to hop higher
than the ledge 180 and land in reverse... havent tried in on any
downledges yet but its pretty easy to do on flat ones, you just lose a
lot of momentum when you jump and land again (usually resulting in
stopping.)

theres another one to try if you run outta ideas maxisback.
grind to body varial to reverse

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this would happen

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So 'blunt' means you jump over the rail to start the grind?

And 'blind' means that you're grinding on your non-favoured pedal?

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I cant do backwards into rails.. I never rlly practice it.. and 1 footed
handrail thats sick men... Ive odone 180 out of a rlly small handrail
but it wasent good.. and my 1 foot rails is like 5-6 foot long

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