The first grind that you will want to add to your arsenal of tricks is the board slide. The board slide is the most basic grind and also the easiest to learn. The board slide involves a skater hoping onto a rail and traveling across it by traveling along the middle of the board. In order to accomplish this trick you will need to have learned how to Ollie and preferable 180 Ollies. This trick is best to be learned on a small rail, do not try and learn this trick on anything higher than a foot. Most people when first learning this trick slip out on the rail, so it is best to practice this trick with a helmet. To do this trick you will have to have your feet in the Ollie position. In the Ollie position ride parallel with the rail about 10 inches away from the rail. To get on the rail you will have to pop an Ollie and do a 90 degree turn in the air. While turning in the air you will want to focus on having the middle of your board hit the rail. As a reminder, the faster you attempt this trick the easier it will be to balance however; this also means if you fall it will hurt much more. After the middle of your deck is on the rail you will want to lean forward in order not to slip out backwards. While traveling down the rail keep in mind when the rail ends, so you are able to prepare for the dismount. Now that you have reached the end of the rail you will have to straighten the board out in order to roll away from this trick. In order to straighten the board you will have to begin turning out from the rail just a few inches away from the end. This trick takes allot of practice, but is an extremely important trick to learn. Learning board slides will open the gates to learn such tricks as front boards and rock to fakies in a quarter pipe.
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