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BluntSlide vs LipSlide

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#1 ·
Sorry if this question has been asked already but I am confused what the difference is between the two slides :(

Someone enlighten me please!
Thank you :)
 
#2 ·
ok a lip slide is where your back binding goes over the rail so a FS lipslide looks like a BS boardslide and vice versa. a blunt is where you jump over the rail and onto your tail(ha that rhymed) so a BS blunt will look a lot like a BS board but your back foot should be over the rail. then Nose Blunts are like a lip slide where your whole board goes over. A FS nose blunt will look like a FS lipslide but your leading foot will be over the rail.

Very wordy and confusing but this is to sum it up
blunt will look like a board slide but on your tail
nose blunt will look like a lip slide but you'll be on your nose
 
#7 ·
Sorry if I missed this, but my head is still confused. It looks like a blunt and a lip are nearly the same except one is under your back foot and the other is between the bindings, or is there more to it?

That leads to my next question, whats the difference between a lipslide and boardslide?
 
#8 ·
if you look at my diagram and pay close attention to the color coded tail and nose, youll notice that on the lip slide, your back foot always goes over the rail, where as a board slide, your front foot goes over the rail. Basically theyre both board slides, but with exact opposite rotations to get on the rail.

A blunt slide is just like a board slide except you go over the rail a bit more to get your back foot on the rail instead of the middle of the board.

Now, to confuse you more:

A NOSE BLUNT is the exact same as a LIP SLIDE except you go over the rail a bit more to get your FRONT FOOT on the rail.

So in conclusion:

Lip Slide: Your back foot goes over the rail
Board Slide: Your front foot goes over the rail
Blunt Slide: Board slide but you slide on your back foot instead of in the middle
Nose Blunt: Lip slide but you slide on your front foot instead of in the middle
 
#10 ·
Are you sure about this? According to this video (Mitch Brown, Burton open winner), a frontside lipslide differs from your diagram. It seems to me he's sliding with the weight on his tail, not the middle of the board.

Are there any websites containing a decent trick list with animations?
 
#22 ·
A hardway spin is when your front foot spins away from the rail to start. For a regular rider doing a FS boardslide with a hardway 270 on is when the rider approaches from the left and then spins frontside, causing the lead foot to initially travel away from the rail and vice versa. This is called "Hardway" because it requires a fs spin off the toes and a very difficult bs spin off the heels. There is no "easyway", that is just called a 270, 450, etc. Spins off of the rail are either "sameway" sometimes called "bagel", and "pretzel". Sameway spins are a continuation of the spin done onto the rail (clockwise on-clockwise off). Pretzel is generally harder (clockwise on-counterclockwise off).
 
#12 · (Edited)
im 100% sure about this. his weight is on his back foot because he did it sloppy.

Not to mention a back foot weighted FS lipslide would be nothing but a FS tail slide.

Skate Tutorial: Frontside Lipslide | Video | MTV
I see, thanks :) All those names confuse me. Another question tho; whats the difference between a frontside lipslide and a frontside boardslide? The top right diagram you posted looks to me like a (goofy) frontside boardslide, are there just two names for the same trick?

Edit: Think I understand now. Boardslide and lipslide are both perpendicular with centre of board over object, but its called a boardslide when your facing downhill and lipslide when your facing uphill?
 
#18 ·
Wow!
Late response but finals were a pain... :(

PanHandler, your pictures and diagrams really help me understand what they are now... Thanks!
This whole time, I thought I was doing a lipside but turns out it's a bluntslide hahaha!
How embarrassing...
Now... Time to work on my "lipslides" haha
 
#21 ·
to go ahead and beat a dead horse .... knowing the origin of the actual skate trick would also help .. in skating a lip or boardslide is done by sliding the middle of your board on an object.. a blunt is done by sliding your nose or tail and your trucks on an object ... obviously in snowboarding we have no trucks so blunts are just considered slides on the tail or nose (more or less)

and yes your diagrams were spiffy
 
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