Disaster
also known as: Fakie Disaster
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Shown for a regular-footed rider. Teal ring + arrow = the rider's facing direction; teal band = the tail; a dot is where a hand holds the board - bright yellow for the front hand, amber for the back one, which is the whole difference between a mute and an indy. Board and rider rotate independently - each follows its own component. Drag to orbit.
How it works
An aerial 180 that lands in the rocked position: the rider pops off the lip, rotates backside 180 in the air, and slaps the middle of the deck down across the coping before pulling back into the ramp fakie-rock style. The name comes from how the landing looks - deck jack-knifed over the lip, one truck in, one truck out. The fakie-approach variant (fakie disaster) rotates from fakie into the same rocked position and is functionally the same lip trick from the other direction.
Step by step
- Approach the coping with a bit more speed than a rock to fakie needs.
- As the front truck passes the lip, pop or float a backside 180, keeping the board sucked up under you.
- Rotate head and shoulders 180 so you land facing back into the ramp with the deck-middle slapping onto the coping.
- Balance the rocked position for a beat, wheels straddling the lip.
- Shift weight to the down-ramp foot, lift the outside truck clear of the coping, and drop back in.
Body mechanics
| Front foot | Guides the 180 in the air and then presses the deck flat onto the coping on touchdown. |
|---|---|
| Back foot | On the tail for the pop, then anchors the in-ramp side of the see-saw during the stall. |
| Shoulders | Initiate and complete the backside 180 before the deck lands - under-rotating leaves a truck hooked on the lip. |
| Arms | Wind and release with the rotation, then spread for balance in the rocked position. |
| Gaze | Turn the head with the spin and spot the coping so the deck lands centered across it. |