Sadplant

also known as: Sad Plant

invert parkvert difficulty 7/10

roll 0° yaw 0° pitch 0° body 0°

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 invert with the front leg boned straight at full inversion - the 'sad' in the name being period slang for the drooping, maximum-tweak extension. Structurally identical to the classic handplant, but at the top of the handstand the front knee punches out, pushing the board away from the body while the grab keeps hold of it. The extension moves the board's mass off the balance axis, so the planted arm has to fight a lever it doesn't fight in a normal invert.

Step by step

Ride up frontside and plant the trailing hand on the coping, grabbing with the front hand.
Swing into the one-armed handstand as for a standard invert.
At full inversion, bone the front leg straight, pushing the board's nose away from your body.
Hold the tweaked stall - arm locked, leg extended, board levered out overhead.
Retract the leg, swing back down the wall, release the plant, and re-enter.

Body mechanics

Front foot	Punches out with the boned knee, carrying the board away from the balance axis.
Back foot	Stays folded, holding the tail against the grab as the counter-tension.
Shoulders	The planted shoulder absorbs the extra torque the extended lever creates.
Arms	Planting arm locks harder than in a plain invert; grabbing arm resists the boned leg's push.
Gaze	Down through the plant at the ramp, monitoring the stall's drift while the leg extends.

Movement components

no pop · board 180° frontside · body 180° frontside · mute grab · stall on hand · handplant, inverted, boned

no popboard 180° frbody 180° frmute grabstall: handhandplantinvertedboned

Open in the Movement Builder → load these components as controls, and change one

Grammar reads these components as: Frontside 180 Mute Grab Stall (Inverted) (Boned) (irregular name - see history below)

History

Lance Mountain

The name is a photograph. Neil Blender shot Lance Mountain skating Sadlands in Anaheim in the dark; Mountain had his front leg straightened out in the frame, and the trick was dubbed the sad plant for the place and the shape at once. Grosso treats the straightened front leg as a tweak rather than a trick of its own - you can sad a frontside invert or an Andrecht - but the plain version, a regular invert with the front leg boned, is what the name means on its own.

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