Smith Stall

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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

The inverse lean of the feeble: the rear truck locks on the coping while the nose dips down toward the transition side, heel rail kissing the lip, board angled back into the ramp. Because the front of the board hangs over the ramp rather than the deck, your weight must stay improbably far over the coping to keep the rear truck from sliding off - the same body English that makes smith grinds the connoisseur's grind makes the stall the connoisseur's stall.

Step by step

  1. Ride up with a backside angle and slightly more commitment than a pivot stall.
  2. Lock the rear truck on the coping and immediately drop the nose down toward the transition, deck angled into the ramp.
  3. Let the heel-side rail rest against the coping while the back truck bears the weight.
  4. Hold the smith lock, hips pushed out over the deck side to counter the in-ramp lean of the board.
  5. Lift the nose level, pivot on the rear truck, and re-enter the transition.

Body mechanics

Front footAngles the nose down into the ramp and holds the smith lean with steady ankle pressure.
Back footOn the tail directly over the coping contact; it is the pivot and the anchor.
ShouldersFace the deck side, staying stacked over the coping even as the board leans away into the ramp.
ArmsTrailing arm reaches out over the deck as a counterbalance to the dipped nose.
GazeAt the lock going in, then down the wall for the re-entry pivot.