Soul Trick Grind Progression // Aggressive Inline Skating Tutorial

[@Purpleshank]

Progressing from step-on to jumping on and grinding can be difficult. Between those steps I like to roll up to the obstacle perpendicularly and jump to stall. Then gradually make the approach angle more parallel to the object so I grind a little more each time. I think this idea is from a Lino video.

[@BacktoBlading]

That’s a good tip

[@averagejoewithstufftoknow2242]

When i was a kid and learning frontside and backside i found it helped by having knees close together and skates outwards apart made it easy to not slide out

[@leser1music]

I've been trying to learn frontside, just tried doing this yesterday and it felt much more stable. I was avoiding it to begin with because it is hard to stall like that without feet sliding out. That's what I found anyway. So I started stalling straight with legs parallel and slowly working my knees inwards

[@davorbosnjakovic4871]

After 20 and some years, I'm starting to have cravings for skateing haha. After watching a few videos, the idea of buying a pair is only stronger.

[@dgc2780]

Go for it! don't hold on the joy, 1st time i have skated was on roller skates at age 8, then i stopped like for 16 years, till i bought a really cheap inline skates, many years later, now at 35 i already ordered a pair of Anarchy Rev II (i know they are on the low budget side, many people hate them, many people love them), once i learn the basics of agressive and enter the intermediate level, i would get either a razors cult, or Aeons 60!

[@ajhyland2394]

I haven’t skated in close to 15 years and have just started getting back into it with my 20yo son. All I can say is do it! I’m 42 and feel like I’m learning stuff I used to do without thinking but the happiness I get just rolling around the park is worth it 👌

[@davorbosnjakovic4871]

​​@@ajhyland2394yeah, that's about what I'm after. Taking it slow, just skate. Have fun with your son fam🍻

[@nix.tricks]

amazing! just what I needed today, glad I searched! I can't wait to skate now after work and get to jumping onto grinds, love the advice to raise your feet to the object.

[@bladebytes7574]

Lawrence this format is perfect, please keep up the good work! 🔥

[@InlineDistrict]

Great Video!!! So spot on with your advice about turning in on star grinds... Its something i didnt even realize was an important aspect of the trick, yet the second you said it i knew it was the best advice you could give someone in regards to learning the grind... again Great Video!

[@alexmercer7697]

Your very fisrt minutes about the width of the souls and their ''advantajes'' for each level, mind blowed me, Im about to get my first aggresive pair (I used to freeskate and slalom) and the setup of the souldplate was my very fisrt concern. Not going to forget your video never in my life!

[@jaystalls]

I appreciated the graphics explaining why leading over the ledge or rail balances your foot under your hip. And the tip about raising your feet instead of just jumping up. I think both of this will be helpful. Landed my first (ugly) soul grind this week.

[@BacktoBlading]

You got it. Takes a lot of practice and there’s no shame I sticking with one grind until you perfect it.

[@allestic]

Impeccable. I like how you use beginner’s perspectives in explaining and demonstrating the lessons. Very very helpful.

[@zekwilt]

Law, you are the best. Thank you for everything you do as well as your commitment to being a helmet ambassador

[@SNNY-SKTR]

Was trying to P-Star grind earlier and for the life of me could NOT get my back leg tucked correctly. So I turned it the other way. Turns out that’s what a Mizu is lol. This has given me SOOO many tips. Can’t wait to head back to the park and work on it some more !

[@Neatgoose]

This was so helpful. Thank you for putting in the time to make this!

[@Facxolex]

Thanks a lot from germany 🎉🎉🎉

[@art0nblades]

Great tutorial and breakdown of soul based tricks! Well done!

[@thesquillyexperience9442]

my first grind was a front side but I called it a 50/50 & still do sometimes xD

[@gekouy]

Thanks again!! Keep it up with these videos, they will help generations of back to and new to blading skaters!

[@IconML]

Love these type of videos! Please keep them coming!

[@freethinker3083]

You really are a great teacher. I love how informative your videos are. It’s very much appreciated.

[@Snifffski]

Great format, great advice and tips. Hoping I can begin applying it soon - it's been one helluva long time coming and it's not there yet! Hope you do some more tutorial videos in this format.

[@Halfbittenjalapeno]

I learned to soul grind on 1996 majestic 12's. I had an experienced guy come to our park and he asked me what museum I robbed for them lol. He let me try a pair of modern blades and I was shocked how easy soul grinds were with newer blades.

[@dentedfanatic23dentedfanat78]

Great vidio!!! Extremely helpful. Saving to my play list

[@waysbeats8044]

I‘am thankful for sharing your knowledge and experience with us! Your way to explain harmonised with my way of understanding. Keep on blading!

[@allisonvanderzwaag7606]

Just bought a pair 2 days ago. Thank you for the breakdowns, excited to learn these.

[@Thisissoul]

Great explainations!

[@thesquillyexperience9442]

some of the tips really helped me & got the 💡 going in my head. gonna keep practicing!!

[@guiyong]

That's it, after 3 videos so well done, I'm subscribing! That torque soul looked awesome, by the way.

[@ciudadexpo12]

This tutorial is awsone!! I'm looking forward to seeing another for boot grinds (f/b royale, torque, unity, savanah...) and maybe finally topside grinds=D

[@k.dtrying2229]

Awesome video! I decided a couple weeks ago to start aggressive inline. I rollerbladed in the 90s and played a little hockey in the early 2000s along with intense skateboarding. So I could skate but aggressive inline why not? Now I've done a soul in the same day watching this video. Thank you,

[@iramdeus5825]

Amazing video, I've learned so much about why I cannot manage to get it right ! Thanks a lot !

[@frootbootllc5139]

Awesome video! Very informative and helpful!

[@fiditunka]

very good video. i just starded to ride with 41 ... i already do (try) skateboarding, bmxing and scootering ... i suck at all of them, but i have a great time. rollerblading is the last big fun sport for me to explore and i am looking forward to it! your videos are great to get me started. thanks and greetings from austria/vienna.

[@thomashermant9321]

Great video full of good advices ! I’m back to roller blade for a year now. And after a small pause of 16 years 😉 it’s really great to listen and relearn my old tricks with a little bit more theory

[@BacktoBlading]

Welcome back!

[@44Millen]

amazing breakdown again sir.

[@angelmay452]

Dope video really appreciate it.

[@anthonyrenbarger7655]

Good format, I loved the breakdown as much as the royale deep dive. Future good tutorials would be stalls/grinds on coping.

[@Kustomcaskets]

Great videos my friend !

[@MrNicknayme]

Excellent video! 😊😊😊

[@Travis732]

Thats awesome the old school days hitting that huge rail

[@abdallah2892]

Gratidão por tamanha generosidade; Sou iniciante no street, eh sem dúvida sua didática de fácil compreensão tornará meu êxito uma certeza! Love from Brasil! 🇧🇷🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@michaela.6333]

Super helpful, thanks!

Great video.

[@andrewwinkelmeyer6503]

Never tried a torque soul. Going to have to attempt that tomorrow. Thanks for the video.

[@BacktoBlading]

Same! Felt kinda weird, but more of a soul trick than an acid soul.

[@richskater]

Just a little trick for remembering the positions. Star grind is a leading soul and a trailing torque. Move the torque to the front and you have a Torque Soul. Acid is a leading BS backslide and a trailing soul. Move the backslide to the back and you have a Mistrial.

[@kmg2947]

as a fully blind skater this helps emensly. So then a mizu is a soul but the soul foot that leads just goes behind you?

[@StreetBladerBloke]

Best explanation

[@reaper8236]

Loving this ..42 years old broke out my skates after 15 years off

[@efnosmoke]

Just in time, picked up a free twin mattres to put in next to the rail in case I fall. I'm going to be that crazy guy walking around skate park with inline skates and a mattres.

[@BacktoBlading]

I’ve got some tumble mats at the warehouse. No shame!

[@thatmountain]

Let's learn together 😄

[@azrbqenrt6278]

amazing

[@bladeworks5012]

Thanks a lot for recap of soul grinds, I'm still working on my soul grinds regular and switch I train both of them, when you get used to switch then the regular one feels a little awkward, and one thing as Law mentioned couple of stalls are not enough to do proper soul grinds, literally you need thousands of them

[@BacktoBlading]

Thanks for watching. I think there’s a new muscle group you need to develop to get soul tricks solid. Takes a lot of work.

[@rideblades007]

“YOU WANNA SLAP IT DOWN!! 😄

[@christopherseistrup8493]

Awesome video, but I only have one day left to get my frontside clip done for the community challenge. Next week I'll build a p-rail and work on these.

[@razorsl0077]

Well done mate clean

[@CRussell1986]

Can’t wait for a top soul version of this video, just can’t seem to get them to feel natural

[@oliverpaton556]

Boxcars were cool as hell

[@zerocool4life]

Awesomeness law

[@DNYLNY]

I like wide soul plates on ledges If the ledge is really crappy and not perfectly square.

[@apexpredator_jku]

I think what you're doing is awesome. I'm from the Box Car era myself with CDS soul plates circa mid 90's & K2 Backyards after that. Then life happened & stopped skating at the turn of the Millennium. Tried to pick it back up in '05 & couldn't adjust to the new, at the time, skates. Raised heel & UFS...I basically learned to skate flat footed. I'm well into my 40s now & would like to give it another go. What skate would you suggest for an old school roller such as myself?

[@wswan81]

I always thought it was spelled 'mizou', other than that, gotta smash that like button for this one!

[@BacktoBlading]

So did I, even named my dog miszou, but mizu is water in Japanese

[@bxl2012]

Really great video. But again a soulgrind tutorial that misses to tell people how to distribute weight on their soulfoot (or I missed it). The body weight needs to be on the heel of the souldfoot. The only tutorial I found that mentioned this was on a skateboard channel of all places. On Braille Skateboarding and the video is called "What is a soul grind?!?". It's a very important detail. I did this wrong for a long time and it held me back more than necessary.

[@BacktoBlading]

I disagree with that for most people. I feel like a mizu and mistrial is on the heel but any soul trick should be centered. But if it worked for you I think it’s worth mentioning for sure.

[@bxl2012]

@Back to Blading I am still learning and haven't found the solution that works perfect. I just realised after watching the tutorial on Braille that putting more weight on the heel of my soulfoot finally made me grind (on a Soulgrind) without getting stuck.

[@JaumeAguileraBadia]

Good video, thanks! I must be a nerdy skater too.... Do you place your knee more over the edge on ledges? How do you do these soul grinds "backwards"? I find them so beautiful and scary when jumping on going heel first, i d'on,t feel comfortable yet to try

[@BacktoBlading]

I think I do them the same on ledges and rails, but it’s much easier to get over a rail since the object is raised. If you’re talking about alley-pop and true and zero spin, I hope to cover it in a future video. But the concepts are the same, just reverse the weight distribution. Good luck!

[@Hotshot24-7]

Do you need a soul plate to do soul grinds though ? And if you don’t would your skates’ boots wear out very fast?

[@johnparungao6844]

Great vid, Law! Question regarding your grind box material: what are the long decking tiles that you are using called? Are they made of composite plastics? I'm considering building my own. Thx!

[@BacktoBlading]

These are Trex decking. A bit pricey but slide great

[@johnparungao6844]

@@BacktoBlading Thx, I'll see if I can fit them into my budget. It's either that or wait for a Madd Gear grind rail 99" to drop in price.

[@islamicsalami7208]

We learned souls on 1995 Rollerblade Lightning TRS skates! It was awful looking back on it but at the time it was awesome. These new skates basically swallow the edge. Cheaters!!

[@icemanbtlr25]

What's the name of the kneepads where do I get them.

[@pm2007est]

SFA and SFA 2

[@VRMinde]

Guys, help anyone! Mizu and the same with AO Soul - soul plate sticks to coping no matter what. Won’t slide. It is waxed, I do hundreds of other soul tricks no problem, but mizu sticks. Any advice?

[@BacktoBlading]

That’s weird, I find mizu slides smoothly for most objects. Maybe try leaning back on your heel more?

[@VRMinde]

@@BacktoBlading will try, thanks!

[@leser1music]

Do you have any videos on stretching/warm up routines?

[@BacktoBlading]

Not yet, but I have some ideas. Check Blading Physio, good channel for this: kzbin.info

[@leser1music]

@@BacktoBlading thanks 🙏

[@user-nw6ci5qe8t]

Hi! Are you using flat set up? Im new in aggresive skating. Now im practicing soultricks but always getting wheelbite. Im using flat set up USD sway 60. They said i can change the two centre wheel to a grind wheel which is smaller. Can you give me some advice about it?

[@jerryb8877]

Your comment on the acid makes sense. Top Acid always feels good, but an acid feels goofy. I think it’s because it might be easier to throw the toe of the front foot over the obstacles rather than the heel as with the standard acid. I realized this since I’ve been back to blading. Also, the “star grind” is a lot easier to explain to your kids.

[@BacktoBlading]

My kids would agree!

[@kmg2947]

so i have watched this vid many time’s, but i have poor eye sight. Can someone explain the soul position? Does the front foot kneed to be boot down? Was keeping my front foot entirely on the h block at first, but it didn’t feel right. Any thing would be helpful. Thank you.

[@BacktoBlading]

The front foot should be pushed out in front of you, so at a 45 degree angle or so

[@kmg2947]

so the mizu is the same position but with the front foot behind you in the same position? fully blind here so trying to be able to see it in my head. Learning all of this solo.

[@leser1music]

So on flat ledges, do you still angle your boot over the top? I always thought you would lock the soul plate flat on the ledge.

[@BacktoBlading]

Yes, that’s how you stay on longer. Wide soul plates makes this more difficult

[@leser1music]

@@BacktoBlading thanks for the reply, will try that

[@lugarner8493]

Im skating k2 fattys 🙌🙌, pre ufs 😂 im skating the old boys

[@GaParanormal]

Roces all day...