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MAKING GRINDING WAX
To make the perfect grinding wax, you will need:
1 empty can of baked beans
100 grams of candle wax
A very large heaped teaspoon of vaseline
4 tablespoons of sunflower oil
HOW TO MAKE IT
1. Chop up the wax into small chunks, preferably less than 2x2cm.
2. Put the vaseline in the bottom of the can.
3. Place them all into the can, making sure that it does not pile any higher than the top of the can.
4. Pour in the oil, drizzling it all over the wax.
5. Leave in the oven at gas mark 3-4 (170°-180°) for about 30 minutes, stirring every so often.
6. Leave to cool near a window, and when only slightly luke warm, place in freezer, and leave for at least 2 hours (anything up to 2 days).
7. Using cutters, carefully cut the can up, slowy easing the wax out, minding not to break it (unless like me, you like to have it in smaller pieces). Hehe, you might need an adult to do this!
Tips:
More sunflower oil makes the wax harder, and vice versa.
Do NOT use the microwave instead of the oven. Trust me, I tried, and well, lets just say that my kitchen was lovely and waxed.
Adding glow in the dark wax crayons makes the wax glow in the dark. Yeah!
Another way to make it really slippary is to add a couple of those small novelty soaps to the wax. Don't add any more than a couple, as the wax becomes very crumbly.
CLEANING YOUR GRIPTAPE
To clean your muddy old dirty griptape, all you need to do is get a bucket of warm water with a small drop of washing up liquid and a nail brush or an old tooth brush(nail brush is quicker). and basically do your skateboard in qaurters pour some on and just scrub it. When you feel you are finished just lay a couple of squares of tissue on top of your deck to absorbe any water!
once clean got skating!!!
CONFUSED ABOUT F/S AND B/S?
Ok first of all there isn't really one simple rule for knowing all of this but once you have read through all of this below you should know what is backside and what is frontside.
Grinds and Slides: For a F/S Grind or slide of any kind you have to come up to your target facing it - Your toes on your board should be facing the object, you should be able to see it in front of you not behind you. If that is what is going on then you know you are doing a F/S grind or slide of some sort, for a B/S you have to be the exact opposite. Your back should be facing your target - you should have to turn your head and look over your shoulder to see it and the heels of your feet should be pointing at the target, then you know that it is Backside. Many people get confused on this because the think the easier one should be called a frontside and harder a backside. This is kind of correct if you think like most people on a 50-50, that F/S is easier then B/S, or that you learned F/S first. Then when you are talking about board slides a B/S is easier and most people call it a F/S. That is wrong, go by the rules above...
Spins and Flatland Tricks: Ok this is even more confusing then Grinds and Slides, but once again, once you understand this it is very simple. For tricks where you spin, like 180's, 360's and so on, a F/S would be when you are turning and for the first 90-180 your can see what is going on in front of you. For example if you are regular and you are doing a normal (Not fakie or nollie or w/e just normal) F/S 180 your shoulders turn to the left (If we were looking at your from a bird's eye view). For a goofy footed rider your shoulders would be turning to the right (again from a bird's eye view). For a B/S spin you should not be able to see what is going on in front of you for the first 90 degrees or more. Another rule for this is for a F/S your toes are facing outward the whole time (In front of you) and for a B/S your heels are facing outward, in front of you when you are spinning.
Now read that through a couple times until you understand it you have to understand spins before you understand flip tricks to actually get something out of this (The flat ground tricks part) Ok, so you got the spins now the flat ground stuff isn't much harder to understand, all you have to do is thing of you as being your board when it is spinning. So let's look at a 360 Flip (A B/S 360 pop-shove-it with a kickflip) I will explain how I got all of that in the ( ) things right now. You know that a B/s 360 is when your heels and back are facing outwards/forwards for the first 90-180 degrees or so and when you cannot see what is in front of you for at least the first 90 degrees of the turn. So think of yourself as being your board when doing a 360 flip (don't worry about the kickflip part, that's just extra) if you were the board all of the rules would apply to a B/S 360 (I am not listing them again...) So you know that a 360 flip is a B/S 360 Pop-Shove-It and then the extra that is left is the kickflip.
To clean your muddy old dirty griptape, all you need to do is get a bucket of warm water with a small drop of washing up liquid and a nail brush or an old tooth brush(nail brush is quicker). and basically do your skateboard in qaurters pour some on and just scrub it. When you feel you are finished just lay a couple of squares of tissue on top of your deck to absorbe any water!
once clean got skating!!!
CONFUSED ABOUT F/S AND B/S?
Ok first of all there isn't really one simple rule for knowing all of this but once you have read through all of this below you should know what is backside and what is frontside.
Grinds and Slides: For a F/S Grind or slide of any kind you have to come up to your target facing it - Your toes on your board should be facing the object, you should be able to see it in front of you not behind you. If that is what is going on then you know you are doing a F/S grind or slide of some sort, for a B/S you have to be the exact opposite. Your back should be facing your target - you should have to turn your head and look over your shoulder to see it and the heels of your feet should be pointing at the target, then you know that it is Backside. Many people get confused on this because the think the easier one should be called a frontside and harder a backside. This is kind of correct if you think like most people on a 50-50, that F/S is easier then B/S, or that you learned F/S first. Then when you are talking about board slides a B/S is easier and most people call it a F/S. That is wrong, go by the rules above...
Spins and Flatland Tricks: Ok this is even more confusing then Grinds and Slides, but once again, once you understand this it is very simple. For tricks where you spin, like 180's, 360's and so on, a F/S would be when you are turning and for the first 90-180 your can see what is going on in front of you. For example if you are regular and you are doing a normal (Not fakie or nollie or w/e just normal) F/S 180 your shoulders turn to the left (If we were looking at your from a bird's eye view). For a goofy footed rider your shoulders would be turning to the right (again from a bird's eye view). For a B/S spin you should not be able to see what is going on in front of you for the first 90 degrees or more. Another rule for this is for a F/S your toes are facing outward the whole time (In front of you) and for a B/S your heels are facing outward, in front of you when you are spinning.
Now read that through a couple times until you understand it you have to understand spins before you understand flip tricks to actually get something out of this (The flat ground tricks part) Ok, so you got the spins now the flat ground stuff isn't much harder to understand, all you have to do is thing of you as being your board when it is spinning. So let's look at a 360 Flip (A B/S 360 pop-shove-it with a kickflip) I will explain how I got all of that in the ( ) things right now. You know that a B/s 360 is when your heels and back are facing outwards/forwards for the first 90-180 degrees or so and when you cannot see what is in front of you for at least the first 90 degrees of the turn. So think of yourself as being your board when doing a 360 flip (don't worry about the kickflip part, that's just extra) if you were the board all of the rules would apply to a B/S 360 (I am not listing them again...) So you know that a 360 flip is a B/S 360 Pop-Shove-It and then the extra that is left is the kickflip.