Getting Air off a cable!

fabio101 · Newbie Joined: 09 Apr 2009 Posts: 5

Hi, had a couple of sessions on my local cable park recently.. which was good, got on well with no probs(apart from my arms feeling like they were coming out of the sockets the next day from those full on starts lol) Question is, can any one direct me to some reading about cable park riding or give me some pointers of how to acheive POP when on the cable? thanks

Medina · Posted: May 10, 2009 10:50 pm Post subject:

Yes i can, i am a cablerider and just started inverts. You can get pop by 3 ways.

1) Use a rocker or slider to get pop
2) Ollie pop, by edging out, and then ollie.
3) A progressive edge between 2 corners, edge out till you feel that there is alot of load, and then releases it with a so called ''flickaway''

For all 3 of types you can find pretty good tutorials. I reccomend first learn to ollie since its the most simple way to get more pop.

Ollie tut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvz8BuqZbTM
Flickaway (railey) tut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwEQgc72CIA

fabio101 · Newbie Joined: 09 Apr 2009 Posts: 5

nice one for those, some really good tutorials on there and very helpful, i was practicing the flicaway in my living room last night, my girlfriend was watching me and laughing thinking i was insane. I am on the cable next friday again, so i am going to give it a go. I have been doing ollies when being towed on the boat no problem, so the raley is the next step i think.. looks ace, can't wait now i have an idea about the technique!!

Medina · Posted: May 21, 2009 2:39 am Post subject:

shaggyboarder · Posted: May 28, 2009 12:24 pm Post subject:

What is your local cable? Air tricks are all about line tension, everyone has a different way to explain the "flick" thats something you kind of have to figure out on your own.

Medina · Posted: May 29, 2009 12:17 am Post subject:

yeah the explanation of the flick is a little random, aswell as the takeof, people do it all quite differently.

I see the flick as a hard edge where i extend my legs and turn mij board from my leftside of my body quikly to the right side while keeping your edge.

Here some footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaJ3LbOwFWA

Its filmed 300fps so you can really see it well, start on 0:30, the flickaway Smile

My localcablepark is in Dankern, West Germany.