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PostPosted: Mar 23, 2003 12:02 pm    Post subject: Grabbing a backroll Reply with quote

I was wondering which would be the easiest grab when throwing a backroll?
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PostPosted: Mar 24, 2003 9:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try the method grab, that would be my first try...
Reach for it right of the wake.


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PostPosted: Mar 24, 2003 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah, I was thinking method on a backroll too, it might also pull you into a roll to revert, which I also want to land
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PostPosted: Mar 24, 2003 2:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Actually an indy grab is pretty simple too, you throw a "mexican" type roll. Other than that either a method or nose grab, keep the hand with the handle on the other side of your body to stop from going to revert.
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PostPosted: Mar 24, 2003 4:02 pm    Post subject: backroll grab Reply with quote

method (actually melan) is easy....practice by taking your front hand off the handle for a split second in the air....then get closer and closer by reaching for the board...practicing removing your front hand will help you feel how not to go to revert...try it off the double up for extra time on the grab .....it looks cool if you can really boost it and tweak the melan grab more towards a method....just grabbing the board heel edge with front hand is melan, tweaking board sobottom is pointing towards boat is method ....good luck !
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PostPosted: Mar 24, 2003 6:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh man.... I want to be at the lake instead of being at school!!!
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PostPosted: Mar 25, 2003 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yo Markjohnson---then why do the call the trick a method roll on higher Ed?

I have never heard anyone call it a melan roll...


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PostPosted: Mar 25, 2003 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for your help guys , now I need to put it to practice
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PostPosted: Mar 26, 2003 5:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

finish the roll, and grab the nose..... easy beasy!!!
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PostPosted: Mar 26, 2003 8:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wait, do you grab before the roll, or as your coming out of it?
it seems like the easiest way would be right off the wake, then initiate rotation

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PostPosted: Mar 26, 2003 9:46 am    Post subject: grabbin the backroll Reply with quote

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Yo Markjohnson---then why do the call the trick a method roll on higher Ed"

probably cause the grasb is all freakin tweaked out and method-y .....melan grab is grabed in the same spot as method but no tweak.....I am just saying don't claim method unless you are way tweaked out and


nathan....grab as soon as you leave the wake...just make sure you leave the wake proper


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PostPosted: Mar 26, 2003 1:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

got it. I'm just itching to get back out on the glass..........
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PostPosted: Mar 27, 2003 4:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wrong again MARKJOHNSON a melon grab is your front hand on the back edge of the board reaching behind the front foot (not between the legs) so your hand is grabbing some place between both feet.

A METHOD grab is the front hand on the back edge of the board between the nose and front foot.

So, correcting myself above I would say a HS method roll is easier than the HS melon roll.

Once again you guys need to listen/read more and spout out less crap.
Thanks for quoting me though.
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PostPosted: Mar 27, 2003 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Details Smeetails, who the hell cares? It was a backside indy shifty with a loopty freaky deaky roll. Thats what I call it please correct me
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PostPosted: Mar 28, 2003 4:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stephen, I don't care what you call it, but when people start giving miss information then it is an issue.... People use this board as a way to learn proper terminology not be misinformed.

If you don't know the answer, don't post!

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