casper slides?

gvw686 · Addict Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 664 City: Columbus

hey im not very into skateboarding but i know enough to know casper slides look sweet. can someone explain how to do it on a skateboard. i want to try and do one on a low box or something on the wakeskate but am not sure how it is done. also whats an anti casper? is that just something in tony hawk pro skater game and not really something people do?

ontrider · Ladies Man Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia

gvw686, I'm not into skateboarding that much but go from time to time with friends that do...

I've been trying casper slides lately and it seems pretty tough to get my feet on the board properly. (I may hack this terminology up but..) I try and ollie up to whatever it is and half-flip the board but kind of keep my feet around the board instead of letting it spin like a kickflip... Then the hard part, trying to catch it in the right position and slide. Not sure what the best way to get out of it would be either on a wakeskate.

I'm sure Jester will be here soon to help us out! Very Happy

gvw686 · Addict Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 664 City: Columbus

well how would you get out of it on a skateboard? thats probably how i would do it on a wakeskate. or is there different ways to get out of it?

Nathan Newman · Addict Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 711 City: Baylor

I typically spin a frontside 180 out of a casper slide

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Oct 29, 2003 1:25 am Post subject:

YEah half 180 flips out of casper are the easiest way believe it or not. TO do them when your in casper suck your feet up and at the same time bring your feet together if you get me. Not trying to sound like a dick here but i think caspers are a bit behond you or anyone for that matter because its so hard to do them balance even standing still so going at 22mph or what ever would be way harder. But if you can do them sweet. IM actually hoping your prove me wrong because it would be so cool to see.

wakeboarder_dude22 · Soul Rider Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 409 City: Australia

I'm sorta starting to try them on a skateboard, but where do you put your back foot? It keeps sliding off when I have it on the tail, so do I put my foot somewhere else?

gvw686 · Addict Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 664 City: Columbus

so do you use your back foot and the truck to make the board spin the 180 or do you use your foot thats under the board? if you need to use the truck to do this trick good im fine with breaking out the drill. Laughing

Jester · Posted: Oct 29, 2003 10:48 am Post subject:

Ahh, the elusive casperslide. Well lemme tell you first of all it's a mother trying to half flip & balance this trick properly. Like all things though, it's a matter of practice.

There's a few different ways to get outta casper position. One is to just flick your front foot a little & half flip it back. The most common method is the half varial kickflip. It's pretty easy, but it takes practice. Basically you just scoop a little bit with your back foot & lift your front foot a little bit (no need to flick the front foot, most of the board flipping comes from your back foot). Try to do it stationary to figure out the mechanics of it. The other variation I've seen (by Rodney Mullen of course) is to 360 flip out. Sorry, I have no tips 'cuz I'm nowhere NEAR busting this trick.

Anti-casper is a legit trick, I've just never heard it called that. Lotsa the tricks in Tony Hawk are made up or erroneously named (like the infamous truckstand), I always called anti-casper a front foot casper. But Rodney's done 'em for years, in the first Bones Brigade video he does a Saran Wrap into it. If you've seen his video on Tony Hawk 3 he does a Saran Wrap to front foot casper to casper juggle on that little round platform in Venice. In Questionable he does a half impossible into one & slides it across a little parking block. That jerk, he's too good.

ontrider · Ladies Man Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia

gvw686 · Addict Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 664 City: Columbus

ok i can balance it fine on a skateboard and a wakeskate. on the skateboard i cant land on the board when i flip it out, but i also suck real real bad at skateboarding. when i do it on the wakeskate (on flat ground) the balancing is easier and to get out of it, the board does a half flip and i do a 180.
to get into a casper is the part i cant really practice though. theres no way in hell i could do it on a skateboard. again i suck at skateboarding. and the wakeskate i cant flip while on the ground.
Jester, whats all that stuff your saying he does? im just a dumb wakeskater i dont know the fancy talk

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Oct 30, 2003 6:09 am Post subject:

You can sorta do the cheat way of getting into casper where you just sort of roll the board over then lift your front foot thats easy. BUt the half flip just takes so much practice.
A Truck stand is where you stand on your truck and the board is perpendicular to the ground and your front foot is like in the same spot as it would be for casper.

Saran Wrap is like the same thing except hold onto the nose with one of your hands and you sort of wrap your foot around the board if that made sense and when your leg cant go any more around because your arms in the way change arms and continue that.

ANd a casper juggle is going from casper to casper to casper and so on and so forth.

All that probably made no sense. But keep practicing the varial flips out of casper because once you do them they are so easy after that.

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Oct 30, 2003 6:39 am Post subject:

Heres some links i dug up
This one is a casper juggle but i think its smaller then the one he does in THPS3- http://home.no.net/sboard02/rodneym4.mpg

And this would be a saran wrap- http://bobstricktips.com/tricktips/5050wrap.shtml

I cant find any thing for truck stand though but if you can imagine the saran wrap with out the wrap arouns etc. that woukd be it.

Jester · Posted: Oct 30, 2003 9:56 am Post subject:

There's a couple variations for the no-handed 50/50 on Bob's Trick Tips. If you look for truckstand you won't find it 'cuz that's not proper terminology. I think there's a half fingerflip into it plus the standard slide up from nosestop position.

gvw, VIP pretty much nailed most of the casper stuff for me. The way you get out of it is fine, I've seen that variation too. If you watch the link on the casper juggle that VIP posted you'll see how Rodney gets out of it. That's the most common way (except most people aren't good enuff to do casper to casper).

gvw686 · Addict Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 664 City: Columbus

ya thats sweet, does rodney or anyone do them for a long slide ever? and does anyone do a higher flip into it? or is that one of them rollover flip things you were talking about?

well once i get a real low box made for the water ill try it out, and ill definatley have to do video becuase the crashes will probably be sweet. thanks 4 the help guys

Jester · Posted: Oct 30, 2003 1:21 pm Post subject:

Yeah, Rodney does casperslides all the time. If you watch any of his videos from the Tony Hawk games (starting with #2 since he wasn't in the 1st one) I guarantee you'll see one. The one in the link is the rollover, which is the easiest way to get in, but I've seen him do half flips, 1 1/2 flips, frontside flips, impossibles, & even varial heelflips into casper.

This link is the entire video part from Tony Hawk 3. Got the casperslide & much MUCH more. It takes a while to load, but I guarantee your jaw will drop.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/mullen.php

If you just wanna see him bust some casperslide variations this one's a little easier.

http://www.geocities.com/turner5953/Skate_Life.html

Good luck!

gvw686 · Addict Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 664 City: Columbus

my god i dont even deserve to touch a skateboard after that.

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Oct 31, 2003 12:25 am Post subject:

Yeah any movie with rodney in it is usually going to be very good. I wouldnt worry about not being able to do that, IMO he shows every skater how its done and remember hes been pro for like 25 years right?

gvw686 · Addict Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 664 City: Columbus

how old is he? and whend he turn pro? i hope i can keep riding for 25 more years

Jester · Posted: Oct 31, 2003 10:33 am Post subject:

He's 36 or 37 I think. He turned pro in 1980.

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Nov 01, 2003 8:29 am Post subject:

yeah he was 10 when he took it up turned pro at 13.

s-s213 · Outlaw Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 150 City: Nanaimo

My advice is: Don't do oldschool crap. I don't mean this offensivly or anything, because I'm sure there are some decent oldschool/freestyle skaters out there, but 95% of the ones I've ever seen can't even skateboard so they just do easy oldschool crap to make themselves look good. Skateboarding isn't really about any of that anymore. It's completely up to you how you skate, but don't skate like that for the wrong reasons.

gvw686 · Addict Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 664 City: Columbus

s-s213, a casper slide is gay? im not into skateboarding at all really but it seems fairly sweet. if a casper slide is gay whats some of the new cool tricks?

gvw686 · Addict Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 664 City: Columbus

also you said dont do the trick for the wrong reasons, wouldnt not doing it becuase you said its oldschool be the wrong reason not to do it?

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Nov 04, 2003 1:40 am Post subject:

Casper Slides... easy...? WTF? Have you ever tried them. the flip is hard enough letalone the slide. Yeah casper is old school, but then again so is an ollie. DOes that mean we shouldnt do them?

wakeboarder_dude22 · Soul Rider Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 409 City: Australia

I do caspers and railslides just because I'm sick of seeing kickflips all the time. It's all anyone does at my park.

Jester · Posted: Nov 04, 2003 1:23 pm Post subject:

By railslides do you mean Primos or boardslides?

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Nov 04, 2003 11:54 pm Post subject:

I think he means primos. wakeboarder_dude22, your version of a railslide is actually called primo, Primo is when you slide and rail is when your not going any where.

Inggy · Posted: Nov 07, 2003 12:25 am Post subject:

Can you primo slide on a rail?? I thought that this was only done on the ground

Jester · Posted: Nov 07, 2003 9:23 am Post subject:

Inggy, I think you're getting confused by all the talk about rails. When the board is tipped over on its side in Primo position but isn't moving, that's called rail. If you stand in that position & slide along the ground that's called Primo. I've never seen anybody do this on a rail either & I wouldn't wanna try.

wakeboarder_dude22 · Soul Rider Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 409 City: Australia

Yeah, I meant railstalls. I'm still working on primos. I think I have seen someone do a primo on a rail. It was really thin and he had the rail in between the deck and trucks. This was ages ago, so I'm not that sure, but I'm guessing it can be done.

Jester · Posted: Nov 08, 2003 5:40 pm Post subject:

Hmm, I'm gonna hafta see that on video before I believe it, it's just such a hard move. First of all, there's not that many guys with good enuff control of their kickflips & heelflips that they can stop on the rail like that, but then to lock it in perfectly on a handrail adds an entire new level of difficulty. Plus how do you get out? The only way I can think of is to ride off the end, but then you hafta flip it back AFTER the back trucks have disengaged.

I'm not making a personal attack on you or anything, I just can't believe that's possible until I see it done.

wakeboarder_dude22 · Soul Rider Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 409 City: Australia

Don't worry about any attack, like I said, this was a few years ago so I can't remember. I don't think it was a high handrail, only a real low one just off the ground.
Then again, I probably just imagined it or something. Oh well.