Rock n Roll

All three coaches describe the same sequence: come up with enough speed that the front truck passes over the coping while the back truck stays on the transition, settle into the rock, then turn 180 and roll back in forwards rather than rolling out fakie. Shoulders are the shared engine of the trick. Skatedeluxe simply says to turn them frontside or backside, TR7 wants them held back into the ramp through at least half the turn, and Skatepark Lessons goes furthest by pre-winding them parallel with the coping before the front wheels even land. Everyone agrees the head leads: look back into the ramp in the direction you are going and the body follows. Speed and how far up you go are the other shared theme, with TR7 recommending roughly halfway onto the coping so the trucks clear on the way out, and Skatepark Lessons showing that a bigger ramp needs more speed to buy time for the rotation. On the exit, TR7 talks about digging into the toe-side corner of the board while Skatedeluxe and Skatepark Lessons both frame it as pressing the tail and back truck against the coping to release the front truck. The main difference is depth: Skatepark Lessons is the only one who teaches an explicit beginner version (shoulders perpendicular, rock in the middle of the board) as a stepping stone, plus a deliberate bail, while the others teach only the finished trick.

• →Have rock to fakie and kick turns dialled first; the rock n roll is a rock with a kick turn back in instead of rolling out fakie
• →Back foot on the tail with the toes over the edge to scoop it round, front foot on the front bolts for a wide, controlling stance
• →Come up straight with enough speed to get the board about halfway onto the coping, so the trucks come up and over on the way out instead of hanging up
• →Wind the shoulders back into the ramp and hold them there through the turn; the advanced version has them already parallel with the coping when the front wheels land
• →Look back into the ramp in the direction you want to go, because the body follows the head, and land with your head over your front foot
• →Stay crouched with your weight near the back foot and press the tail to lift the front truck clear of the coping, then bend the knees to absorb the landing
• →Learn the bail on purpose: commit the shoulders, go limp and drop to your knees leaning back into the ramp

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